Woah, didn’t think you’d see these this year, did you? I didn’t either. With the increasing amount of EQ’s, the amount of writing and research needed to announce Barnyard (I didn’t even get to do intros because of the weather delay), and overtime needed from working in a running shop in the spring, I didn’t think I’d have the time. Thus, cutting these out looked to be a necessary subtraction. But the increasing questions, pleading, and a bit of free time opening up has led to their return. I’ll have one ranking for each event area in these weeks prior to regionals and one after the season.
An explanation:
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 2025 (and now, 2026).
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 in 2024. I feel this will better portray a team’s top athletes.
Here are the figures that show the points for each mark:
These contain results uploaded to athletic.net by Tuesday (5/12) morning.
These Hurdle Crews are the combination of the 100/110h and 300h.
In summary, points are added for the top three athletes from a team, provided they hit the regional qualifier (the UP doesn’t have any regional qualifying marks, so I used D4’s figures). Don’t be reading this thinking you must qualify for regionals, those qualifiers are there to give teams more than two competitors if they’ve got some fast kids. Anyhow, here are the regional qualifying marks for each gender and division:
Division Gender 100/110h 300h 1 Boys 16.15 42.30 1 Girls 17.00 50.00 2 Boys 17.00 43.80 2 Girls 18.10 52.50 3 Boys 17.50 44.60 3 Girls 18.50 54.00 4 Boys 18.80 47.00 4 Girls 19.40 56.10
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 11 Shukuru Makechi 110h 13.74 East Kentwood 530 11 Shukuru Makechi 300h 37.55 East Kentwood 513 11 Major Barnes 300h 39.81 East Kentwood 441 11 Clinton Mucyo 300h 39.82 East Kentwood 441 12 Zacchaeus Goree 110h 15.12 East Kentwood 424 11 Major Barnes 110h 15.19 East Kentwood 418 11 Clinton Mucyo 110h 15.37 East Kentwood 405 10 Kenneth Harris 110h 15.72 East Kentwood 378 11 Moracen Brown 110h 15.88 East Kentwood 365 10 DeSharion Bass-Hughes 110h 15.92 East Kentwood 362
Rank Team 110h 300h Total 1 East Kentwood 1372 1395 2767 2 Detroit Catholic Central 1041 1502 2543 3 Kalamazoo Central 923 1220 2143 4 Traverse City West 1192 876 2068 5 Ann Arbor Huron 1194 842 2036 6 Muskegon Reeths-Puffer 907 881 1788 7 Farmington 905 831 1736 8 Beverly Hills Groves 783 841 1625 9 Portage Central 860 754 1614 10 Rockford 805 805 1610 11 Temperance Bedford 1208 375 1582 12 Grosse Pointe South 773 792 1565 13 Detroit Renaissance 723 771 1494 14 Saline 863 493 1356 15 Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills 457 889 1346 16 Muskegon Mona Shores 826 453 1280 17 East Lansing 430 844 1274 18 Saginaw Heritage 858 415 1273 19 Bay City Western 862 409 1271 20 Rochester Hills Stoney Creek 788 440 1227 21 Royal Oak 751 462 1213 22 Woodhaven Brownstown 795 394 1189 23 Brighton 397 789 1186 24 Zeeland West – 1149 1149 25 Byron Center 728 369 1097
