2022 Ratings: Queen City

The Upper Peninsula ratings take a bit of a different course than the Lower Peninsula ones. In a way, they’re based on the Lower Peninsula ratings, in a way, they’re separate. They are derived from last year, where come October, I was able trace back UP teams that competed in LP meets, then work my way around through all the various invites and championships. I’m already strapped for time as is, and waiting until October to work through Upper Peninsula meets is a disservice to those athletes.

The rating for last year’s early season meets at Presque Isle was a solid, consistent -55 for both genders. Given the similar fields at last year’s Queen City Invite and this year’s version, I was able to compare graphs from both days. I should be able to do the same for this week’s Dale Phillips Invite, then it’ll be a season’s worth of referencing runners until I’m able to get numbers on athletes spanning from the Porkies to Drummond Island.

Boys Adjustment: -43
Girls Adjustment: -38

QUEEN CITY ROYALTY

Kai Chouinard, Marquette: The Redmen were projected to be dominant, dominated here, and all one can see is dominance. It would be easy to dismiss individual runners and their progress in the midst of their impressive string of wins, but easy ain’t my mode. Kai wasn’t projected to be in their varsity before the season, the 12th guy by my count. And that’s backed up by his performances in 2021, having gone sub-20 once. He showed progress in the long sprints during the spring, sub-60 in all of his 400m races, 5th place in the Great Northern Conference. But from my point of view, nothing that could have foretold his 18:15 and role as Marquette’s 6th man. Many in the state are anticipating Potter’s House in the Spartan Elite race. Marquette is making the trek down here as well, given these early results, they’d be a prospect for a top team in the Lower Peninsula’s Division 1 as well.

Lola Korpi, Ishpeming: It’s been a career of success for Lola. Of her 18 races at the high school level, she’s won 15 of them. She finished 2nd in 2020’s Division 2 Finals and attained the victory last year. Last fall, it was a debate (was there a debate? I surely dropped the ball here) whether her or Ingrid Seagren was the better runner. This fall, it appears she’ll get a challenge from the east side, Newberry’s Samantha Taylor coming in hot here. But the winning spirit prevailed early, a 20:40, her best August mark yet, a win in the quest for this queen to defend her crown.

Grade	Name	Time	Team	Rating
12	Carson Vanderschaaf	16:51.2	Marquette	197.3
12	Drew Hughes	17:07.4	Gladstone	191.9
12	Colin Vanderschaaf	17:10.5	Marquette	190.8
12	Brady Ketzenberger	17:36.3	Marquette	182.2
10	Chase Thomsen	17:51.4	Marquette	177.2
11	Cullen Papin	18:07.8	Marquette	171.7
12	Kai Chouinard	18:15.1	Marquette	169.3
12	John Plaxco	18:16.1	Negaunee	169.0
12	Judge Anderson	18:21.4	Negaunee	167.2
9	Peter Argeropoulos	18:21.6	Marquette	167.1
10	Trevor Nolan	18:23.9	Munising	166.4
11	James Kraeg	18:32.1	Marquette	163.6
12	Cyrus Hamlin	18:44.1	Houghton	159.6
12	Drew White	18:51.8	Marquette	157.1
12	James Dank	18:56.5	Negaunee	155.5
10	Birk Seagren	19:00.7	Houghton	154.1
11	Tanner Howes	19:03.5	Gladstone	153.2
10	Seppi Camilli	19:23.2	Marquette	146.6
9	Simon Jaklin	19:29.8	Negaunee	144.4
12	Tom Knewtson	19:41.0	Houghton	140.7
10	Isaiah Lawson	19:41.4	Houghton	140.5
10	Aaron Hughes	19:43.7	Gladstone	139.8
10	Evan Balko	19:45.2	Marquette	139.3
	Ethan Congdon	19:45.4	Unattached	139.2
10	Jack Parent	20:08.4	Marquette	131.5
12	Brian Belkowski	20:21.9	Marquette	127.0
9	Colin Van Karsen	20:24.6	Houghton	126.1
9	Boden Moore	20:28.8	Marquette	124.7
10	Carter Campioni	20:34.3	Houghton	122.9
12	Nick Hamlin	20:39.3	Escanaba	121.2
12	Daniel Smith	20:40.7	Escanaba	120.8
10	Levi Nicholls	20:49.0	Ishpeming	118.0
9	Carson Wernholm	20:52.0	Marquette	117.0
12	Jace Moore	20:55.3	Marquette	115.9
11	Ben Smith	21:01.1	Escanaba	114.0
12	Brett Ceane	21:06.7	Houghton	112.1
12	Michael Mulligan	21:13.8	Kingsford	109.7
10	Joey Lundholm	21:15.9	Kingsford	109.0
11	Matthew Jenkins	21:16.5	Gwinn	108.8
10	Michael Slawinski	21:29.3	Negaunee	104.6
9	Beepsee Teeple	21:34.7	Marquette	102.8
11	Nathan Lanaville	21:38.1	Escanaba	101.6
9	Ben Khul	21:39.9	Marquette	101.0
12	Ben Hiller	21:47.3	Houghton	98.6
9	Austin Byczek	22:03.3	Marquette	93.2
9	Ben Hemmer	22:03.5	Houghton	93.2
12	Derek Bowler	22:11.9	Newberry	90.4
9	Tylor Soderman	22:14.6	Gladstone	89.5
11	Eli Gardner	22:16.1	Escanaba	89.0
10	Carter Clark	22:19.8	Negaunee	87.7
9	Grady Nelson	22:22.2	Gladstone	86.9
10	Joey Giroux	22:31.0	Ishpeming	84.0
12	Alex Eilola	22:32.3	Gladstone	83.6
11	Logan Katona	22:40.8	Negaunee	80.7
9	Teagon Reynolds	22:41.7	Gladstone	80.4
11	Patrick Klumpp	22:59.6	Ishpeming Westwood	74.5
12	Joe Mccollum	23:03.9	Negaunee	73.0
11	Alex Ossenheimer	23:16.1	Negaunee	69.0
12	Devin Santilli	23:30.2	Negaunee	64.3
11	Ian Evans	23:42.2	Houghton	60.3
9	Max Beauchamp	23:43.9	Gladstone	59.7
10	Sam Rahilly	23:48.2	Newberry	58.3
10	Caden Steede	23:53.8	Negaunee	56.4
10	Reid Frustaglio	24:04.7	Ishpeming Westwood	52.8
10	Donald Jourden	24:21.0	Gwinn	47.3
10	Joshua Cameron	24:25.5	Kingsford	45.8
9	Daniel Xie	24:35.4	Houghton	42.5
12	Joe Rosten	24:54.1	Negaunee	36.3
10	Drew Lafave	25:10.1	Gladstone	31.0
9	Evan Massaway	25:10.5	Houghton	30.8
10	Nathan Petersen	25:49.9	Munising	17.7
11	Aidan Erickson	26:02.5	Ishpeming Westwood	13.5
12	Griffin Johnson	26:04.3	Houghton	12.9
9	Cole Williams	26:05.5	Gladstone	12.5
10	Brett Gaff	26:20.9	Houghton	7.4
9	Riley Lovern	26:25.2	Negaunee	5.9
9	Brandon Brown	26:26.4	Newberry	5.5

