Official Idaho HS XC 2024 Thread

Actually looks like all are registered for Tiger Grizz

Are any of the teams that had their meet cancelled able to get into any other meets?

It's going to be a quiet few weeks for district III if they can't. I don't think Mt. View or Centennial will have a 5k until a month after the season started. That's kind of crazy. I wonder how many kids couldn't race the first race that now don't get to race until either the 14th or the 21st.

Curious if any other teams would be able to get into the Willow lane meet with Boise and Eagle? Maybe they don’t want to deal with it or maybe it’ll be canceled also.

Thats a decent time to go without racing, esp for youngsters who are still figuring things out.

Owyhee and Rocky are doing a 2 mile road race tomorrow at Owyhee. I wonder if that could count for HOKA postal results...

Hopefully the other teams are able to help make that Willow Lane meet even more competitve.

Unfortunately a two mile won’t paint a super clear picture bc I’m guessing there will be a lot of kids that aren’t fully equipped to race it. Road racing shoes will be best for it and not everyone will have those, and I’m sure there are kids that race cross in exclusively track spikes. I would imagine even dragonfly XCs won’t feel great on the road at the end of that. Besides that, it’s likely you see more miler types of runners perform better here than they would a 5k at Eagle Island.

Hopefully Burdick and Johnson have super shoes so we can see how they stack up to the Rocky kids.

How did the owyhee rocky dual turn out?

REALLY slow times for what these athletes are capable of. Hopefully it's a sign of the weather more than it is their fitness...

If Carter Burdick is held equal at 169, and every 2 seconds is a point, Rocky had 171, 170, 167, 160, 155, 153, 150.

Of course, a road two mile favors some guys more than others (and gals), so really, these results are a crap shoot at best.

So in the meet that ended up being canceled, Cody Lucas was registered in the JV race, and nowhere to be found in this race. Does it mean he is sick or injured?

They were also missing their 4th runner from the last meet

Probably just training through it. I wouldn’t read into that too much.

I don't know that this really ends up telling that much. My preseason top 20 runners (in my mind) were:

1-10: Stadtlander, Max, Sheesley, Lucas, Zach, Wyatt Carr, Ben Jensen, Evan Jones, Rietze, Burdick
11-20: Goggins, Tuft, Knutsen, Kurtz, Bird, Austin Riley, Alden Chamberlain, Donahue, Kash Jensen, Taggart

Just a mix of past cross history, last year's track season, and expectations. Evan Jones losing to Burdick (similar enough track times, but Evan Jones had a crazy trajectory) by a bunch and Jackson Porter (almost 40 seconds slower over 3200m) by a whisker was a suprise, but Burdick losing to Goggins and Tuft in a make up meet on a hot day isn't a huge upset or anything.

I don't think we'll have a clear idea of any team's standing until the Vallivue Scramble, unfortunately. Caldwell is a pretty critical data point.

Farragut Invitational

No Wyatt Carr. the other Wyatt (freshman) and the other freshman Henry broke 17.

Boise

athletic.net

Track & Field, Cross Country Results, Statistics

Meet results and team scores.

Link:www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/240...

Carr 15:49. He was omitted from the results originally

CDA looks pretty good. Their top three are insane (all top 10 NXR potential), but their #4, 5, 6, 7 makes them weaker than that time trial alleged.

Hands down the best team in Idaho still, but probably beatable at the regional level by Crater/Jesuit.

2024 Farragut times:

15:12, 15:26, 15:49, 16:29, 16:51, 16:54, 16:56

2023 times:

15:42, 15:53, 16:09, 16:22, 16:24, 16:31, 16:32

Differences:

-30, -27, -20, +7, +27, +23, +24

Does Farragut have a speed rating lots of hills or flattish?

Speed ratings if you used last years scoring:

Sheesley- 185
Knutsen- 166
Porter- 164
Culpepper- 161
Robert’s- 159

Reeder- 123
Orme- 119
Spiess- 111
Wilper- 97
Baruch- 97

It’s further down the list, but Borah narrowly lost to Meridian and crushed Capital. If you include just 6A teams, they actually beat Meridian and they have two freshmen as their top 2 and only one senior in their top 6. They might be pretty good next year.

It really feels like it’s Meridian, Owyhee and Borah that appear to be fighting for one spot to state. Rocky, Boise and Mountain View are locks. Timberline, Centennial and Eagle should all make it provided something doesn’t go wrong.