What’s the softest state in xc

You are all kinds of stupid to say Connecticut is soft in XC.

1 New York
2 District of Columbia
3 New Jersey
4 Massachusetts
5 Maryland

NY and NJ

you on crack?

Your top two are mostly true (although Alaska actually has a lot of good individual runners) but Connecticut is very solid. Definitely a couple tiers below the powerhouses, but better than the rest of New England (except maybe Mass). If you want the real crap look at the low-population states like the Dakotas and Wyoming. Per-capita the worst states are probably the southern states, even Texas is pretty weak considering its population. Missouri, Kentucky, Alabama, and (excluding Jesuit) Louisiana are all just plain awful despite having decent populations.

Wonder what kind of course is the state course in Honolulu cause it looks like you can win state with an 18:xx.

Alaska has had too may top tier runners for an unpopulated state to be ranked #2.

yeah, at least glancing at a few years, Alaska looks much harder to win state in the 3200 than Louisiana for example.

Michigan’s upper peninsula

Someone needs to calculate sub 920 runners per capita😁 A lot comes down to what you are measuring. Things like NXN depend alot on how big your school is. Your rural HS with 400 kids is going to struggle against some 3000 kid school...

And wouldn't a state based all star XC meet be fun.

Vermont

Hawaii
Maine

Mississippi

Oklahoma

Delaware

District of Columbia

Nevada

Not sure if we can say Alaska…Allie ostrander and Tristian Merchant were really good

MA has Marcus Reilly and Aidan Ross

WY had Sydney Thorvaldson

Champlain valley girls team from VT went to NXN in 2018

Massachusetts is great on the individual side for it's size, (Donahue, Reilly, Burgess, Lopez, Ross, Bergeron) but for various reasons the team aspect is one of the worst in the country. The powerhouse program of the state, the catholic boarding school with the largest population in the state: St John's Prep would get dusted by about 20 California teams any day of the week.

Yeah, also they are decent this year. New England and New York produce a lot of talent.

I think if you take population into account, Georgia and North Carolina, both in the top-10 largest states by population, probably lead the way.

Not AK. Nordic ski racing is relatively huge there at the youth level, and many of those kids cross train in the off season by running. All those fit skiers also run xc.

Where 16:40s on short 5ks win state

Mississippi

Alabama

Louisiana

Arkansas

South Carolina

Florida

Well it’s a simple mathematical equation. Which ever D1 teams need to recruit more out of state runners to be competitive and that would be Alaska. Hawaii is not soft at all. Try running in that humidity. They don’t get to run indoors during that heat and horrible condition for distance running. Alaskonians move to indoors when it gets cold and dark = soft dough

No. Some states have 20 D1 schools while others have 1 or 2 and the number doesn't track with state population.