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    WN 10 Willowbrook 3 halftime n/m

    From a Falcon74. Falcons, Falcons, loyal and true!
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    High School Sports Dynasties

    If there is a dynasty rivaling York Boys' Cross-Country in any sport in any state, please enlighten me. On the girls' side, look at Naperville North Girls' Cross-Country over the last decade. Six state championships, two seconds, and a third. Eight consecutive trips to the Nike Cross...
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    8 Man Expansion...Conference Shuffle to Follow?

    A recent article in the Daily Herald might provide some insight into this. The article was about gymnastics; apparently the IHSA takes interest in a sport or activity when 10% of the membership chooses to engage in it. In this case, the numbers for gymnastics had fallen below that, and there...
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    Lake Park

    Ridgewood was, at its peak, which would have been about at this time, twice the size that it is now. This would have also been about the time that Lake Park opened its west campus. Not sure Fenton has varied that much in enrollment over the years. Lake Park and Fenton used to have a traveling...
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    Lake Park

    The last school year for the Tri-County was 1974-75. It's possible that Lake Park, Fenton, Elmwood Park, and Ridgewood could have stayed with the other four teams for the last year, but they chose not to. So the remaining four teams (Glenbard North, Glenbard South, Wheaton North, and...
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    Lake Park

    Wow. That goes back to the Tri-County Conference, does it not?
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    Breaking: IHSA member vote to rescind Districts

    The elephant in the room here is simply this: In all other sports but football, every school that wants to compete gets to compete in the State Final Series. Until the IHSA changes the State Final Series in Football so that every school that fields a team gets to compete in the State Final...
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    IHSA litigation

    To put a lid on this: Yesterday the IHSA dropped their appeal. No CPS school finished among the top ten schools in any of the three classes of either boys or girls cross country at this past weekend's State Final. As near as I could see, the highest place by a CPS runner was 27th; the top 25...
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    IHSA litigation

    One of the nice things about cross-country is that you can remove them from the results after the meet and score it as if they weren't there.
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    IHSA litigation

    Most regionals this year were 9 teams. Of those, 47 runners (out of a possible 63) advanced- 6 teams of 7, and the 5 highest placing individuals not on a qualifying team. At one of the regionals, two teams tied for 6th. Ties are normally broken in cross-country, but the IHSA's rules say if...
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    IHSA litigation

    With the split into three classes, without the regional round, there wouldn't be many more runners on the course in a Sectional than there are in the State Final. Some courses can handle that many runners. Others can't. Getting back to the original topic, to compete in the Sectional, you have...
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    DVC getting to 8-10 teams

    The scenarios you propose are as good an argument I've seen for extending the season by a week and letting every team enter the state series, just like they do in every other sport.
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    DVC getting to 8-10 teams

    I don't think anybody is ignoring anything. If I remember correctly, the DPVL was merged with the WSC to create the current WSC in about 1986. The subject of the thread was what could be done to alleviate the problems for the undersubscribed DVC. The two schools you mention could also be a...
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    DVC getting to 8-10 teams

    Here's some of my rationale: 1. The whole arrangement has to have an even number of teams. No bye weeks to deal with. 2. Wanted to keep York, DGN, GW, and HC together. They've been in the same conference almost 100 years, and there is no good reason to change that. 3. Wanted to keep the...
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    DVC getting to 8-10 teams

    And if you wanted to turn that seven team group into twelve so you could split it into two six team conferences, choose five of the following: Elmwood Park, Fenton, Glenbard East, Glenbard South, Ridgewood, Riverside-Brookfield.
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