Track is in full swing, 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 here’s a brief summary:
an athlete qualifies by hitting a regional qualifying mark in an event
those times from the athletes are converted into points
at a maximum of three athletes (with an exception for teams that have more athletes under the state qualifying mark), team scores are tallied up
then team scores are added across all events of a certain area (hurdles, distance, etc.)
Here are the figures that show the points for each mark:
Early in the season, I had some optimism that I’d have time to do some writing. A month later, it’s very evident that I was pessimistic regarding how many EQ’s we’d have. So you just get charts and rankings.
These contain results uploaded to athletic.net by Sunday morning.
Grade Name Vault Points 11 Raiden Kipfmiller 12′ 6″ 500 11 Debbie McCoy 11′ 6″ 460 11 Madelyn Simons 9′ 3″ 370
Rank Team Score 1 Dexter 1331 2 Lake Orion 1281 3 Lowell 880 4 East Kentwood 840 4 Rockford 840 6 Traverse City Central 750 7 Grand Haven 504 8 Grand Ledge 500 9 Forest Hills Central 460 10 Davison 440 10 Okemos 440 10 Walled Lake Central 440 10 Walled Lake Northern 440 14 South Lyon East 430 15 Clarkston 420 15 Livonia Churchill 420 17 Ann Arbor Skyline 410 17 Hartland 410 19 Battle Creek Lakeview 400 19 Traverse City West 400 21 DeWitt 380 21 Richland Gull Lake 380 21 Swartz Creek 380 21 Ypsilanti Lincoln 380 21 Zeeland East 380
Grade Name Vault Points 12 Asher Paul 15′ 3″ 485 12 Jace Rowell 13′ 6″ 426 11 Adrian DeBruyn 13′ 0″ 409 10 Nathan Stawski 13′ 0″ 409
Rank Team Score 1 Traverse City Central 1321 2 Zeeland East 1168 3 Plymouth 886 4 East Kentwood 869 4 Novi 869 4 Greenville 869 7 Lake Orion 861 8 Grand Rapids Northview 838 8 Jenison 838 10 Caledonia 802 10 Highland-Milford 802 12 Byron Center 793 13 South Lyon East 785 14 Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills 466 15 Forest Hills Northern 460 16 Okemos 443 17 Holland West Ottawa 435 17 Salem 435 19 Temperance Bedford 418 20 Battle Creek Lakeview 409 20 Flushing 409 20 Walled Lake Central 409 23 South Lyon 395 24 Portage Central 392 24 Portage Northern 392 24 Walled Lake Northern 392 24 White Lake Lakeland 392 24 Zeeland West 392
Grade Name Vault Points 11 Evie Mathis 12′ 0″ 480 11 Megan Stack 9′ 0″ 360 9 Bre Hoogewind 8′ 6″ 340
Rank Team Score 1 Wayland Union 1181 2 Petoskey 820 3 Owosso 750 4 Pinckney 740 5 Chelsea 730 5 Shepherd 730 7 East Grand Rapids 720 7 Hastings 720 7 Holland Christian 720 10 Clare 710 11 Fremont 670 12 Eaton Rapids 464 13 Williamston 440 14 Forest Hills Eastern 430 15 Hamilton 420 15 Ionia 420 15 St. Clair Shores Lake Shore 420 18 Bay City John Glenn 410 18 Flint Powers Catholic 410 20 Allegan 400 20 Vicksburg 400 22 Cranbrook Kingswood 390 22 Frankenmuth 390 24 Gaylord 387 25 Portland 380 25 Sturgis 380
Grade Name Vault Points 12 Nickolas Savoie 13′ 6″ 426 9 Calvin Cosby 12′ 6″ 392 12 Dominic Signorello 11′ 6″ 359
Rank Team Score 1 Gaylord 1177 2 Hastings 1092 3 Frankenmuth 1059 4 Sparta 852 5 Howard City Tri-County 804 6 Clare 785 7 Berrien Springs 768 8 Whitehall 751 8 Williamston 751 10 Chelsea 745 11 Lake Fenton 734 11 Parma Western 734 13 Grand Rapids West Catholic 717 14 Grosse Ile 477 14 Spring Lake 477 16 Gladwin 450 17 Macomb Lutheran North 429 17 Stevensville Lakeshore 429 19 Adrian 409 19 Hopkins 409 19 Otsego 409 22 Edwardsburg 392 22 Fowlerville 392 22 Grand Rapids Christian 392 22 Holland Christian 392 22 Sturgis 392
