NXR Northeast predictions

CBA sophomore Matt McInerney was their 5th man in the open green race and helped them win it.
Is he the younger brother of Tim McInerney (CBA 2019 grad)?

CBA JV dominates the NE open race merge. No seniors in their top 6 for that group

Boys championship race is about to begin

CBA 3 in the top 10. Them and Westfield autoqualified with no one close

CBA / Westfield were close

Grevious was insane

Ridgefield took 3rd but they only have 1 senior so next year they have a better chance to autoqualify. The team that took second only have 1 non-senior.

What the heck NY- Those were some of the slowest times for an NXR championship race this year. Embarrassing!

Ridgefield ran reasonably well it looks like, comparing their spread to the CT state meet, wonder if it will be enough for an at large.

YAFI.

Bowdoin is challenging and does not produce fast times. FM boys finished 2nd in the country one year with a 1630ish avg at bowdoin. Saratoga finished 2nd in the country multiple times with only one girl under 19 at bowdoin.

Perfect sunny day today in New York. No excuses.

Paige Sheppard insane finish

She's trying to make up for barely losing the NJ state meet. She was not happy about that.

NE gets screwed and NY lucky the way it is divided up these days. They should change it: New England one group; NY, NJ, PA another…..or something like that.

NY and NE should just combine into one region

I agree. They should combine the region and then have 6 at large bids instead of 4.

New York used to be really good when Manlius was winning that region every year on the boys and girls side. Now they don’t even show up in the championship race as a team. Only individuals

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Not a bad idea, but this would definitely dilute the NXR pool, as almost all of the top individuals would go to FL. Look at the combined depth of this region, if one looks at both FL and NXR: Byron Grevious, Jimmy Wischusen, Joe Barrett, Steven Hergenrother, Drew Griffith, Ryan Pajak, Paul Bergeron, Tam Gavenas, Peyton Shute....five of these guys would legitimately looking to be in top 10 or at either FL or NXN (if healthy). If there were only 5 individual spots fo NXN....Well, given how weak NY has been recently, maybe it wouldn't change much, but for sure it would not improve the likelihood of NE runners, who are not on good teams, wanting to race NXR

Weather was nice, but course was a mess. Very muddy which made the up and down hills challenging at some parts. Got worse as the meet went along, which obviously meant the championship races were more affected. Kids were slipping a lot at various points in the race.

How about instead we divide the NY, NE, and SE divisions into Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, amd Southeast divisions.

Northeast: New England and New York

Mid-Atlantic: NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, WV

Southeast: TN, AL, GA, FL, NC, SC, KY

This year's qualifiers would be...

Northeast Boys: Ridgefield and Brookline (very close with Monroe-Woodbury). Grevious, McGinn, Giardina, Gogarty, Sherman-Kalish

Mid-Atlantic Boys: CBA, Westfield. Wischusen, Nance, Partlow, Pash, Davis

Southeast Boys: Belen Jesuit, Montgomery Bell. Valyo, Latham, Edgeworth, Eckerman, Smith

Northeast Girls: Saratoga, Champlain Valley (very close with Bethlehem Central). McInnes, Bercuvitz, O'Leary, Gabrielson, Sullivan

Mid-Atlantic Girls: Tatnall, Union Catholic. Zealand, Gardiner, Woehlcke, Dalton, Kucler

Southeast Girls: Assumption, Webb School. Gilmore, Hood, Rae Shaffer, Boonshaft, Fawbush.

The thing is there are teams that get snubbed or teams that get assisted no matter how you split the regions up. At least my proposed alignment (and other previously posted proposals) makes sense instead of just having a random state as its own region when it's located right in the middle of another one. California makes sense since it is big enough to be it's own region. But New York - and any other state other than maybe Texas - is not big enough to stand on it's own in my opinion. This flaw was covered up for a long time since the top two teams in the country every year on the girls side were from New York. Now, they aren't and since the decision to have a NY region was cause of the girls when the guys sides is down like it is this year, it is a massive problem.

But every region has a down year every now and then. There are always stronger regions and weaker regions. Just look at all 3 divisions of NCAA. The biggest solution is more at larges to get the field size up to 30ish teams and an additional 4 or 5 individual at larges like the NCAA in order to make sure everyone who really should be there is.

At some point you just have to pick something that makes sense and roll with it. But I don't think New York on its own can be justified in the long run.