Do you have any cross country teams in your your state that absolutely dominate

Oh yeah. I think every class has that one school that absolutely dominates

Carmel in Indiana....They are one of the biggest schools in the country with 4000-5000 students...Have 2 good feeder programs...But they are big on paavo and there kids generally peak in high school and don't do much in college.

I'm not going to count but York of Elmhurst in Illinois has won around 50% of the state meets since the early 60's.

Hmm...f-m girls do okay.

Merica wrote:

Carmel in Indiana....They are one of the biggest schools in the country with 4000-5000 students...Have 2 good feeder programs...But they are big on paavo and there kids generally peak in high school and don't do much in college.

Ben Veatch went there

Ocean Springs in Mississippi

Wayzata boys won a majority of the Minnesota state meets since 2007.

They also have the best JV team in MN just about every year.

For many years, a team of #8-14 Wayzata runners would have been ranked in the top 10 in Minnesota when comparing it against all of the Varsity teams at other schools.

CBA has been the best boys team in New Jersey just about every year.

Sounds like a copy of Loudoun Valley in VA. About the same # of kids in the program. The boys have won three straight VA Titles and the girls have been runnerup's forever. A very solid program led by the Hunters who seem to extol the virtues of long term development over quick fixes. Rumor is that the Varsity boys are in the 55-65 range and girls in the 45-55 range, and they do meet pretty consistently over the summer, which every good program should/must do.

I live in VA ... with LV. They are an excellent team but sometimes it gets old when they win literally everything and set point records at every meet they go to.

Merica wrote:

Carmel in Indiana....They are one of the biggest schools in the country with 4000-5000 students...Have 2 good feeder programs...But they are big on paavo and there kids generally peak in high school and don't do much in college.

A few years into college, what you did in high school won't be holding you back anymore, your college training should be taking over by then. If they really do have an epidemic of kids doing poorly in college relative to high school, that actually suggests that they had better coaching in high school than they did in college. So either they had great high school coaching or they had very poor college coaching. I know nothing about the school you reference, so couldn't guess which it is.

carmel from indy as stated before, but some other big indy schools like zionsville and hamilton southeastern also do well. oddly enough, a lot of small schools (im talking REAL small) in the countryside tend to have one outstanding runner that can easily beat all of the wealthy carmel runners and place in state (barr reeve, greeencastle, edgewood, etc.). a lot of indiana athletes bond over their hate of carmel down where i live lol (and yeah ben veatch went there! saw him run at the high school state meet a while back)

I live in New York so ...

run_wilson_js wrote:

I live in VA ... with LV. They are an excellent team but sometimes it gets old when they win literally everything and set point records at every meet they go to.

What’s impressive is how much Loudoun Valley improved over the years. Before the Hunters started coaching, Loudoun Valley finished in the bottom half as a team in many races.

Pappy wrote:

I'm not going to count but York of Elmhurst in Illinois has won around 50% of the state meets since the early 60's.

They haven’t won state or made it to NXN since 2012.

Rhode Island has been dominated by 2 schools. Lasalle academy and bishop hendricken. the state championships the last 10 years have gone: 2017 BH, 2016 LSA, 2015 LSA, 2014 LSA, 2013 BH, 2012 BH, 2011 BH, 2010 BH, 2009 BH, 2008 BH. both teams look to be very good this year with hendricken being one of the top ranked in the northeast and lsa right there with them

I'm not going to count but York of Elmhurst in Illinois has won around 50% of the state meets since the early 60's.

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I'm not going to count but York of Elmhurst in Illinois has won around 50% of the state meets since the early 60's.

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the thing with Virginia is that there are 6 divions instead of 3 as there were when I went to highs school there

so it is easier to dominate in the divisions.

since going to 6A you had some dominating performances by Lake Braddock, Chantilly and James Madison, Midlothian in whatever division they are in, LV of course and Maggie walker has been dominating in the lower division

if it were back in 3A LV still would have dominated this past year but there would have been competition in other years and in the future