Last year's Central Region team champions and Group AAA state runners-up in Midlothian return a solid core of four runners back for the 2013 cross country season in the Hahn brothers Collin and Randy as well as Tommy Mulroy and Evan Benjamin.The Hahn brothers really came on strong in the track season and are looking to carry that momentum over to cross country, while Mulroy and Benjamin made great improvements last year to solidify the Midlothian program for the coming season. Their team and top runners should thrive in competing for championships in the new 4A classification with similar smaller schools from the old Group AAA classification and larger sized schools from the old Group AA classification.
We just developed a brand new number-cruncher, allowing us to do these rankings. The rather complicated algorithm takes into account both cross country and track seasons, based on various categories and weights. It even indicates what the computer believes the biggest weakness is at this point.
Teams that did not have much of a track season or did not have at least four of their top distance runners out for track may see their scores drop. However, teams that busted it and looked great this spring will show higher. Hopefully it is a good balance to predict who is strong coming in! It does not necessarily take into account any new freshman or transfers.
The score represents the team's weighted composite average rank across all categories. The "highest" column represents the highest ranking they received in a category, and conversely the lowest is the worst ranking they received in a category.
We'll publish the boys list next. Subscribers can see stuff like this all the time. We'll be locking this new feature--called composite team rankings (go to link to see more filters and classification/region/conference breakdown)--down very soon. You can use this tool, like all of our others, to crunch it by other parameters or by district/region/class/conference, etc. So many reasons to subscribe! And we'll keep developing more! So go ahead and subscribe now!
| Rank | Team | Score | Highest | Lowest | Weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James W. Robinson (VA) | 3.84 | 1 | 24 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (18.00) |
| 2 | Midlothian High School (VA) | 7.6 | 1 | 36 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (1:42.1) |
| 3 | Deep Run (VA) | 8.52 | 1 | 45 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (1:56.0) |
| 4 | Osbourn Park (VA) | 8.76 | 2 | 35 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (35.20) |
| 5 | Chantilly (VA) | 8.84 | 3 | 34 | 5000m 1-4 Gap (1:22.0) |
| 6 | Lake Braddock (VA) | 10.1 | 4 | 25 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (1:18.0) |
| 7 | Oakton (VA) | 10.4 | 3 | 34 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (34.70) |
| 8 | Patriot High School (VA) | 11.4 | 3 | 32 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (29.00) |
| 9 | Battlefield (VA) | 13.0 | 5 | 27 | 1600m 1-4 Average (4:40.2) |
| 10 | Maggie Walker (VA) | 14.5 | 10 | 40 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (46.90) |
| 11 | West Potomac (VA) | 14.8 | 12 | 22 | 5000m 1-4 Average (16:47.0) |
| 12 | Lafayette (VA) | 15.9 | 4 | 42 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (58.80) |
| 13 | Blacksburg High School (VA) | 17.6 | 4 | 43 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:22.0) |
| 14 | Ocean Lakes (VA) | 19.6 | 2 | 33 | 1600m Top 4 |
| 15 | D.S. Freeman (VA) | 20.1 | 7 | 32 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:00.0) |
| 16 | Manchester High School (VA) | 21.6 | 6 | 36 | 1600m 1-4 Average (4:45.0) |
| 17 | Lee-Davis (VA) | 22.0 | 12 | 41 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:19.6) |
| 18 | Veritas School (VA) | 22.2 | 1 | 33 | 3200m 1-4 Average (10:24.5) |
| 19 | Potomac Falls (VA) | 23.3 | 9 | 33 | 1600m 1-4 Average (4:43.5) |
| 20 | Albemarle (VA) | 23.8 | 7 | 48 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (2:12.0) |
| 21 | W.T. Woodson (VA) | 24 | 11 | 36 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:06.0) |
| 22 | Colonial Forge (VA) | 24.5 | 3 | 38 | 3200m 1-4 Average (10:30.1) |
| 23 | Forest Park (VA) | 24.9 | 10 | 46 | 5000m 1-4 Gap (1:51.0) |
| 24 | Fauquier (VA) | 25.0 | 2 | 38 | 1600m 1-4 Average (4:45.8) |
| 25 | Western Albemarle (VA) | 25.6 | 11 | 47 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:16.5) |
| 26 | Atlee (VA) | 26.4 | 16 | 50 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (2:32.3) |
| 27 | Washington-Lee High School (VA) | 26.5 | 7 | 46 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (1:08.0) |
| 28 | Millbrook (VA) | 26.6 | 1 | 49 | 1600m Top 4 |
| 29 | Landstown High School (VA) | 27.5 | 10 | 50 | 5000m Top 5 |
| 30 | West Springfield (VA) | 28.3 | 4 | 44 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:11.0) |
| 31 | Thomas Edison (VA) | 29.8 | 10 | 50 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (1:45.0) |
| 32 | Stafford High School (VA) | 30.6 | 12 | 47 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (1:08.6), Not Enough Data |
| 33 | Sherando (VA) | 30.8 | 20 | 39 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:08.5) |
| 34 | Dominion (VA) | 31.2 | 22 | 39 | 5000m 1-4 Gap (1:33.0) |
| 35 | Stone Bridge (VA) | 31.6 | 15 | 35 | 5000m 1-4 Gap (1:22.0), Not Enough Data |
| 36 | George C. Marshall (VA) | 31.9 | 19 | 50 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:52.0), Not Enough Data |
| 37 | Western Branch High School (VA) | 32.2 | 11 | 47 | 1600m Top 4 |
| 38 | John Handley (VA) | 33.2 | 14 | 29 | 5000m 1-5 Average (17:07.8), Not Enough Data |
| 39 | Hickory High School (VA) | 34.3 | 20 | 49 | 5000m 1-4 Gap (2:02.0) |
| 40 | South Lakes (VA) | 35.8 | 23 | 42 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:09.8) |
| 41 | Tuscarora High School (VA) (VA) | 36.0 | 26 | 50 | 3200m 1-4 Average (10:46.3) |
| 42 | Paul VI Catholic (VA) | 38 | 4 | 49 | 1600m 1-4 Average (4:47.1), Not Enough Data |
| 43 | Brooke Point (VA) | 38.0 | 33 | 45 | 5000m Top 4 |
| 44 | Loudoun County (VA) | 38.2 | 19 | 50 | 1600m 1-4 Average (4:48.3) |
| 45 | Brentsville District (VA) | 39.2 | 31 | 43 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (1:51.6) |
| 46 | Broad Run (VA) | 41.5 | 8 | 50 | 5000m 1-5 Average (17:29.2), Not Enough Data |
| 47 | Grassfield (VA) | 43 | 36 | 48 | 5000m Top 5 |
| 48 | South County High School (VA) | 43.2 | 31 | 46 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:31.4), Not Enough Data |