MN XC 2025 thread

Thank you, they must have a good program over there and run a lot of summer miles. All juniors and freshman too, will be exciting to follow!

42 boys listed on athletic.net- huge for a Class A program.

Lot of credit to them but also worth noting that I do not believe they have soccer team at the school. Same with Perham. Definitely helps with getting kids to come out for XC which often leads to success...

Anyone please correct me if I am wrong with that and they do have a soccer team or if they co-op with another school.

How are they a Class A program then? Cutoff I remember seeing was around 400. Unless they protested for some reason?

Correct - no soccer. They are not a co-op.

The way it works is that if you co-op, only the biggest school counts as 100% enrollment. Each successive school counts as 50% enrollment.

LA/RP/H is one of the worst examples...here are their enrollments:

Lewiston-Altura: 196
Rushford-Peterson: 215
Houston: 141

So while their enrollment is 552 between all three schools, their enrollment for classification is 215 + 98 + 70 = 383, which gets them in Class A.

Since you got me started, the cutoff if you're NOT a co-op right now is around 410 (DGF is Class A @ 409, Litchfield is Class A with 396, New London is Class AA at 412).

Here are the enrollments of teams at the Class A state meet last year:
Girls:
Cotter (298)/Hope Lutheran (73) - 371
Redwood Valley - 310
Lourdes - 300
United North Central (Menagha 242 Sebeka 132) - 374
Hawley - 259
Cathedral - 307
Staples-Motley - 262
Heritage Christian (Heritage 135, West Lutheran 202, RiverTree 39) - 376
Carlton-Wrenshall (Carlton 81, Wrenshall 86) - 167
Trinity/Unity (Trinity 106, Unity 65) - 171
Greenway/Nashwauk/Keewatin (Greenway 221, Nashwauk-Keewatin 119) - 340
St. John's Prep - 192
Minnewaska - 384
Canby/Minneota (Canby 171, Minneota 181) - 352
Mankato Loyola/Cleveland (Loyola - 133, Cleveland - 159, St. Clair - 230, Mankato Christian - 25) - 547
Mt Lake Area - Comfrey (Mountain Lake - 123, Comfrey - 25, Red Rock Central - 85, Mt Lake Christian - 29) - 262

Boys (no duplicates)
Luverne - 317
LA/RP/H - 552
Northwest - It's the home school coop.
Nova Classical - 279
Sauk Center - 342
Litchfield - 396
South Ridge (South Ridge - 157, North Woods 143, Cherry - 157) - 457
Bertha-Hewitt - 113
Park Rapids - 350

So of the teams making it to state, 3 of them (LARPH, South Ridge, Mankato Loyola) have enrollments that would collectively qualify them as AA if there were no 50% rule. There were 4 programs with enrollments under 200 (Bertha-Hewitt, St. John's Prep, Trinity/Unity, and Carlton-Wrenshall) unless you also count Northwest Nighthawks. I don't, since you could live in the many different densely populated school districts and still compete for them...

There are a few big meets the next couple days. The Bauman-Rovn at Gale Woods and Steve Hoag Invitational in Anoka are later today, and The Augustana Twilight meet in Sioux Falls tomorrow night.

At the Bauman-Rovn Two Rivers should be the heavy favorite on the men's side with a good individual race setting up between Capistrant, Mohamed, Ohe, and Lenton. On the Women's side it should be a good team race between Chaska, Edina, and Hopkins with Noella Ross and Cara Back competing for individual honors.

At the Steve Hoag Invitational Minnetonka is just running their JV team so Mounds View is the favorite on the boys side but it will be interesting to see how close Anoka is after them. Flippen should win the individual honors. On the Women's side it should be a good team race between STMA and Forest Lake with Myran and VanAcker battling it out for the individual title.

At the Augustana Twilight meet the boys individual competition should be fun to watch with 3 of the top MN runners in Fries, Stuwe, and Sam Deutz there along with the top 3 SD runner in Peters, Lechtenerg, and Needles. All 6 of these runner have run Sub 15:35 this year. Fries will obviously be the favorite but it will be interesting to see how it finishes up behind him. On the girls side there are a number of strong runners from SD, ND and NE there including Ruby Ihmels from ND who has already run sub 16:50 this year. It will be interesting to see where Malec from Minnetonka can come in among those top girls.

