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The power of Catholic Republicans wins again

Irrelevant because section 3 always wins cross country

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Irrelevant because section 3 always wins cross country

Section 3 has done nothing on the track... congrats you won 1 of the three seasons. CHSAA got ya beat when it comes to indoor and outdoor track

Fm couldn't even make the "state meet" this year.

catholic schools have the advantage of being able to recruit and other kids from stable families. They have many coaches on their staff and often have good facilities.

However I do applaud the ability of the coaches because they do a great job with their athletes

oh i forgot that Xavier has a bunch of great facilities in the middle of manhattan, and their athletes don't have to run 2 miles to get to a public track for workouts............

also Dormer literally refuses to recruit kids..

try again.

the CHSAA doesn't recruit athletes... It's called good coaching. They take young runners and make them into stellar athletes. If you want to talk about recruiting look at places like FM and Benjamin Cardozo

Take athletic soccer/lacrosse players and shape them into state champions- st ants way to the top. No recruiting there.

I'm a friend of Dormer, Jordan and a fan of Xavier but they have great facilities in which to train--the armory and Randalls island. Most poor city schools don't have budgets to pay for these facilities and also train far away on public tracks. Farrell has great facilities, Fordham Prep also, and then there are the Long Island schools. St Anthony's has better facilities than some colleges. As far as recruiting, you're right they might not actively recruit but kids transfer there. No doubt they transfer because of the great coaching but the catholic schools, any private school can have students who live outside a district I doubt most city public school 9th graders joined their HS cross country teams until mid September while in other districts and catholic schools the kids were training in the summer before the 9th grade. Kids go to Manhattan private schools who live in Jersey. I'm aware of Cardozo and some of the other city schools that blatantly violate every rule and get away with it. I'm not accusing the Catholic schools of any violations but they do have advantages that most other public city schools don't have. And admittedly they have better coaching than almost all public school teams. You can't compare NYC public schools to the catholic schools.

everything is true except for the armory being a great training facility..... because they want the most amount of money from renting the place, they allow about 100 team in there at one time.... and they reserve lane 1 for race walkers....its pretty atrocious...

but yes, dormer is a great coach, way better than fordham preps... am i right @fptrackalltheway?

i agree that the armory is terrible to train in because its so crowded. as for dormer being a better coach?..... how many all americans did xavier have last year?

Fables and Dormer are both great coaches and although the armory is overcrowded it's still better than the alternative, running in short narrow hallways or outside on concrete.

The coaching staffs of both schools are outstanding and remember many public schools have but one coach.

Let's be honest, Fordham prep kinda rode Lundy

His name is Febles. Fables are children's fairy tales. I can assure you Febles is a real boy just as much as dobby is a free elf.

Back in the glory days of the mid 2000s section 2 won everything. Section 2 FTW

Sorry autocorrect

its okay i was just joking lol

FM had the NY state champ in the 3200 last year so you can't say they haven't done anything on the track. And if we were talking xc, section 3's top 7 would kill the chsaa's top 7. Section 3 would have 7 runners finish the race before the chsaa has their 4th runner finish

This has 'pissing contest' written all over it, but as a former Section 2 runner, well... Section 2 is historically the best section out there depth-wise, boys and girls, hands down.