Track is back, baby.
The Best Crews have been a thing around here for the past few years. They take their cues from USTFCCCA’s event squads and the World Athletics scoring system, combining the two ideas in order to compare Michigan’s teams against events in their common areas.
The goal of this is to help recognize the athletes and coaches that create cultures, history, and traditions in their respective event areas. Think about it like this: Minnesota always has great hockey, basketball hoops are nailed to Indiana barns, Texas churns out football talent, every Iowa boy has cauliflower ear. Where in Michigan does hurdling reign supreme? Is there a town where kids learn to shot put before they can tie their shoes?
2023’s explanation goes through much of it, but two things have changed for this year.
the Boys 200m points have been re-mathed and edited, as previous versions sold short athletes such as Jeremy Dixon and Jake Machiniak when it came to season end rankings.
instead of using a team’s top-four athletes to generate their total for an event, I’m using their top-three. Belleville’s hurdlers are the main reason for this, there’s no way they shouldn’t have been the top D1 squad last year. I feel this will better portray a team’s top athletes.
Here are the figures that show the points for each mark:
To acquire points for your team, an athlete has to hit a regional qualifier in their event. As there are no regional qualifiers for relays (every team gets an entry), I had to make an estimation of what a regional qualifying mark might be. These are done on a ratio of the SQ/EQ marks for each individual and relay of that distance. On average, the relay qualifying time is around 4.1x the individual qualifying time (for example, the girls D1 200m EQ is 25.4, the 4×2 is 1:44.5). Anyhow, this is what I came up with for the relay times needed to obtain points here:
Estimated RQ D1 Girls D2 Girls D3 Girls D4 Girls 4x100m 52.25 54.05 55.25 56.75 4x200m 1:52.0 1:54.1 1:58.0 2:00.7 4x400m 4:21.3 4:32.1 4:42.3 4:50.7 4x800m 10:14.7 10:50.5 11:25.0 11:44.0 Estimated RQ D1 Boys D2 Boys D3 Boys D4 Boys 4x100m 44.75 45.8 46.9 48.25 4x200m 1:34.0 1:36.0 1:37.3 1:40.9 4x400m 3:35.4 3:41.8 3:43.9 3:55.0 4x800m 8:28.0 8:38.0 9:01.1 9:26.3
These contain results uploaded to athletic.net by Monday (4/14) evening. To keep things consistent, all times listed are FAT. Hand timing really shouldn’t be a thing in 2025, anyway.
Grade Name Time Team Event Points 3:49.0 Oak Park 4x400m 1197 47.39 Oak Park 4x100m 1077 1:47.4 Oak Park 4x200m 778 10 Nevaeh Burns 55.18 Oak Park 400m 501 9 Janae Coleman 55.84 Oak Park 400m 486 12 Dayshana Kellogg 56.33 Oak Park 400m 474 10 Nevaeh Burns 24.67 Oak Park 200m 463 12 Asia Elder 12.08 Oak Park 100m 447 9 Janae Coleman 25.06 Oak Park 200m 439 10 India Moultrie 13.17 Oak Park 100m 300