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 10 Aaliyah Bailey 100h 14.25 East Kentwood 495 12 Alana Bracey 100h 14.44 East Kentwood 484 10 Aaliyah Bailey 300h 44.51 East Kentwood 475 12 Alana Bracey 300h 45.51 East Kentwood 451 12 Journey Cottle 100h 15.41 East Kentwood 425 10 Jazlynn Chisholm-humes 300h 48.42 East Kentwood 383 9 Nyomi Wilson 100h 16.26 East Kentwood 374 10 Jazlynn Chisholm-humes 100h 16.28 East Kentwood 372 12 Journey Cottle 300h 49.36 East Kentwood 361
Rank Team 100h 300h Total 1 East Kentwood 1405 1308 2713 2 Grand Haven 1231 1287 2519 3 Detroit Cass Tech 1360 897 2257 4 Rockford 767 1133 1900 5 Oak Park 892 876 1768 6 Middleville Thornapple-Kellogg 804 857 1662 7 Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills 839 774 1614 8 Okemos 791 772 1563 9 Ann Arbor Skyline 753 798 1551 10 Bay City Western 724 793 1517 11 Holland West Ottawa 737 780 1517 12 Lake Orion 479 750 1229 13 Battle Creek Lakeview 395 804 1199 14 Belleville 430 763 1193 15 Chippewa Valley 831 353 1184 16 Rochester Adams 389 767 1155 17 Ann Arbor Pioneer 706 369 1075 18 Troy 356 714 1070 19 Sterling Heights Stevenson 476 454 930 20 Royal Oak 454 449 903 21 Grand Ledge 446 451 897 22 Wayne Memorial 448 446 893 23 Salem 450 426 876 24 Traverse City Central 466 393 859 25 Caledonia 423 433 856
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 12 DJ Wood 110h 14.13 Battle Creek Harper Creek 500 12 DJ Wood 300h 38.46 Battle Creek Harper Creek 484 10 Cash Simpson 110h 15.26 Battle Creek Harper Creek 413 11 TJ Ruble 300h 41.78 Battle Creek Harper Creek 380 12 Antoine Westry 110h 15.71 Battle Creek Harper Creek 378 10 Josh Ilgenfritz 300h 42.46 Battle Creek Harper Creek 358
Rank Team 110h 300h Total 1 Battle Creek Harper Creek 1291 1222 2513 2 Lansing Sexton 1105 1150 2256 3 Vicksburg 1016 1156 2172 4 Clare 1016 1105 2121 5 Three Rivers 1165 858 2024 6 Wayland Union 727 1081 1808 7 Freeland 839 812 1651 8 Hamilton 876 762 1638 9 Coldwater 825 794 1620 10 Grand Rapids South Christian 611 991 1602 11 Pinckney 753 766 1519 12 Hopkins 718 770 1487 13 Croswell-Lexington 729 740 1469 14 St. Joseph 729 729 1458 15 Frankenmuth 706 730 1436 16 Lake Odessa Lakewood 669 750 1419 17 Williamston 1051 335 1386 18 Corunna 467 879 1346 19 Orchard Lake St. Mary’s 327 1018 1344 20 Marshall 825 453 1278 21 Tecumseh 602 668 1270 22 Hazel Park 453 706 1159 23 Alma 775 372 1147 24 Paw Paw 385 752 1137 25 Saginaw Swan Valley 318 808 1126
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 12 Lena Brochard 300h 46.95 Coopersville 417 12 Lena Brochard 100h 15.82 Coopersville 400 11 Kenadi Stevens 300h 48.10 Coopersville 390 9 Tala Sellon 100h 16.77 Coopersville 343 9 Tala Sellon 300h 50.45 Coopersville 335 11 Kenadi Stevens 100h 17.11 Coopersville 322 11 Hayley Dusendang 300h 51.60 Coopersville 308 11 Hayley Dusendang 100h 17.94 Coopersville 272
Rank Team 100h 300h Total 1 Coopersville 1065 1143 2208 2 Berrien Springs 756 1068 1824 3 Gladwin 971 684 1655 4 Remus Chippewa Hills 621 947 1568 5 Holland Christian 759 785 1544 6 Marshall 619 695 1315 7 Petoskey 697 611 1308 8 Sturgis 605 685 1290 9 Spring Lake 732 483 1216 10 Owosso 445 764 1209 11 Grosse Ile 559 641 1200 12 Hamilton 297 889 1187 13 Portland 752 366 1117 14 Charlotte 339 747 1086 15 Detroit Country Day 733 341 1073 16 Fremont 729 318 1046 17 Summit Academy North 415 611 1027 18 Paw Paw 650 294 945 19 Grand Rapids West Catholic 312 630 942 20 Coldwater 599 325 924 21 Yale 455 452 908 22 Allegan 437 429 866 23 Dearborn Henry Ford Academy 438 419 857 24 Pinckney 382 428 810 25 Otsego 395 394 790
