| 2007 Section Previews |
| Intro: |
2007 brings about some major changes in
MN cross country. First, the class of 2006 is gone.
Congratulations to them on their part in making MN
distance running so successful. I wish them well as they
continue to make us proud. Second, the section
realignments were far more major than they have been in
recent history. Although not the goal of the MSHSL, there
now appears to be more balance and more of the stronger
teams in the state will be able to compete another week.
The realignment list can be found here. This is written after
the first ratings were voted on by the coaches
association. Many voters provide a wide range of
opinions. Personally, I think that there are some teams
that received votes that shouldn't have. It would not be
appropriate for me to mention which ones, but I would
like to provide my short list of who I think was left out
of at least getting some mention: Eastview, Alexandria,
Andover, and White Bear Lake. What makes the ratings fun
is that they are opinions...........Let the racing begin!
With coaching
my own team, working all summer, getting this web site to
work and teaching a new subject this fall, I just don't
have time to do the section previews as I have done in
the past. I have just provided my own picks for each
section. Again, just an opinion. I hope everyone has a
great season. Don't forget to help me make the Schedule/Results page complete by
sending me information. Again, due to time, I request
only meets with at least some boys AA involvement.
Anything on raceberry I easily find, of
course.
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| 1AA |
J.
Schmidt's Picks for Top 5 Teams |
2006
Results 1
Lakeville South 78, 2 Winona 94, 3 Owatonna 134, 4
Zumbrota-Mazeppa 143, 5 Northfield 148, 6 Red Wing 151, 7
Lakeville North 159, 8 Hastings 197, 9 Century 212, 10
Faribault 272, 11 John Marshall 276, 12 Farmington 322,
13 Mayo 323, 14 Albert Lea 328, 15 Austin 368, 16
Dover-Eyota-StCharles 433 |
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1 Lakeville
North, 2 Lakeville South, 3 Owatonna, 4 Rochester
Century, 5 Rochester JM |
2006
Results 1 1 Elliott
Heath, 12 15:26 Winona 2 2 Paul Hilsen, 12 15:34
Lakeville South 3 3 Tyler King, 11 15:37 Lakeville North
4 4 Matt Yak, 12 15:57 Northfield 5 5 Travis Beniak, 11
15:59 Zumbrota-Mazeppa 6 6 Mohamed S. Farah, 12 16:02
Mayo 7 7 Kyle Buck, 12 16:04 Zumbrota-Mazeppa 8 8 Richie
Mark, 12 16:05 Red Wing 9 9 Matt Volz, 12 16:07 Lakeville
South 10 10 Andy Wendroth, 12 16:09 Zumbrota-Mazeppa 11
11 Shane Steele, 11 16:12 Century 12 12 Dylan Hauer, 12
16:21 Owatonna 13 13 Mitch Weegman, 12 16:23 Winona 14 14
Sam Betterly, 12 16:24 Northfield 15 15 Ethan Marquardt,
10 16:25 Albert Lea 16 16 Jacob Bastyr, 10 16:29 Owatonna
17 17 Mac Enderson, 9 16:33 Lakeville North 18 18 Jake
Womeldorf, 12 16:34 Northfield 19 19 Jimmy Backes, 12
16:36 Lakeville South 20 20 Alex Zeien, 11 16:36 Hastings
21 21 Jp Vaith, 12 16:37 Hastings 22 22 Kevin Ragborg, 12
16:38 Lakeville South 23 23 Jon-Michael Brandt, 9 16:41
Winona 24 24 Brian Wille, 11 16:44 Century 25 25 Dan
McAlpine, 11 16:46 Faribault |
| 2AA |
J.
