2023 Rankings: League Week, Division 1

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	Romeo	9	75	1	1	2	2	1
2	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5	155	2	2	1	1	3
3	Brighton	4	283	3	3	3	3	4
4	Holland West Ottawa	1	328	4	9	8	6	5
5	Okemos	2	337	5	11	11	11	8
6	Grand Haven	1	369	6	7	5	5	9
7	Northville	6	376	7	4	4	4	10
8	Saline	5	390	8	5	9	7	2
9	Traverse City West	2	443	9	8	7	10	6
10	Forest Hills Central	3	473	10	6	6	8	15
11	Rockford	1	531	11	12	12	14	12
12	Oxford	8	586	12	10	10	9	7
13	Davison	4	628	13	18	15	17	33
14	Macomb Dakota	9	638	23	17	17	23	27
15	Utica	8	651	14	22	16	18	20
16	Fraser	9	688	20	19	19	20	34
17	White Lake Lakeland	7	716	15	15	31	28	45
18	Traverse City Central	2	726	16	13	14	16	16
19	Clarkston	8	762	17	30	41	39	19
20	Jenison	1	769	18	14	13	12	18
21	Dexter	4	792	19	16	21	22	13
22	Rochester	8	854	22	24	20	26	37
23	Ann Arbor Skyline	4	856	24	20	29	36	61
24	Walled Lake Northern	7	863	21	27	22	13	14
25	Lake Orion	8	870	25	23	28	19	17
26	Portage Central	3	882	26	26	26	15	28
27	Zeeland West	1	920	27	29	25	30	42

Rank	Team	Region	Score	County Wk	Champ Wk	Week 4	Week 3	Summer
1	Brighton	4	233	1	2	2	2	2
2	Northville	6	246	2	1	1	1	1
3	Grand Haven	1	297	3	3	3	3	4
4	Canton	6	354	5	4	5	6	20
5	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5	374	4	5	6	5	11
6	Kalamazoo Central	3	383	6	8	7	10	3
7	Oxford	8	395	7	7	4	4	19
8	Troy	8	481	8	6	17	22	6
9	Romeo	9	483	10	9	9	8	5
10	White Lake Lakeland	7	514	9	10	8	11	12
11	Forest Hills Central	3	523	11	11	10	17	8
12	Macomb Dakota	9	533	16	14	13	9	33
13	Jenison	1	541	13	15	15	15	16
14	Walled Lake Northern	7	550	12	13	14	7	7
15	Livonia Churchill	6	584	14	12	12	13	26
16	Clarkston	8	614	15	22	11	12	9
17	Traverse City Central	2	649	17	17	22	14	14
18	Utica	8	695	20	18	19	16	13
19	Portage Central	3	700	19	16	21	26	10
20	Saline	5	702	21	21	18	18	18
21	Plymouth	6	723	18	19	16	31	15
22	Bay City Western	2	727	23	23	20	24	37
23	Zeeland West	1	737	22	20	23	19	21
24	East Kentwood	3	843	25	24	24	21	45
25	Lake Orion	8	844	24	28	26	20	23
26	Anchor Bay	9	886	32	30	31	55	25
27	Traverse City West	2	902	26	26	36	34	28

