Rough Order
1. Jamison Dale(sr)- Jones College Prep
2. Marcelo Burbano(sr)- Lane Tech
3. Luke O'Connor(sr)- Jones College Prep
4. Kirby Lawson(sr)-Jones College Prep
5. Logan Means(sr)- Whitney Young
6. Deivi Tahiraj(jr)- Mather
7. Jonathon Vara(jr)- Lane Tech
8. Kyle Maloney(so)- Jones College Prep
9. Taro Salinas(sr) - Whitney Young
10. Pavlo Hutsalyuk(so)- Lane Tech
11. Armando Rodriguez(sr)- Jones College Prep
12. Christian Badillo(so)- Lane Tech
13. Claudio Flores(jr)- Mather
14. Mansur Soleman(sr)- Lane Tech
15. Erik Diaz(sr)- Curie
16. Daniel Lorden(jr)- Jones College Prep
17. Michael Perez(jr)-Whitney Young
18. Kevin Johnson(jr)- Jones College Prep
19. David Schmieg(jr)- Lane Tech
20. Leonardo Flores(sr)- Kennedy
Others:
Jasper Acosta(sr)- Lincoln Park
Patrick Brennan(sr)- Norhthside Prep
Jeremy Rainey-Brown(sr)- Payton
Michael Stubna(jr)- Lincoln Park
Johnny Castillo(jr)- Jones College Prep
Jorge Reodriguez(jr)- Curie
Malik Lee(sr)- Brooks
Joshua Torres(sr)- Steinemtz
update:
This poll was written before the confirmed transfer of Peter Schaible from St. Rita to Jones College Prep. If I were to add him in there, I would rank Schaible somewhere in the top 10.
Umm...where's Pete Schaible? Isn't he transferring to Jones?
Posted by: Neil? | July 01, 2012 at 01:24 PM
Pavlo Hutsalyuk has not proved himself as a xc runner there a difference between track and xc
Posted by: lane | July 01, 2012 at 01:34 PM
It's a prediction... You can make a prediction based off of track times- maybe it'll be wrong, but it's still a valid thing to base a prediction on.
Posted by: Go CPS | July 01, 2012 at 02:11 PM
meh... not terribly bad predictions, but I would like to know why Means is ranked so far up there. That doesn't seem accurate to me.
Posted by: Based off Last XC | July 01, 2012 at 04:24 PM
Logan Means is an elite CPS distance runner. 1:57 half miler in track. He is also a very improved cross country runner. At last years class 3A cross country sectional he ran a 16:06. He was not too far behind from Lucas Beltran of Lane who ran a 15:50 and Aron Sebhat of Niles North who ran a 16:00. Means will be Whitney Young's #1 runner. He is much stronger and better than he was last year when he ran a 16:06. He can easily dip into the 15's. 5th is optimistic but not out of the question. At this point of the season, I would say a 5th-12th type ranking is about accurate. Keep in mind above rankings are a rough order not an exact ranking.
Posted by: ^ | July 01, 2012 at 07:38 PM
No way a healthy Deivi Tahiraj is going to beat a healthy Kyle Maloney. Maloney hasn't proved himself in XC yet, but his track success shows that with proper training, he can make top 5 in the city.
Posted by: KM | July 01, 2012 at 08:00 PM
1- Dale
2,3- Burbano or O'Connor; any order
4-6-
Lawson of JCP
Maloney of JCP
Means of WY
(any order)
7-12
Vara of Lane
Taro of WY
Armando Rodriguez of JCP
Devii of Mather
Badillo of Lane
(any order)
It is hard to determine where Pavlo can fit in all this. He has nun XC yet or anything above a mile yet.
It depends on how much distance ability he has in him. He could go as high as 4-6 or as low as 15-18.
David Schmieg is another one hard to rate.
Posted by: Other version | July 01, 2012 at 08:24 PM
^that doesn't make much sense to put Means in a group with Lawson...a guy who has run 4:32/9:40 and 15:35 down state in XC last year. Not to mention a guy who beat Means at City last year. No offense, but Means is not of that caliber.
Posted by: ^ | July 01, 2012 at 08:42 PM
Why is everyone so obsessed with trying to pinpoint where runners will fall. Everyone stop being anal and putting kids down. We'll see who is putting in the miles. It will be apparent in early September. Nothing is out of the question. There were many surprises over the past year for cps.
Posted by: Chill | July 01, 2012 at 10:00 PM
Lawson ran 16:01; Means ran 16:05 on same course same day of sectionals last year. Both ran at Niles West. Lawson ran at Fenton Sectional; Means ran at class 3A sectional.
We'll see how they run this fall.
Posted by: Other version | July 02, 2012 at 07:03 AM
Haha. Wrong. Fenton sectional was not at Niles West genius. Fenton was hosted AT Fenton this year. It was the new extra sectional they added. So it was not the same course. And Fenton is actually a notoriously slow course.
Posted by: ^ Wrong | July 02, 2012 at 08:14 AM
Fenton is a slow course, Jamieson Dale only ran a 1525 there I believe, and Haji barely broke 16.
Posted by: ^correct | July 02, 2012 at 02:07 PM
Your telling me Eric Diaz(curie) can beat Leonardo Flores(kennedy) no way. Leonardo was way up there at city and beat eric
Posted by: ,. | July 02, 2012 at 07:10 PM
Diaz's best 2 mile is 10:12; Flores is 10:37.
Diaz's best mile is 4:48. Flores is 4:55
Posted by: ^ | July 02, 2012 at 07:20 PM
Leonardos best 3mile time last season was 16:36 at state. Eric best 3mile is 17:00.
Posted by: 3mile stats | July 02, 2012 at 08:17 PM
Eric was injured last xc season. His three mile times should be tremendously better than Leonardos.
Posted by: :p | July 02, 2012 at 09:08 PM
Theres alotta good Freshman(now Sophmores) who can improve and make there schools varsity team(class of 2015)
1.)Kyle Maloney 16's Jones
2.)Christian Badillo 17's Lane
3.)Pavlo Hutsalyuk lane
4.)Catrell Colseon 18's Mather
5.)Wesley Chan 18's Payton
6.)Adrian Barientos 18's Hubbard
7.) Andrew Figueroa 18's Lane
8.)German Maga 19's King
All this was based on results i looked at from last years city xc
Posted by: Potential sophmores | July 02, 2012 at 09:23 PM
^Not a very good list considering you left off most of the kids from last year's freshmen city champion team. Including two additional freshmen from Jones who ran low 17's last year already...
Posted by: ^ | July 02, 2012 at 09:48 PM