50 Tickets to Brooklyn: Girls #10

A summer tradition returns.

Hard to fathom that I’ve been penning these Summer Previews for now, 7 years. Just as in the past, I’ll have the 50 best returners, then as time rolls on, the Regional Previews and Top Ten Teams.

Differing from the past is the format. Individual posts for each region and ticket are a TON OF WORK. Instead, I’ll be knocking off the 50 Tickets with sets of 10 and Regional Previews by their division and gender. Hopefully with these methods, I’ll be finishing on time and actually spending effort detailing what could be some great regional battles.

Anyhow, starting with the girls (they run first this year), your 50 Tickets to Brooklyn. These celebrate our top-50 returners – based on the 2024 XC season, 2025 track season, projected improvement, and a tiny bit of my own opinions.

Enjoy!

2024
2023
2022
2021
2020

(Also, first time ever that I’ve included Upper Peninsula folks in these! I know they’re not running at MIS, but they’re still representatives of Michigan)

Name: Hana Boggess
School: Ann Arbor Pioneer
Grade: 12th

Personal Records

5k (XC) – 17:51
800m – 2:17
1600m – 4:59
3200m – 10:44

Grade	Name	Time	Team	Rating	Meet	Date	Year
11	Hana Boggess	19:44.1	Ann Arbor Pioneer	119.0	Division 1 State	2-Nov	2024
11	Hana Boggess	18:48.8	Ann Arbor Pioneer	142.1	SEC Championship	17-Oct	2024
11	Hana Boggess	18:40.3	Ann Arbor Pioneer	145.2	Portage	5-Oct	2024
11	Hana Boggess	17:51.2	Ann Arbor Pioneer	158.3	Otsego Bulldog	28-Sep	2024
11	Hana Boggess	18:45.1	Ann Arbor Pioneer	150.6	SEC Red 2	24-Sep	2024
11	Hana Boggess	18:05.8	Ann Arbor Pioneer	155.7	Jackson	21-Sep	2024
11	Hana Boggess	18:42.6	Ann Arbor Pioneer	156.1	Spartan	13-Sep	2024
11	Hana Boggess	18:50.6	Ann Arbor Pioneer	151.8	SEC 1	10-Sep	2024
11	Hana Boggess	18:47.3	Ann Arbor Pioneer	149.2	John Bruder Classic	4-Sep	2024
11	Hana Boggess	19:06.7	Ann Arbor Pioneer	136.1	Pete Moss	24-Aug	2024
Grade	Name	Time	Team	Rating	Meet	Date	Year
10	Hana Boggess	19:56.5	Ann Arbor Pioneer	113.2	MITCA	11-Nov	2023
10	Hana Boggess	20:10.3	Ann Arbor Pioneer	120.2	SEC Championship	19-Oct	2023
10	Hana Boggess	20:07.6	Ann Arbor Pioneer	118.5	Freeland Falcon	14-Oct	2023
10	Hana Boggess	20:43.9	Ann Arbor Pioneer	103.4	Portage	7-Oct	2023
10	Hana Boggess	19:22.0	Ann Arbor Pioneer	119.7	SEC Red 2	27-Sep	2023
10	Hana Boggess	20:25.5	Ann Arbor Pioneer	107.5	Jackson	23-Sep	2023
10	Hana Boggess	20:30.7	Ann Arbor Pioneer	113.8	Spartan	15-Sep	2023
10	Hana Boggess	20:02.1	Ann Arbor Pioneer	121.6	John Bruder Classic	7-Sep	2023
10	Hana Boggess	20:56.8	Ann Arbor Pioneer	105.7	Pete Moss	25-Aug	2023
Grade	Name	Time	Team	Rating	Meet	Date	Year
9	Hana Boggess	20:23.8	Ann Arbor Pioneer	99.4	Region 5	29-Oct	2022
9	Hana Boggess	19:42.1	Ann Arbor Pioneer	116.6	SEC Championship	20-Oct	2022
9	Hana Boggess	20:10.6	Ann Arbor Pioneer	109.5	Freeland Falcon	15-Oct	2022
9	Hana Boggess	20:47.2	Ann Arbor Pioneer	100.6	Portage	8-Oct	2022
9	Hana Boggess	20:47.0	Ann Arbor Pioneer	103.3	SEC Red 2	28-Sep	2022
9	Hana Boggess	20:00.5	Ann Arbor Pioneer	113.8	Jackson	24-Sep	2022
9	Hana Boggess	21:21.2	Ann Arbor Pioneer	99.3	Spartan	16-Sep	2022
9	Hana Boggess	22:15.8	Ann Arbor Pioneer	75.4	SEC 1	14-Sep	2022
9	Hana Boggess	21:23.9	Ann Arbor Pioneer	93.7	John Bruder Classic	7-Sep	2022

Accolades

XC

5^th Place – 2024 SEC Red Championship

Track

4^th Place – 2025 Division 1 State 4×8
22^nd Place – 2025 Division 1 State 1600m
2025 Region 5 1600m
2^nd Place – 2025 Region 5 3200m

You Know I Dig Her Improvement

And Hana may have had one of the bigger jumps for anyone from the 2023 to 2024 season. Any time I see the dramatic leap from year to year, I look to see if there were signs. And sure, Boggess broke 12 in the 3200m as a freshman, hit a 5:30 in the 16 as a sophomore. But those were sort of in line with the marks she had shown in cross, sub-20 on a few occasions over her first two years. With Forsyth and Sanok Dufallo moving on, a few Pioneer girls needed to step up.

Boggess impressed from the jump. A 19:06 at Pete Moss was nearly 2 min. faster than her sophomore debut. The first sub-19 came at Shepherd, where she’d been on the high side of 20:00 a year earlier. By September’s end, she’d come as far down as 17:51, a full 90+ seconds faster than her sophomore version. The drastic improvements only continued to track, where 5:30 became 4:59, 11:48 turned into 10:44, and she earned the right to handle the baton on Pioneer’s traditional All-State 4×8 squad.