2023 Ratings: League Week, Division 3

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

So I know from past experience that these next 2.5 weeks will be hell. League Meet ratings, more Championship projections, Championship ratings, Regional projections, Regional ratings, State projections and State previews. If I’m behind this week, it’ll bleed into next. The writing takes the most time on these rankings and tends to put me behind. But it’s necessary as a way to separate the work I do from just listing numbers and times. In anticipation of staying on top of things these next few weeks, I’ll be omitting the writing aspects. Luckily, I’ve written a ton on the top teams and top individuals, so when State Week comes around and those lengthy State Previews need to be written, there will be plenty of content.

Rank	Team	Region	Score	County Wk	Champ Wk	Week 4	Week 3	Summer
1	Jackson Lumen Christi	23	133	1	1	1	1	1
2	Traverse City St. Francis	19	174	2	2	2	2	3
3	Grand Rapids Covenant Christian	21	268	3	5	5	6	13
4	Pewamo-Westphalia	24	278	4	7	7	7	7
5	Elk Rapids	19	287	5	4	3	3	2
6	Stanton Central Montcalm	24	307	6	6	6	8	12
7	Caro	25	353	7	8	8	5	5
8	Lansing Catholic	26	383	8	9	9	9	9
9	Hart	20	442	9	3	4	4	4
10	Leslie	26	456	10	10	10	11	6
11	Hanover-Horton	23	486	11	12	12	10	25
12	Remus Chippewa Hills	20	494	12	16	15	15	23
13	Ithaca	25	517	13	11	11	12	10
14	Monroe St. Mary CC	27	528	14	15	13	16	11
15	Clinton	27	533	15	14	16	13	18
16	Kent City	21	586	16	13	14	14	16
17	Fennville	21	624	17	17	19	20	26
18	Ann Arbor Greenhills	27	682	22	21	20	22	22
19	Grass Lake	27	689	19	19	17	18	19
20	Buchanan	22	702	18	18	18	17	27
21	Onsted	23	776	20	22	21	25	21
22	Blissfield	27	788	23	25	27	27	15
23	Grandville Calvin Christian	21	825	21	23	22	41	51
24	St. Louis	25	842	25	28	28	24	31
25	McBain	20	862	24	24	25	23	34
26	Clare	19	877	26	20	24	21	8
27	Benzie Central	20	922	27	39	23	19	14

Rank	Team	Region	Score	County Wk	Champ Wk	Week 4	Week 3	Summer
1	Traverse City St. Francis	19	166	1	1	1	1	2
2	Pewamo-Westphalia	24	320	3	3	6	9	3
3	Grand Rapids Covenant Christian	21	330	2	2	2	2	6
4	Hanover-Horton	23	340	4	4	5	4	11
5	Reed City	20	371	5	5	3	3	9
6	The Potter’s House	21	406	6	10	4	5	1
7	Stanton Central Montcalm	24	427	7	6	7	6	19
8	Hart	20	450	8	7	10	8	7
9	Jackson Lumen Christi	23	454	10	8	8	7	22
10	Clare	19	492	9	9	9	10	5
11	Jonesville	23	502	11	12	15	14	8
12	St. Louis	25	522	14	14	16	15	4
13	Bath	24	564	12	11	11	16	12
14	Ithaca	25	618	15	15	12	13	16
15	Midland Bullock Creek	25	650	13	13	14	12	37
16	Charlevoix	19	655	18	18	20	20	30
17	Buchanan	22	688	16	16	13	11	18
18	Flat Rock	27	727	17	17	17	17	34
19	Kalkaska	19	798	20	19	18	18	29
20	Olivet	22	826	21	20	19	19	15
21	Clinton	27	842	22	25	24	36	20
22	Leslie	26	848	19	21	25	24	36
23	Ann Arbor Greenhills	27	852	24	23	28	32	23
24	Kent City	21	914	23	22	22	23	33
25	Elk Rapids	19	921	28	26	21	21	17
26	Sanford-Meridian	25	954	27	31	27	31	21
27	Monroe St. Mary CC	27	955	26	29	26	25	27