GIRLS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Rank	Grade	Name	Team
1	12	Rachel Forsyth	Ann Arbor Pioneer
2	12	Selma Anderson	Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills
3	9	Annie Hrabovsky	Romeo
4	11	Lucy Cook	Rochester
5	10	Natalia Guaresimo	Romeo
6	12	Jayden Harberts	Macomb Dakota
7	12	Clara James-Heer	Forest Hills Central
8	10	Emmerson Clor	Romeo
9	12	Morgan Brown	Livonia Churchill
10	12	Katie Watkins	H.H. Dow
11	11	Cassie Garcia	Northville
12	12	Ella Christensen	Northville
13	10	Ava Porras	Holland West Ottawa
14	11	Valerie Beeck	Grand Haven
15	9	Anyla Robinson	Detroit Cass Tech
16	12	Lydia Bowman	Ann Arbor Pioneer
17	11	Mallory Bigelow	Oxford
18	10	Addie Birkholz	Holland West Ottawa
19	11	Violet Hrabovsky	Romeo
20	12	Shannon Gillahan	Okemos
21	12	Payton Scheffler	Brownstown Woodhaven
22	12	Elaina (Laney) Alig	Saline
23	12	Layla Krayem	Livonia Stevenson
24	11	Ava Alicandro	White Lake Lakeland
25	12	Carrigan Eberly	Brighton
26	11	Chloe DeRidder	Grandville
27	12	Hannah DeRoeck	Lake Orion
28	12	Natalie Mello	Ann Arbor Pioneer
29	10	Lydia LaMarra	Brighton
30	11	Isabelle Becker	Bay City Western
31	11	Elle Bissett	Brighton
32	11	Grace Tykocki	Grand Blanc
33	11	Ava Peters	Livonia Franklin
34	12	Mariah Belmont	Macomb Dakota
35	12	Braydee Elling	Oxford
36	12	Ella Kirkwood	Traverse City Central
37	10	Leah Corby	Rochester Hills Stoney Creek
38	12	Allison Mayer	Ann Arbor Skyline
39	11	Lauren Walker	Holt
40	12	Izzy Fazio	Forest Hills Northern
41	10	Ava Lawrence	East Kentwood
42	11	Lillian Deskins	Romeo
43	11	Alena Blumberg	Dexter
44	12	Alisia Olteanu	Walled Lake Western
45	10	Addison Herr	Bloomfield Hills
46	9	Gabriella Fugazzi	Okemos
47	12	Sylvia Sanok Dufallo	Ann Arbor Pioneer
48	11	Annie Alkema	Kalamazoo Central
49	11	Jordyn Klaasen	Zeeland West
50	12	Paige McArdle	Davison

BOYS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Rank	Grade	Name	Team
1	12	Seth Norder	Grand Haven
2	12	Brendan Herger	Northville
3	12	Thomas Westphal	Anchor Bay
4	12	Vishvaa Ravishankar	Troy
5	12	Aiden Moore	Battle Creek Lakeview
6	12	Vincent Guaresimo	Romeo
7	11	Ethan Powell	Northville
8	11	Taye Levenson	Bloomfield Hills
9	9	Kamari Ronfeldt	Ann Arbor Pioneer
10	10	Kyle O’Rourke	Highland-Milford
11	12	Brandon Anderson	Dexter
12	12	Luke Suliman	Ann Arbor Skyline
13	12	Ty Parker	Walled Lake Northern
14	12	Noah Selvaraj	Bay City Western
15	12	Sebastian Ramirez	Royal Oak
16	11	Seth Conner	Jenison
17	12	Iain Forrest	Davison
18	12	Jasper Cane	Kalamazoo Central
19	11	Kian Schneeweis	Troy
20	11	Alexander McArthur	Oxford
21	12	Carter Fox	Macomb Dakota
22	12	Tyler Langley	Brighton
23	12	Pierce Grzymkowski	White Lake Lakeland
24	9	Jack MacGregor	Howell
25	12	Truman Johnson	Saline
26	12	Vincent Peterson Sand	Ann Arbor Pioneer
27	10	Harper Wesley	Utica
28	12	Connor Clor	Romeo
29	10	Aiden Pengelly	Canton
30	12	Mitchell Clark	Canton
31	12	Liam Walters	Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills
32	12	Luke Campbell	Brighton
33	11	Mason Lucas	Jenison
34	11	Evan Nickoles	East Kentwood
35	12	Ian Lewis	Livonia Churchill
36	12	Evan Rice	Walled Lake Northern
37	12	Tyler Brothers	Utica Eisenhower
38	12	Zack Truszkowski	Traverse City Central
39	12	Logan Begeman	Portage Central
40	12	Dylan Penberthy	L’Anse Creuse North
41	12	Willem DeGood	Traverse City West
42	11	Malcolm Spiegle	Livonia Churchill
43	11	Ben Eisnor	Grand Haven
44	12	Anirudh Krishnan	Plymouth
45	11	James Cusick	Oxford
46	9	Luka Hammond	Grand Haven
47	10	John Blaskowski	Saginaw Heritage
48	11	Tyler Brock	Brighton
49	12	Oliver Moss	Berkley
50	11	Jonah Bills	Battle Creek Lakeview