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PORTAGE, Mich, October 3, 2011 – Attached is the week three MichiganCrossCountry.com Prep Ranking. Our rankings were the first to cover both boy’s and girl’s prep cross country teams for both the Lower and Upper Peninsula for all schools by division. The rankings are released weekly during the high school season.

The criteria utilized for ranking by the panel is projected finish at either:
* the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Finals scheduled for November 5, 2011 at Michigan International Speedway in Brookyln, MI
- or -
* the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals scheduled for Saturday, October 22, 2011 in Munising, MI.

Week of October 3, 2011
MichiganCrossCountry.com Prep Ranking
(Lower Peninsula)

MichiganCrossCountry.com Lower Peninsula Prep Rankings

D1 LP Girls School

1 Saline*
2 Grosse Pointe South
3 Birmingham-Seaholm
4 Northville
5 Hudsonville*
6 Grand Haven*
7 Rockford*
8 Brighton*
9 Traverse City Central*
10 Troy
HM Dexter*

D1 LP Boys School

1 Hartland*
2 Waterford Mott
3 Saginaw-Heritage
4 Saline*
5 White Lake-Lakeland
6 Brighton*
7 Pinckney*
8 Rockford*
9 Dexter*
10 Highland-Milford
HM Grand Blanc*

D2 LP Girls School

1 East Grand Rapids*
2 Dearborn-Divine Child*
3 DeWitt*
4 Cedar Springs*
5 Grand Rapids-Christian*
6 Spring Lake*
7 Grand Rapids-South Christian*
8 Ada-Forest Hills Eastern*
9 East Lansing
10 Richland-Gull Lake*
HM Hamilton
HM Grand Rapids-Forest Hills Northern*

D2 LP Boys School

1 Mason*
2 Ionia*
3 Haslett
4 Grand Rapids-Christian*
5 St Joseph*
6 Grand Rapids-Forest Hills Northern*
7 St Clair*
8 Cedar Springs*
9 Richland-Gull Lake*
10 Otsego
HM Sparta
HM Dearborn-Divine Child*

D3 LP Girls School

1 Benzonia-Benzie Central*
2 Hanover-Horton*
3 Flint-Luke M Powers Catholic*
4 Jackson-Lumen Christi*
5 Caro
6 Kent City*
7 Charlevoix
8 Bath*
9 Grandville-Calvin Christian*
10 Ithaca
HM Macomb-Lutheran North
HM Harbor Springs*

D3 LP Boys School

1 Grandville-Calvin Christian*
2 Lansing-Catholic Central
3 Benzonia-Benzie Central*
4 Hemlock
5 Clare*
6 Chesaning*
7 Hillsdale*
8 Stockbridge*
9 Pewamo-Westphalia*
10 Charlevoix
HM Ithaca
HM Shepherd*
HM Allen Park-Cabrini

D4 LP Girls School (Corrected)

1 North Muskegon*
2 Saugatuck*
3 Traverse City-Grand Traverse Academy*
4 Hesperia Community*
5 Concord*
6 Homer
7 Kalamazoo-Hackett Catholic Central*
8 Breckenridge
9 Potterville
10 Royal Oak-Shrine Catholic
HM Pittsford

D4 LP Boys School

1 Concord*
2 Mt Pleasant-Sacred Heart Academy*
3 Evart
4 North Muskegon*
5 Hesperia Community*
6 Kalamazoo-Hackett Catholic Central*
7 Breckenridge
8 Potterville*
9 Saugatuck*
10 Traverse City-Grand Traverse Academy*
HM Mt Pleasant-Beal City

MichiganCrossCountry.com Upper Peninsula Prep Rankings:

D1 UP Girls School

1 Marquette
2 Menominee
3 Houghton
4 Calumet
5 Escanaba

D1 UP Boys School

1 Houghton
2 Menominee
3 Escanaba
4 Kingsford
5 Sault Ste Marie-Sault Area

D2 UP Girls School

1 Iron River-West Iron County
2 L’Anse
3 Rudyard
4 Newberry
5 St Ignace-La Salle

D2 UP Boys School

1 Stephenson
2 St Ignace-La Salle
3 Hancock
4 Norway
5 Rudyard

D3 UP Girls School

1 Cedarville
2 Eben Junction-Superior Central
3 Baraga Area
4 Carney-Nadeau
5 Powers-North Central

D3 UP Boys School

1 Munising
2 Cedarville
3 Pickford
4 Cedarville
5 Cooks-Big Bay de Noc

Now in our fifth season, MichiganCrossCountry.com was formed in 2007 by Dan Wytko and Don Passenger to bring recognition to the sport by accurately ranking Michigan teams and to provide a venue for discussion of cross country and track and field issues.

Featured Meet This Week: The Portage Invite, http://portageinvite.com -- All 65 of the teams with an asterisk above (*) are expected to attend this one meet at Portage West Middle School.

Dan Wytko has coached track & field and cross country at Portage Central High School since 1994. Don Passenger has been involved in Michigan track and field since the mid-1970s when he competed at Caledonia High School and from 2003 to present Passenger has coached at Grand Rapids West Catholic where he is currently the director of cross country.

The MichiganCrossCountry.com Prep Ranking is compiled for each high school division by a vote of a panel of high school coaches, officials, and others knowledgeable about our sport who review all available meet results in an effort to provide the most accurate ranking possible. A complete list of our panelists is below and knowledgeable coaches or officials willing to provide rankings weekly are invited to email us and join our panel. Rankers only vote in the division where they have the most experience.

2011 Ranking Panel:


Ray Antel, East Kentwood; Steven Aspinall, Salem; Scott Banghart, Mattawan; Rick Bauer, Saugatuck; John Carlson, Belding; Amy Coughlin, Waterford Mott; Fran DesArmo, Munising; Greg Dutton, Napoleon; Rudy Godefroidt, Hemlock (retired); Takashi Gould, Dexter; Mike Holik, Chelsea; Nick Hosler, Portage Central; Royce Humm, Breckenridge; Fred Hutchinson, Grand Ledge; Eugene Lebron, Ithaca; Joan Ludtke, White Cloud (retired); David Jordon, Concord; Mike Jurasek, Albion; Jeff Kauffman, Montabella; Asa Kelly, Benzie Central; Gary Loubert, Saginaw Heritage; Daniel McElheny, Grand Rapids Christian; Kyle McKown, Clare; Mike Nesbitt, Bay City Western; Michael Northuis, Portage Central; Don Passenger, West Catholic; Matt Richardson, Troy; Jason Robinson, Freeland; Brian Salyers, Milford; Tim Simpson, Lansing Catholic; Cliff Somers, Fremont; Laurens Tenkate, Grandville Calvin Christian; Tony Voisin, Mount Pleasant; Ben Watson, Rockford; Dan Wytko, Portage Central; Jim Martin, Sault Area.

On the web: http://michigancrosscountry.com