A few Ivy programs have announced incoming recruiting classes in the last few weeks.
I thought these might be of interest to future recruits.
Keep in mind these marks are PBs after senior season.
I’ll post more as they hit my radar, or others can do so.
Appreciate you.
Amazing how much the standards have moved the past few years. Used to be if a girl ran 2:12, they’d be looking pretty good. Now, notsomuch. 58-point in the intermediates? Good Lord.
Yep, HS times have dropped across the board for sure. I think some of that is the shoes but there’s probably more to it than just that.
My son thinks that during covid HS distance runners started watching what other HS runners were doing on strava, and it created a feedback loop. As a result HS training got ramped up much closer to college levels of training and HS times got faster.
The shoes definitely help, too.
I agree, the training has changed quite a bit in the last few years just based on what I’ve seen kids doing. I hadn’t made the Strava connection but that makes sense to me. What I saw in my area, too, was that kids had much longer periods of uninterrupted training than in the past when their year was carved up by long competitive seasons. It seemed to allow for more and better training and recovery. I think some coaches might’ve learned lessons from that, which they stuck with post-Covid.
Dartmouth men and women are announced on their IG page
Cornell announcements on their IG page:
Brown announced their incoming XC class last week on IG
Terrific. They’re getting better…