NXN 2023 Way too early preview: Dawn of a new Era

It's not quite close. Bentonville is a solid school, but their times at the state meet in 2023 are only slightly better than their times in 2022. In the 2022 state meet, conditions were worse than in the 2023 state meet. In 2022, Bentonville was ranked #8 at RunningLane. This year, they may have a chance to break into the top 5 at RunningLane."

Austin Vandegrift technically finished 5th overall at Woodbridge, but they would have beaten San Clemente, a team that placed 7th at NXN last year. Austin Vandegrift finished only 21 points behind Southlake Carroll at their state meet, demonstrating that they are still in good shape.

Bentonville may have good speed ratings but Austin Vandegrift has the resume.

Bentonville almost went 1-5 at their state meet, that's interesting maybe I am missing something. It is Arkansas though..

Downer's Grove North 3 mile at state -

14:30, 14:36, 14:38, 14:46, 14:52.

Solid. We will see what they can do at midwest regionals

Trabuco Hills 3 mile at league -

14:07, 14:38, 14:50, 14:52, 14:54.

Looks like they have their number 1, Carson Williams back from injury. They improved from woodbridge by quite a bit.

And their 6 and 7 were at 14:59 and 15:03. And their 6 is normally one of their top runners, he just missed a good portion of the season with injury and only came back last week for sectionals.

People are counting out Jesuit at the South race. They will smoke Bentonville and Deer Creek and put a fight up against the TX schools.

- njsiaa group championship 2023

CBA

15:21, 15:42, 15:57, 16:09, 16:10, 16:16, 16:28

Union Catholic

16:27, 16:46, 16:54, 16:58, 17:00, 17:07

Westfield

15:40, 16:02, 16:02, 16:03, 16:20, 16:46, 16:50

Data from previous years --- I don't know how different course conditions were from course to course. Many of these past courses were probably wet and muddy.

- njsiaa group championships 2022

CBA - 18th NXN

15:43, 15:53, 16:13, 16:20, 16:21, 16:28, 16:30

- njsiaa group championships 2019

CBA - 15th NXN

16:00, 16:05, 16:15, 16:23, 16:32, 16:57, 17:05

- njsiaa group championships 2018

CBA - 18th NXN

16:14, 16:38, 16:57, 17:02, 17:11, 17:24, 17:27

- njsiaa group championships 2017

CBA - 7th NXN

16:05, 16:22, 16:35, 16:43, 16:52, 17:04, 17:13

Wischusen was missing. Only 6 Union Catholic guys finished so he probably dropped out?

Hopefully this puts an end to the talks of the northeast getting an at large.

Oregon state meet boys results:

Franklin > Jesuit 43 to 85

Crater wins handily.

Crater last year averaged 15:34, and Jesuit last year averaged 15:28.

This year:

Crater - 15:57

Franklin - 16:04

Jesuit - 16:22

Couer D'Alene is the best team in the NW right now, and it's not that unlikely to see 3 Idaho teams in the top 3 at NXR.

Is it the same course? were conditions the same? Idaho could go 1-2-3 at NXR Northwest if oregon drops the ball again at nxr.

I mean seriously what happened to crater and jesuit this year? They were both crazy good last year

It's been the same course for some time. Conditions weren't a huge factor for either race.

Rocky’s 2 has struggled on this course the last two years. Even if that trend continues, I wouldn’t be shocked to see Rocky finish 3rd behind CDA and Boise. It’s not like Franklin looked amazing today.

NE and NW don’t seem deserving of an at large. SW, California, and even South > NE and NW

Crater and Jesuit get lots of youth runners so sometimes they don’t see any improvement. While California teams tend to see freshman and sophomore making big jumps because they are brand new to racing

NXR will tell the real story here

Maybe. But Rich and his crew don't seem to care about NXR NW results in terms of telling him which teams are good.

How about massive rain 6 inches of mud compared ro clear and sunny last year. Jesuit #2 seemed to have e a seisure with 800m to go and his teammates all slowed to help. Or that's how it looked from like 600m away not sure what actually happened? Crater boys were good but didn't look amazing. Franklin looked dominant.