Draft:High school cross country national champions
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A national championship in high school cross country is an honor awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best high school cross country team in the United States.
Over the years, national championship rankings have been based on rankings from experts and publications, head-to-head results from meets against top schools, algorithmic rankings, and regional or national events. But given travel demands and the difficulty of getting every school to race together, the title represents a “mythical national championship.”
In recent years, the Nike Cross Nationals, formerly known as Nike Team Nationals, an invitational cross country meet, has served as the unofficial team national championship.[1]
Background
Cross country gained prominence at the high school level in the mid-1900s.[2] While states held their own team championship races across various school divisions, it wasn’t until journalist and author Marc Bloom began publishing The Harrier, a national-focused cross country publication, in 1974 that the cross country community had a resource to learn about teams and runners on a national scale.[3] The publication released its first national team rankings in 1976.[4] The national rankings became more formalized with the Harrier Super 25 National XC Rankings starting in 1989.[5]
Those rankings built momentum for the launch of the Nike Cross Nationals and also inspired the website Milesplit.com to look back at past standout teams with its XC Legacy series.[6] That patchwork of sources, starting with Bloom’s efforts, has provided a view of unofficial national championship teams from the 1970s to the present day.
References
[edit]- ^ "Nike Cross Nationals". Runnerspace.com. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ^ Pruter, Robert (2013). The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control: 1880-1930. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5219-9.
- ^ Bergonzi, Lou. "Island's Marc Bloom: A track fan becomes a fanatic". No. 14 December 1975. Staten Island Sunday Advance. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ^ Taylor, Aron. "XC Legacy Special Edition: 1977 Harrier National Rankings". Milesplit USA. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ^ Taylor, Aron. "XC Legacy Special Edition: 1977 Harrier National Rankings". Milesplit USA. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ^ Taylor, Aron. "XC Legacy Special Edition: 1977 Harrier National Rankings". Milesplit USA. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
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