NXN is meant to be a high school national championship, so it should be restricted to high schoolers. it shouldn’t matter if other states allow middle schoolers to compete in high school. high school competition is only high schoolers. people from NY need to accept that they won’t be as good once they play by the same rules as everyone else.
Why should a girl who can run 5K in under 20:00 not be able to compete for her varsity team?
They have to pass a test- you can look it up. It's a selection classification test at the varsity (not JV) level. Part of it is maturity.
Every state should do this.
Plus many schools have an early kindergarten option which makes their 8th grader one year older than the typical 8th grader.
Maybe have races based on erollment for teams that don't have a chance to qualify for the main race...
I don’t think running 3+ classes is reasonable, but what about allowing smaller schools to combine. Would need some rules about schools needing to be close and not being able to swap every year, but getting 4 400 person schools to make 1 2k school might be interesting. Granted a ton of issues like picking a coach and team…
Maybe have races based on erollment for teams that don't have a chance to qualify for the main race...
I don’t think running 3+ classes is reasonable, but what about allowing smaller schools to combine. Would need some rules about schools needing to be close and not being able to swap every year, but getting 4 400 person schools to make 1 2k school might be interesting. Granted a ton of issues like picking a coach and team…
NXN is meant to be a high school national championship, so it should be restricted to high schoolers. it shouldn’t matter if other states allow middle schoolers to compete in high school. high school competition is only high schoolers. people from NY need to accept that they won’t be as good once they play by the same rules as everyone else.
Why should a girl who can run 5K in under 20:00 not be able to compete for her varsity team?
They have to pass a test- you can look it up. It's a selection classification test at the varsity (not JV) level. Part of it is maturity.
Every state should do this.
Plus many schools have an early kindergarten option which makes their 8th grader one year older than the typical 8th grader.
If you go to kindergarten earlier, you're 12 in 8th grade. Younger, not older. Bad logic my guy.
It's a high school competition. It should be high schoolers competing. It's no different than not allowing Simeon and Connor competing for an NCAA title last year. See... they weren't in college. And 8th graders aren't in high school.