Not too many drastic changes with these lists over the past month, but I wanted to throw out an update before track.
I assume there will be many shifts in these rankings over the course of outdoor season. Excited to see how some schools that don’t embrace indoor so much will move up.
Of course, I’ve thought of some ideas to spruce up and analyze and hopefully bring about friendly competition. Interspersed throughout the season, I’ll break down these lists by:
Congrats to all that competed this indoor season. Indoor is a great barometer of the health of our sport here in Michigan. Treacherous driving conditions, logistical nightmares, yet it seems participation is at an all-time high.
With the downtime between the indoor state meet and the first official practice (along with my trip to Atlanta for the Olympic Trials), I wanted to throw out another set of rankings.
These rankings are for 2020 XC and now include INCOMING FRESHMEN.
Incoming freshmen were projected using their XC times from this past season, rating those, then calculating their projected improvement from those ratings. This is hopefully much more accurate than 2018 (not even looking at freshmen) and 2019 (just looking at their raw times).
There are some issues, of course. There are middle school programs that don’t post their results. I find it hard to believe that Ann Arbor middle schools do not run cross country, yet there are no results on athletic for their public schools. Many districts are superb, with clear delineations of schools feeding into one another. Plymouth-Canton on the other hand, very confusing!
Given that, there may be some slightly underrated/overrated teams, especially on the girl’s side. I do realize that division assignments will be posted soon and if adjustments are needed, I’ll make those.
Birmingham Seaholm Clarkston Frankenmuth Grand Blanc Hart Mason Traverse City Central
BOYS
12
Romeo
Grade
Name
Time
12
Luke Schwartz
4:25.4
12
Jack Wilson
4:30.4
12
Charlie Wilson
4:31.6
11
Zander Cobb
4:33.8
10
Jack Kelke
4:34.9
12
Jonathan Craun
4:35.6
10
Jack Wallace
4:44.5
10
Owen Sharnas
4:48.8
11
Joseph Rinke
4:52.5
11
Nicholas Fringer
4:53.9
10
Brendan Wiegand
4:57.3
11
Andrew Pries
4:59.3
9
Ann Arbor Pioneer
Grade
Name
Time
12
Owen Rennich
4:26.1
12
Drew Allen
4:31.1
10
Owen Johnson
4:33.0
10
Matt Ruud
4:37.8
10
Fred Wallace
4:50.5
11
Ben Jakabcsin
4:53.4
11
Peter Bonasso
4:56.7
10
Levi Straszewski
4:58.4
11
Kevin Dancey
4:59.0
8
Brighton
Grade
Name
Time
12
Jack Spamer
4:15.5
12
Scott Spaanstra
4:24.5
12
Zacahry Stewart
4:25.0
12
Dan Campbell
4:43.0
10
Jack Campbell
4:52.2
10
Ethan Lee
4:53.5
10
Quinn Cullen
4:54.1
11
Andrew Simon
4:59.1
5
Ann Arbor Skyline
Grade
Name
Time
11
Hobbs Kessler
4:19.0
12
Thomas Young
4:36.1
11
Ian Steele
4:42.2
10
Sanjay Rao
4:48.9
12
Freddy Villalobos
4:48.9
Zeeland West
Grade
Name
Time
12
Ethan Senti
4:35.0
12
Luke Munsey
4:36.3
11
Corban Hauch
4:45.0
10
Mateo Quintanilla
4:51.9
11
Joshua Ennen
4:55.9
4
Clarkston
Grade
Name
Time
12
Brendan Favazza
4:25.8
12
Nathan Sesti
4:27.0
12
Christian Collis
4:31.5
12
Carson Brock
4:57.9
Farmington
Grade
Name
Time
10
Kevin Miller
4:42.9
12
Thomas Brandon
4:46.8
11
Om Sonawane
4:53.4
11
Andrew Spencer
4:59.6
Otsego
Grade
Name
Time
12
Hunter Zartman
4:20.1
11
Colin Mulder
4:28.6
10
Chase Brown
4:44.2
11
Andrew Bickel
4:51.6
Pinckney
Grade
Name
Time
11
Gavin White
4:28.0
10
Caleb Jarema
4:30.7
11
Tylor Morgan
4:38.3
12
Jack Sleeman
4:50.2
Portage Northern
Grade
Name
Time
12
Matthew Schieber
4:37.9
10
Drew Gonzalez
4:46.2
11
Stephen Loparo
4:54.6
11
Andrew Famiano
4:57.2
Rochester Hills Stoney Creek
Grade
Name
Time
11
Tristan Brandenburg
4:33.1
12
Sam Tarling
4:36.3
11
Kurt Kehren
4:36.3
11
Colin Hanson
4:53.1
Salem
Grade
Name
Time
11
Talha Syed
4:26.5
11
Hezekiah Williams
4:37.0
11
Gary Gardella
4:37.9
11
Gavin Ray
4:39.5
3
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