2023 Rankings: League Week, Division 2

Ahhh, the final week of rankings. Thanks to all for following along. Coming off the huge first October weekend, many teams took this past weekend off, getting their last good training block in before their league/regional/state meets. The ones that did race saw some movement – the higher divisions at Gabriel Richard, the lower divisions at Macomb County and Greater Lansing.

If you’ve followed these over the past few years, you may know the gist of these, but let’s break it down once again:

The individual ratings take into account all the meets listed here. There are a few meets missing that I’ll link to, but pretty much any meet with a significant number of athletes will have been calculated. An individual’s rating takes their best 75% of rated races (rounding up, so 4 of 5, 5 of 6, etc.), weighs them with more recent races having a higher weight, then spits out a final rating. The team rankings score those individuals as if they were in a meet against their entire division.

As a result of taking into the entire season into account, the rankings will be more conservative and less reactionary than most. Putting together a great performance once will bring about a tiny bit of movement, doing so repeatedly will elicit much greater change.

There are a few changes from previous years:

• No more ratings of weekday, conference meets
  • Why? One, often these aren’t raced all out and end up underrating a runner. Two, to lessen my workload. I’d rather concentrate on these rankings and use the weekend invites that are more likely to be raced hard to determine the rankings.
• Using the top 75% of races instead of 67%
  • Why? If I’m gonna use fewer overall races from a runner’s resume, I have to make up for it in some way.
• No more individual rankings posted to social media
  • Why? I hate instances where a runner stagnates or falls back over the course of the season and it’s posted for the world to see. I recognize people want to know where they’re ranked, so just having it on the website is a happy medium.
• Posting these one division at a time
  • If you’ve noticed, I always go Division 4 first, trending towards Division 1. This is done intentionally! Traditional media always focuses on the larger schools. By focusing on the smaller divisions first, they get the love that they might not normally receive.

Unfortunately, the injury rule is in place, where if I don’t have a rating from the past month, that runner is taken out. If you’re willing to share (and I can understand why not – someone’s medical situation doesn’t have to be the public’s business) that your athlete or you yourself are healthy/injured, feel free. There are some exceptions based on situations that make sense. Hopefully these don’t rub salt in the wound of someone who’s already hurting.

Now I need to be serious for a minute. These are for fun. If you don’t like these fun rankings, you don’t need to participate, you don’t need to call me names, talk trash to your fellow competitors, or send rude emails. We good here? Enjoy.

WEEK THREE RANKINGS
WEEK FOUR RANKINGS
CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK RANKINGS
COUNTY WEEK RANKINGS

Rank	Team	Region	Score	County Wk	Champ Wk	Week 4	Week 3	Summer
1	Grand Rapids Christian	11	66	1	1	1	1	2
2	Otsego	13	202	2	2	2	2	1
3	Goodrich	15	278	3	4	4	4	3
4	East Grand Rapids	12	334	4	3	3	8	6
5	Zeeland East	11	401	5	5	7	3	5
6	Frankenmuth	15	449	10	9	6	5	8
7	St. Joseph	13	449	6	6	5	6	4
8	St. Johns	14	452	7	7	8	7	7
9	Holland Christian	11	453	8	11	12	28	10
10	Spring Lake	11	458	9	8	9	9	11
11	DeWitt	14	518	11	13	10	10	14
12	Freeland	15	526	17	12	11	11	12
13	Ludington	10	561	12	10	15	12	13
14	Owosso	14	616	16	21	19	18	26
15	Hudsonville Unity Christian	11	658	14	15	14	14	17
16	Linden	16	660	15	20	26	24	20
17	Dearborn Divine Child	16	707	19	18	22	20	19
18	Alma	15	709	23	17	16	16	15
19	Petoskey	10	735	18	23	18	15	18
20	Forest Hills Eastern	12	770	20	24	24	22	25
21	Croswell-Lexington	17	794	22	19	17	17	29
22	Warren Regina	17	814	21	16	20	19	34
23	Chelsea	18	831	26	26	25	23	21
24	Middleville Thornapple-Kellogg	12	833	13	14	13	13	27
25	Pontiac Notre Dame Prep	16	896	24	25	23	25	44
26	Armada	17	923	31	22	21	21	32
27	Grand Rapids South Christian	12	938	25	29	29	29	22

Rank	Team	Region	Score	County Wk	Champ Wk	Week 4	Week 3	Summer
1	Forest Hills Eastern	12	186	1	1	1	1	3
2	Allendale	11	229	2	3	3	4	4
3	Grand Rapids Christian	11	257	4	2	4	2	2
4	East Grand Rapids	12	261	3	4	2	3	1
5	Pinckney	16	389	5	11	23	29	6
6	Alma	15	408	6	5	7	5	10
7	Marshall	12	462	9	7	5	6	15
8	Adrian	18	463	7	6	6	7	5
9	Otsego	13	471	8	8	9	8	13
10	Petoskey	10	517	10	12	16	15	9
11	Holland Christian	11	537	11	9	8	21	8
12	Sparta	10	585	12	10	10	10	17
13	Frankenmuth	15	608	14	13	15	13	21
14	Gladwin	10	621	13	14	12	9	12
15	Spring Lake	11	647	15	20	18	18	18
16	Plainwell	13	651	16	15	11	12	37
17	Yale	17	660	17	17	13	11	19
18	Flint Powers Catholic	15	703	18	18	22	20	25
19	Fremont	10	705	19	19	21	NR	14
20	Hamilton	11	777	20	16	19	19	16
21	Chelsea	18	794	23	23	20	23	7
22	Clio	15	799	22	21	24	17	28
23	St. Clair	17	800	21	24	14	14	31
24	Parma Western	14	847	24	22	27	25	27
25	St. Johns	14	927	25	26	30	28	34
26	Flint Kearsley	15	948	27	28	29	30	45
27	Shepherd	15	949	26	27	28	26	33

