2012 Boys Cross Country
Letter Policy & Points
 MS Letter
In the past years our team has had a policy that we only letter the top 7 runners.  This policy was put in place using the logic that a varsity team consists of 7 runners.  A team can only enter 7 runners in regional and only 7 runners can represent the team in most meets where they have a separate varsity race.  When we had 8 to 12 runners on the team this policy was very appropriate.  As our team improves, it becomes increasingly harder to be in the top 7 runners.  A runner on a good team may not actually be in the top 7 of our team when in past years they could have been.  Along those same limes, if our team is especially strong, our runners who are not in the top 7 would actually be in the top 7 of another school's team and have been a varsity letter winner at that school.  To account for these factors, we have tried to use a letter system that seems to be the most fair system I have seen.  We borrowed this concept from St. Joseph-Ogden's cross country team that has one of the longest winning streaks in IHSA history.  SJO found that some years they lettered around 7 runners.  In their more competive years, they tended to letter more runners.

Our runner will earn a letter if they earn a total of 20 or more varsity points in one season.
A runner earns 1 point for each number 5 runner they beat from another teams.  They can only earn a maximum of 1 point  for each opposing team.
If the competitor's team has fewer than 5 runners, our runner earns 1 point if they beat their slowest runner.
If we run our runners in a fresh/soph race, we will compare their time to the varsity race on that same day.
The logic behind this system is that our runners would be not only varsity for another school on that day, but also would be in their top 5 runners and also be a point earner for their team.

2012 Letter Points
The following are the amount of points earned in each of the meets this year.

 Ch
 Spr
 ND
 EP
 Me
 Con
 Reg
 Sec
 St
Bobby Butler
 9
 15
 0
 16
 19
 5 -
 -
 -
 64
Matthew Chupp
 10
 15
 22 16 22 6 8 20 - 119
Jonathan Schaap
 11
 19
 65 18 26 7 8 20 - 174
John Williams
 0
 2
 0 0 0 0 - - - 2
Kyle Appelquist
 9
 0
 0 4 6 4 - - - 23
Chris Carlton
 11
 15
 34 17 22 5 - - - 104
Nathaniel Cebulski
 4
 10
 9 6 6 1 - - - 36
Jeff Coburn
 0 0
 7 6 6 1 - - - 20
Curt Kupferschmid
 4 15 22 13 21 6 - - - 81
Daniel Middendorf
 4 13 9 7 10 2 - - - 47
Ethan Russell
 11 19 61 18 26 7 8 20 - 170
Forrest Smoes
 11 19 65 18 26 7 8 20 - 174
Dhairav Vakil
 10 0 0 0 0 0 - - - 10
James Williams
 11 18 39 18 25 6 8 20 - 145
Trevor Hanlon
 11 18 43 0 0 0 - - - 72
Ryan Huff
 3 7 0 4 6 0 - - - 20
Kenny Pauley 0 2 0 1 0 0 - - - 3
Jackson Powell 11 18 50 0 22 6 5 19 - 131
Christopher Williams 0 1 0 2 2 0 - - - 5
William Wolf
 10 16 38 16 22 0 - - - 102
Niko Householder 0 2 2 2 3 0 - - - 9
Jack Hyde 10 16 32 16 16 5 - - - 95
Alex Keeble 11 18 60 18 26 7 8 0 - 148
Jake Keller 10 15 30 16 18 6 - - - 95
Joey Magyar 7 14 0 11 13 2 - - - 47
Mason McAnally 7 13 9 8 10 4 - - - 51
 
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