let's talk MD HS XC

Severna Park is only returning 1 from their top 7. Just like Cheyenne Mountain CO (I know this one is not from MD).

It will be interesting how good both of these teams get with 4 other new scorers at the end or the season.

I think their 8-11 are all returning though, and they'll have some freshmen coming in as well. I know freshmen always make smaller impacts in XC than track, but if they can get a capable 4 and 5 that takes some pressure off the top guys

I do think they will have a strong top 2 though.

Hagerty - 9:31

Nunn - 9:49

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3-5 won’t be bad either.

Sullivan - 10:31

Smith - 10:39

Steppe - 4:41.

They will be good and compete for the state title again, but they won’t be top 5 at NXR like they were the last few years.

Actually, they lose their 8th runner as well. Their 8th man actually spent lots of time running varsity races too. They were 8-deep last year.

I think it’s safe to say that Severna Park will win the state meet though. All teams that finished behind them lose a lot of guys too.

And SP reloads and has people come out of nowhere.

Centennial seems to have a strong 1-2 punch.
Camacho Bucks - 4:16
Martinez - 4:20

I guess their 3-5 won’t be too bad either.
Graff - 17:56
Shiau - 10:31
Ma - 10:35

Loyola is always overrated. The team has one strategy - basically just high mileage and that’s it. They’re trash at track because of that

I thought Antonio ran a 4:10?

Oh, that 4:10 was in 2021. He also ran a 4:13 mile in 2022. His 1600 SB for 2022 was a 4:16.

Apparently they forgot to mention Jack Carey as one of the Loyola’s key losses.

He was their 4th at NXR.

He was slow - ran a 18:32 at the MD XC invitational which is pretty much Maryland’s only fast course (relatively flat + no huge bottleneck) and 17:27 at NXR.
I raced against him multiple times - some when trying to run a PR, other times just trying to score the needed points - and he’s not a threat to anyone with a <4:50 mile.

Pa > Md

md.milesplit.com

Howard Scrimmage 2022 - Coverage

MileSplits official coverage for the 2022 Howard Scrimmage, hosted by Howard High School in Ellicott City MD.

Link:md.milesplit.com/meets/493797-howard-s...

Severna Park supposedly has a scrimmage but no results to be found.

Either way, I wouldn’t be surprised if they become the best team in MD again. Every year they seem to do much better than people think they would (based off of what they return). They have people coming out of the woodwork.

Like at the beginning of last season they probably weren’t supposed to be top 2 in the Southeast. But instead, they destroyed everybody in that region.

And they went from 4th to 3rd in 2019 after losing so many seniors.

But this year, I don’t see any MD team in the top 5 at NXR.

Seahawk tomorrow - Loyola's already talking shít but Severna Park will be there, along with a couple other good teams. It's early in the season so Loyola may win, but if they win they'll win by getting a pack from 15-20, since they don't have anyone good enough to get top 10.

Severna park takes second.
Nunn was only 4th on the team which was unexpected.
Their #2 guy when from nothing but a 2:24 in the 800 to a 16:33. Nice add to the team.
I expected Sullivan to do better too because of his 10:31 3200.
https://live.bullseyerunning.com/meets/17792/xc-events/655294/scores
either way, neither team seems like top 5 in the Southeast

Loyola 5th was far back

Yeah Loyola won, but their 1-4 (places 7-10) were 16:16-16:31 which would be upper 16's - low 17's on a 5k. I wonder how they'd do against actual competition - basically, meets where you'd need faster than a 17:10 for top 10. I also don't recognize nearly all of the Severna Park names, so they must have developed some good runners.

Times are so much slower this year though. Last year the top 5 were all seniors, but you'd think that there would be more than 2 people under 16.

Looking at results, the times were actually abysmal compared to last year. Are runners slower or is it because it's the first meet?