I say "conference" because its what its called in my area. I know other states say "districts" or other things. Thoughts?
I say "conference" because its what its called in my area. I know other states say "districts" or other things. Thoughts?
Central district ohio
West suburban Silver Conference in Illinois
Loudoun is far and away the most competitive high school region in the world.
loudoun is it wrote:
Loudoun is far and away the most competitive high school region in the world.
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WSC wrote:
West suburban Silver Conference in Illinois
Their Conference meet is tougher than almost every State meet for the last 40+ years.
The Big 8 (10) in southern Wisconsin is not #1, but it's easily the most competitive in the state, and one of the most competitive in the nation. 7 of the top 22 at state XC this year. 2 years ago had 6 under 4:20 at the conference meet.
West Suburban Silver in Illinois.
No question about it.
Even though most of the kids don’t fare well in college, any answer that isn’t from the Southern Section of California is a bad answer.
District 1 in PA is really tough most years
Shore Conference in New Jersey
wiscojogger wrote:
The Big 8 (10) in southern Wisconsin is not #1, but it's easily the most competitive in the state, and one of the most competitive in the nation. 7 of the top 22 at state XC this year. 2 years ago had 6 under 4:20 at the conference meet.
I wouldn’t say it’s easily the most competitive in the state. The FVA has a guy easily under 9 this year and 2 more who will get pretty close to 9:00. They could also could put 5 guys under 4:20 at conference meet along top of that. They also went 2-3-4 at the State cross meet. FVA > Big 8
Flagpoles wrote:
Central district ohio
I assume we're talking about XC/distance. To expand on this a bit, I would say the entire state of Ohio and the entire Midwest. If every state were to take its top 7 runners and have a XC meet, Ohio would win hands down.
Agree FVA is extremely competitive at the top, but it lacks depth. Once those 3 graduate it won't be as strong. The Big 8 has had top individuals and teams in the state year after year.
Slim Whitman wrote:
Flagpoles wrote:
Central district ohio
I assume we're talking about XC/distance. To expand on this a bit, I would say the entire state of Ohio and the entire Midwest. If every state were to take its top 7 runners and have a XC meet, Ohio would win hands down.
For depth in XC, many years it would be IL out of the Midwest. This year alone three from IL went to International XC race and finished in the top 15 (along with 1 from OH, 1 WI and 1 Texas). The depth past those three in IL is significant.
ILFTW wrote:
Slim Whitman wrote:
I assume we're talking about XC/distance. To expand on this a bit, I would say the entire state of Ohio and the entire Midwest. If every state were to take its top 7 runners and have a XC meet, Ohio would win hands down.
For depth in XC, many years it would be IL out of the Midwest. This year alone three from IL went to International XC race and finished in the top 15 (along with 1 from OH, 1 WI and 1 Texas). The depth past those three in IL is significant.
In most years I wouldn't argue with you about Illinois and this year Illinois is extremely good but I would give the edge to Ohio. The Ohio team would be Dustin Horter, Zach Kreft, Arjun Jha, Chad Johnson, Conant Smith, Matt Scrape, and Lucas Bons. I'm pretty sure that all have gone sub 15 over a true 5K XC course - some of them multiple times.
Horter & Jha are running at Indiana, Kreft at Notre Dame, Johnson at Iowa State, Scrape at Syracuse, Bons at BYU, and Conant Smith is a junior but will run at a high level somewhere and should run in the neighborhood of 14:45 for XC 5K next fall.
Minnesota's section 6AA (Wayzata, Edina, Hopkins, Minnetonka, MPLS Washburn, etc.) has to be in the conversation. In 2015, Edina and Wayzata didn't even make the State meet in XC, but advanced to NXN and went 13/14 (Hopkins in 7th). Plenty of all-americans come from this conference every year: Khalid Hussein, Emily Covert, Jaret Carpenter, Ruby Stauber being some of the big names from the section in the past few years.
mntrackgeek wrote:
Minnesota's section 6AA (Wayzata, Edina, Hopkins, Minnetonka, MPLS Washburn, etc.) has to be in the conversation. In 2015, Edina and Wayzata didn't even make the State meet in XC, but advanced to NXN and went 13/14 (Hopkins in 7th). Plenty of all-americans come from this conference every year: Khalid Hussein, Emily Covert, Jaret Carpenter, Ruby Stauber being some of the big names from the section in the past few years.
I think even a few years before that there was a team from this section who didn't make state but placed top 7 at NXN.
Lots of big-name individuals from this area. At least in the realm of distance runners.
What's a "district" or a "conference"? When I was in HS (CIF SS), a "league" had 8-10 teams. For track and XC, I'd guess one of the CIF SS leagues is the most competitive.