GIRLS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Rank	Grade	Name	Team
1	12	Gail Vaikutis	St. Joseph
2	12	Natalie VanOtteren	Grand Rapids Christian
3	11	Elena Figueroa	St. Joseph
4	9	Ava Schafer	St. Johns
5	10	Katie Berkshire	Gaylord
6	12	Drew Muller	East Grand Rapids
7	12	Mary Richmond	Frankenmuth
8	10	Emma Hoffman	Otsego
9	11	Emma Drnek	Zeeland East
10	12	Emily Tomes	Grand Rapids Catholic Central
11	12	Meghan Ford	Mason
12	10	Ellie Scholma	Grand Rapids Christian
13	12	Logan Brazee	Otsego
14	10	Lilah Poel	Grand Rapids Christian
15	11	Sadey Seyferth	East Grand Rapids
16	11	Kamryn Lauinger	Goodrich
17	11	Summer Brower	Ludington
18	12	Naomi Nelson	Grand Rapids Christian
19	11	Sophy Skeels	Adrian
20	11	Ezgi Kurt	Alma
21	12	Payton Holtz	Grand Rapids Christian
22	9	Clara Kaczor	Freeland
23	11	Natalia DeMea	Chelsea
24	12	Allison Kuzma	Zeeland East
25	12	Megan Germain	Otsego
26	12	Jenna Pilachowski	Monroe Jefferson
27	12	Emma DeVries	GR West Michigan Aviation
28	12	Camille DeCola	Marshall
29	12	Addison Washler	Forest Hills Eastern
30	11	Ava Crews	Middleville Thornapple-Kellogg
31	10	Natalie Foltz	Frankenmuth
32	9	Olivia Hollebeek	Holland Christian
33	11	Layla Jordan	Goodrich
34	9	Caroline Randall	Hastings
35	11	Eva Thompson	Croswell-Lexington
36	12	Anastee Davis	Adrian
37	12	Abby Young	St. Johns
38	10	Samantha Brown	Clio
39	9	Eliana Stob	Holland Christian
40	9	Jaelyn Ray	Pinckney
41	12	Kyla Meyers	Spring Lake
42	10	Linnea Paige	Fremont
43	12	Tatum Dykstra	Fruitport
44	12	Nora O’Leary	Petoskey
45	9	Johanna Mulder	Holland
46	12	Clara Fletcher	St. Johns
47	9	Lucy Conzelmann	Frankenmuth
48	10	Brooklynn Brown	Cadillac
49	11	Kayla Williams	DeWitt
50	11	Mea D’Agostino	Orchard Lake St. Mary’s

BOYS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Rank	Grade	Name	Team
1	12	Connell Alford	Chelsea
2	11	TJ Hansen	Freeland
3	12	Evan Loughridge	Pinckney
4	12	Solomon Kwartowitz	Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
5	12	Alex Thole	East Grand Rapids
6	12	Sean Pettis	Fremont
7	11	Jack Bidwell	Marshall
8	12	Noah Lambers	Holland
9	12	Nate Carmody	Haslett
10	11	Simon Triezenberg	Grand Rapids Christian
11	11	Colin Murray	Dearborn Divine Child
12	12	Braylon Petty	Adrian
13	11	Henry Dixon	Forest Hills Eastern
14	10	Jonah Workman	East Grand Rapids
15	12	Logan Ruffner	Riverview
16	12	Caleb Palmreuter	Gladwin
17	12	Brendan Hoving	Forest Hills Eastern
18	10	Ronnie Silveira	Allendale
19	12	Elliott Sirianni	Clio
20	12	Gregory Janesak	Sparta
21	11	Kilian Whalen	Allendale
22	10	Owen Metzger	Sparta
23	12	Liam Hinman	Forest Hills Eastern
24	11	Alex Doneth	Mason
25	10	Thomas Larson	Alma
26	12	Ryan Brinker	East Grand Rapids
27	12	Nolan Pinion	Lake Fenton
28	11	Dominic Lowrie	Battle Creek Harper Creek
29	9	Ezekiel Baltierra	Alma
30	11	Dylan Lydic	Haslett
31	11	Will Engbers	Holland Christian
32	12	Paul Moore	Pinckney
33	12	Connor Griffith	Marshall
34	12	Aiden Krueger	Niles
35	12	David Murphy	Flint Powers Catholic
36	11	Nolan Longuski	Shepherd
37	11	Parker Tiethof	Allendale
38	10	Moises Salazar	Adrian
39	11	Abatu Dykstra	Hamilton
40	12	Shane Izzard	Petoskey
41	12	Cooper Jacobsen	Forest Hills Eastern
42	9	Bryce Cahoon	Shepherd
43	12	Brewer Snay	Macomb Lutheran North
44	11	Seth Mead	Gladwin
45	12	Shay White	St. Joseph
46	12	Ethan Sandula	Pinckney
47	11	Henry Cox	Plainwell
48	12	Isaac Staib	St. Johns
49	11	Nolan Inglis	DeWitt
50	11	Keegan Hoekstra	Grand Rapids Christian