2019 girls Foot Locker predictions and discussion!

why is there a debate....

there is only one unbeaten girl in the nation....she has beaten every girl, every time..

say anything you want about NXN...Tuohy did enough to win. On her worst day, she still beat every other girl on the course.

And playing a name association game does you no good. Pretty much goes Tuohy's way everytime...thats what happens when you are unbeaten....

You can try to claim that someone is better all you, but until someone can not only beat Tuohy...but completely dominate every race....there is no comparison. I like Dudek, I am a big Ewert fan, think Starliper is awesome, Dudek outkicked Hart in a great race...I think Hart is awesome, but she has never come close to Tuohy......but these girls are not in the same league as Tuohy

anyway...you may want to debate it, but thats a small crowd your working with there...

Dude there's no debate!

Tuohy is the goat of high school cross-country

And she's the goat of the 2019 High School cross country season

It's not even close

First of all she's the only top girl who's undefeated

Every other girl has lost at least once and most of them have lost twice

She also has clearly the highest speed ratings by big margin

She's averaging 165 and she has a 170 and two 168

All the other girls are in the low-to-mid 150s

She set the course record at Great American

And she swept through New York States and regionals which is the best Regional in the country by far with big-time performances

No one was within 20 seconds of her

None of the other girls are close they've all lost and they've all been in a bunch of close races and and had ratings 20 points below her

Speed ratings are super accurate. Tully knows what he's doing. They're usually within plus or minus one

Anyway it's a numbers game the girls had a full year of running to show where their numbers are at and she is clearly Victorious

I mean you can always make some cockamamie argument but facts are facts

She's undefeated, she has the highest speed rating, she has the course record at a prestigious National caliber meet Great American, and she won the National Championship which had the most elite runners in it

Finally someone talkin sense!

I think starliper might be the second best runner

Maybe Taylor ewert

But regardless Tuohy beat Claire Walters all year by 30 seconds and Claire Walters just beat starliper so it's not hard to figure out

Tuohy is the best HS XC runner of all time. But she would lose if she ran this week. She is starting to level off and then normally what happens to girls is they drop back. Dudek looks to have the most upside in college.

Two He wrote:

Tuohy is the best HS XC runner of all time. But she would lose if she ran this week. She is starting to level off and then normally what happens to girls is they drop back. Dudek looks to have the most upside in college.

How do you conclude this after ONE off race in which STILL WON? You people are nuts.

Pretty sure you said the same thing when I told you Cain was dropping off.

Sugar Cain wrote:

Pretty sure you said the same thing when I told you Cain was dropping off.

Oh,so you’re ‘ that’ guy that sits and calls out every young successful girl (of course while changing your name each time) because it makes you feel good about yourself.

Dude, thats just pathetic.

I'd like to see Dudek have a good run to represent Michigan well.

Anybody here actually going to watch? One of my athletes qualified so I'm excited to watch the trip but I'm laughing at the fact that post-race banquet tickets are $140 each. That's more than my downtown hotel room that night.

I call out the future winners and future losers. Masciarelli and Dudek, top 10 in NCAA. Ewert 20th. Tuohy 25th. Hart 40th.

Dude masciarelli might not even run in College

She's a top level basketball player

I like to encourage everyone but realistically there aren't that many tall distance runners

I mean she's like six one that's like six seven for a guy how many distance Runners do you see that are 6 7

I wish her the best butt she has a lot of talent at bball and honestly it's probably a sport with a better upside there's a lot of opportunity for women to play pro

Dudek is a really good runner but I haven't seen anything that's like indicative that she's more talented than the rest of the girls

Starliper and Taylor ewert would have the biggest upside in my opinion but there's a lot of good Runners and you don't know with women how they'll progressed and how their bodies will change so it's kind of dumb to just throw out these assertions

Especially when your assertions go against what all the evidence would indicate and what would make logical sense to conclude

I predict that if someone in the girls race hits a 162.88 speed rating, Let's Run couch pilots will continue the "Tuohy/G.O.A.T." argument forever.

Footlocker rules wrote:

Tuohy would not have won Footlocker.

I'm giggling like an eight year old on a Red Bull at every time in the past three years somebody said "Tuohy won't win this/that race".

Masciarelli is 5'11 according to a BB recruiting site. And they have her ranked as the 24th best junior in Massachusetts. That's not top D1 potential much less pro. She was MVP of her league tournament but that's the same prep schools against whom she wins XC by two or three minutes.

She is good at basketball. She is great at running.

By the way Ewert is 5'10.

Her 18-19 sr basketball teammate Olivia Summiel, who was more or less the same talent level in hoops, is playing now for Wake Forest. I believe there are about 4000 NCAA women's basketball scholarships (roughly 300 schools with 10-15 slots), and they are clean, ie. not shared with sprinters and jumpers, and 1 per person for 4 years not divided into 1/2's 1/4's and 1/8's. It's an interesting choice she may have. Solid contributor in a team sport, vs possibly being a star in track/xc. Who knows? Wake might even be a good example of this, but a lower octane program might even find a way for her to do both. For sure she would not max out her potential in track/xc, but she could still be top 7, and score at conference meet doing both sports. God bless Title IX.

You can all come back to this thread. I know I will. But most of you will have moved on to the next great high school runner and you won't really care about average college runners and you will dismiss my predictions as luck.

I may have heard wrong...but early this year I'm sure I heard Syd say that she was likely to pursue XC / track over Bball in one of her interviews.

Taryn Parks is a late addition to the field: wrote:

https://pa.milesplit.com/articles/272443-parks-added-to-foot-locker-field-after-cochran-injury

Sorry to Cochran....but that's great for Parks

Her sister was also a talented basketball player, and runs for Hofstra. Brother played college level. Although I think clearly she is a talented all around athlete, she will be a college level runner not basketball player.

She is also the most rested going in to defend her FL Title.

Don't know how much of a factor that will be, but we shall see.