Are the top high school XC programs in Colorado recruiting?

dude his daughter is a senior this year so hes staying for one year to keep the family together like a good parent. chill ouuuut.

Yes, he did get pushed out. He was even forced to take a sabbatical the year before. He was bad mouthing athletes, coaches and parents for several years. Several athletes and parents turned on him.

Lets change the topic back to RECRUITING!!! How does Niwot do it? With their middle school program! How does Vista do it?? With their middle school program!! Seems like if you want to have a GOOD TEAM in COLORADO, you need a MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM. Valor also had a middle school program, but idek if that exists anymore under the new coach.

Does CBA nj have a middle school program?

Does Herriman have a middle school program?

Herrimann literally has a goated coach who will develop anyone the kids will now flock to his school naturally.

Lol, so many Herriman guys dropped 2-4 minutes from last year. With Soles, it doesn’t seem like having a MS program is a necessity for them.

I also noticed that Skyridge only had 4 freshmen in the boys program last year, but this year there are a lot more sophomores. Do they have a middle school program?

Doug mentioned about a freshman group coming in next year (younger brothers of the people currently on the team)

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Is Herriman in Colorado? No.

FFS please keep the pro and anti-Soles talk to every other existing thread on Letsrun. We need a place to get away from it.

The Valor coach never badmouthed any of his kids to anyone I know, and he had multiple opportunities. He even was extremely PC when talking to other coaches about Ty, right at the height of their disagreements.

As for recruiting, as for middle school "feeders". While it's certainly not necessary, they go a long, long ways. Niwot and Mountain Vista both have very strong feeders. As does Coronado - most of their freshmen and sophomores have been running for their current HS coach since they were in diapers. One can only assume that the Kokopelli 8th grader Horton that just ran 4:31 will also go to Coronado next year. What's funny is Coronado's home middle school is not exactly feeding them talent; much of it is coming from the city-wide club.

Interesting was that there were multiple schools at NXN with massive coaching presences. There were some schools whose middle school coaches were in attendance. That to me seems like a strong signal that some - most(?) of the best schools in the country DO have a strong connection between their MS and HS.

Is it “Christian” to talk trash about a guy on a message board? You Valor people make me laugh with your trash talk on here.

Valor has a strong top 3

but their 4-5 are very far back

Their 4-7 are a bunch of 15 year olds. Its hard to be consistent when you are 15. It will be epic to see them duke it out with niwot in 2024 xc.

Doug it’s more likely your conversations over the years with this coach were made up stories created from his imagination or as a way to cover up getting busted for a previous lie. Being PC doesn’t mean he’s telling the truth. So sorry you were also a victim. He’s good… really good. And that’s scary. May want fact check your past and future conversations.

If it’s the truth it’s not trash talk and most Christians think they are doing the right thing by keeping quiet. But it’s also how they get taken advantage of so easily by imposters. And…are u really laughing?

Vista has 4 girls that are not zoned for Vista. They are looking up to be a very strong team on the girls side.

Stop whining. Start training. My kids have always gone to charter and magnet schools outside of their neighborhood school, because their neighborhood school performs poorly. Stop faulting kids for pursuing their self interest.

Besides, if the Vista kids are some of the Komopelli kids that have been training together since they were in elementary school and won national XC championships together, then they probably recruited themselves to run together.

There are some youth XC programs that are feeder programs now to middle schools in CO Springs and Front Range area. Kokopelli (Sam Chalenga's kids are in this), Boulder Mountain Warriors (both Ritz's and Goucher's kids are/have run for them). These kids come into Middle School ready to go and are usually are good right off the bat in 9th grade as well. Mentally and physically prepared to run fast times.

The XC/Track scene for youth (Elementary school age) is also hot in CO right now. The kid who won USATF 800m and 1500m in Eugene (age 10) has been running in a bunch of these youth meets. The other kid who's been crushing the age 11 group, and ran in Eugene, also runs a bunch of the youth meets (you can track his history back to age 8 on milesplit).

Wyoming has been getting in on this as well. There's a new youth (K-5) XC program that ran in some of the Boulder meets last year and the year previous. They had a girl who almost won the whole race last year at the Boulder (teamboco?) fall youth XC race against the powerhouses like Kokopelli and Boulder Mountain Warriors.

Point is that talent is being spotted very early, nurtured, and graduated to the highschool ranks. This didn't always happen. When other kids watch these talents rise in middle school tehy want to get in on the action and they join XC early. It's a snowball effect.