2008 Boys AAA XC State Finals - Illinois

[hardcorefan343]

how do you qualify for state individually??

[rutabega234]

That was a FAST race... In AL where I am, the fastest state time was a 15:30... 

[Mrod1791]

@rutabega234 Illinois is 3 mile. AL is probably 5 kilometer

[LlamaYip]

This was back when Nico had hair.

[hibbitish]

Yeah, but York lost by a point, and they will lose this year as well

[BFXT1028]

@hibbitish ya but this year was a bad year for york, and they were ranked 11th in the nation. My school had a bad year and we dropped out of top 50. We are like 33rd now

[hibbitish]

Next year will be an interesting year with York coming back strong and teams like OPRF losing almost no one in their top 7.

[23shoopdogg]

York doing work like always

[hibbitish]

Hopefully this year will be just as exciting for the team race. No one can really compete with Verzbicas

[thISxTHplacE]

yeah. but the rest of Sandberg is another story....

[hibbitish]

Yeah, how are they?

[thISxTHplacE]

they didn't even finish in the top ten, with Lukas' first place finish.

[hibbitish]

Well in Illinois, it's almost impossible to have two runners in the top ten. If you have a top runner, and then a pack not far behind, you win. That's what NV did.

[thISxTHplacE]

That's sooo true.

The top ten were like all different teams.

There might have been two from york, though.

And I think you misunderstood - I meant their team as a whole didn't finish in the top ten, not just individually.

[tyler0594]

thanks for putting this up. i went to conant with jeff and it was amazing to see him win this.

[donotstab]

this was a 5k in 14:30??? is there no hills or somthing???

[Raulaka13]

yeah, i was impresed that they ran a 14:30, thats really really fast, the fastest one in texas AA state championships was a 15:23

[thISxTHplacE]

wait...for state? Illinois' top twenty five finished at or before 15 flat.

[Raulaka13]

yea but it was AA division, i dnt know the results for da rest of the divisions (remember that there are categories from 1A to 5A)

[thISxTHplacE]

ooh I see. Is that in Texas? Cuz I think that there it only goes up to 3A in Illinois.

[CrazyCubsfan11]

@thISxTHplacE no its in illinois

[bulgaboi]

about 300

[bulgaboi]

i know a couple people that ran this race, jeff thode ran high 13 to low 14

[kcbros151]

how many runners were in this race?

[SteadyEddyyy]

Thode ran 14:17 or 14:18

[JoHnStUmP]

times?