SoCaliforniaDream wrote:
The Lion King's throne wrote:
You're talking about the difference between taking 4;15-4:20 9th graders to sub 9 vs taking 4:43-4:55 9th graders to sub 9:11 at altitude. Both impressive in different ways, but I think Skyridge shows more significant improvement and is harder to do. I think having the amount of 9th graders running fast at Newbury is more impressive. Lex Young ran 14:42 for his first XC race ever in 9th grade! Even Jace Aschbrenner ran 9:30 as a 9th grader.
Good point on Jace. Newbury Park by far develops its athletes the best . Jace was not fast as an 8th grader and they developed him to an 8:44 guy. Honestly, to develop any kid to 8:44 is HS is truly amazing.
Newbury Park = complete development
Really? That’s what you took from that post? It looks like Skyridge develops better. I just checked Ascbrenner’s Athletic.net. 10:57 for 3200 isn’t slow for an 8th grader, especially if he wasn’t training seriously.
When Oliver Windham-Hughes, Matt Lipert, Thomas Mcdonnell and Ryan Collier break 9:11 at altitude, then you can say they develop as well as Skyridge. Those are kids from Newbury that ran comparable freshmen times to the Skyridge kids.