Rank Team 100m 200m 400m 4x100m 4x200m 4x400m Total 1 Oak Park 747 902 1461 1077 778 1197 6162 2 East Kentwood 1027 307 724 850 959 685 4552 3 Rockford 684 327 1084 821 842 714 4471 4 Detroit Renaissance 1119 – 801 1024 778 – 3722 5 Holt 319 329 764 632 883 651 3578 6 Saginaw Heritage 892 888 438 – 611 686 3515 7 Northville 597 683 – 648 715 612 3256 8 Detroit Cass Tech 307 396 833 747 972 – 3255 9 Troy Athens 777 324 417 726 831 – 3076 10 Belleville 650 763 – 961 651 – 3025 11 Rochester Adams 642 304 – 565 671 671 2853 12 Kalamazoo Central 397 715 390 713 606 – 2822 13 Woodhaven Brownstown 366 356 749 – 667 664 2801 14 West Bloomfield – 457 844 690 797 – 2788 15 Grand Haven 639 349 337 695 701 – 2721 16 Walled Lake Western 334 381 – 654 671 663 2702 17 Byron Center 338 – – 827 697 557 2420 18 Lake Orion – – 388 540 637 720 2285 19 Romeo 607 – – 695 837 – 2138 20 Macomb Dakota – 309 399 646 764 – 2118 21 Traverse City West – 316 395 – 643 650 2005 22 Saline 314 327 694 – – 653 1988 23 Beverly Hills Groves 377 328 – 642 600 – 1948 24 Midland – 348 380 601 – 577 1907 25 Berkley 296 322 – 559 706 – 1883
Grade Name Time Team Event Points 1:30.0 Holt 4x200m 862 3:30.0 Holt 4x400m 691 43.97 Holt 4x100m 612 12 Ja’Saivion Taylor 50.41 Holt 400m 404 12 Ja’Saivion Taylor 22.29 Holt 200m 401 11 Michael Aimery 51.10 Holt 400m 379 12 Domanik Bobbio 52.00 Holt 400m 347 12 JaMel Eiland 22.95 Holt 200m 341 12 Domanik Bobbio 23.20 Holt 200m 319 12 Ja’Saivion Taylor 11.40 Holt 100m 315 9 Jeremy Sanders 23.37 Holt 200m 304
Rank Team 100m 200m 400m 4x100m 4x200m 4x400m Total 1 Holt 315 1061 1131 612 862 691 4673 2 Ann Arbor Huron 663 783 786 654 754 823 4463 3 East Kentwood 733 – 1307 765 947 654 4405 4 Kalamazoo Central 1217 1096 381 510 917 – 4121 5 Novi 1148 422 – 934 954 631 4089 6 Northville 623 672 756 568 665 766 4050 7 West Bloomfield 954 432 747 512 592 771 4008 8 Grand Haven 1123 850 783 – 1099 – 3856 9 Oak Park 402 351 902 – 919 1016 3590 10 Byron Center 327 340 820 620 780 699 3585 11 Walled Lake Western 681 825 416 662 965 – 3548 12 Canton 383 391 425 581 997 660 3436 13 Hudsonville 336 363 751 588 679 605 3324 14 Detroit Cass Tech 311 628 880 575 – 831 3226 15 Belleville 1144 450 – 870 733 – 3197 16 Detroit Catholic Central 827 307 373 970 – 593 3069 17 Troy 1181 420 – 516 830 – 2947 18 Clarkston 658 303 – 614 667 690 2931 19 Lake Orion 319 324 344 530 641 748 2908 20 Jenison 302 330 377 557 592 706 2863 21 Rochester Adams 365 652 – 510 683 619 2829 22 Ypsilanti Lincoln 648 324 424 – 716 686 2798 23 Brighton 977 369 388 – 616 – 2351 24 Troy Athens – 323 444 – 746 747 2260 25 Rockford 298 686 – 614 624 – 2221
Grade Name Time Team Event Points 1:45.9 Dearborn Divine Child 4x200m 845 4:13.0 Dearborn Divine Child 4x400m 676 10 Aubrey Wilson 11.85 Dearborn Divine Child 100m 478 10 Aubrey Wilson 24.51 Dearborn Divine Child 200m 472 12 Katie Kurtinaitis 58.48 Dearborn Divine Child 400m 424 10 Aubrey Wilson 58.99 Dearborn Divine Child 400m 412 12 Cecilia Murray 62.32 Dearborn Divine Child 400m 335 10 Aleesia Parker 27.51 Dearborn Divine Child 200m 292
