Post your thoughts weekly about the landscape of Illinois' Cross Country and Track & Field
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Does anyone else get a little down after all the excitement during the build-up for State? It gets dark early, (generally) the team is done with day-to-day practices and meets, and some have moved on to winter sports. As a longtime CC coach, I find this week always a little sad, for me.
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What are we most excited for this upcoming weekend?
On the girls 3A side : 1) Busse Woods; THE top three teams in the state battling it out. 2) Lake Park: 10 ranked teams competing. I'm a T&F fan but I'M even excited to see what happens these next two weeks
Unfortunetly it looks like Mia isnt running this week or next which will shake things up a bit at the top.
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Any thoughts on Palatine yesterday? Bright skies led to some carnage in the varsity races.
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Give your thoughts on the Team Rankings for this week!
https://www.illinoisrunningnews.com/post/2025-xc-team-rankings-week-4
A lot of movement from the previous week. Especially The Knights who's freshman haven't run in a varsity event yet. It'll intersting to see what happns when Wint decides to make the move.
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Drew Rogers, Liam Newhart, Ryan Watts, or Micah Wilson come to mind for me.
Micah Wilson looks the best right now but would love to see Ryan Watts have a great year at Iowa St and take home a national title!
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Fast times at Detweiller Park. 37 runners under 15:00 is insane for a regular season Peoria Meet. Big team wins for both Lane Tech boys and Hersey girls. Prospect girls looked amazing if you add the freshman. Post your thoughts below
PND boys looked phenomenal taking down 2A #1 Mahomet-Seymour. Max Kirby had himself a day running 14:29 to break Adam White's school record by 2s. The 2-5 runners had just a 14s split (15:23-15:37) which bodes well for November. Perhaps the biggest surprise was Dax Duffy who was the fifth man in 15:37 coming off injury. Expect him to be closer to 15:00 within the next few weeks.
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Looking forward to chatting with everyone!
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Did anyone else notice that IHSA posted the assignments to their old site on Thursday before taking them down and putting them up on the new site on Friday?
Anyways. Post your complaints about assignments here.
Batavia is now hosting the previously TBA Regional that feeds into the Lake Park Sectional. With them hosting it at the Settlers Hill course there's now two regionals from the same sectional running at that course. Has that ever happened before? The only other times I can think of where a Regional or Sectional hosted two meets on the same day were when they were in different classes.
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Once a keeper of splits, where the miles reside,
Now he charts his own course with a pen as his guide.
Breaking from empires to build something new,
A forum, a voice, for the old and the true.
He tracks every race, every runner’s scenario, Who else could it be but ______ ________ ?
I feel the same! I miss seeing the kids everyday and now that I am retired I don't see them in the school either.