It’s crazy early but off of this track season who do you guys see as being the best teams in the state?
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Boys
1A- Indian Rocks Christian should win again. They return everyone after winning 1A.
2A- Bolles should be able to win again. They lose 3 guys but they still return solid depth
3A- Belen. And it won’t even be close. Best team in not just the state, but the Nike Southeast region as well. They are also in the conversation to win the national title.
4A- Christopher Columbus. They got 2nd last year but they aren’t losing many people. They return 5 guys under 10:10.
Creekside will be good again too and returns 4 guys under 10:10 (including their ace Simonds), but they need a 5th runner and they are graduating most of their varsity.
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Belen Jesuit Prep is going to be at the top for quite some time.
They had 3 juniors, 5 sophomores, and 2 8th graders under 10:10 for the 3200 this spring00 -
Satellite will be a team to watch for the next 2 years
They return:
Carr - 10:01 - 10
Foster - 10:06 - 10
Wilson - 10:11 - 9
Delia - 10:17 - 10
Carty - 10:18 - 9
Butler - 10:21 - 10They could be really good in 2024. They have a history of guys stepping up out of nowhere
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Hagerty FL will be a team to watch
Leon - 9:10
Scanlon - 9:58
Madruga - 10:06
Abbate - 10:12
Younger Leon - 4:37
Davis-Medina - 2:06 (as a freshman)11 -
Leon should make some noise this year
Koon - 8:44 3200
Springer - 9:40 3200
Carrasquilla - 9:49 3200
Winsor - 9:58 3200
Maxwell - 4:38 1600
All but Maxwell will be seniorsThey have had almost the same varsity team for years, lead by a superstar Koon
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Bolles will be really good in 2024 as well
Adams - 10 - 9:13 3200
Ruge - 10 - 4:28 mile
Barre - 10 - 16:36 XC 5k
J Camp - 10 - 4:33 mile
H Camp - 8 - 4:44 mile10 -
Uprising wrote:
Bolles will be really good in 2024 as well
Adams - 10 - 9:13 3200
Ruge - 10 - 4:28 mile
Barre - 10 - 16:36 XC 5k
J Camp - 10 - 4:33 mile
H Camp - 8 - 4:44 mileWhile Bolles will be good, they have the chance to be even better if the group behind Adams closes the gap to him. Would make a crazy strong top 5
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Hagerty did well this track season without Seymour.
They had 4 sub-10 guys including a 9:10.Hagerty returns:
9:10, 9:58, 10:06, 10:12, 4:37, 4:55, 4:5610 -
Alegro wrote:
Hagerty did well this track season without Seymour.
They had 4 sub-10 guys including a 9:10.Hagerty returns:
9:10, 9:58, 10:06, 10:12, 4:37, 4:55, 4:56Hagerty returns 5 guys under 17 as well
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Nease looks really good
Ryan - 12 - 9:07
Corkran - 11 - 9:43
Jaysraman - 12 - 9:43
Thomas - 12 - 9:54 (no XC results)
Pittman - 12 - 9:57
Voils - 11 - 10:12
Schroeder - 12 - 10:12 / 16:55 5k
Crawford - 12 - 4:43
Castro - 12 - 17:36 5k10 -
Men:
1) Florida State
2) North Florida
3) Univ of Florida
Women:
1) Florida State
2) Univ of Florida (could be 1st with Asekol)
3) Univ of Miami
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Noles still on top ... for now wrote:
Men:
1) Florida State
2) North Florida
3) Univ of Florida
Women:
1) Florida State
2) Univ of Florida (could be 1st with Asekol)
3) Univ of Miami
Uh, this thread is about high school XC, not college XC
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Uprising wrote:
Leon should make some noise this year
Koon - 8:44 3200
Springer - 9:40 3200
Carrasquilla - 9:49 3200
Winsor - 9:58 3200
Maxwell - 4:38 1600
All but Maxwell will be seniorsThey have had almost the same varsity team for years, lead by a superstar Koon
Leon also has an incoming freshman Jack Koon (Patrick’s brother) coming in
4:52 in the 1600
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Wuestionable wrote:
Uprising wrote:
Bolles will be really good in 2024 as well
Adams - 10 - 9:13 3200
Ruge - 10 - 4:28 mile
Barre - 10 - 16:36 XC 5k
J Camp - 10 - 4:33 mile
H Camp - 8 - 4:44 mileWhile Bolles will be good, they have the chance to be even better if the group behind Adams closes the gap to him. Would make a crazy strong top 5
Truth
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Belen has a really strong freshman class coming in
Marcelo Mantecon - 9:14 3200
Armando Cruz - 9:50 3200 / 4:32 1600
Davi Bodoh - 4:52 1600
Benjamin Cirillo - 5:04 1600
Octavio Blandon - 5:02 1600 in 2022
also some solid incoming 8th graders
Veloso - 4:55 1600
Michalak - 5:01 1600
Fernandez - 5:07 160000 -
The Top 10 Freshmen Boys To Watch For This XC Season
1. Marcelo Mantecon
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School (FL)
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Though he may be entering his first year of high school, Mantecon certainly isn't new to competing at that level.
As an eighth-grader at Belen Jesuit, Mantecon was a key member of the varsity cross country program, clocking a 5k PR of 15:43.30 at Nike Southeast Regionals and finishing as the squad's top runner at Nike Cross Country Nationals in Oregon. That finish helped Belen Jesuit to 14th overall in the team scoring.
Mantecon's 15:43.30 mark ranks as the second-fastest 5k time among all rising freshmen heading into the 2023 fall season.
And if his middle school cross country success isn't proof enough, on the track this spring, the Florida youngster led all eighth-graders in the nation in the 1,500m (4:10.39), 1,600m (4:25.00), mile (4:26.60) and 3,200m (9:14.38). He would also go on to win the mile at Brooks PR Invitational and take third in the 3,200m against high schoolers at the FHSAA 3A Outdoor Championships.Patrick Koon is #5 nationally on TullyRunners00 -
Bolles Alum Charles Hicks is doing big things
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Belen returning 3200 times
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Dillard is in the Southeast regional rankings in TullyRunners00
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