That is shocking. Can you imagine? Hats off to them.
But what kind of a weird league are they in? No disrespect to them, but that is odd, right? Is it one of those school districts where kids can pick their HS and all the runners go here because they have a great program?
My town has two high schools and each school has 3-4 solid runners each year and scramble to find a good 4th-5th man... If all 6-8 of those really good kids were in the same school, we'd win state all the time. But as it is, you sort of have to stick to your home school.
Seriously - who cares. The best teams and the best athletes skip dual meets in all seasons.
And it's a shame that more teams don't run duals, tris, or quads. It is something from the past, when there were not as many invitationals, that many teams could benefit from. Smaller meets teach kids how to actually race. Now all that teams are concerned with is time.
Wouldn't someone in NJ want to try to beat it? They don't win the state meet every year do they?
CBA got second to Union Catholic in 2021 in the Group Championships and NJSIAA Meet of Champions. UC was very good that year. But they didn’t race each other in a dual meet that year
CBA is not a public school, so they are able to recruit and pull from all over.
Depending on where state you are in, public schools can also recruit. A lot of public schools around me have open enrollment. Football teams are loaded with kids from other school districts. I am saying this as a public school advocate and just want to point out that it can also happen with the publics. That said, I agree that the privates/Catholics do it more.
Wouldn't someone in NJ want to try to beat it? They don't win the state meet every year do they?
They win the state meet most of the time, but this year they have some decent competition from Haddonfield Memorial and Cherokee. Also interestingly Haddonfield Memorial has a streak of around 270 which has been going from 1997.
CBA is not a public school, so they are able to recruit and pull from all over.
Don’t they have to take an entrance exam and do well on it to get in? And I doubt that fast middle school XC / track times increase people’s chances of being admitted to the school.