Schmidt's Picks for Top 5 Teams |
2006
Results 1
Willmar 16, 2 Buffalo 114, 3 Hutchinson 127, 4 Chaska
130, 5 Mankato West 147, 6 Shakopee 171, 7 Waseca 185, 8
Mankato East 213, 9 Marshall 221, 10 Mound Westonka 236,
11 New Prague 243, 12 Prior Lake 265, 13 Minn Valley
Lutheran 401, 14 Dassel-Cokato 461, 15 Worthington 465,
16 Waconia 467 |
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1 Willmar, 2
Hutchinson, 3 Chaska, 4 Mankato West, 5 Buffalo |
2006
Results 1
1 Abdi Awale, 12 15:49.8 Willmar 2 2 Kaafi Adeys, 12
16:07.2 Willmar 3 3 Mahad Hassan, 10 16:09.5 Willmar 4 4
Mustafa Yusuf, 12 16:10.1 Willmar 5 5 Kyle Schmidt, 11
16:10.8 Hutchinson 6 6 Mohamed Bedel, 12 16:14.1 Willmar
7 7 Josh Myers, 12 16:37.4 Shakopee 8 8 Ben Rodriguez, 11
16:38.0 Buffalo 9 9 Pat Bigaouette, 11 16:38.4 Chaska 10
10 Keagan Marble, 12 16:44.5 Waseca 11 11 David Holmberg,
12 16:50.2 Mankato West 12 12 Zac Mellon, 10 16:53.1
Buffalo 13 13 Luke Sames, 11 16:54.4 Shakopee 14 14
Brandon Kingston, 10 17:02.5 Waseca 15 15 Andrew
Nicklawsky, 11 17:06.1 Willmar 16 16 Scott Boros, 12
17:10.5 Willmar 17 17 Joe Dykema, 11 17:12.7 Mankato West
18 18 Osman Jama, 12 17:13.2 Mankato East 19 19 Michael
Collins, 11 17:13.8 Hutchinson 20 20 Kyle Larson, 11
17:17.0 Chaska 21 21 Preston Tomlinson, 10 17:17.6 New
Prague 22 22 Tom Hall, 10 17:18.2 Mankato East 23 23
Aaron Umhoefer, 9 17:23.3 Mankato West 24 24 Nick
Lindstrom, 8 17:23.8 Shakopee 25 25 Connor Flynn, 12
17:25.3 Buffalo |
| 3AA |
J.
Schmidt's Picks for Top 5 Teams |
2006
Results 1
Eagan 76, 2 Henry Sibley 82, 3 St Thomas Academy 87, 4
Cretin-Derham Hall 92, 5 St Paul Central 149, 6 Highland
Park 150, 7 Simley 161, 8 Woodbury 172, 9 Park 231, 10
Tartan 288, 11 Como Park 309, 12 South St Paul 363, 13
Harding 367, 14 Humboldt 469, 15 Arlington Inc. |
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1 Rosemount, 2
Eastview, 3 Apple Valley, 4 St. Thomas Academy, 5 Eagan |
2006
Results 1
1 Jonathan Stublaski, 12 15:59.9 Henry Sibley 2 2 Nick
Saucedo, 12 16:13.1 Henry Sibley 3 3 Danny Docherty, 11
16:40.3 Cretin-Derham Hall 4 4 Noah DeLong, 12 16:54.5 St
Paul Central 5 5 Mike Callan, 11 16:58.2 Park 6 6 Harry
Backlund, 12 16:59.0 Highland Park 7 7 Mark Sinclair, 11
17:20.7 Eagan 8 8 David Jorgensen, 12 17:21.0 Woodbury 9
9 Adam Wetschka, 12 17:23.8 Cretin-Derham Hall 10 10
Chris Schmitz, 11 17:24.5 Eagan 11 11 Paul Milner, 12
17:30.1 St Thomas Academy 12 12 Bobby Vyvyan, 12 17:31.5
Eagan 13 13 mitch toborg, 12 17:36.2 Simley 14 14 Jeremy
Bender, 12 17:37.2 Highland Park 15 15 Roberto Caballero,
12 17:39.4 Como Park 16 16 Mike Farley, 10 17:42.6 St
Thomas Academy 17 17 Brian Anderson, 9 17:44.0 St Thomas
Academy 18 18 Josh Eide, 10 17:44.1 Henry Sibley 19 19
Max Casper, 11 17:50.0 St Thomas Academy 20 20 Tyler
Stevenson, 11 17:51.7 Cretin-Derham Hall 21 21 Justin
Caron, 10 17:57.8 Cretin-Derham Hall 22 22 Brent Vyvyan,
12 17:58.9 Eagan 23 23 Colin Madsen, 12 18:02.9 Tartan 24
24 Doug Gavic, 12 18:03.3 St Thomas Academy 25 25 Mitch
Nass, 10 18:04.4 Eagan |
| 4AA |
J.
