I'm curious what team in the nation has the best JV team. If everbody hear names the best JV team in their state maybe we can figure it out. Now I know there are no JV runners on LR, that you all run 14:00 5k's but honestly JV is important too, since they are the varsity of the future. Have any of you heard of a team of all 5 JV runners breaking 17 minutes for a 5k xc course? I think North Central from Spokane did that last year.
York
oh no, this is going to be epic.
F/S is Varsity of the future in CA.
I think CBA had a JV team win NJ meet of champions. That is pretty impressive.
North Central
Revan wrote:
I think CBA had a JV team win NJ meet of champions. That is pretty impressive.
I assume that is a huge meet, so ya that sounds pretty impressive!
Anybody have times for CBA, York, or other good JV teams?
But ya that makes sense that the best varsity teams would have the best JV teams.
domestic pro wrote:
oh no, this is going to be epic.
F/S is Varsity of the future in CA.
Is F/S frosh/soph? We don't have that category here except for certain invites.
CBAs JV averaged 16:20ish
On girls side:
Last year to make Fort Collins and Fairview (Colorado) Subvarsity, you had to run under 19:50
Sub 19:50? Great Oak and Saugus of California both have 15+ runners with those credentials. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Saugus swept the JV national race at Mt. SAC a few years back. I bet FM has a decent JV team as well.
Too OP like omg
Yeah CBA JV kinda swept our varsity during a dual meet and it was their low-tier JV they use for dual meets
I would imagine the usual suspects are usually at the top... for boys: Arcadia CA, Dana Hills CA, The Woodlands TX, Southlake Carroll TX, York IL, CBA NJ...
for girls, it would probably be either Carmel IN, Fort Collins CO or some of the SoCal schools (in particular, Great Oak and probably Saugus).
In short, most great programs have GREAT JV teams. Especially great programs that have huge attendance (not always the case, as I don't think CBA is THAT big of a school... ~1k boys I think). Great programs from smaller schools, such as North Central WA, are bound to be up there as well some years.
Great JV teams are how you graduate from having a great team, to a great program.
North central
Anyone who has had to take on Great Oaks girls knows they are the deepest team out there. Not even close.
For boys I'm sure it used to be York, not sure bout now.
Back in the day, North Central out of Washington had an outstanding JV squad. Though they have lost a lot of that depth due to graduation.
I think the CBA guys might be the current JV National Champs.
This weekend North Central hosts the Tracy Walters Invite. It's a pretty cool measure of team depth with run 10 score 8 for the varsity race, and a JV race as well. There are always good teams there that are ranked nationally on both sides from 4 Northwestern states.
Great Oak, Herriman, Belen Jesuit Prep, Southlake Carroll, CBA
In the past:
Loudoun Valley (2017-2019)
Woodlands
Wayzata (2014-2017)
Colorado School of Mines