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 12 Skyler Kimple 300h 40.34 Blissfield 425 12 Skyler Kimple 110h 15.46 Blissfield 398 12 Braedyn Tennant 300h 41.52 Blissfield 388 11 Ethan Samuels 300h 43.86 Blissfield 314 12 Braedyn Tennant 110h 15.94 Blissfield 361
Rank Team 110h 300h Total 1 Blissfield 758 1127 1885 2 Hillsdale 949 753 1703 3 Elk Rapids 647 1000 1647 4 Schoolcraft 833 797 1630 5 Adrian Madison 831 707 1539 6 Jonesville 684 758 1442 7 Manton 744 684 1428 8 University Liggett 601 816 1417 9 Ithaca 642 749 1391 10 Kent City 638 671 1309 11 Constantine 917 306 1223 12 Saugatuck 546 675 1221 13 Ida 585 631 1216 14 Erie Mason 385 764 1149 15 The Potter’s House 375 758 1134 16 Delton-Kellogg 677 433 1110 17 Ottawa Lake-Whiteford 376 656 1032 18 Sanford-Meridian 378 651 1029 19 Ovid-Elsie 302 660 961 20 Lansing Catholic 496 443 940 21 Cass City 607 314 921 22 Chesaning 553 366 919 23 Kalamazoo Christian 448 454 902 24 Warren Michigan Collegiate 435 436 870 25 Pigeon-Laker 541 321 863
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 12 Julia Hughes 100h 14.60 Ida 474 12 Julia Hughes 300h 46.03 Ida 439 9 Lana Benware 100h 16.83 Ida 339 9 Lana Benware 300h 51.78 Ida 304 12 Kaidence Weaver 300h 53.49 Ida 264 12 Grace May 100h 18.38 Ida 245
Rank Team 100h 300h Total 1 Ida 1059 1007 2065 2 Traverse City St. Francis 945 997 1942 3 Pewamo-Westphalia 892 959 1851 4 Lansing Catholic 629 1063 1691 5 Benzie Central 594 945 1539 6 Chesaning 589 948 1536 7 Elk Rapids 585 894 1480 8 Olivet 691 759 1450 9 Blissfield 579 669 1249 10 Caro 635 591 1227 11 Adrian Madison 581 642 1222 12 Cass City 889 313 1203 13 Marine City 850 337 1187 14 White Cloud 547 640 1186 15 Niles Brandywine 683 400 1083 16 Constantine 665 395 1060 17 Standish Sterling 655 403 1058 18 Union City 605 369 974 19 Newaygo 621 344 965 20 New Lothrop 250 612 862 21 Harrison 246 598 844 22 Mason County Central 409 418 827 23 Quincy 403 417 820 24 Houghton Lake 403 402 804 25 Saugatuck 435 327 763
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 11 Colin Mccaffrey 110h 16.10 Royal Oak Shrine 348 11 Owen Wisniewski 110h 16.18 Royal Oak Shrine 342 11 Owen Wisniewski 300h 43.47 Royal Oak Shrine 326 11 Colin Mccaffrey 300h 43.58 Royal Oak Shrine 323 11 Ben Mason 300h 45.73 Royal Oak Shrine 255 11 Ben Mason 110h 17.96 Royal Oak Shrine 205
Rank Team 110h 300h Total 1 Royal Oak Shrine 896 905 1801 2 Hillsdale Academy 645 991 1636 3 Maple City Glen Lake 631 975 1606 4 Manchester 694 683 1377 5 Grand Traverse Academy 666 699 1365 6 Lutheran Westland 982 371 1353 7 Marlette 472 840 1312 8 Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary 588 721 1309 9 Vassar 671 586 1258 10 Portland St. Patrick 532 644 1176 11 Concord 548 614 1163 12 Fowler 548 580 1129 13 Vermontville Maple Valley 692 404 1097 14 Central Lake / Ellsworth 698 388 1086 15 Frankfort 410 615 1025 16 Detroit Frederick Douglass 315 613 928 17 Alcona 416 469 885 18 Mendon 318 509 827 19 Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart 404 394 798 20 Kalamazoo Hackett 399 395 794 21 Montabella 360 378 738 22 Dansville 388 312 699 23 St Joseph Our Lady of the Lake Catholic – 677 677 24 Decatur 382 292 674 25 Southfield Christian 282 323 605
