The Top 30 Boys, 9/24/15

This Week/(Preseason)

1 (1). Drew Hunter, senior, Loudoun Valley (Virginia): Ran 15:12 in opener at Oatlands Invitational.   

2 (2). Austin Tamagno, senior, Brea Olinda (California): Idle.   

3 (3). Carter Blunt, senior, Frisco Independence (Texas): Ran 15:00 at the Marcus I Invitational

4 (4). Ben Veatch, senior, Carmel (Indiana): Ran 15:04 to win at the Trinity Valkyrie Invitational

5 (31). Andrew Jordan, senior, Watkins Memorial (Ohio): Has multiple sub-15 5Ks already, including 14:44 at Galion

6 (38). Garek Bielaczyc, senior, East (Utah):He's been on fire early in the season in Utah

7 (5). Casey Clinger, junior, American Fork (Utah): Ran 15:05 at the Viking Invitational

8 (12). Jon Davis, senior, Oakwood (Illinois): Big win at Richard Spring has him gunning for a special year in Illinois.  

9 (6). Blaise Ferro, senior, CBA (New Jersey): Idle 

10 (7). Paul Roberts, senior, Lyons (Colorado): Won the St. Vrain Invitational for the second straight year  

11 (8). Aidan Tooker, senior, Saratoga Springs (New York): Won the Ed Springstead Invitational

12 (9). Jack Salisbury, senior, La Salle (Rhode Island): Idle

13 (10). Phillip Rocha, senior, Arcadia (California): Won Pacific League opener in 14:59 in season debut

14 (11). Jake Brophy, senior, Central Bucks East (Pennsylvania): Won the Briarwood Invitational

15 (15). Jaret Carpenter, senior, Wayzata (Minnesota): Won the Columbus Catholic Invitational

16 (16). David Principe Jr, junior, La Salle (Rhode Island): Won the Injury Fund meet, dipping under 15 minutes

17 (32). Ben Petrella, senior, Liverpool (New York): NXN 19th place, Won the Verona-Vernon-Sherrill Invitational

18 (37). Matt Bouthilette, senior, La Salle (Rhode Island): Right with Principe at Injury Fund

19 (19). Peter Ryan, senior, Fayetteville-Manlius (New York): Idle

20 (20). Conor Lundy, senior, Fordham Prep (New York): Idle

21 (13). Alek Parsons, senior, Ogden (Utah): NXN 22nd place, NXN Southwest 6th place, Utah Class 4A 3rd place

22 (23). Nick Dahl, junior, Germantown Friends (Pennsylvania): Won the George School Invitational

23 (17). Kenny Vasbinder, senior, East Aurora (New York): Won his section at the Crusader Challenge

24 (21). Jack Yearian, senior, Bellarmine Prep (Washington): Not much to show yet

25 (14). Michael Slagowski, senior, Rocky Mountain (Idaho): Slow start so far, big weekend ahead in Portland

26 (96). Spencer Dodds, senior, Great Oak (California): Won the Woodbridge Sweepstakes race after prevailing in seeded race at Cool Breeze

27 (NR): Connor Lane, junior, Cardinal Gibbons (North Carolina): Huge improvement from one year to the next at the adidas XC Invitational

28 (24). Eric Van der Els, senior, Brien McMahon (Connecticut): Won the Wilton Invitational

29 (26). Reed Brown, junior, Southlake Carroll (Texas): Second at the Marcus I Invitational behind Blunt

30 (43). Irwin Loud, junior, Oak Park-River Forest (Illinois): Second-fastest time (14:20) at Detweiler Park so far

On the bubble -- Steven Cross FL, David Strome TX, Noah Affolder NY, Justin Janke WA, Kevin Salvano IL, Andrew Burkhardt CA, Eric Walz MD, Tyler Janes CA, Isaac Green CO, Brody Smith WY, Jordan Lesansee NM, Chris Henry WY, Ben Dingman CO