If this really is the same Shetty, here is what the team would have looked like if no one transferred in and the school everyone went to is close to where they live Doshi - 11 - 14:59 Schohn - 11 - 15:41 Bernardino - 9 - 15:47 Ingersoll - 10 - 16:12 Watson - 10 - 17:13 (this guy hasn’t made much progress since last year. He ran a 4:39 in the 1600)
Chris Caudillo is another prize recruit. Has he made his college choice yet? Anyone know where he’s heading?
There is another prize recruit rising in the CCS.
He is a sophomore from Santa Cruz, His name is Eli Fitchen-Young. Yesterday at the Crystal Springs Invitational he broke the 45 year old Soph record by a second with a 14:57.
He has been tearing it up in the CCS this fall. It looks like his coach is bringing him along slowly. I can’t wait to see how he does in the state D3 championship.
He definitely isn't the only prized recruit rising in CCS, last track season, CCS had 8 freshmen under 4:26 in the mile.
The most notable ones I'd say are Carson Hedlund (4:13), Landon Pretre (14:06 at Woodbridge), and of course Eli Fitchen-Young with his ridiculous Crystal Springs time. (Also can't forget Grant Morgenfeld who's a Junior right now with his 9th place finish at Clovis this year).
Looking forward to seeing what CCS does in the next couple years.
He is a sophomore from Santa Cruz, His name is Eli Fitchen-Young. Yesterday at the Crystal Springs Invitational he broke the 45 year old Soph record by a second with a 14:57.
He has been tearing it up in the CCS this fall. It looks like his coach is bringing him along slowly. I can’t wait to see how he does in the state D3 championship.
He definitely isn't the only prized recruit rising in CCS, last track season, CCS had 8 freshmen under 4:26 in the mile.
The most notable ones I'd say are Carson Hedlund (4:13), Landon Pretre (14:06 at Woodbridge), and of course Eli Fitchen-Young with his ridiculous Crystal Springs time. (Also can't forget Grant Morgenfeld who's a Junior right now with his 9th place finish at Clovis this year).
Looking forward to seeing what CCS does in the next couple years.
The reason I mentioned Fitchen-Young is because the best result I could find for him this pass spring was a 9:43 3200. He has not been on anyone’s radar outside, I bet, of the CCS
Hedlund, Petre and Morganfield establish themselves this pass spring with there impressive times as freshmen and sophomore.
Hedlund seems to be a pure miler as his cross country results are not as impressive as his track results. Example is his 16:15 at Crystal Springs in the same race F-Y ran his 14:57.
Petre and Morganfield like to lace them up and race the best.
I started a thread about Morganfield’s impressive weekend when he ran 14:13 at Woodbridge on Friday night, then traveled all morning then won the De La Salle Invitational Saturday day morning.
Some Granada guys had a bad day. Seems a lot of kids got pulled out too fast by the NP boys, the smart racers did well. Great Oak really wiped out going from #2 at mile mark to #4, San Clemente did the opposite going #4 to #2
Under Doug Soles, Great Oak went out slow. Under Draughon, Great Oak goes out hard
FWIW when comparing Manhattan using speed ratings CBA would’ve been 2nd at Clovis and Corning would’ve been somewhere between Great Oak and Crescenta Valley, St. Anthony’s would have lost to both but beaten SLO.
Inserting Herriman, they would have been very close to Granada. Belen Jesuit out of Florida would’ve been surprisingly competitive, they match up nearly identically with Granada but slightly better.
Also important to note the results from the Nike XC Town meet last weekend. Jesuit, Carmel and Plainfield South would all have beaten San Clemente, while Noblesville matches up nearly identically. Zionsville and Mason also looked very very good.
Actually, if everyone from Herriman was on, they would have beaten San Clemente. Their regular 3/4 guys (seniors) didn’t do their best at regions
I was looking at the NXN qualifying criteria for wildcards. I wonder if this is why Buchanan girls ran only 5 and opted to DNF (to avoid the risk of potentially losing to Los Altos or J Serra):
“GREATEST WEIGHTING BY THE COMMITTEE WILL BE GIVEN TO THIRD-PLACE CLUBS FROM THE CHAMPIONSHIP RACE AT EACH REGIONAL WHO DEFEATED ANY EVENTUAL NXR CHAMPION IN PRIOR WEEKS. IN ORDER FOR THIS WEIGHTING TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE THIRD-PLACE CLUBS, THE VICTORY MUST HAVE OCCURRED WHEN AT LEAST FIVE CLUB MEMBERS FROM THE EVENTUAL NXR CHAMPIONSHIP CLUB COMPETED IN THE SAME RACE AS THE AFOREMENTIONED LOSS.”
Thought it was odd Buchanan only ran five. this may not have been the tactic, but it looks like a tactic of some sort.
He definitely isn't the only prized recruit rising in CCS, last track season, CCS had 8 freshmen under 4:26 in the mile.
The most notable ones I'd say are Carson Hedlund (4:13), Landon Pretre (14:06 at Woodbridge), and of course Eli Fitchen-Young with his ridiculous Crystal Springs time. (Also can't forget Grant Morgenfeld who's a Junior right now with his 9th place finish at Clovis this year).
