Biggest improvements you've seen in high school?

Me, in 9th grade I started cross country the first week of high school. These are girl's times, and back then we only ran 2 miles.

After two weeks of practice, my first race, 18:10 for 2.x? miles (13:56 was the varsity girls winner, for reference, and she was one of the top runners in the state, so it had to be a longer race, maybe 2.25 mi)

2nd race, 13:18 for 1.9 miles. (11:18 was the varsity girls winner) The rest is history, I kept improving and my most proud accomplishment was finishing as the top freshman at the sectional because I had only started running 2 months prior!

By the end of sophomore cross country, I was in the top ten in the state; by my senior year, I was in the top 2 in the state. My eighth grade time was 7:11 for the mile. Is that a good time for an eighth grade girl? Not particularly; they probably won the state meet in 5:2x or 5:3x for the eighth grade back then (I'm guessing). We didn't have a track or cross country team in m.s., so that was just a time trial in P.E. and I only ran it once. that's why I don't think middle school times mean much.

Two Rivers MN improvements

Donohoo -
9th grade - 20:10 5k
10th grade - 17:44 5k
11th grade - 16:22 5k

Esten-
9th grade - 21:16 5k
10th grade - 16:22 5k

Dietsch -
9th grade - 24:53 5k
10th grade - 21:06 5k
11th grade - 20:12 5k
12th grade - 16:41 5k

Lane -
10th grade - 20:04 5k
11th grade - 17:10 5k