The Boys Top 30, 11/3

This Week (Two Weeks Ago)

1 (1). Casey Clinger, senior, American Fork (Utah): Idle since the Utah state meet.

2 (2). Noah Affolder, senior, Carlisle (Pennsylvania): Can cap a great regular season at the Pennsylvania state meet on Saturday.

3 (5). Seth Hirsch, senior, Millard West (Nebraska): He torched the Nebraska state meet course record.

4 (3). Brodey Hasty, junior, Brentwood (Tennessee): Top runner in junior class has Tennessee state meet on Saturday.

5 (4). David Principe Jr, senior, La Salle (Rhode Island): The Rhode Island state championships are Sunday and New Englands are six days later on Nov. 12.

6 (13). Curtis Eckstein, senior, Oldenburg Academy (Indiana): If not for the wind, he might have gone sub-15 at LaVern Gibson.

7 (6). Cooper Teare, senior, St. Joseph Notre Dame (California): He won the boys D5 sweepstakes race at the Mt. SAC Invitational in 14:44.7.

8 (7). Noah Jacobs, senior, Corunna (Michigan): Hoping to go wire to wire in Michigan with state meet on Saturday.

9 (8). Reed Brown, senior, Southlake Carroll (Texas): Won another close battle with Alex Maier at regional meet.

10 (10). Finn Gessner, senior, Madison La Follette (Wisconsin): He defended his D1 title in Wisconsin running 22 seconds faster than last year.

11 (9). Luis Grijalva, senior, Armijo (California): He won the Monticello Empire League title.

12 (11). Sam Worley, senior, Comal Canyon (Texas): He won his regional meet to set up a showdown with Reed Brown at state.

13 (12). McKay Johns, senior, American Fork (Utah): He was only seven seconds behind Clinger at the Utah state meet.

14 (14). Joe Benson, senior, Timpanogos (Utah): He retained his Class 4A individual title in Utah.

15 (21). Alex Maier, sophomore, Flower Mound (Texas): He was hot on Reed Brown’s heels at regionals. 

16 (15). Michael Vernau, senior, Davis Sr (California): He won the Delta League title for the second year.

17 (16). Daniel Bernal, senior El Paso Eastwood (Texas): He was third at regionals behind Brown and Maier.

18 (17). Derick Peters, junior, West Central (South Dakota): He won the North Dakota state title.

19 (NR). Tanner Norman, senior, Classical Academy (Colorado): He won the 3A Colorado title with the fastest time at the state meet.

20 (18). Talon Hull, senior, Weber (Utah): He was third in the Utah Class 5A race.

21 (19). Waleed Suliman, senior, Douglas Freeman (Virginia): He won his conference meet in 15:18.

22 (20). Jack Aho, senior, Grayslake (Illinois): Primed to defend his Class 2A title in Illinois.

23 (22). Noah Carey, senior, Guilderland (New York): He won the Section 2 Suburban Council title.

24 (24). Chase Equall, senior, Bozeman (Montana): He won the Montana state title.

25 (NR). Hunter Moore, senior, Olentangy Orange (Ohio): He ran 15:28.5 to win his region title and beat Arjun Jha.

26 (25). Yacine Guermali, senior, Camas (Washington): He’s running great heading into the Washington state meet on Saturday.

27 (26). Ahmed Muhumed, senior, West Salem (Oregon): Looking for a repeat Class 6A title in Oregon.

28 (27). Taylor Vroon, senior, Brentwood (Tennessee): Tennessee state meet is Saturday.

29 (28). Nathan Henderson, senior, J.P. McCaskey (Pennsylvania): Second to Affolder at district meet.

30 (NR). Dylan Jacobs, junior, Carl Sandburg (Illinois): He won the 3A Marist Sectional.

Watch list – Tibebu Proctor WA, Danny Kilrea IL, Callum Bolger CA, Matt Grossman NJ, Connor Lane NC, Erik Gonzalez CA, Patrick Bose IA, Jacob McLeod GA, Patrick O’Brien NH, Marcelo Rocha MA, Zach Kreft OH, Arjun Jha OH, Mitchell Day MI, Joaquin Martinez de Pinillos CA, Seth Eliason MN, Soren Knudsen IL, Dalton Hengst MD, James Mwaura WA, Kashon Harrison NM, Jordan Lesansee NM, Patrick Parker UT, Nathan Lawler NY, Ryan Raff UT, Elliot Gindi NJ, Andy Monroe OR