Rank Team 100m 200m 400m 4x100m 4x200m 4x400m Total 1 Dearborn Divine Child 478 764 1172 – 845 676 3934 2 Gladwin 558 660 699 630 529 711 3787 3 Spring Lake 309 905 1026 388 577 505 3712 4 Petoskey 584 629 375 657 825 – 3070 5 Saginaw Swan Valley 445 262 1137 393 – 645 2882 6 Coldwater 301 592 625 – 689 556 2764 7 Goodrich 262 259 445 449 668 579 2662 8 Chelsea 296 292 325 538 617 536 2604 9 Shepherd 323 595 – 530 641 510 2598 10 Stevensville Lakeshore – 315 324 440 635 652 2365 11 Sturgis 453 269 372 556 665 – 2315 12 Milan – 676 311 – 697 600 2284 13 Holland Christian 258 253 300 522 511 388 2233 14 Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard – 290 343 460 550 521 2163 15 St. Joseph 331 347 423 561 – 405 2067 16 Wayland Union 277 590 – – 707 454 2027 17 Tecumseh 264 275 – 504 580 390 2013 18 Orchard Lake St. Mary’s – 527 – 452 561 435 1974 19 River Rouge 316 556 – 501 592 – 1965 20 Alma – 263 641 – 563 475 1943 21 Plainwell 572 584 332 428 – – 1915 22 Forest Hills Eastern 372 295 – 493 534 – 1693 23 Summit Academy North 291 265 – 491 642 – 1688 24 Flint Powers Catholic – 268 – 510 613 – 1391 25 Detroit Country Day – – 313 – 601 427 1340
Grade Name Time Team Event Points 3:33.2 Saginaw Swan Valley 4x400m 598 1:34.5 Saginaw Swan Valley 4x200m 551 11 Boston Streng-Beougher 50.17 Saginaw Swan Valley 400m 413 45.64 Saginaw Swan Valley 4x100m 389 12 Cal Delisle 51.84 Saginaw Swan Valley 400m 353 11 Ryder Stipanovich 52.25 Saginaw Swan Valley 400m 339 11 Boston Streng-Beougher 23.61 Saginaw Swan Valley 200m 282 11 Hunter Albrecht 23.78 Saginaw Swan Valley 200m 267
Rank Team 100m 200m 400m 4x100m 4x200m 4x400m Total 1 Saginaw Swan Valley – 549 1104 389 551 598 3191 2 Summit Academy North 277 381 344 395 807 674 2877 3 Parma Western 310 576 – 488 729 757 2861 4 Alma 294 327 641 487 617 435 2802 5 Petoskey 365 713 – 778 793 – 2649 6 Three Rivers 648 269 – 553 646 512 2627 7 New Boston Huron – 257 411 536 613 668 2486 8 Shepherd 577 582 365 472 473 – 2470 9 Redford Union 608 – 746 537 552 – 2443 10 Wayland Union – 290 594 480 554 513 2430 11 Williamston – 897 294 – 643 586 2420 12 St. Joseph 611 710 376 689 – – 2386 13 Flint Powers Catholic – 354 326 570 551 486 2287 14 Orchard Lake St. Mary’s – 542 292 389 570 432 2224 15 Bay City John Glenn 310 620 – 550 723 – 2202 16 Plainwell 310 560 307 – 571 434 2181 17 Carleton Airport 279 282 – 397 543 552 2053 18 Berrien Springs – – – 500 861 667 2028 19 Battle Creek Harper Creek 298 – – 507 575 605 1985 20 Forest Hills Eastern 327 318 – 379 468 442 1935 21 Eaton Rapids 634 659 – – 570 – 1863 22 Milan 331 658 355 – 474 – 1818 23 Paw Paw 308 639 294 519 – – 1760 24 Muskegon Oakridge – 628 – 454 573 – 1655 25 Coldwater 323 280 – 440 561 – 1604
Grade Name Time Team Event Points 1:49.4 Hart 4x200m 690 51.5 Hart 4x100m 610 4:21.8 Hart 4x400m 521 12 Addison Hovey 12.96 Hart 100m 328 12 Lexie Beth Nienhuis 62.92 Hart 400m 321 12 Addison Hovey 27.25 Hart 200m 307 10 Natalie Rosema 65.44 Hart 400m 262 11 Addison Hain 13.68 Hart 100m 231