Grade Name Vault Points 11 Clara Vollmar 10′ 6″ 420 12 Natalie Gibson 9′ 9″ 390 9 Lexi Hatfield 8′ 0″ 320
Rank Team Score 1 Remus Chippewa Hills 1131 2 Lawton 1071 3 Manton 1031 4 Hart 1021 5 Union City 941 6 Kingsley 931 7 Laingsburg 740 8 Homer 720 9 Benzie Central 710 10 Sand Creek 700 11 Charyl Stockwell Academy 690 12 Grass Lake 680 13 Pewamo-Westphalia 660 13 Schoolcraft 660 15 Almont 650 16 Ithaca 640 16 Michigan Center 640 16 Otisville LakeVille 640 16 Standish Sterling 640 20 Ida 620 20 McBain 620 22 Muskegon Western Mich. Christian 610 23 Houghton Lake 414 24 The Potter’s House 400 25 Mancelona 364
Grade Name Vault Points 12 Luke Skidmore 14′ 0″ 443 12 Bram Derksen 13′ 6″ 426 12 Loren Ojerio 11′ 0″ 342
Rank Team Score 1 Bath 1211 2 Constantine 1194 3 Ida 841 4 Quincy 818 5 Ovid-Elsie 802 6 Kalamazoo Christian 790 7 Pewamo-Westphalia 787 8 Napoleon 759 9 Lake City 742 10 Erie Mason 734 10 Laingsburg 734 12 Kingsley 717 13 Centreville 686 14 Chesaning 683 15 Springport 468 16 Adrian Madison 446 16 Manistee 446 18 Almont 443 19 Lansing Catholic 418 19 Ottawa Lake-Whiteford 418 19 Remus Chippewa Hills 418 22 Kent City 409 22 Leslie 409 22 Perry 409 25 Bloomingdale 392 25 Evart 392 25 Jonesville 392 25 Morley-Stanwood 392
Grade Name Vault Points 12 Kate May 9′ 6″ 380 11 Willa Roth 9′ 6″ 380 11 Isabella Crompton 8′ 6″ 340 11 Leah McRae 7′ 0″ 280
Rank Team Score 1 Frankfort 1101 2 Mason County Eastern 1021 3 Pittsford 981 4 Hillsdale Academy 881 5 Kalamazoo Hackett 791 6 Deckerville 780 7 Fowler 700 8 White Cloud 660 9 Brown City 640 10 Addison 620 11 Akron-Fairgrove 600 12 Marcellus 590 13 Manchester 580 14 Fairview 560 15 White Pigeon 540 15 Whitmore Lake 540 17 Marlette 380 18 Montabella 340 19 Athens 320 19 Fulton 320 19 Indian River Inland Lakes 320 22 Coleman 300 22 East Jordan 300 22 Holton 300 22 Marion 300 22 Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart 300 22 Petersburg-Summerfield 300
Grade Name Vault Points 12 Lucas Smith 12′ 9″ 401 11 Josh Eager 10′ 0″ 308 10 Spencer Kolp 10′ 0″ 308 10 Aedyn Pasco 9′ 6″ 291
Rank Team Score 1 Brown City 1016 2 Morrice 906 3 Coleman 890 4 Pittsford 717 5 Lutheran Westland 683 5 Petersburg-Summerfield 683 7 Manchester 666 8 Hillsdale Academy 649 8 Indian River Inland Lakes 649 8 Lincoln-Alcona 649 8 Marlette 649 12 Camden-Frontier 616 12 Frankfort 616 12 Montabella 616 15 Gobles 599 16 Beal City 412 17 Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart 392 18 Fowler 384 19 Addison 375 19 Morenci 375 19 Whitmore Lake 375 22 Vandercook Lake 359 23 Johannesburg-Lewiston 342 24 Bear Lake 325 24 Fairview 325 24 Mio Ausable 325
Grade Name Vault Points 9 Maggie Karl 9′ 0″ 360 12 Chelsey Demeuse 8′ 6″ 340 12 Lucy DeGroot 8′ 6″ 340
Rank Team Score 1 Gladstone 1041 2 Houghton 941 3 Forest Park 580 4 Lake Linden-Hubbell 560 4 Stephenson 560 6 Marquette 540 7 St. Ignace 360 8 Bark River-Harris 340 8 Brimley 340 10 Baraga 320 10 Manistique 320 12 Dollar Bay 280 12 North Dickinson County 280 12 Sault Ste. Marie 280 15 Holy Name 260 15 West Iron County 260
Grade Name Vault Points 12 Micheal Cattoor 14′ 6″ 460 12 Drew Bradley 12′ 6″ 392 9 Will Bradley 9′ 6″ 291
Rank Team Score 1 Marquette 1143 2 Rudyard 666 3 Gladstone 443 4 Escanaba 325 4 Pickford 325 6 Bark River-Harris 308 6 Calumet 308 6 Rapid River 308 9 Forest Park 291 9 Gwinn 291 9 Sault Ste. Marie 291
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