Enrollment: ~ 3,000
XC Team size: ~ 60 boys
Track Team size: 150 kids
In cross the last time we made state was 3 years ago, we finished 11th out of 23. We should have made it last year but we finished 2 spots out at the CIF Finals due to a coaching error. I think that we have a decent chance this year but I won't call it likely.
In track we're pretty decent. We have a few sub 4:30 1600 guys and maybe a sub 4:20 or 2. We also have a good amount of sub 10:00 3200 guys.
We had approx. 800 kids 9-12 grades.
Both boys and girls teams were small. 8 runners max each team, ran several meets with 5 runners. That's about where the comparison stops. The girl's team had four STUDS and one girl was a bit below average for a fifth place girl. That cost them in XC but in track they won the 4x8. The boy's team was poor at best, by the time I left they were starting to rally a bit and I believe they got much better.
My graduating class had 70 kids. Less than 300 kids in grades 9-12.
We had about 10 girls on the XC team and 16 boys(on varsity). Probably another dozen on the JH teams.
Girls team wasnt great. Average time of 22ish for 5k.
Boys team was competitive for our size, but nothing special. Average 5k time of about 18:10 or so.
1300 student public school in small city in Iowa. In xc my junior year we had 25 total runners (15 guys). In my 3 years of running xc we had 1 guy make it to state and two others get close. We never threatened to win any meets in either xc or track. My senior year I was 3rd best on the team with a 17:30 5k pb so that shows how terrible we were overall.
We have a really small team, 15 guys. We did't make state last year, but we got two promising freshman and we might have a shot at top 10 in state.
About 1400 students in our school--in a town of ~30,000.
We have 14 state titles, boys and girls. On average, we have about 30 of each gender on the team.
A few recent times/marks:
9:04 3200
4:13 1600
1:52 800
21.52 200
23-6 lj
11-0 gpv
I go back and forth on the importance of numbers. Talent is also a good thing. Have had big numbers with little talent and the opposite--lower numbers with a cohort of great talent.
My high school had 2,000 kids.
My high school had a mediocre XC team, puts down great sprinters and one lappers, leads the nation in NFL and MLB players, is up there with NBA players, death row inmates, police department thugs, and gangsters.
High School Enrollment: ~240
In my four years of high school the team had between 18-26 boys each year. We did not qualify for state my freshman year, then were 8th, 2nd, and 7th at state in each of the following years.
2000 kids in my high school. More could've competed on the team because we had alternative high schools in which their students competed in athletics under their respective "home school."
About 30 kids on the team. Our team was never officially ranked in the top 20, but I would say that we were within the top 25 in the state of Wisconsin in the most competitive division of D1.