Looking forward to seeing what CCS does in the next couple years.
The reason I mentioned Fitchen-Young is because the best result I could find for him this pass spring was a 9:43 3200. He has not been on anyone’s radar outside, I bet, of the CCS
Hedlund, Petre and Morganfield establish themselves this pass spring with there impressive times as freshmen and sophomore.
Hedlund seems to be a pure miler as his cross country results are not as impressive as his track results. Example is his 16:15 at Crystal Springs in the same race F-Y ran his 14:57.
Petre and Morganfield like to lace them up and race the best.
I started a thread about Morganfield’s impressive weekend when he ran 14:13 at Woodbridge on Friday night, then traveled all morning then won the De La Salle Invitational Saturday day morning.
bet he's related to former Farm Teamer and World XC team medalist Kim Fitchen-Young
I was looking at the NXN qualifying criteria for wildcards. I wonder if this is why Buchanan girls ran only 5 and opted to DNF (to avoid the risk of potentially losing to Los Altos or J Serra):
“GREATEST WEIGHTING BY THE COMMITTEE WILL BE GIVEN TO THIRD-PLACE CLUBS FROM THE CHAMPIONSHIP RACE AT EACH REGIONAL WHO DEFEATED ANY EVENTUAL NXR CHAMPION IN PRIOR WEEKS. IN ORDER FOR THIS WEIGHTING TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE THIRD-PLACE CLUBS, THE VICTORY MUST HAVE OCCURRED WHEN AT LEAST FIVE CLUB MEMBERS FROM THE EVENTUAL NXR CHAMPIONSHIP CLUB COMPETED IN THE SAME RACE AS THE AFOREMENTIONED LOSS.”
Thought it was odd Buchanan only ran five. this may not have been the tactic, but it looks like a tactic of some sort.
That could also explain why one girl would drop out and not finish. Yes she was limping but at State last year a girl passed out, got up and then walked in and finished last. This girl couldn’t be worse off then that.
One thing they forgot to mention is that it also depends on the strength of a region. Heartland is a weak region so it has not been getting any at-large bids and will definitely not be getting one this year.
I was looking at the NXN qualifying criteria for wildcards. I wonder if this is why Buchanan girls ran only 5 and opted to DNF (to avoid the risk of potentially losing to Los Altos or J Serra):
“GREATEST WEIGHTING BY THE COMMITTEE WILL BE GIVEN TO THIRD-PLACE CLUBS FROM THE CHAMPIONSHIP RACE AT EACH REGIONAL WHO DEFEATED ANY EVENTUAL NXR CHAMPION IN PRIOR WEEKS. IN ORDER FOR THIS WEIGHTING TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE THIRD-PLACE CLUBS, THE VICTORY MUST HAVE OCCURRED WHEN AT LEAST FIVE CLUB MEMBERS FROM THE EVENTUAL NXR CHAMPIONSHIP CLUB COMPETED IN THE SAME RACE AS THE AFOREMENTIONED LOSS.”
Thought it was odd Buchanan only ran five. this may not have been the tactic, but it looks like a tactic of some sort.
I not sure about the comment on the above post. But in the end it will not make difference to Los Altos.
When they merged all the results together Los Altos expanded their lead. This was because of the small gap between Los Altos’ 3-6. Less so that the other squads.
I don’t care if Los Altos is the 1st, 2nd or At-Large that goes to NXN. They’ll be, I believe the first CCS to make to NXN. N. Monterey County’s men’s squad was close in 2003 or 2004.
What the top 4 boys teams can do to improve / how they can get to NXN (with an at large or by auto-qualifying).
Newbury Park - I would be surprised if they don’t qualify. To keep other teams from challenging for an NXN title, Sahlman needs to do better than he did last year and their 4/5 need to step up.
San Clemente - needs to close their 3-5 gap to secure their NXN berth.
Granada - have their number 2/3 guys get closer to their number 1 like in track. And have their 4-7 be on. If they can do that they can challenge San Clemente. But they are in different divisions so the NXN qualification depends on the merged state meet results. This team is 7-deep and there is a junior on JV trying to steal a varsity spot this year. This keeps all 7 of their varsity guys from being complacent about their spot.
Great Oak - unfortunately they are the least likely of these to qualify unless there are 2 at larges which is unlikely, maybe even one at-large is not guaranteed based on how good regions like Midwest and Northwest are now. But I predict that there will be at least 1 at large team here. BUT….don’t count this team out just yet (for finishing second or third in the merge) ….. Ramses Cortes needs to start racing again and try to beat Granada’s/San Clemente’s #1. Not sure if he can get back to being in that kind of shape. And also their 2-7 guys need to finish better than at Clovis. Those guys were in second at Mile 1. But after that, they died down and placed 4th. Maybe this pack needs to race the first mile in a smarter way?
if Great oak wins state and sneaks in to NXN that’s good for the program because this varsity team has 5 seniors and this year it is very much looking to be the last year they win state and go to NXN
hopefully at least Granada qualifies. They never have before and the varsity team has 6 seniors.