Anybody have national XC 2019 rankings and/or NXN predictions for teams and/or individuals for boys and/or girls?
Anybody have national XC 2019 rankings and/or NXN predictions for teams and/or individuals for boys and/or girls?
Both the 2018 team champions will fall out of the top 3 at NXN in 2019.
Cole Sprout wins boys. Touhy skips NXN, a northeast girl wins it.
I recall Central Oregon was to return their top 5 girls (at least). Manlius returns at least 4 of their top 5 girls. Niwot also may return 4 girls. Would think they will all be strong. Wayzata returns all 7 I think - but need 1 or 2 to become more of a top runner. Temecula returns 6 I think but need the back end to get stronger - presumably Tori Gaitan will return to her form. There is another discussion on the boys side.
Bang Bang wrote:
Anybody have national XC 2019 rankings and/or NXN predictions for teams and/or individuals for boys and/or girls?
NXN:
Boys Team: Elmhurst (York), IL
Boys Indv: Cole Sprout (Valor Christian), CO
Drunk_Grant_Fisher wrote:
Bang Bang wrote:
Anybody have national XC 2019 rankings and/or NXN predictions for teams and/or individuals for boys and/or girls?
NXN:
Boys Team: Elmhurst (York), IL
Boys Indv: Cole Sprout (Valor Christian), CO
Teams hard to say this early.
Boys Indv: Nico Young
Girls Indv: Katelyn Tuohy
Toga19 wrote:
Both the 2018 team champions will fall out of the top 3 at NXN in 2019.
Cole Sprout wins boys. Touhy skips NXN, a northeast girl wins it.
Tuohy won’t want to skip NXN. She will be the first person to three-peat as an NXN champ if she wins it.
And no way Summit will fall out of the top 3. In fact, they have the best shot of winning since they are returning their entire varsity team and won it last year.
Girls top 3 teams:
1. Summit
2. FM
3. Wayzata
Look at truth cc wrote:
Teams hard to say this early.
Boys Indv: Nico Young
Girls Indv: Katelyn Tuohy
I agree 100%.
fastTuohy wrote:
Wayzata returns all 7 I think - but need 1 or 2 to become more of a top runner.
Wayzata girls should have all 7 returning (last I heard), including 8th-grader Abby Nechanicky, who ran second to Emma Atkinson from last Fall's conference meet through NXN (the last five races of their season). Atkinson ran strongly in outdoor track (just ran a 4:56 PR in the 1600), and looks to be better than ever. Emilia Arnone just PR'd in the 3200, and looks stronger too. With Caroline Sassan always reliable, and Rhynn Paulsen, Lauren McCollor, and Grace Link all looking strong, they should have a solid chance of making the podium again in the Fall.
Some footage of the Wayzata girls on their way to winning Nike Heartland (on their way to NXN) last Fall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TodowdL7HfQ
They are in blue over black uniforms, with a gold "W":
Emma Atkinson: Bib # 3317
Abby Nechanicky: Bib # 3320
Caroline Sassan: Bib # 3322
Rhynn Paulsen: Bib # 3321
Lauren McCollor: Bib # 3319
Emilia Arnone: Bib # 3316
Grace Link: Bib # 3318
I'm surprised that so many people view young as better than sprout. They are very close, and young improved more this year, but in the end sprout is still faster. He led 3100m of that 8:40 3200 and was still only outkicked by .7. He's got better wheels, too: 4:04 vs 4:08 for young (granted, the 4:08 was a while ago and young led it). Sprout defeated young handily at nxn and his 14:32 is superior to young's 14:01. I think they will be close but sprout will be slightly more fit. Either way, it will be very exciting to watch these two absolute studs go at it. There will be some FAST times on the books in the last XC season of this decade.
Hot take: Sprout, Young and Culpepper will all go sub 4 next year. They're all insanely talented. Evan Holland has a shot at dipping under with his 4:04 converted as well. Anyone else missing?
Easton Creed Allred had surgery and could make a huge comeback.
Evan Holland will win NXN. He improves more every year than the competition.
To finish that thought, Holland was a major chunk behind Sprout a year ago at Oregon Relays, got closer in the fall, by spring he was in the ballpark (see Arcadia), and now has an equal 1500/mile time as Sprout and Culpepper. By next December, I think he beats them. Development isn’t that linear or predictable but he’s moved steadily up the ranks season by season, year by year, for years, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Boys top 3 individuals:
1. Cole Sprout
2. Nico Young
3. Matt Strangio
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Hupp wrote:
Evan Holland will win NXN. He improves more every year than the competition.
Did he improve more than Young from last year to this year?
I’m sure there will be someone who has a major drop that isn’t on people’s radar yet, just like Young this past year.
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Dear Jesus,
Please be a benevolent Son of God and - FOR GOD'S SAKE (haha...) - smite this repeat offending horse's patoot. He hath not learnt that CBA Can't Bother Anyone on the victory platform at NXN because they won't be there...again. This troll can't keep his hands off of the keyboard. We leave an appropriate smiting to your capable hands. A simple bolt of lightning to knock out his internet connection is a good start. Thanks, and I hope you had a great Father's Day with the Big Man, your Pop. Amen.
There seems to be some talk every year since 2011 that CBA would win NXN again, but CBA hasn’t finished in the top 3 since 2013.
Has anyone noticed how much young talent the returning squad of the Saratoga Springs girls NXN qualifying team (that finished 6th at NXN) consists of?
Although it is losing Kelsey Chmiel, it returns 5 girls from their top 7 - 1 very strong sophomore low stick Ella Kurto, 3 freshmen, and an 8th grader.
There is also another sophomore who wasn’t on that varsity squad who ran a 10:44 in the 3k New York Relays this spring.
They may be able to make a push to win NXN sometime in the future.