Schmidt's Picks for Top 5 Teams |
2006
Results 1
Stillwater 70, 2 Mounds View 75, 3 Roseville Area 77, 4
Andover 115, 5 Forest Lake 196, 6 Spring Lake Park/St.
203, 7 North 205, 8 White Bear Lake 219, 9 Hill-Murray
259, 10 Coon Rapids 262, 11 Mahtomedi 296, 12 Centennial
301, 13 Irondale 304, 14 Blaine 338, 15 Champlin Park
434, 16 Anoka 459 |
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1 Stillwater, 2
Roseville, 3 White Bear Lake, 4 Cretin DH, 5 Mahtomedi |
2006
Results 11
1 Ben Blankenship, 12 15:58.2 Stillwater 2 2 Mike Howard,
12 16:22.7 North 3 3 John Holt, 10 16:25.4 Roseville Area
4 4 Andrew Hoffmann, 11 16:26.3 Spring Lake Park/St. 5 5
Ellis Richardson, 11 16:27.7 Roseville Area 6 6 Ryan
Evans, 10 16:30.0 Centennial 7 7 Luke Toso, 12 16:31.8
Roseville Area 8 8 Adam Schmidt, 10 16:32.0 Andover 9 9
Ryan Baumgartner, 11 16:32.3 Blaine 10 10 Alex Wrobel, 12
16:32.3 Mounds View 11 11 Wade Hassel, 12 16:32.7 Mounds
View 12 12 Jeff Lee, 11 16:40.2 Stillwater 13 13 Matt
Rengo, 12 16:44.0 Spring Lake Park/St. 14 14 Bryan
Jamieson, 12 16:44.3 Hill-Murray 15 15 Raleigh Morgan, 11
16:45.9 Mounds View 16 16 Spencer Siddons, 11 16:49.8
Andover 17 17 Mike Shellendich, 12 16:50.3 Mounds View 18
18 Rio Bailey, 10 16:52.8 Stillwater 19 19 Peter
Corcoran, 11 16:53.1 Stillwater 20 20 Josh Kaul, 11
16:56.2 Stillwater 21 21 Ben Brodin, 11 16:58.2 Forest
Lake 22 22 Nate Hopkins, 11 17:00.1 Mounds View 23 23
Shamus O'Grady, 11 17:00.4 Coon Rapids 24 24 Kyle
Neumann, 12 17:01.7 Andover 25 25 Gary O'Leary, 12
17:05.5 North |
| 5AA |
J.
Schmidt's Picks for Top 5 Teams |
2006
Result 1
Robbinsdale Armstrong 59, 2 Osseo 63, 3 Benilde St
Margaret's 67, 4 Park Center 89, 5 Minneapolis South 103,
6 Robbinsdale Cooper 163, 7 Maple Grove 174, 8 Fridley
175, 9 Totino-Grace 259, 10 Minneapolis Edison 293, 11/12
Minneapolis Washburn, Minneapolis Henry Inc. |
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1 Mounds View, 2
Andover, 3 Osseo, 4 Coon Rapids, 5 Centennial |
2006
Results 1 1 Hassan
Mead, 12 15:28.7 Minneapolis South 2 Pieter Gagnon, 11
16:02.4 Minneapolis Washburn 3 2 Andrew Quinn, 12 16:07.0
Benilde St Margaret's 4 3 Robel Kebede, 10 16:13.3
Minneapolis South 5 4 Josh Letofsky, 12 16:13.8 Osseo 6 5
Brandon Lewis, 12 16:18.9 Robbinsdale Armstrong 7 6 Aaron
Gorman, 12 16:24.1 Park Center 8 7 Emmu Wakai, 9 16:28.5
Robbinsdale Armstrong 9 8 Pat Brown, 12 16:34.3 Benilde
St Margaret's 10 9 Andy Hawkinson, 12 16:37.9 Osseo 11 10
Charlie Lapham, 11 16:39.9 Robbinsdale Armstrong 12 11
Max Robinson, 11 16:41.0 Osseo 13 12 Jason Unold, 9
16:45.0 Osseo 14 13 Mark Miller, 12 16:46.9 Benilde St
Margaret's 15 14 Nate Wallace, 12 16:49.2 Park Center 16
15 Adam DePaolis, 10 16:53.4 Robbinsdale Armstrong 17
Jake Senn, 12 16:58.6 Minneapolis Washburn 18 16 Alex
Vosberg, 12 17:02.9 Park Center 19 17 Robert Kostick, 10
17:04.2 Fridley 20 18 Peter Straight, 12 17:04.8
Robbinsdale Cooper 21 19 Mubarik Musa, 7 17:08.2 Park
Center 22 20 Anwar Abda, 10 17:08.4 Fridley 23 21 Matt
Oestreich, 10 17:09.8 Benilde St Margaret's 24 22
Christian Labissoniere, 11 17:10.4 Robbinsdale Armstrong
25 23 Pat Geiwitz, 12 17:14.0 Benilde St Margaret's |
| 6AA |
J.
