2024 California HS XC CIF

Bad Sheep wrote:

What bothers me beyond the So Cal bias is that all of you constantly talk about the boys and over analyze everything they do and completely forget about the girls.

trailrunner86 wrote:

trailrunner86 wrote:

I know it's a touchy subject on here but Noonan today still doesn't feel like the Noonan from 2023 Woodbridge / bob firman / state meet. People get faster and slower have up and downs that's just how running works sometimes. You just have to push past it and move forward. I feel like it's a coin flip whether he makes it or not. However, I think he will come back very strong track season.

I mean look at Keegan Smith.. He was pretty much non existent after running 8:52 as a freshman. He has been running significantly slower than that for the next 2 years. Then out of nowhere he improves dramatically and runs 14:23 Wake Med. For people who don't know, that is pretty close performance wise to German Fernandez's 14:24 at Woodward Park.

Similar names wrote:

trailrunner86 wrote:

I mean look at Keegan Smith.. He was pretty much non existent after running 8:52 as a freshman. He has been running significantly slower than that for the next 2 years. Then out of nowhere he improves dramatically and runs 14:23 Wake Med. For people who don't know, that is pretty close performance wise to German Fernandez's 14:24 at Woodward Park.

Keegan Smith is also a name of the assistant coaches at Jesuit

Link:gojesuit.com/sports/mens-cross-country...

ayala out of it wrote:

Link:prepcaltrack.com/2024/11/21/breaking-t...

ayala teams unable to continue at CIF, won't race CIF finals. Should've been D1.

Good Luck With That wrote:

Dkubbb wrote:

Sax raced today. She was their #6. No True

Since Ventura is obviously not going to qualify for NXN, do you think Sadie will do NXN by herself? Or will she do what she did her freshman and sophomore years and do Foot Locker instead?

ningkaiyang wrote:

SjsGlaze wrote:

That’s quite impressive. If Callum did race, you think he would’ve at least been on Sean’s level?

I dunno. I don't see him running 14:28 for the Hayward High 3-mi like Sean did but Callum is a strength-based miler (solid endurance but never Lucas/Sean level, but instead a big kick, like Arrin and Miles). Sean kinda underperformed at 5k, and with modern times just being faster I think Callum could've been dragged to something fast at D4 states. I'd expect something in the sub 15:10s based on his TCAL champs performance where he put in race-predictor effort for states, but with Sean being 15:08.8 that's really really close so we'll never know 🫠