Coeur d'Alene has King and the Cervi-Skinner twins who are strong but lack depth. Next years team will be stacked! CDA has an eight grader running 4:40 miles coming up plus multiple kids running under 5. New Club coaches paying dividends.
You're missing a senior who ran 16:28, (but he didn't race Tiger Grizz, and didn't do phenomenal at Middleton, so maybe he's injured?)
Also Keith Uitdewilligen (Senior who ran 15:51) ran one second faster at running lane, so he could be sick or injured as well, or maybe the coach is holding them in reserve.
Or they are overtrained from big summers and insane workouts. I don't trust a sophomore having a consistent season when they open 1:30 faster than what they typically ran the year before and then follow up that race by running around kids that have run 50 seconds slower so far this year. I also don't trust kids keeping it together when they run doubles have have marching band that has practices for 3-4 hours on top of their running.
State is a long ways away. Lots of teams have looked great all the way up until state and then the wheels fall off, especially if another team ends up cramming 5 guys in the top 20 and you have a couple of guys have an off day.
It always surprises me when the top Oregon and Washington schools don’t come to Bob Firman to preview the course for NXR. They they complain about it being a gimmicky course their runners didn’t understand.
Granted, they seem to do okay since it isn’t like Idaho has a long history of sending teams to NXN.
How is Bob Firman a gimmicky course?!? It features everything a cross country should have- varied terrain and hills. If they can’t do their homework on the course and prepare their athletes for that course I don’t feel bad for them, just as I wouldn’t feel bad for a football team that didn’t watch any film of their opponent.
It always surprises me when the top Oregon and Washington schools don’t come to Bob Firman to preview the course for NXR. They they complain about it being a gimmicky course their runners didn’t understand.
Granted, they seem to do okay since it isn’t like Idaho has a long history of sending teams to NXN.
Really sad to not see the top NW teams compete against each other (unless they are in the same state) until NXR
Great oak’s varsity 7 will be competing at Bob firman. If Rocky Mountain can beat Crater OR, then they can beat Great Oak (based on what we saw at Woodbridge) and Rocky Mountain doesn’t have to worry about the traveling that Great Oak has to worry about
Great oak’s varsity 7 will be competing at Bob firman. If Rocky Mountain can beat Crater OR, then they can beat Great Oak (based on what we saw at Woodbridge) and Rocky Mountain doesn’t have to worry about the traveling that Great Oak has to worry about
It always surprises me when the top Oregon and Washington schools don’t come to Bob Firman to preview the course for NXR. They they complain about it being a gimmicky course their runners didn’t understand.
Granted, they seem to do okay since it isn’t like Idaho has a long history of sending teams to NXN.
I am only aware of a certain school in Portland that complains about that course.
Great oak’s varsity 7 will be competing at Bob firman. If Rocky Mountain can beat Crater OR, then they can beat Great Oak (based on what we saw at Woodbridge) and Rocky Mountain doesn’t have to worry about the traveling that Great Oak has to worry about
When did Rocky beat Crater?
I never said they did. But people are saying they can compete for an NXN spot. To secure it, they would have to beat Crater and/or Jesuit OR.
If anyone cares, Rocky's girls team has a shot at beating Boise's girls team this year at state.
I do think this is a possibility, although Allie Bruce handily beat Paisley Taylor at the first meet of the season, who lost to Haywood by 5 seconds. Boise looked shakier than I thought they would to start the season, but with Samantha Smith racing and Lydia Nance racing better, along with their freshman improving rapidly, I think Boise has a good shot to put 3 in front of Rocky's #1 and all 5 in front of their #3. Boise does look beatable for the first time in years, though, and if anyone is going to do it, Rocky will.
Every year I attend the USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships. This last year it was in Sacramento, CA.
There are never any Boise kids. Same with the regional meets.
North Idaho produced two national titles last year. Women's 1500 and 3000.
Is there not a track club in Southern Idaho?
I’m not there, but track clubs seem very sporadic. There isn’t one in our area and the HS coaches I talked to about it actually seemed a little hostile to the idea. I‘m not even aware of anyone local that is qualified and willing to coach high school athletes at a high level outside the high schools.
Count yourself lucky if you have a good one in your area.
Frankly, I don't even trust Milesplit that much anymore. They had IF pretty high up, Rocky wasn't even ranked. And there were several individuals who should've been on their individuals list that weren't even mentioned.