Schmidt's Picks for Top Teams |
2006
Results 1 Eden
Prairie 74, 2 Rosemount 76, 3 Wayzata 85, 4 Hopkins 115,
5 Edina 126, 6 Burnsville 135, 7 Apple Valley 185, 8
Minnetonka 195, 9 Eastview 212, 10 Minneapolis Southwest
281, 11 St. Louis Park 348, 12 Richfield 358, 13 Academy
of HolyAngels 362, 14 Bloomington Jefferson 424, 15
Bloomington Kennedy 449, 16 Orono 458 |
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1 Wayzata, 2
Robbinsdale Armstrong, 3 Edina, 4 Eden Prairie, 5
Minnetonka |
2006
Results 1
1 Ryan Little, 12 15:35.5 Eden Prairie 2 2 T C Lumbar, 12
15:40.0 Edina 3 3 Tom Burke, 12 15:40.8 Edina 4 4 Jackson
Wiley, 12 15:45.4 Eden Prairie 5 5 Rob Finnerty, 11
15:49.8 Burnsville 6 6 Jordan Carlson, 11 16:02.4
Rosemount 7 7 Chip Sandahl, 12 16:11.6 Burnsville 8 8
Doug DeBold, 12 16:13.1 Hopkins 9 9 Jon Lambert, 12
16:15.9 Wayzata 10 10 Travis Burkstrand, 11 16:20.0
Eastview 11 11 Obai Hussein, 11 16:27.1 Rosemount 12 12
John Davis, 12 16:29.6 Eden Prairie 13 13 Tim Kojetin, 11
16:30.1 Rosemount 14 14 Mike Bumgarner, 12 16:31.9
Rosemount 15 15 Isaac Fitzsimmons, 12 16:32.6 Eden
Prairie 16 16 Jeremy Drenckhahn, 10 16:34.3 Wayzata 17 17
Peter Holmes, 11 16:34.7 Wayzata 18 18 Danny Ducharme, 10
16:36.5 Wayzata 19 19 Chris Wilson, 12 16:39.2
Minneapolis Southwest 20 20 Michael Mueller, 12 16:43.8
Hopkins 21 21 Ben Englund, 12 16:47.6 Minnetonka 22 22
Joe Wells, 11 16:50.1 Minneapolis Southwest 23 23 D J
Lemmage, 12 16:50.5 Apple Valley 24 24 Dan Grannes, 12
16:51.7 Apple Valley 25 25 Mason Bacso, 12 16:54.6
Wayzata |
| 7AA |
J.
Schmidt's Picks for Top 5 Teams |
12006
Results 1 North Branch 70, 2 Duluth East 74, 3
St. Michael-Albertville 99, 4 Hibbing 151, 5 Hermantown
160, 6 Duluth Central 190, 7 Rogers 195, 8 Elk River 204,
9 Monticello 216, 10 St. Francis 288, 11 Chisago Lakes
295, 12 Big Lake 305, 13 Cloquet 306, 14 Cambridge-Isanti
320, 15 Duluth Denfeld 345, 16 Princeton 361 |
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1 Forest Lake, 2
Hibbing, 3 Elk River, 4 Duluth East, 5 St. Francis |
2006
Results 1
1 Nick Ramberg, 12 16:53.2 North Branch 2 2 Erik Johnson,
12 16:57.3 Duluth East 3 3 Jeremy Kuhn, 12 17:00.8 St.
