The Meet of Champions at Big Spring High School has officially come to a close and, because RunHigh is pretty speedy when it comes to getting results up, we have results for you!
For those of you that are curious, below is the top 50 individuals and the top 10 teams with the team scores noted as well. You can access the entire set of results in the excel document from google docs that should be linked at the bottom of this post. If you are having trouble accessing these results, I suggest you go to me and not to RunHigh because … well … RunHigh has no idea that I did this.
So just to establish, these results are completely based on my own opinions. I used the state race as my primary ordering criteria, considering the merged results as part of the equation, but certainly not using the times as equivalent. I also referenced district results for the various districts, important invitationals, and my own general thoughts on how each runner would do considering their end of season momentum and their ability to perform on the Big Spring course.
I originally was going to put times into these results for fun, however, I quickly realized there would be roughly 5-10 people coming through a second once we got to certain middle sections of the race and that seemed a little silly and unrealistic, so I cut out the times. Hopefully this gives you an idea for how incredibly close some of these individual and team results were in my head.
Let me know your thoughts, here are the results and the link!
Like I said, this is completely made up from my own head and merely meant to be a fun, hypothetical exercise. I don’t/didn’t intend to hurt anyone’s feelings with this post and I hope that everyone can look at these results and understand that there are many interchangeable pieces at work here (I have made probably over 200 changes to the original version of this in the past week or so). No one should take this too seriously and anyone who is competing in this race at all has something to be proud of because they were selected to be in the first ever imaginary Meet of Champions.
Please share your thoughts in the comment section, I’d be curious to hear what people would change or suggest.
Also, if you have any thoughts on a real Meet of Champions that you would like to share please let me know either through the comments section or reaching out to me directly. I plan on trying to make a real one of these possible within the next couple years, but there is no chance of possibly achieving it without help and support from coaches/parents/athletes.
Maybe it will never work out, but I think it’s at least worth a shot.
As always, stay classy and keep train-ing hard.
I know, I’m hilarious.
Etrain, I suggest you go to this link and write to the piaa about this, from googling "piaa petition" it seems that you can petition the piaa to do something about a school, eligibility etc. We should do this with you as the spearhead.
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I think McDevitt is at least a top 15 guy. I don't understand why Seiger is so high up. Lapansky should be a little higher up as well. Dan green is higher than I thought he would be. Would a fully healthy Malvern squad take down NA? We'll never know the answer with Jaxson and josh being out for regionals
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't Josh running regionals? Injury?
DeleteI gave an edge to guys like Seiger who ran well at mid Penns this year (Seiger is the course record holder) maybe it was too much, but the course played a role
DeletePlacing the independent league guys was very tricky ... I won't pretend I'm confident in all of those placements ... McDevitt has had a fantastic season without a doubt
I was reading through this thinking how you didn't give great rating to some people who had great races at mid-penns
DeleteSince Jaxson got a stress fracture from over training, Josh's handlers are concerned about the same thing happening to him. Hence he is swimming this winter.
Delete^ he's probably swimming because with his brother out they can't field a big time DMR so why bother. Such a shame and most saw it coming.
DeleteYou guys realize that jaxson got injured from his fall at Carlisle.. I wouldn't exactly say that it resulted from over training
DeleteNot according to Josh Hoey who said a week ago that Jaxson is out indefinitely with a foot related injury. Look at the video from Carlise on penntrack, it simply passed out and fell.
DeletePlus Jaxson ran two more races 2 weeks after Carlisle. If he was hurt at Carlisle why would he run 2 more weeks and 2 more races?
DeleteI think Josh Hoey is way too high on this list. Yes he has shown great potential as a freshman but still, ranking him higher in the meet of champs than he finished at Paul Short? That seems a bit much. I would place him down around 45 closer to Arita. He only beat Arita by four seconds at Briarwood. Josh also lost to guys like Will Sponaugle, Eric Diestelow, Dan Quigley, and Kevin Lapsansky at Paul Short, and he also lost to Diestelow at Abington. His performance at Paul Short was obviously an off day, but when as he shown that he deserves top 30? With some of the losses he has had this year I just don't see it.
ReplyDeleteI see Paul Short as the outlier rather than a piece of evidence. He has run close to McDevitt basically every other race, including solid runs against Sappey and James ... Then, at independents version of states, josh was 2nd ahead of mcdevitt and Dahl and others, a great race ... I gave him credit for that and guessed he may be gaining momentum at the end of season ... Just one mans interpretation of course
DeleteI agree that Josh Hoey is ranked way to high. The kid is tough but you've got him like 30 spots to high. Plus neither of the Hoey brothers are running regionals. Jaxson is still injured and Josh is swimming in the winter. So I'm not sure how you could have Malvern so high.
DeleteI was actually at big spring yesterday (not for the mock meet of champs but for the ncaa mideast regional championships) and allegedly district 3 champs is moving to big spring? And states may follow? Can anyone confirm this?
ReplyDeleteAny PA alums run well at that meet?
DeleteD3 mideast is usually very well represented by some great pa alumni stories and this year was no exception
DeleteI may do a full post on this, but Logan Steiner, Alex Price, Nate Noll, Dillon Farrell and Jaryd Flank from PA all qualified for the national championships as individuals
A slew of alumni including Ernie Pitone, Will McDermott, Chris Garrity, and Mike Bilotta (all PCL) led Widener to it's first ever national championship, Pitone was second overall and was leading going into the last 400 but got outkicked but a great runner in Marquardt from haverford who ran 9:10ish in high school.
I always like seeing the local kids who are great success stories going toe to toe with these crazy highly recruited D1 talents that Haverford and Hopkins grab.
Missed PCL grad quadree counsel for widener as well
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