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 10 Leah Thelen 300h 47.74 Fowler 399 12 Paige Thelen 300h 48.18 Fowler 388 10 Leah Thelen 100h 16.13 Fowler 382 12 Maria Wieber 100h 16.41 Fowler 365 12 Maria Wieber 300h 49.20 Fowler 364
Rank Team 100h 300h Total 1 Fowler 746 1152 1898 2 Hillsdale Academy 825 1033 1858 3 Kalamazoo Hackett 730 1054 1783 4 Frankfort 791 872 1663 5 Manchester 855 640 1495 6 Petersburg-Summerfield 671 817 1487 7 Breckenridge 701 732 1433 8 Mason County Eastern 816 577 1393 9 Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart 685 678 1364 10 Buckley 472 614 1086 11 Reading 512 531 1043 12 Concord 226 733 960 13 Central Lake / Ellsworth 572 385 957 14 Southfield Christian 323 595 918 15 Morenci 536 358 894 16 Harbor Beach 563 229 792 17 Indian River Inland Lakes 529 255 784 18 Marlette 255 527 783 19 Pittsford 283 489 772 20 Auburn Hills Oakland Christian 370 397 767 21 Whittemore-Prescott 463 300 763 22 Vestaburg 426 334 760 23 Colon 262 490 753 24 Ubly 246 475 721 25 St. Charles 337 345 681
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 12 Sid Olson 300h 42.39 Kingsford 360 12 Sid Olson 110h 16.31 Kingsford 332 12 Ian Spencer 110h 17.07 Kingsford 274 12 Ian Spencer 300h 45.96 Kingsford 248
Rank Team 110h 300h Total 1 Kingsford 606 608 1215 2 Marquette 563 631 1194 3 Negaunee 569 540 1109 4 Pickford 612 488 1101 5 Bark River-Harris 341 521 862 6 Sault Ste. Marie 528 315 843 7 Brimley 457 282 739 8 Lake Linden-Hubbell 394 317 710 9 Rapid River 442 216 658 10 Houghton 321 320 641 11 L’Anse 298 317 615 12 Menominee 384 230 613 13 St. Ignace 265 337 603 14 Escanaba 351 220 571 15 Stephenson 270 300 570 16 Forest Park 212 311 524 17 Cedarville 248 254 503 18 Ironwood 375 – 375 19 Ishpeming – 332 332 20 Eben Jct. Superior Central – 284 284 21 Ishpeming Westwood – 248 248 22 Gladstone 219 – 219 23 North Dickinson County – 217 217 24 Copper Island Academy 183 – 183
Grade Name Event Time Team Points 11 Sadie Rogers 300h 47.17 Negaunee 412 11 Sadie Rogers 100h 16.31 Negaunee 371 12 Josie Mechling 300h 52.14 Negaunee 295 10 Adela Miller 300h 52.15 Negaunee 295 11 Addie Dank 100h 18.24 Negaunee 254 12 Josie Mechling 100h 18.42 Negaunee 243
Rank Team 100h 300h Total 1 Negaunee 867 1003 1870 2 Brimley 763 501 1265 3 Marquette 708 496 1203 4 Forest Park 633 379 1011 5 St. Ignace 530 288 818 6 Manistique 254 549 803 7 Lake Linden-Hubbell 506 237 743 8 West Iron County 309 367 676 9 Chassell 294 362 656 10 North Dickinson County 395 255 650 11 Carney-Nadeau 293 304 597 12 Munising 249 313 562 13 Dollar Bay 224 294 518 14 Gladstone 225 288 513 15 Ontonagon Area 262 243 505 16 Ishpeming 207 242 449 17 Big Bay De Noc – 354 354 18 Bark River-Harris – 349 349 19 Stephenson – 232 232 20 Rapid River 223 – 223 21 Ironwood – 212 212 22 Rudyard – 211 211 23 Iron Mountain 205 – 205 24 Sault Ste. Marie 205 – 205 25 Calumet 183 – 183
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