WhatAboutTheGirls wrote:
Y'all haven't mentioned the bigger achievement. Valley girls in 4a won states, narrowly beating Blacksburg. Blacksburg has won girls states for I think 8 years. Dunno if the girls won post merge states overall.
You missed page 1, the third post, where the Loudoun Valley girls were, indeed, credited for their great team victory over Blacksburg, breaking a consecutive string of VA State Meet first place finishes.
I don't know which VA girls' team would have won the merged one-race championship, had there been one.
Merged results (six total girls' races) would not be a realistic comparison, anyway, since the precipitation, temperature, and wind were drastically different between the three girls' races held on Friday and the three on Saturday.
And that's not even considering the fact that every race was unique in its head-to-head competition (as is always the case). Some are more tactical than others. An example of how you can't just look at times to judge the effort is the men's 2016 Olympic 1500m final -- a slow, tactical race until Matthew Centrowitz kicked to a gold medal. It was very, very slow, but nevertheless it was an elite race on the biggest stage of all.