I'm looking forward to seeing some somewhat meaningful results today from the Ames Invite. Hempstead girls open in Iowa City today, too. Then Saturday we get Johnston, Dbq Senior and PV girls running in Bettendorf. We will all know a lot more about how things stack up after this week.
Norwalk won. Wow! And only 1 senior! Valley was missing J Owen. Other than him, the team is all seniors. Norwalk beat Ankeny too.
Good for Norwalk, always nice to get a W. But with 4 teams between 89 and 93 points it probably doesn’t mean anything for how these 4 teams will shake out in a month or two.
Norwalk won. Wow! And only 1 senior! Valley was missing J Owen. Other than him, the team is all seniors. Norwalk beat Ankeny too.
Good for Norwalk, always nice to get a W. But with 4 teams between 89 and 93 points it probably doesn’t mean anything for how these 4 teams will shake out in a month or two.
The impressive thing is that Norwalk only returned 3 of their top 7 from last year, so many might have said that this would be a down year for them.
But, besides the fact that the 3 guys that returned all got better, this lineup also added Groos, who was in their top 7 in 2021 but not 2022. They also added Wallace, who was running in the 17s the last 2 years. In this meet he became their 4th man and ran a 16:28.
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Johnston girls are good and really deep, looking at FS and JV results, but do not appear unbeatable. PV, with a couple frosh looks to be competitive. And Senior had a few girls take big steps forward. If they have another couple do the same they will be right with PV and Johnston. Hempstead, Senior and PV will face off next Saturday at Luther and that should be fun!
4a boys through 9.2 top 7 distribution. Obviously time isn't a great indicator with variation in course length / conditions, but to get a rough sense of where teams are at:
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