Following Week of Saturday, November 28
It's
been another banner year for New York cross country, and now it's all
over but for the shouting at NXN and Footlocker Nationals where the
state will be well represented. Fayetteville-Manlius and Saratoga
maintained their familiar places in the top regions of the state and
nation, and a newly emerging North Rockland team rocketed up to take a
ride to Portland. The NY contingent for Footlocker has returned to a
stellar group as Jessica Lawson, Sage Hurta, and Kathryn Munks locked up
spots in San Diego last weekend. Should be some great times to come.
The
rundown on the champions this year was: States A: Fayetteville-Manlus
and Claire Walters, States B: John Jay-Cross River and North Shore's
Diana Vizza, States C: East Aurora and Sophia Tasselmyer, States D:
Greenwich and Hamilton's Sage Hurta, CHSAA: Notre Dame and Sydney Rice,
PSAL: Brooklyn Tech and Dewitt Clinton's Aaliyah Regg Wajid, AIS: Hackley
and Julia Stevenson, Federation: Saratoga and Corning's Jessica Lawson, NXN-NY:
Fayetteville-Manlius and Kaitlyn Neal.
The rankings expand
hugely for the final edition of the year, as 50 teams for A, 40 teams
for B and C, and 25 teams for D get to strut their credentials after
putting their products altogether for the sectional qualifiers in early
November. Teams do sometimes switch around placements between States,
Federation, and NXN-NY meets, which leaves some good stuff to argue
about for the rankings. And there were quite a few teams that were
missing one or two top runners in their final race, and that factors
into many huge drops in the rankings from the previous edition. For the
most part, the rankings are based pretty strictly on a team's final race
as a fair way to judge each of the teams from all the sections and
conferences. So if you were missing your frontrunner and finished well
back in your qualifier race, you also fell back a ways in the rankings. But not to worry, the
track seasons are upcoming and there are plenty of opportunities to
prove you really are the best.
Cheers until the next truly stupendous XC season.