Rank Team 100m 200m 400m 4x100m 4x200m 4x400m Total 1 Hart 559 307 583 610 690 521 3271 2 Remus Chippewa Hills 735 874 369 – 636 572 3185 3 Lansing Catholic – 789 384 472 695 703 3044 4 Pewamo-Westphalia 528 530 272 551 561 482 2924 5 Traverse City St. Francis 896 343 504 358 530 292 2923 6 McBain 542 351 543 441 513 331 2721 7 Parchment 766 470 242 535 – 383 2396 8 Midland Bullock Creek 543 453 – 457 542 244 2238 9 Olivet – – 613 336 720 534 2203 10 Grass Lake 247 501 241 383 426 315 2114 11 Adrian Madison 724 – – 451 516 318 2009 12 Manistee 247 589 655 – – 481 1972 13 Lakeview 515 253 242 388 – 445 1842 14 Dearborn Advanced Technology 520 219 – 447 589 – 1776 15 Chesaning – 227 778 – 391 369 1766 16 Constantine – 225 538 – 556 375 1694 17 Ottawa Lake-Whiteford 216 – 263 325 383 437 1625 18 Monroe St. Mary CC 345 331 – 372 – 504 1552 19 Elk Rapids – – 602 – 477 443 1523 20 Caro 262 246 – 463 498 – 1469 21 University Liggett 550 566 304 – – – 1419 22 Ann Arbor Greenhills – 248 290 – 471 349 1358 23 Hillsdale – 262 – 432 577 – 1271 24 Harrison 258 226 – 391 389 – 1265 25 Onsted 227 – 499 – – 533 1258
Grade Name Time Team Event Points 1:31.3 Chesaning 4x200m 763 3:35.8 Chesaning 4x400m 525 12 Caleb Walker 49.70 Chesaning 400m 429 12 Zach Harlan 10.86 Chesaning 100m 419 12 Zach Harlan 22.10 Chesaning 200m 418 12 Caleb Walker 22.60 Chesaning 200m 373 11 Cole Maier 52.30 Chesaning 400m 337 46.74 Chesaning 4x100m 269
Rank Team 100m 200m 400m 4x100m 4x200m 4x400m Total 1 Chesaning 419 791 766 269 763 525 3532 2 Onsted 633 587 – 458 707 429 2813 3 Pewamo-Westphalia 633 400 – 575 651 494 2752 4 Hillsdale 283 – 558 491 575 490 2396 5 Ovid-Elsie 290 250 323 347 474 364 2048 6 Jackson Lumen Christi – 244 321 350 601 421 1938 7 University Liggett 748 681 – 413 – – 1842 8 Reed City 573 550 321 397 – – 1841 9 Olivet – – – 413 707 602 1722 10 Elk Rapids 271 280 340 – 478 338 1707 11 Brooklyn Columbia Central 300 288 331 – 396 384 1697 12 Ottawa Lake-Whiteford – – 323 358 450 525 1657 13 Hanover-Horton – – 300 385 540 370 1595 14 Lawton 298 341 – 458 467 – 1563 15 Jonesville 254 – 333 – 534 437 1558 16 Lansing Catholic – – – 568 536 447 1551 17 Adrian Madison 531 – – 404 559 – 1494 18 Ann Arbor Greenhills – – 266 305 443 440 1453 19 Warren Michigan Collegiate 369 – – 526 525 – 1420 20 Hart – 576 411 – – 358 1345 21 Detroit Edison PSA – – – 299 619 396 1314 22 Monroe St. Mary CC 529 284 – 484 – – 1297 23 Manistee 281 – – 439 534 – 1253 24 Traverse City St. Francis – – 308 315 – 597 1220 25 Parchment – – 392 458 – 347 1197
Grade Name Time Team Event Points 1:48.9 Frankfort 4x200m 714 51.92 Frankfort 4x100m 569 11 Sofia Alaimo Schindler 13.09 Frankfort 100m 311 11 Sofia Alaimo Schindler 27.27 Frankfort 200m 306 4:38.2 Frankfort 4x400m 287 12 Gwyneth Dunaway 13.32 Frankfort 100m 280 10 Alice Luther 28.16 Frankfort 200m 253 11 Addison Jarosz 65.96 Frankfort 400m 250 10 Alice Luther 13.72 Frankfort 100m 226 12 Gwyneth Dunaway 68.10 Frankfort 400m 201