Ohe/Edina’s varsity didn’t race at Bauman Rovn. They are going to the Spartan Challenge in Iowa which is in 2 days

What is with the times at the Gerry Smith Invitational in Montgomery today? Nearly every runner PR'd by over a minute. How short was the course?

athletic.net

Track & Field, Cross Country Results, Statistics

Meet results and team scores.

Open link

Interesting, might not even be 3 miles

Dewey Minnaert Results https://www.arrowliveresults.com/DeweyMinnaertBoysVarsityXC

Eagan with a strong showing. They may be the team to beat for 2nd in 3AAA, will likely be close between them, Hastings, Park, and Eastview. Merrel won-15:55, Morse in second-16:00, both good times in tough-ish conditions with rain and wind. Not sure where Firchau placed, maybe 3rd/4th, but he definitely didn't win with a 1:20. Results didn't even list Park for a while. Minnehaha Academy with a strong team finish as well beating multiple AAA teams.

Rocket run. Orono beat Becker by 4 points.

https://results.wayzatatiming.com/meets/55981/events/xc/2122816

Detroit Lake Rotary Invite. Perham dominates.

https://live.herostiming.com/meets/55567

I was told the course was cut short due to a wasp nest in the way and it could not be re-routed. Estimates I heard were 150m-250m short. Girls varsity race didn't even happen because of a tornado warning in the area.

Interesting, I heard that some of the runners Strava showed the course at 2.94 miles. Which would explain the 1+ minute PR's. Not a great situation...

Congrats to 10th grader Connor Heltemes for winning the Bauman-Rovn Invite by over 15 seconds against some good competition. Connor is definitely in the mix as a top 10 runner in Class AAA.

Orono’s performance was even more impressive because they used it as a workout and let Hallen and Loberg go at the 1.5 mile mark.

Lot of Class A talk but I wanted to throw a few more thoughts out...

Huge blunder by me but I didn't realize/forgot that New London-Spicer is now in A. They had 5 girls go 21:00 or under yesterday at Mark Alcorn Invite.

At Rocket Run, Providence Academy had girls go 20:01, 20:02, 20:13, and 21:45. Also on the roster is someone who went 21:15 last year but hasn't raced yet.

Both of these teams were unranked but are now in my top 5. Updated ranks below.

1. SC Cathedral
2. New London-Spicer
3. Redwood Valley
4. United North Central
5. Providence Academy
6. Loyola-Cleveland
7. Greenway/N-K
8. NW Nighthawks
9. St. John's Prep
10. Parkers Prairie

Recent coaches rankings have LARPH at #1 for boys. Whether Cotter's #3 is healthy or not is huge reason why so that is something big to watch for. HCA beat Nighthawks and Litchfield yesterday at Rocket Run. Nova and MPA ran at the Gerry Smith race with the short course. Bertha, WDC, and Park Rapids all race tonight at Dragon Twilight.

My updated rankings below.

1. Cotter
2. Redwood Valley
3. LA/RP/H
4. Heritage Christian
5. Nova Classical
6. Northwest Nighthawks
7. Litchfield
8. Mounds Park
9. Sauk Centre
10. Bertha-Hewitt

Alright, there is my time spent on Class A...gonna dive into Class AA now

It looks like Litchfield boys didn’t lose by much, they also didn’t have there number 3…

Fries 14:22 at the Augustana Twilight. Lots of guys close behind him. A sophomore from Iowa ran a 14:30.

The team that won (SF Lincoln) is #1 in the Heartland region in the Dyestat rankings

Woodbury beat Minnetonka

https://dakotatiming.anet.live/meets/55366/events/xc/2123568

Stillwater wins Faribault Invitional. They were led by a freshman today.
Mankato East is still missing Stoltman.
https://results.wayzatatiming.com/meets/55986