Mountain Lakes and Shore Reg Lead the Girls Group 1 Preseason Composite Rankings

These rankings are created utilizing the database through weighted categories to take both the cross country season and past track season into account. The table will show you each team's highest category rank and lowest category rank as well as state that teams weakest section.

*These are not the site's subjective rankings!

If you pull up the XC Team Scores page, you'll see a new link to "Composite" scoring. This is a type of scoring that gives a team a rank on a number of different categories, with different weights on each:

  • XC 5K Team Rank (normal)
  • XC 5K 1-5 Split
  • XC 5K 1-5 Average
  • XC 5K 1-4 Rank (normal)
  • XC 5K 1-4 Split
  • XC 5K 1-4 Average
  • XC 5K 1-3 Split
  • XC 5K 1-2 Split
  • Outdoor 1600m Top 4 (normal)
  • Outdoor 1600m Top 4 Average
  • Outdoor 3200m Top 4 (normal)
  • Outdoor 3200m Top 4 Average

These still includes some of the variables such as what course difficulties bring, if outdoor programs didn't have at least four distance runners and so on but... in the same right it is interesting to look at!

Rank Team Score Highest Lowest Weakness
1 Mountain Lakes HS (NJ) 3.24 1 11 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:00.28)
2 Shore Reg. HS (NJ) 4.2 1 19 5000m 1-2 Gap (49.90)
3 Cresskill HS (NJ) 6.73 5 17 5000m 1-2 Gap (46.00)
4 Hasbrouck Hts. HS (NJ) 7.28 3 21 5000m 1-5 Gap (3:31.00)
5 Metuchen HS (NJ) 12.8 1 45 5000m 1-2 Gap (3:23.30)
6 South Hunterdon HS (NJ) 13.2 5 44 5000m 1-2 Gap (3:23.00)
7 Manville HS (NJ) 16 2 26 5000m 1-4 Average (23:21.97), Not Enough Data
8 Dunellen HS (NJ) 16.8 8 26 5000m 1-2 Gap (1:15.00)
9 North Warren HS (NJ) 18.6 1 9 5000m 1-2 Gap (23.53), Not Enough Data
10 Highland Pk. HS (NJ) 19.5 5 33 5000m 1-4 Average (24:08.22)
11 New Providence HS (NJ) 20 1 20 5000m 1-5 Gap (3:28.87), Not Enough Data
12 Haddon Twp HS (NJ) 21.4 2 28 5000m 1-3 Gap (2:09.09), Not Enough Data
13 Audubon HS (NJ) 22 6 37 5000m 1-4 Average (24:54.29)
14 Verona HS (NJ) 22.2 3 14 5000m 1-2 Gap (34.00), Not Enough Data
15 Kinnelon HS (NJ) 23.1 4 18 5000m 1-2 Gap (48.98), Not Enough Data
16 Buena Reg. HS (NJ) 26.4 6 40 5000m 1-3 Gap (3:09.82), Not Enough Data
17 Pitman HS (NJ) 26.5 13 18 --
18 Wallkill Valley HS (NJ) 27.8 10 38 5000m 1-2 Gap (2:00.50), Not Enough Data
19 Secaucus HS (NJ) 28.5 13 32 5000m 1-4 Gap (3:43.86), Not Enough Data
20 Overbrook HS (NJ) 28.7 5 27 5000m 1-4 Average (23:27.53), Not Enough Data
21 Jonathan Dayton HS (NJ) 30 9 28 5000m 1-4 Average (23:34.89), Not Enough Data
22 Palisades Park HS (NJ) 30.1 14 36 5000m 1-3 Gap (2:55.00), Not Enough Data
23 Bogota HS (NJ) 30.5 18 34 5000m 1-3 Gap (2:44.00), Not Enough Data
24 Middlesex HS (NJ) 31.3 12 49 5000m 1-2 Gap (5:32.00)
25 Saddle Brook HS (NJ) 31.3 16 33 5000m 1-4 Gap (3:48.00), Not Enough Data
26 Maple Shade HS (NJ) 31.7 1 30 5000m 1-4 Average (23:40.95), Not Enough Data
27 Pennsville HS (NJ) 32.4 19 41 5000m 1-3 Gap (3:18.76), Not Enough Data
28 Essex Co. V/T (NJ) 32.9 8 35 5000m Top 4, Not Enough Data
29 New Milford HS (NJ) 34.2 16 40 5000m 1-2 Gap (2:11.00), Not Enough Data
30 Kittatinny HS (NJ) 36.9 19 46 5000m 1-5 Gap (15:29.00), Not Enough Data
31 Woodstown HS (NJ) 37.2 24 45 5000m 1-4 Gap (5:38.01), Not Enough Data
32 Middle Twp. HS (NJ) 37.7 27 41 5000m 1-2 Gap (2:24.29), Not Enough Data
33 Leonia HS (NJ) 37.8 13 40 5000m Top 4, Not Enough Data
34 Cedar Grove HS (NJ) 38.1 23 47 5000m 1-2 Gap (3:45.00), Not Enough Data
35 Malcolm X Shabazz HS (NJ) 39.4 10 40 5000m 1-4 Average (25:24.38), Not Enough Data
36 Pompton Lakes HS (NJ) 39.9 31 44 5000m 1-3 Gap (4:00.26), Not Enough Data
37 Asbury Park HS (NJ) 40.4 7 45 5000m 1-4 Average (26:13.03), Not Enough Data
38 Hopatcong HS (NJ) 41.3 21 44 5000m 1-4 Gap (5:28.34), Not Enough Data
39 A P Schalick HS (NJ) 41.5 32 49 5000m 1-3 Gap (7:01.00), Not Enough Data
40 Lindenwold HS (NJ) 42.5 29 46 5000m 1-4 Gap (6:03.54), Not Enough Data
41 University HS (NJ) 47.6 45 50 --
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