Not someone who coaches at a large suburban public school or private school. The shear numbers, demographics, and ability to recruit make it too easy for a coach at these types of schools. But someone that produces consistently good XC teams at an under 1k rural or urban public school.
Not many great teams meet your metric. Crater(Loftus) has like 1500 students and is rural. CDA(Carr) also qualifies. Frankly the best ones I can think of are in the NE. The Portland schools are pretty good. If we go historic the GSL schools and South Eugene are extremely loaded programs if we go back in time(Mead still is).
His team performed better at NXN than NXR last year. Bozeman had a perfect day well they had a subpar one in 2017. In 2023 Herriman was perfectly in reach and some people didn't perform at their best. Has happened to plenty of teams over the years. I would argue that it is much more of a problem for CBA than AF.
His team performed better at NXN than NXR last year. Bozeman had a perfect day well they had a subpar one in 2017. In 2023 Herriman was perfectly in reach and some people didn't perform at their best. Has happened to plenty of teams over the years. I would argue that it is much more of a problem for CBA than AF.
Good thing for CBA that they won NXN in 2011.
American Fork probably could have won it in 2023 if they didn’t go out too slow. They will have another golden opportunity to win it in 2027. They have the fastest class of 2028 in the country.
Show me a coach who took the program from nothing and built it into a powerhouse. Show me a coach who took a school's "boy's only" cross country and introduced a girls program with only 2 girls coming out the first year and built it into a team of 20. Show me a coach who came to a school that was a doormat for the conference, and built the program into the strongest team in the conference. Now show me a coach that did this all in a school with less than 200 students.
Alberto Salazar although you are not allowed to say it or else the woke mob will cancel you but it's important to say the truth and he did nothing wrong.
Show me a coach who took the program from nothing and built it into a powerhouse. Show me a coach who took a school's "boy's only" cross country and introduced a girls program with only 2 girls coming out the first year and built it into a team of 20. Show me a coach who came to a school that was a doormat for the conference, and built the program into the strongest team in the conference. Now show me a coach that did this all in a school with less than 200 students.
That’s four coaches you want to see.
It’s not really the Xs and Os that make a difference and it’s getting the super talented runners to come out for the team. Maybe that comes from a good middle school program or transfers. It can also come from 5 ultra-talented brothers from two families, living nearby.