Texas State Meet

Don Mauer wrote:

the truth hurtzzz wrote:

Times are waaaaaay to quick this y ear. It's not just a case of great weather, or athletes being THAT much better than previous years.

It is VERY sad that 4 of the 6 classes have girls only running 3.2km. Come on Texas. It is 2020. Girls should be running the same distance as boys.

Point taken. What is their rationale at this time? Why not write them instead of asking here?

Greer 14:51

Also San Elizario beat Melissa by 1 point for the 4A state title.

9th Grade Girls won 1A, 3A, and 5A!!

Texas is a weak, weak state... used to live there for 6 years... that's why the girls run 2 miles in the lower divisions... the advocates just make excuses on numbers, participation, health, everything in the book.

Don Mauer wrote:

the truth hurtzzz wrote:

Times are waaaaaay to quick this y ear. It's not just a case of great weather, or athletes being THAT much better than previous years.

It is VERY sad that 4 of the 6 classes have girls only running 3.2km. Come on Texas. It is 2020. Girls should be running the same distance as boys.

xonder wrote:

Greer 14:51

1st mile in 4:27? Seems a bit quick.

Girls 6A

Mile 1 - Brown 4:53

Flower Mound up, Southlake Carroll in 2nd

Brynn Brown 16:26, Sophie Atkinson 2nd

Girls 6A

2 mile - Brown 10:28

Flower Mound 1st, Carroll 2nd

6A mile

Carroll in 1st, Klein in 2nd

I have to say, Milesplit hit a new low in coverage

The video and audio is lagging

Luke Lambert wins in 15:03

David-Chavez second.

Southlake Carroll wins.

Klein underperformed

Eastwood not far behind 1st. If they had a 5th man they would have won.

Some thoughts:

-Brynn Brown is undoubtedly the fastest high school female XC runner in Texas history

-Martin David-Chavez won regionals over the tight pack of Luke Lambert/Christopher Daniels/Chance Gibson by 25+ seconds.

Not sure if Luke just had a phenomenal race @ state/poor race @ Regionals, or if Chavez had a subpar race? But then again, Luke beat Daniels by 26 seconds in this race, and Chavez still finished 2nd overall.

Also:

5 girls sub 18 in the 6A race

11 girls sub 18 in the 5A race

26 boys sub 16 in the 6A race

31 boys sub 16 in the 5A race

There's just no way. I'm going to guess the weather was a big factor, unless they changed the course? I have a hard time believing there's 4 other guys from the 5A race that are on Ben Shearer & Judson Greer's level. Judson Greer already crushed the 5A runners in previous races, most recently at the Lovejoy XC Festival, and Ben Shearer I know did the same in an early season meet.

If you throw Grapevine's times into this race, they would have won. That's not accurate at all. I think we all know SLC still would have pulled out the big W. I'm very big on Grapevine's future (6 returning runners next season!), but 5A times seem heavily inflated.

I think this just goes to show more evidence of how dumb it is to compare times in xc. These races were on same course, different days. I was there. The 6a races, the sun came out, cooking. Tactics involved. I don’t think I have ever seen that many runners “fall out” at the end of the race for both 6a boys and girls.

FastTuohy wrote:

I have to say, Milesplit hit a new low in coverage

Agreed...

Speed Ratings:

http://tullyrunners.com/XC2020/TexasState2020_642A.htm

Greer 194

Lambert 190

Brown 162

Atkinson 152

Also junior Walker St John from Grapevine ran a 190 speed rating

http://tullyrunners.com/XC2020/TexasState2020_531A.htm