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Where: Allendale HS. Runs pretty fair throughout the year, and about 5-10 seconds FAST come championship season. 2018’s Allendale Falcon is the baseline for these ratings.

2020 Boys: East Grand Rapids, Allendale, Spring Lake

2020 Girls: East Grand Rapids, Forest Hills Eastern, Spring Lake

Top 25 Boys Teams: Grand Rapids Christian (6), Spring Lake (16)

Top 25 Girls Teams: Grand Rapids Christian (Top Four), Spring Lake (16), Allendale (21), Grand Rapids West Catholic (25)

Top 50 Boys (Division 2): Ian Hill (2), Kilian Whalen (10), Tinsae Nelson (13), Ben Zwart (18), Gavin VanSolkema (28)

Top 50 Girls (Division 2): Madelyn Frens (3), Ava Lutke (4), Emily Tomes (7), Natalie VanOtteren (9), Nora Boufford (28), Jamie Lipecky (35), Adia Sikkema (36), Maggie Duba (38), Lily Parker (41), Alyssa Butterfield (46)

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2020 Season: 3rd Greater Lansing, 3rd Pre-Region 46, 4th Region 23 (D3)

2020 Season: 1st SCAA, 1st Pre-Region 67, 1st Region 34, 5th D4 State

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• I’m not sure what happened to Madison between the fall of 2019 and fall of 2020, but I know her precipitous time drops weren’t on accident
• During her first two years in HS, she learned the ropes from vets such as Brooke Hinkelman and Bella Johnson, where she was the 4^th/5^th runner on a squad that twice made it to MIS
• In 2020, she burst into the lead runner role for Bedford and never looked back
• She opened the season with a PB, broke 19:00 soon after, then shattered 18:00 soon after that
• In the end, she ended up dropping over 1:30 from her previous best (as a freshman) and on the way, garnered a top-10 finish at State
• That same trend continued into track, where she knocked almost 30 sec. off her 1600m and exactly a minute off her 3200m best
• Will we see more progress?  I wouldn’t be shocked.

• Last summer, Tyler Pritchett messaged me with a bold prediction – that Matt was gonna shock some people
• Lo and behold, he was right, all the way to a 17^th place finish at State
• Matt is another example of a kid who must’ve made the most of the lost 2020 spring season
• As a freshman and sophomore, he was in a similar boat to Madison, running in the 17’s, a solid runner, but nothing that predicted his recent success
• His junior year began with a PB and soon he was solo’ing 16:0x’s
• When the competition heated up in late October, so did he, breaking 16:00 in a 2^nd place finish to a runner to be named later
• By the end of the year, he had dropped a whole 1:06 of his 2019 best
• And as with Madison, I wouldn’t be shocked to see him continue in that positive direction