Rank Team 100m 200m 400m 4x100m 4x200m 4x400m Total 1 Frankfort 816 559 451 569 714 287 3396 2 Fowler 215 476 302 318 592 476 2378 3 Gobles 330 336 312 373 618 382 2350 4 Saginaw Arts and Sciences 501 798 646 – – – 1945 5 Bridgman 272 545 376 – 499 244 1935 6 Kalamazoo Hackett 430 299 245 – 517 270 1760 7 Breckenridge 253 – 264 446 416 322 1700 8 White Cloud – 454 – 450 514 264 1682 9 Portland St. Patrick – 495 676 – – 469 1640 10 New Buffalo – 421 552 243 – 270 1486 11 Holland Calvary Christian – 610 745 – – – 1355 12 Allen Park Cabrini – 274 229 262 349 158 1272 13 Adrian Lenawee Christian 300 – – – 629 260 1189 14 Whitmore Lake – 482 296 – – 392 1171 15 Webberville 455 – 218 369 – – 1042 16 Decatur 274 240 285 – – 165 964 17 Clarkston Everest Collegiate – 408 497 – – – 905 18 Petersburg-Summerfield – – 228 – 366 279 873 19 Lincoln-Alcona 535 292 – – – – 827 20 Potterville 249 236 284 – – – 768 21 Pittsford – – – 221 373 163 757 22 Birmingham Roeper 282 250 – 205 – – 737 23 Addison 396 339 – – – – 735 24 Marion 504 – – 206 – – 710 25 St. Charles – – 428 273 – – 701
Grade Name Time Team Event Points 1:32.2 Riverview Gabriel Richard 4x200m 700 3:34.1 Riverview Gabriel Richard 4x400m 571 44.67 Riverview Gabriel Richard 4x100m 512 11 Derek Lesko 22.46 Riverview Gabriel Richard 200m 385 12 Nick Sobush 54.22 Riverview Gabriel Richard 400m 268 12 Joey Calhoun 11.72 Riverview Gabriel Richard 100m 254 12 Austin Louzon 24.03 Riverview Gabriel Richard 200m 244 12 Nick Sobush 11.92 Riverview Gabriel Richard 100m 215 12 Wisdom Nwadioha 24.39 Riverview Gabriel Richard 200m 212 12 Andreas Laskaris 55.81 Riverview Gabriel Richard 400m 212 12 Wisdom Nwadioha 11.95 Riverview Gabriel Richard 100m 210 9 Ty Patterson 56.11 Riverview Gabriel Richard 400m 201 9 Ty Patterson 12.00 Riverview Gabriel Richard 100m 200 12 Nick Sobush 24.65 Riverview Gabriel Richard 200m 189
Rank Team 100m 200m 400m 4x100m 4x200m 4x400m Total 1 Riverview Gabriel Richard 679 842 681 512 700 571 3985 2 Fowler 506 253 968 294 656 698 3375 3 Mt Clemens 631 624 903 – 315 286 2759 4 Potterville 590 493 292 – 448 455 2278 5 Kalamazoo Hackett 371 192 198 350 371 355 1839 6 Eau Claire 698 170 – 268 365 174 1674 7 Allen Park Cabrini – 523 – 293 435 303 1554 8 Muskegon Heights 438 183 196 188 315 195 1514 9 Beal City 461 244 455 – – 323 1484 10 Manchester 254 484 198 161 – 357 1454 11 Brown City 250 281 414 177 290 – 1412 12 Gobles 244 525 – 271 278 – 1318 13 Southfield Christian – – 543 – 394 381 1317 14 Grand Traverse Academy 584 490 – – – 146 1220 15 Bridgman – 444 337 – 235 198 1214 16 Morrice 361 547 – 275 – – 1184 17 Mesick 583 297 – 277 – – 1157 18 Deckerville 213 – – – 417 355 986 19 Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart 188 237 259 281 – – 965 20 Harbor Beach 436 219 – 248 – – 904 21 Montabella 235 – 204 180 255 – 873 22 Lutheran Westland – – 246 250 – 333 829 23 Decatur 215 177 – – 248 186 826 24 Saginaw Nouvel 392 – 200 213 – – 804 25 Maple City Glen Lake 217 – – 169 374 – 760
