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 | Whitmore Lake | 17 | 1 |
| 2 | Novi Christian Academy | 76 | 18 |
| 3 | Fowler | 89 | 22 |
| 4 | Livingston Christian | 98 | 25 |
| 5 | Lansing Christian | 100 | |
| 6 | Portland St. Patrick | 122 | |
| 7 | Byron | 188 |
| Place | Grade | Name | Team |
| 1 | 9 | Kaylie Livingston | Whitmore Lake |
| 2 | 10 | Carina Burchi | Whitmore Lake |
| 3 | 12 | Natalie Meadows | Whitmore Lake |
| 4 | 10 | Taylor Wiegand | Livingston Christian |
| 5 | 10 | Sofia Robertson | Whitmore Lake |
| 6 | 12 | Isabella Yeoman | Genesee |
| 7 | 10 | Elodie Weaver | Whitmore Lake |
| 8 | 11 | Kelcie Pung | Fowler |
| 9 | 9 | Adrienne Mitchell | Lansing Christian |
| 10 | 12 | Ellayna Meredith | Portland St. Patrick |
| 11 | 12 | Mya Guillermo | Novi Christian Academy |
| 12 | 9 | Ezrielle Martin | Livingston Christian |
| 13 | 8 | Madison Markowicz | Novi Christian Academy |
| 14 | 10 | Abigail Yatooma | Novi Christian Academy |
| 15 | 11 | Brooke Sonnenberg | Genesee Christian Academy |
| Place | Boys Team | Score | Division Rank |
| 1 | Whitmore Lake | 56 | 23 |
| 2 | Novi Christian Academy | 95 | |
| 3 | Fowler | 107 | |
| 4 | Lansing Christian | 141 | |
| 5 | Livingston Christian | 146 | |
| 6 | Byron | 153 | |
| 7 | Genesee | 165 | |
| 8 | Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes | 177 | |
| 9 | Webberville | 183 | |
| 10 | Potterville | 206 | |
| 11 | Genesee Christian Academy | 233 | |
| 12 | Morrice | 309 |
| Place | Grade | Name | Team |
| 1 | 10 | Landen Livingston | Whitmore Lake |
| 2 | 12 | Connor Rouse | Genesee |
| 3 | 10 | Timothy Chamberlain | Portland St. Patrick |
| 4 | 11 | Samuel Hubbard | Livingston Christian |
| 5 | 12 | Trevor Feldpausch | Fowler |
| 6 | 10 | Josiah Johncox | Byron |
| 7 | 10 | Quentin Smith | Fowler |
| 8 | 10 | Isaac FoxElster | Portland St. Patrick |
| 9 | 10 | Nathan Camilleri | Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes |
| 10 | 10 | Tyler Langfeldt | Potterville |
| 11 | 10 | Ben Young | Lansing Christian |
| 12 | 10 | Dan Birmingham | Whitmore Lake |
| 13 | 10 | Reuben Jiran | Novi Christian Academy |
| 14 | 9 | Benjamin Fox | Whitmore Lake |
| 15 | 12 | Ryan Williams | Novi Christian Academy |
