RW now has Dylan Anderson and Zach Malecek, who look like are both in their first year of XC. Ran 17:10 and 17:41 in their first races as their 3rd and 5th runners.
RW now has Dylan Anderson and Zach Malecek, who look like are both in their first year of XC. Ran 17:10 and 17:41 in their first races as their 3rd and 5th runners.
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.
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.
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.
Ohe/Edina’s varsity didn’t race at Bauman Rovn. They are going to the Spartan Challenge in Iowa which is in 2 days
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.
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.
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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.
Glad you're doing Class A ranking. Whoever is supposed to be doing doesn't seem too interested.
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.
SC Cathedral
New London-Spicer
Redwood Valley
United North Central
Providence Academy
Loyola-Cleveland
Greenway/N-K
NW Nighthawks
St. John's Prep
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.
Cotter
Redwood Valley
LA/RP/H
Heritage Christian
Nova Classical
Northwest Nighthawks
Litchfield
Mounds Park
Sauk Centre
Bertha-Hewitt
Alright, there is my time spent on Class A...gonna dive into Class AA now
