NXN 2024 - The Way Too Early Preview - BOYS

Speaking of Woodbridge, any predictions of what top teams will be at this meet? (Especially out of state teams)

I think Herriman, Southlake Carroll, and Crater will be there since they were there the last 2 years.

Hopefully Austin Vandergrift gets put in the sweepstakes race. They finished high in the rated race.

How will Woodbridge do in their home meet?

Will the Woodbridge course be measured correctly this time?

I mean, they won the rated Woodbridge race, so hopefully they make the sweepstakes race.

Riverton returns
9:05, 9:33, 9:44, 9:48, 9:54, 9:55
Another team that will be nationally ranked even if they don’t make NXN & graduate 4 varsity seniors

my personal feel for the top 10 returning runners for next year in no particular order

manny putz - hl
tamrat galenas - ne
evan noonan - ca
ty steorts - se
tj hansen - mw
joe barrett - ne
tommy latham - se
robert mechura - mn
owen powell - wa
josiah tostenson - or

honorable mention - benjamin anderson, juan gonzalez

Just the fact you don't have Caden Leonard indicates you didn't make a great effort at your list. Caden the 7th returner with regular season times this year already 4:06/8:53. There is only 1 returner with a non-Arcadia 3200 time faster. Most of the Arcadia times will be season bests, but Caden's season bests are still to come.

I think Kaden Evans from American Fork should be in that list too. He ran an 8:46 at Arcadia. He will be carrying the torch for American Fork after Daniel Simmons leaves. He will also have some solid teammates to train with.

No one from the Southwest region in this list (except in honorable mention)…wow hard to believe.

There were a lot of Southwest boys that made the top 10 at NXN last year but they are all graduating.

Oh yeah? Even though they return 4 guys with a 180+ speed rating?

Crater will have a strong top 2 (Tostenson and Kitchen) who went 8:39 and 8:49 at Arcadia, so they will have each other to train with and both should do very well individually. They also return the following times from the Oregon relays: a 9:42 junior, and also 2 sub-10 freshmen. They also return another junior who ran a 16:04 at NXR.

So… Franklin returns 3 junior scorers from NXN, and now…..

they also have: a 10:02 2-mile freshman and a 10:07 2-mile sophomore. Both times were run at the Oregon relays.

The juniors on the Valor Christian team had better 8th grade times than Cheyenne Mountain class of 2022 did… and with all this drama and coaching changes, prospects of going to NXN aren’t looking too good for Valor Christian. Gotta feel for those guys…

knoxville catholic with be the best team coming out of Tennessee and tn best chance of sending someone to nxn. they have Keegan Smith that went 14:39 last year and radek who will go under 15 this year. there 3 through 5 also was under 16:30 and how they have been running for track they also all should go under 16. there also getting pretty much all the good kids in the class of 2028 which is not as strong as past class like the 25 and 26 class but will get a sub 4:40 miler from a school with bad tranning so the coach should be able to whip him into a contributer

I would agree about your assessment Jesuit OR has 5 sophomores under 9min in 3k and 2 who weren't in the top 7 last year who've made big leaps since xc. Franklin has a good 4 but not sure about 5 or 6 they may come around before xc I've heard they run a lot of miles not sure if it's true. Crater has 2 individuals who can make NXN but they are always deep.

Franklin returns 3 scorers from NXN and also a 10:07 2-mile sophomore and a 10:02 2-mile freshman.
So that’s a solid top 5 already.

Adding on some time after I went to double check:

Franklin: 3k/1500/800

8:26/4:02/1:58 Courcelle(11)

8:28/4:09 McEwan(11)

8:52/4:32/2:07 McQuillen(11)

9:24/4:32/2:19 Gallagher(9)

8:30/4:25 Marden(11)

8:33/4:35/2:16 Irvine(10)

Jesuit:

8:46/4:01/2:05 Wroblewski(10)

8:57/4:02/1:57 Williams(10)

9:26(3200)/4:07/2:03 Fleming(11)

8:57 & 9:36(3200)/4:14 Fletcher(10)

8:51/4:05/1:56 Welsh(10)

8:59/4:14/2:09 Donnelly (10)

4:03/1:55 Strub(11)-was top 7 xc this year

Crater:

8:09/3:50/1:54 Tostensen(11)

8:15/4:20(mile)/1:59 Kitchen(11)

8:58 & 9:39(3200)/4:07 Hokanson(11)

9:15/4:16/2:06 Shore(9)

9:16 & 9:49/4:16/1:59 Miracle(9)

9:174:16/2:03 Goode (11)

9:25 & 10:06/4:20/2:04 Headley(11)

And I screwed it up Franklin's last 2 guys were 9:30 & 9:33 whoops

You should convert to 1600/3200. Nobody else runs 3k / 1.5k

Yeah the second spot in the Southeast is up for grabs.

Belen Jesuit Prep is as close to a lock as there can be for the #1 spot in the Southeast.

o yeah metacon beat Keegan 3200 freshman record at arcadia