Niwot freshman rocco culpepper and the class of 2025 boys for Niwot, NXN 2023 favorites?

Wow, that’s 3 solid freshmen already.

Also, can’t forget sophomore Christopher Wood, who ran a 16:05 5k last xc season and was on varsity xc. He doesn’t run track.

Runner here who knows the Niwot guys. Chris Wood(Sophmore) does Time Trial Biking during the Spring. It is his main sport. So he won't be doing track from what I have heard. Speaking of the Freshman though;

Rocco Culpeper: 800m - 1:58.72

Ryder Keeton(Came out of nowhere after xc) - 800m - 2:00.29 - Split 1:59.9 in a 4x800

Duncan - 800m - 2:04

Gabe Marshall: 1600m - 4:49

Hunter Robbie - 4:45

All these races were at ALTITUDE around 5,500 feet. These kids are insane, and don't do that mileage. They don't put over 35 miles a week. Also have 1-2 rest days. The coach is definitely not pushing them to there limit and have a lot to store. In the next 3 years the team will be Top 3 in the Country for High School.

I heard they ran pretty fweaking fast at dessert twilight

No doubt about it. They dominated the meet and also had a freshman go 15:17. 6 seconds behind Rocco Culpepper.

Rocco and that freshman both finished in the top 4.

They also had another sophomore go 15:47

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Niwot has a very good sophomore class too.
Obviously Culpepper and freshman Sullivan are very good. They also have sophomores Ryder Keeton (15:36), Hunter Robbie (15:35), and Gabriel Marshall (15:50) from this meet below. That’s 5 soph-and-under studs already

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Warrior Lincoln Park Classic (SWL Championships) 2023 - Varsity Results

MileSplits official Varsity Results formatted results for the 2023 Warrior Lincoln Park Classic (SWL Championships), hosted by Central Grand Junction High School in Grand Junction CO.

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Today Niwot’s top 4 consisted of 3 sophomores and 1 freshman.

Next 3 were juniors

They also had another sophomore run a 15:46 in the open race and would have scored for their varsity.

Now this is absolutely ridiculous

Yup. But they were 4th.

Yes, but all teams that beat them have a lot of seniors.

Next year and the year after that, they can win nationals.

4th place is better than what they did last year when most of the varsity team was seniors

But the subject of the post reads “NXN 2023 favorites?” Obviously looking at their 4th place finish at NXR yesterday we can comfortably say that was a reach to project them as possible favorites for this year. 4th is a great finish at NXR, but there’s work to be done.

Next year will be more promising as two of their sophomores took huge steps forward this year (to go along with Culpepper and their good freshman). Team is loaded with a bunch of good juniors so they’ll be stronger and motivated to leave on a good note for their final XC season.

It looks like 3 sophomores made huge improvements. In the merged results, their top 5 at NXR were sophomore, freshman, sophomore, sophomore, sophomore with a 15:40 average. To put this in perspective, Herriman had a 15:40 average last year when they placed 3rd at nationals. The course was muddy/slower than last year. The Southwest is stacked this year!