Preseason Countdown: Boys' Individual #3


Rocking a 15:17 and 4:09 indoor Mile best, Sam Affolder enters the season as our highest ranked junior and our newest member to Team VA. Moving here from New York via a year in Pennsylvania is Affolder who will be the newest cog in the Loudoun Valley machine. Affolder also enters the season ranked #15 in MileSplit's national Flo50 rankings. 

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Based on times alone you can learn a lot about Sam and his abilities. You see he is fast and even stronger as the distance goes on. He has run 4:09 for the full Mile, 9:02 for 3200m, and 15:17 for 5K thru his sophomore year. Those times may be fast but it looks like they are just the start for this now junior. 

Using MileStat's compare athlete function, you can actually see that Sam is ahead of pace in numerous events from where Drew Hunter was at the same time and Sam has a huge advantage. This time around Loudoun Valley knows exactly how to train an athlete of that level and have enough talent on their team to provide multiple training partners for everyone.

Having four or five sub 16 minute training partners and potentially two other guys on your team under 15:00 in the 5K is indescribably beneficial. For those reasons and the fact that Sam Affolder is already a Foot Locker national finalist, we are ranking him third in our preseason rankings.