Sean O, on , said:

Haha. Now I get it. Perhaps she was a bit off, or perhaps she and her coach planned keeping her in the pack, saving her for the future. IDK.

DontStopPre, on , said:

Oops, should clarify. Their standard look is French, then their 2-7 about 40-50 seconds later.

Sean O, on , said:

Back of the 6.5-second pack, being "off". Lol.

DougB, on , said:

1-7 split was 6.5 seconds. 20th place was the best performance at the MN state meet by a 7th since.....well, ever, basically. Interestingly, the 1995 Duluth East team, headed by senior Kara Goucher(then Wheeler) had their 7th come in 29th overall, which was the second "deepest" team in MN XC history, both genders.

French was off and ended up in the back of that 1-7 pack. It will be interesting to see how a team with structure like theirs fares in Portland.

That Wayzata 1-5 compression was pretty amazing at the state meet on Saturday.... 5.4 seconds.

Thanks for finding that mistake. Fixed it.

The Woodlands #23. It states they won the District 14-5A meet. they actually lost on a 6th runner tiebreaker to The Woodlands College Park.

Appreciate the work you all do in researching this. It is well done.

IMHO, Wayzata ranked too low. I'm hoping they can show their true mettle in December at Nationals. I think they are being hurt in rankings because Minnesota still runs 4K for girls. But they are solid 1-7. For example, in Minnesota 6AA sectionals ran on a windy Oct 23 on challenging Gale Woods Farm course, with temp at 36F the top 5 Wayzata Girls ran 18:08 team average once I converted the 4K times to 5K times. They had a 1 TO 5 spread of 0:33.5 and a 2 TO 5 spread of 6.5 seconds. And, get this, a 2-7 spread of 12.9 seconds. That's some solid numbers by any account. Results:

http://www.raceberry...om/indexcc.html

Race Video:

https://vimeo.com/77715123

You'd have to think SW has a strong argument for at least one at-large spot.

Whoa! That's a lot of shuffling at the top! The SW region has 6 teams in the top 15, but only 2 automatically qualify for NXN. That's unfortunate.

Ryan Saenz (El Paso Eastwood) has graduated.

How does Gidabuday rank 16th nationally but local rivals Caleb Webb of Big Bear and Garret Corcoran of Villa Park aren't ranked at all? Did Gidabuday do something I wasn't aware of?

Garrett Corcoran, senior out of Villa Park HS in Irvine, CA not top 100 in the nation??

#53, Austen Dalquist does not run for Marcus (TX), he runs for Keller (TX)

Doug - do you plan on updating these periodically?

Great job! Glad to see 4 WA guys in the top 29, including 3 from Spokane.

Thanks. Put a lot of time into it this week.

Wow, 100 deep! Good job, Doug!

Great job on the rankings Doug! Great to see two California Boys leading the pack