Hard to fathom, but we’re a month out from Regionals. Championship Season is coming soon, starting this week with the Battle Creek City Meet, Berrien County, then next week with Oakland County and Wayne County, advancing further on with our many area and conference championships. The weather is beginning to turn, mornings becoming cooler, leaves transforming into their beautiful fall hues, and most important – times are quickening and competition is heating up.
Given this juncture, time for another look at the regional projections. These follow many of the same rules as the division rankings. Using an individual’s races from here, a total rating is created by taking the top 75% of a runner’s races and weighing them toward more recent meets. Those ratings are then ranked for each region/division, spitting out a score that is used for the rankings. One added factor this week – filtering out athletes that haven’t competed over the past month, which I sadly have to assume are injured or no longer competing.
These might be much different than the athletic.net hypothetical meet. Anet uses the best performance from the season. I take more races into account, as I feel the entire resume speaks a greater volume about someone. Anet uses jamborees and duals, for which I don’t have time to calculate. Anet doesn’t account for course differences. If you take the 160 boys that ran at both Holly and Jackson, on average the Jackson times were 30 seconds faster. We have great coaches in this state that promote week-to-week improvement, but clearly there are differences in courses (and there are short/questionable ones too)! I’m not saying one is better than the other, just that I prefer my own and my bet is that they’ll be more accurate when we do this again next month.
Thanks to some feedback, you get a format change. This may better elucidate the improvement from last year or how inaccurate the summer predictions were!
| Place | Girls Team | Score | Division Rank |
| 1 | Oxford | 52 | 10 |
| 2 | Rochester | 89 | 24 |
| 3 | Utica | 90 | 22 |
| 4 | Lake Orion | 91 | 23 |
| 5 | Clarkston | 99 | |
| 6 | Rochester Adams | 138 | |
| 7 | Troy | 152 | |
| 8 | Bloomfield Hills | 177 | |
| 9 | Utica Ford | 326 | |
| 10 | Sterling Heights Stevenson | 330 | |
| 11 | Troy Athens | 334 | |
| 12 | Waterford Mott | 367 | |
| 13 | Warren Cousino | 396 | |
| 14 | Waterford Kettering | 414 | |
| 15 | Warren Mott | 423 |
| Place | Grade | Name | Team |
| 1 | 11 | Lucy Cook | Rochester |
| 2 | 11 | Mallory Bigelow | Oxford |
| 3 | 12 | Hannah DeRoeck | Lake Orion |
| 4 | 10 | Addison Herr | Bloomfield Hills |
| 5 | 12 | Braydee Elling | Oxford |
| 6 | 10 | Audrey Hamilton | Troy |
| 7 | 9 | Emma Brown | Utica |
| 8 | 9 | Linda Lopez | Lake Orion |
| 9 | 10 | Siene Muraszewski | Utica |
| 10 | 11 | Taylor Brodeur | Oxford |
| 11 | 12 | Anna Reineck | Clarkston |
| 12 | 9 | Avery DeGrendel | Clarkston |
| 13 | 9 | Addison Brigham | Clarkston |
| 14 | 9 | El McMahan | Rochester Adams |
| 15 | 12 | Aubrey Mery | Oxford |
| Place | Boys Team | Score | Division Rank |
| 1 | Oxford | 58 | 5 |
| 2 | Clarkston | 65 | 7 |
| 3 | Troy | 65 | 8 |
| 4 | Utica | 101 | 17 |
| 5 | Rochester | 140 | |
| 6 | Lake Orion | 141 | |
| 7 | Rochester Adams | 156 | |
| 8 | Troy Athens | 262 | |
| 9 | Warren Cousino | 263 | |
| 10 | Bloomfield Hills | 279 | |
| 11 | Utica Ford | 284 | |
| 12 | Sterling Heights Stevenson | 368 | |
| 13 | Waterford Kettering | 376 | |
| 14 | Waterford Mott | 390 | |
| 15 | Auburn Hills Avondale | 481 | |
| 16 | Warren Mott | 515 |
| Place | Grade | Name | Team |
| 1 | 12 | Vishvaa Ravishankar | Troy |
| 2 | 11 | Taye Levenson | Bloomfield Hills |
| 3 | 11 | Kian Schneeweis | Troy |
| 4 | 11 | Alexander McArthur | Oxford |
| 5 | 10 | Harper Wesley | Utica |
| 6 | 12 | Bryce Nowik | Clarkston |
| 7 | 11 | James Cusick | Oxford |
| 8 | 11 | Max Myrand | Oxford |
| 9 | 11 | Jaxson Nowik | Clarkston |
| 10 | 12 | Louis D’Souza | Troy |
| 11 | 11 | Raymond Lucero II | Lake Orion |
| 12 | 12 | Ethan Muraszewski | Utica |
| 13 | 11 | Akshat Arora | Troy |
| 14 | 10 | Ryan Barnes | Clarkston |
| 15 | 12 | Aiden Janes | Rochester Adams |
Michigan XC Speed Ratings 