GIRLS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Rank	Grade	Name	Team
1	11	Jessica Jazwinski	Hart
2	12	Madison Osterberg	Jackson Lumen Christi
3	11	Emmry Ross	Onsted
4	11	Kyah Hoffman	Stanton Central Montcalm
5	12	Mylie Kelly	Benzie Central
6	12	Tessa Roe	Lansing Catholic
7	11	Betsy Skendzel	Traverse City St. Francis
8	12	Miranda McNeil	Morley-Stanwood
9	11	Lila Volkers	Kent City
10	11	Eliza Bush	Ypsilanti Arbor Preparatory
11	9	Samantha Schroeder	Jackson Lumen Christi
12	11	Whitney Werner	Pewamo-Westphalia
13	12	Amber Koole	Grand Rapids Covenant Christian
14	11	Ashley Choponis	Stanton Central Montcalm
15	10	Hope Miller	Blissfield
16	9	Kamryn Salladay	Lakeview
17	12	Jenna Sweeney	Reese
18	10	Bella LaFountain	Monroe St. Mary CC
19	12	Avelina Hollandsworth	Remus Chippewa Hills
20	9	Isabelle Sliter	Fennville
21	10	Brynne Schulte	Elk Rapids
22	11	Kaya Vrable	Caro
23	10	Grace Coston	Stanton Central Montcalm
24	12	Olivia Perrine	Hanover-Horton
25	12	Isabella Max	Kent City
26	12	Liliana Lehnst	Ithaca
27	12	Cecilia Postma	Manistee
28	12	Jaiden Dickman	St. Louis
29	9	Sophia Buzzelli	Clare
30	12	Cylee Elkins	Clinton
31	9	Shelby Kuiper	Grand Rapids Covenant Christian
32	10	Macy Fazekas	Jackson Lumen Christi
33	12	Kinsie Jacques	Pinconning
34	11	Lola Bryce	Grandville Calvin Christian
35	11	Mary Masserant	Traverse City St. Francis
36	11	Megan Woelkers	Flat Rock
37	10	Quinn Hatfield	Remus Chippewa Hills
38	10	Ashlynn Harris	Bronson
39	12	Gracie Houtman	Kent City
40	9	Molly Kate Hollandsworth	Traverse City St. Francis
41	12	Paige Herron	Caro
42	11	Isabelle Eppert	Farwell
43	12	Sophia Reynolds	Hanover-Horton
44	11	Alaina Klooster	Kalamazoo Christian
45	12	Maddie Gallagher	Traverse City St. Francis
46	10	Anna Pray	Elk Rapids
47	12	Allison Bowles	Clinton
48	12	Claire Neumann	Saginaw Valley Lutheran
49	9	Libby Schuster	Ann Arbor Greenhills
50	11	Layla Lopez	Jackson Lumen Christi

BOYS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Rank	Grade	Name	Team
1	12	Collin Farmer	Pewamo-Westphalia
2	9	Robert Jazwinski III	Hart
3	11	Isaiah Dinverno	Jackson Lumen Christi
4	12	Samuel Martini	Kent City
5	12	Boden Genovese	Coloma
6	10	Gage Hoffman	Stanton Central Montcalm
7	12	Ben March	St. Louis
8	12	Jackson Rodriguez	The Potter’s House
9	12	Keegan Masters	Ottawa Lake-Whiteford
10	11	Theodore Davis	Dansville
11	12	Brad White	Clare
12	11	Mitchell Hiatt	Onsted
13	11	Leo Swager	Traverse City St. Francis
14	11	August Rohde	Reed City
15	10	Jacob Stanislawski	Flat Rock
16	12	Anthony Kiaunis	Reed City
17	12	Jaden Barnes	Bloomingdale
18	11	Landon Pestrue	St. Louis
19	11	Landen Boulis	Hanover-Horton
20	12	Lucas Hopkins	Olivet
21	12	Gavin Guggemos	Kalkaska
22	12	Graham Coston	Stanton Central Montcalm
23	11	Tyler Heal	Sanford-Meridian
24	11	Levi Kamps	Grand Rapids Covenant Christian
25	11	Josh Slocum	Traverse City St. Francis
26	12	Ryan Allen	Reed City
27	12	Evan Shepherd	Hanover-Horton
28	11	Daniel Mandujano	Watervliet
29	12	Tucker Krumm	Traverse City St. Francis
30	10	Landen Styka	Ithaca
31	12	Gavin VanKampen	Jonesville
32	9	Graeson Decker	Grand Rapids Covenant Christian
33	11	Isaac Edgington	Holland Black River
34	10	Robert Dykhouse	Manton
35	12	Gannon Shore	Jackson Lumen Christi
36	10	Lucas Taraszkiewicz	Flat Rock
37	12	Nolan Grant	Hillsdale
38	12	Brodie Delamater	Grant
39	12	Nathan Day	Saranac
40	9	Hunter Eaton	Charlevoix
41	12	Carter Holmes	Bath
42	10	Noah Devereaux	Laingsburg
43	10	Ben Gautsche	Union City
44	9	Caleb Blonde	Jonesville
45	11	Nathan Vargo	Flat Rock
46	12	Andrew Klaus	Clare
47	12	Matthew Pattullo	Caro
48	10	Sylus Wilson	Stanton Central Montcalm
49	11	Robby Myler	Traverse City St. Francis
50	9	Wyatt Werner	Pewamo-Westphalia