Michael-Albertvil 4 4 Luke Albares, 11 17:03.5 Monticello
5 5 Dylan King, 12 17:04.1 Princeton 6 6 Nick Nygaard, 11
17:04.9 St. Michael-Albertvil 7 7 Zach Hunter, 12 17:05.7
Chisago Lakes 8 8 Scott Behling, 11 17:09.7 Duluth East 9
9 Neil Albares, 12 17:10.3 Monticello 10 10 Joe Fisketti,
12 17:12.9 Duluth Central 11 11 James Goodenberger, 12
17:15.4 Duluth East 12 12 Jj Koerber, 12 17:15.9 North
Branch 13 13 Ryan Norman, 10 17:16.3 North Branch 14 14
Joe Vasseur, 11 17:16.3 Rogers 15 15 Reilly Dougherty, 11
17:21.3 Hibbing 16 16 Brian Kraml, 12 17:23.8 Hermantown
17 17 Mike Heidelberger, 10 17:30.8 North Branch 18 18
Randall Cottrell, 12 17:30.9 Hermantown 19 19 Andy
Wentzel, 10 17:32.7 Rogers 20 20 Sam Greeno, 11 17:32.8
St. Michael-Albertvil 21 21 Grant Cook, 11 17:38.7 Duluth
East 22 22 Carl Salonek, 10 17:38.9 St. Michael-Albertvil
23 23 Josh Johnson, 11 17:41.1 Monticello 24 24 Josh
Swanson, 11 17:42.7 Hibbing 25 25 Sam Saccoman, 9 17:45.6
Hibbing |
| 8AA |
J.
Schmidt's Picks for Top 5 Teams |
2006
Results 1 Brainerd
42, 2 Alexandria 54, 3 Moorhead 57, 4 Bemidji 113, 5
Grand Rapids 186, 6 Sartell 188, 7 Sauk Rapids-Rice 229,
8 Rocori 229, 9 Detroit Lakes 235, 10 Fergus Falls 284,
11 Little Falls 292, 12 St. Cloud Tech 330, 13 St. Cloud
Apollo 345, 14 Becker 399, 15 Thief River Falls 469 |
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1 Brainerd, 2
Moorhead, 3 Alexandria, 4 Bemidji, 5 St.
Michael-Albertville |
2006
Results 1
1 Justin Tyner, 12 16:19.7 Brainerd 2 2 Tyler Iverson, 11
16:28.4 Moorhead 3 3 Drew Paradis, 10 16:34.3 Alexandria
4 4 Ben Wilson, 12 16:39.1 Alexandria 5 5 Nick Jamnick,
12 16:41.6 Becker 6 6 Thomas Ruttger, 10 16:48.4 Brainerd
7 7 Adam Noll, 12 16:48.4 Alexandria 8 8 Tyler Rose, 11
16:51.5 Brainerd 9 9 Pat Richie, 10 16:58.9 Grand Rapids
10 10 Jakob Lindaas, 10 16:59.6 Moorhead 11 11 Derek
Smith, 12 17:06.3 Bemidji 12 12 Mitch Lorenz, 11 17:10.0
Brainerd 13 13 Paul Lillehaugen, 12 17:10.3 Moorhead 14
14 Tom Sederquist, 12 17:14.1 Moorhead 15 15 Luke
Delaney, 11 17:17.9 Brainerd 16 16 Josh Hobbs, 10 17:21.4
Alexandria 17 17 Manske Waylon, 12 17:21.9 Bemidji 18 18
Lukas Gemar, 8 17:23.5 Moorhead 19 19 Grant Gibeau, 12
17:25.0 Grand Rapids 20 20 Russ Klever, 10 17:28.7
Sartell 21 21 Timothy Lillehaugen, 10 17:28.8 Moorhead 22
22 Matt Scherber, 10 17:29.2 Sartell 23 23 Erik Hanson,
12 17:31.0 Moorhead 24 24 Jake Sieve, 12 17:31.4
Alexandria 25 25 Truedson Erik, 10 17:32.4 Bemidji |