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Nike Cross Nationals NXN 2013

NXN winners and losers

NXN winners and losers

Dec 12, 2013 by Mitch Kastoff
NXN winners and losers
Who moved up or fell back the most at Nike Cross Nationals?
A statistical analysis of Portland Meadows



Over the past few years, we’ve heard some crazy-awesome pre-race coaching advice from around the world. Mind you, those two adjectives aren’t mutually exclusive.

When we were at Nike Cross Nationals last weekend, the talk of the town was was whether a team would (a) go out slow and pick people off or (b) try and control the race from the front. Since the snow had melted and Portland Meadows had avoided the Mud-polalypse, teams could employ whatever strategy they desired and not have to worry too much about the conditions.

Thanks to Sean Laughlin and the rest of the Record Timing staff, we can finally answer the question of “How did everyone’s race plan pan out at NXN?” We all know what each runner placed, but c’mon man, it’s about the journey and not the destination (seriously)!

Below, we’ve listed the splits for the boys and girls championship race at NXN. If you want to cut the chaff and just get the wheat, we’ve listed some winners and “losers” at the bottom of this article.

- Boys Individual NXN Championship Splits
- Girls Individual NXN Championship Splits

Before you just jump to net value section, we want to say something about why we waited a few days for these splits to be released. Since some teams had such a big swing in points from split to split -- like the Edina boys -- we wanted to see if each individual cog followed the wheel or if some knucklehead just forgot to tie his shoes at the start and ruined his team’s score for the first 2000m.

We looked at which runners either moved up or down at least 30 places. However, not everyone who moved backwards is included on our short list below. Some runners went out hard and progressively fell back while others went out hard and fell back to a consistent position. If they did the latter, we didn’t include them because they probably said something like, “Alright great I got out well... but I can’t hold this pace for another 4k.”

If you’re interested to see the specifics of everyone’s race and what really makes a team a national contender, check out our compiled splits courtesy of Record Timing.

Note: The numbers below are the total net movement of the runner from the first split to the finish, unless noted otherwise.

Boys
Girls
Movin' Up Fallin' Back Movin' Up Fallin' Back

Albert Meier = +85

Aidan Tooker = +32

Alec Thomas = +30

Andrew Quirk = +37

Benjamin Veatch = +63

Coleman Churitch = +58

Colter Blanchard = +39

Daniel Schuga = +61

David Ellenberger = +98

Estevan De La Rosa = +57

John Kemps = +48

Jonathan Shirley = +61

Josue Gonzalez = +63*

Kyle Thompson = +41

Logan Ramlet = +89

Mahmoud Moussa = +50

Mason Coppi = +87

Matt Lumbar = +107

Michael Buckley = +66

Michael Vitucci = +47

Muhammad Fazili = +54

Taylor Caldwell = +70

Zachary Alhambra = +95

Alexander Knapp = -56

Ben Barrett = -49

Benito Muniz = -51

Benjamin Petrella = -32

Caleb Thompson = -38

David Luna = -39

Evan Schulte = -46

Frankcois Llorens = -33

Frank Lara = -30

Jordan Bertrand = -49

Michael Cassidy = -51

Patrick Tucker = -97

Ricky Faure = -41

Seamus Collins = -41

Stokton Smith = -49

Tyler Spear = -57

Wesley Ward = -74

Bailey Ness = +68

Caroline Hardin = +42

Courtney Smith = +66

Danielle Jones = +31

Elly Deturris = +56

Erin Norton = +117

Madison McLellan = +41

Mary Abrmson = +50

McKenzie Yanez = +64

Meredith Smith = +38

Michaela Keller-Miller = +52

Olivia Young = +67

Sophia Tasselmyer = +31

Stephanie Gerland = +56

Abbey Ervin = -54

Brook Laskowsky = -72

Jenna Truedson = -51

Jessica Howe = -52

Megan Hasz = -41

Olivia Sargent = -77

Samantha Vetter = -81

* Gonzalez moved 63 spots from 1k to 3k.