Grade	Name	Time	Team	Rating
11	Lola Korpi	20:40.0	Ishpeming	119.3
9	Samantha Taylor	20:42.8	Newberry	118.4
10	Marlee Plaxco	21:02.9	Negaunee	111.7
10	Monet Argeropoulos	21:31.9	Marquette	102.0
12	Endla Harris	21:35.7	Negaunee	100.8
9	Ella Fure	21:47.5	Marquette	96.8
12	Monique Brisson	21:51.9	Munising	95.4
11	Abby Harma	21:59.6	Marquette	92.8
10	Tessa Bruns	22:03.1	Marquette	91.6
10	Lily Ross	22:14.8	Houghton	87.7
12	Claire Filpus	22:41.2	Houghton	78.9
12	Courtney Larson	22:46.1	Marquette	77.3
11	Retta Boburka	22:48.4	Ishpeming Westwood	76.5
11	Ayla Miller	23:05.6	Houghton	70.8
11	Annabelle Neumeier	23:14.7	Escanaba	67.8
12	Elodie Malherbe	23:40.7	Marquette	59.1
10	Maija Maki-Warne	23:47.4	Marquette	56.9
10	Alisha Mabie	23:48.9	Escanaba	56.4
12	Gabrielle Bishop	23:53.6	Houghton	54.8
10	Laynie Korpi	24:13.5	Ishpeming	48.2
10	Elisa Malherbe	24:13.6	Marquette	48.1
10	Kiira Niska	24:17.7	Houghton	46.8
12	Emmi Kruhak	24:19.8	Marquette	46.1
10	Julia Moyle	24:22.2	Marquette	45.3
12	Morgan Makosky	24:30.1	Escanaba	42.6
12	Sage Resh Chimner	24:36.2	Houghton	40.6
10	Katie Sarau	24:39.5	Houghton	39.5
10	Lauren Sundquist	24:47.5	Gladstone	36.8
10	Dayne Behning	24:51.9	Munising	35.4
9	Olivia Cotey	24:53.2	Munising	34.9
10	Ida Larsen	25:11.6	Marquette	28.8
12	Anna Grzelak	25:13.3	Marquette	28.2
	Althea Bruggink	25:32.1	Marquette	22.0
10	Kate Mattson	25:47.7	Munising	16.8
12	Elizabeth Holloway	25:49.5	Munising	16.2
9	Lilli Gast	25:51.6	Houghton	15.5
12	Hattie Cota	25:55.8	Munising	14.1
11	Julia Prunick	25:59.6	Munising	12.8
11	Kayla Farnes	26:02.2	Gladstone	11.9
11	Amara Rasmussen	26:04.5	Negaunee	11.2
10	Kristy Karl	26:10.4	Gladstone	9.2
10	Sophia Weaver	26:14.3	Escanaba	7.9
9	Payton Takkunen	26:14.3	Gladstone	7.9
9	Zuri Brindle	26:35.8	Marquette	0.7