CIF 2022 Cross Country Rankings

If only someone could talk about something else. Jesuit will be just fine, they will develop a 5th.

I wouldn't compare Rhone to Parra. Parra is a much more accomplished runner. He's also younger so he's clearly improving as he matures. But yes Rhone has improved.

As for his race at Portland, that was likely his bad race of the season. Great runners have bad races. Look at Claudillo and Aaron Salmanh's performances at Woodbridge. Not their best! You cant write them off. Those two have many credentials to just pretend that's all they can do. Same applies to Parra. Look at his Clovis race a year ago and his state meet results, he drop nearly 40 seconds on the same course. I think you're getting ahead. And from what I heard, their league meet was a disaster. Parra had over a 50 meter lead on the field after 2 miles and rolled his ankle which resulted in his 2nd place finish. It takes a very special bread to continue running with a sprained ankle!

I choose to concentrate on the positives. In this case, Rhone's performance, regardless of speed rating, showed a massive improvement over last year. Parra is mentioned because he is inarguably one the best runners in California, and it gives better context to Rhone's time.

Also, because I focus on the positives, I wasn't going to mention that I thought the speed ratings were a little high for both the boys and girls at Portland. Thomsen's Portland race was given a higher rating than Engelhardt's Woodbridge race. I don't agree with that, but I would rather just think of them as 2 great performances and they have great things ahead. Same with Rhone and Parra. Any mention of "rankings" now is just to get a sense of what is to come, but the results in the big races will be what matters.

about 6 different middle schools feed into Yosemite, all of those sophomore started running somewhat seriously in 8th grade, one a little earlier. One of the sophmore is in his first year of cross country.

dheeraj from Granada, Jonah bazerkanian, and billie Issa are all going to cal poly slo

Anyone remember when great oak had 7 guys above the 180 speed rating at state in 2019? That was nuts. I think there were 2 more juniors who didn’t race at state but had run a speed rating above 180 as well

Girls d2- Newbury park 1, Los Altos 3….. Spaulding is back but I doubt she will be even scoring this year.
I think Los Altos is #1 in d2 easy. Though Ventura is only getting better every year.

?????? Crescenta Valley at #2 for the boys D1 ?????? Their 3 mile PRs look similar to what the Newbury Park JV ran on Saturday.
And their 5K times don’t look outstanding enough to be ranked this high (“this high” probably doesn’t even sound necessary to put here).
And San Clemente beat Dana Hills by more (way more actually) than CV did.

Trabuco Hills and Clovis will do better at the Clovis invite than the polls say.
Last meet Trabuco Hills actually had a senior run JV that would have scored for their varsity.

The person that did these rankings must be a Crescente Valley alum or has a family member that goes there.
Jesuit, Whitney and Madera south robbed from these rankings. Crazy

Finally someone sees Los Altos women’s team as I do.

Now if Dyestat would fix their national ranking to match their California rankings.

Milesplit thought highly of them in the on the line show

New coach. Butler, the old HC during Dana’s glory days, moved out there.

I think a lot of the nonsense in all the various rankings should be worked out at Clovis. If someone isn’t there then that’s on them. Championship races are loaded.

How much does it suck to be #2 to NP? Has Granada ever won a state title? They've had a strong program for decades.

The sad thing is that Granada has even more seniors on varsity that Newbury park. And Ventura is good and only has juniors.
At least Granada will likely go to NXN this year for the first time.

I noticed a similar situation.
Madison West WI (a school that Olin Hacker went to) is #3 in Wisconsin right now and has one sophomore and the rest are juniors.
But the problem is, Stevens Point (school that Chris solinsky went to) is #1 in the state and also has no seniors.
So Madison west won’t be able to win the title this year or next year (and for a long while at least).