Washington State HS XC 2025 Season

That's cool. They just need some depth and then ideally a class to back up any momentum Miro and Zach can build. In terms of wrestling...Prep once had Phil McLean as coach from 199x to 2000 or so. He built a great program that did win state at least once and then was off to Mead.

Just looked up GPrep Westling... Not bad! But short lived as a team.

WIAA 4A State Champions 1999
2nd Place 4A State Tournament 2002
4th Place 4A State Tournament 1998
GSL Champions 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001
GSL Tournament Champions 1996, 1998, 1999
7 Individual State Champions
49 Individual State Placers
26 Individual GSL Champions

Yeah, Parr-Coffin is the real deal. I don't care too much about course records on meaningless dual meet courses, but his results so far are outstanding nonetheless. He'll compete for an NXN spot as a freshman and that's insane. The biggest question marks I have for him are:

(a--the bigger question mark for this thread's purposes) My understanding is he lives in Idaho and commutes across the state line to go to HS for the wrestling program at Prep. As good as he is at running, I understand he's better at wrestling for his age group, but is that going to change for a scrawny runner-wrestler as he competes against older boys with non-runner frames? If that happens, his home school of CDA has an infinitely better running program than Prep, so will he transfer to CDA (and out of WA) after a year or two at Prep? Coaching and having teammates to train with matter.

(b) Per Strava, he's already pushing 70 miles a week in his training as a freshman. He was an elite runner already in middle school, breaking 4:30 in the mile. Burn out or hitting his ceiling early are concerns when that happens. Even if he plateaus right where he is at right now, however, he's going to be in the mix to win pretty much any race he's in for the next four years. (Recupero is somewhat of an example of this, and most people would kill to have Recupero's HS career.)

Two of my kids run XC in Spokane and I happen to know his family somewhat from the wrestling club INWTC. My daughter actually trains with his younger sister who won a national championship in wrestling herself and is an All American distance runner. Their whole family are amazing athletes and their dad coached them in wrestling when they were younger as well as the youth program at INWTC. They commuted from Sandpoint to Spokane 2-4 days a week for 6 years or something crazy like that but now I believe are living here. Miro is an absolute machine in wrestling and from my understanding is coached by his father in running which started out initially as conditioning for wrestling. I know he wrestled through the summer but was cutting up to 10lbs for competitions and was not able to do running workouts so I believe he probably has more upside this season and he is still small which makes me think he’s only going to get faster and stronger. He is the best athlete I’ve ever seen and appears have a natural disposition to handle pressure - I cannot imagine this kid burning out but you never know. We know CHS well and are happy he’s here in Spokane although it would have been very exciting for the running scene in the PNW if he ended up (or ends up) @ CHS. That part is a bummer as I believe CHS IS #1 in the country with him on their roster! It would be so cool to see them take down Herriman, American Fork etc… if Wyatt Carr wasn’t out of the race at Woodbridge I believe CHS may have won it regardless?

Oh and my vote for 4A Washington State XC Champion this year is Isaac Benjamin - I don’t see him losing to anyone in the state.

I would have agreed with you five hours ago, but I think you missed this from today...

athletic.net

Track & Field, Cross Country Results, Statistics

Meet results and team scores.

Link:www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/253...

😂😂😂Just watched - wanted to get back here and comment before anyone called me out! Snap

Except maybe Cohen Butler and a few other guys… but besides that

As cool as that would be, I think it’s nice that CDA doesn’t have a definite monopoly on the upcoming prospects in Eastern WA/North Idaho. I agree that CDA would be a force to be reckoned with having Parr-Coffin on the team, however I think that they still are going to outperform the current national rankings, once Carr is healed up.

Sunday top 10 boys gut check:

Mead
Mercer Island
Kamiakin
Tahoma

Gig Harbor

Mnt Spokane
CPC (Bothell)
Central Kitsap

Hermiston
Stadium
For boys

We’ve had four big invites across the last two weekends—The Mook, Fort Steilacoom, Portland XC, and Bellevue. It’s hard to compare performances between courses—especially when one (The Mook) was demonstrably short, and three (all but Fort Steilacoom) were incredibly flat but with different surfaces. But across the two weekends we can create a speed index of sorts by looking at runners who ran in two of these four races and comparing their times.
Focusing on the faster boy runners (sub 16:00 this weekend), and comparing this weekend’s times to last weekend’s times, we see the following:
The Mook to Bellevue: 50 seconds faster on average at The Mook than Bellevue for five boys (range 29-75 faster)
The Mook to Portland: 24 seconds faster on average at The Mook than Portland for four boys (range 20-27 seconds faster)
Fort Steilacoom to Bellevue: 36 seconds slower on average at Fort Steilacoom than Bellevue for five boys (range 23-53 seconds slower)
Fort Steilacoom to Portland: 24 seconds slower at Fort Steilacoom than Portland for six boys (range 20-30 seconds slower)
This is a small number of runners to draw huge conclusions for all sorts of reasons, but it’s enough to reasonably support the following:
(1) The Mook was about 30 seconds faster than the courses this weekend, and Fort Steilacoom was about 30 seconds slower. Not going to debate the distances again, just looking at the times. Exceptions abound but these are reasonable rules of thumb for comparing performances.
(2) Cohen Butler is really, really good and is the runner to beat this year. He ran a fast (14:40) and gutsy race Friday in Portland, taking the lead for a brief time in the last quarter mile of the race, looking strong in the process.
(2) Dylan Rowell is firmly the next best. Only three seconds behind Butler at Portland (14:43), but the way the two ran their races made Butler’s performance much stronger than those mere three seconds would suggest, given the strong attempt to take the win at the end. Still, an amazing performance that puts him firmly as the second best in the state.
(3) There’s several runners who are all right next to each other in the abstract: Mana Voss, Henry Herb, Quenton Lanese, Miro Parr-Coffin, Bodie Thomas, Lord King, and an argument could be made for others. But the limited results we have so far don’t have a clear cut number three. Voss has the best claim to the spot but not by a meaningful margin.
(4) Isaac Benjamin and Kian Compton aren’t where we (or at least I) thought they would be. Both arguably aren’t competing in that group of runners for that third spot at this point. Could be illness or injury involved. But there’s still plenty of time in the season for things to turn around.
(5) Not many face offs next weekend. Parr-Coffin and Herb will be at the Battle for the 509. Thomas and Lanese (as well as Jesuit and Summit from OR—it’ll be a good race, though not a fast course!) will be at Payne. Most will likely show up at Hole in the Wall the following weekend, however.

Love it💪. Great breakdown- nice cheat sheet for the race coming up - Thanks