Winters Mill Girls Varsity Young?

[falconrunner11]

Do you think this young team will improve over the years? Its end of the year varsity team consisted of 4 Freshman, 2 Sophmores, and 1 Junior. They finished 5 out of 17 at states.

[CoachSpongeBob]

Actually, this is a very young girls county this year. As young as I can remember for many teams. I had posted this previously, and I will post it again about next year:

Girls (based on mvals and regionals results - with grade levels listed it made it easy to see who was coming back):

4 of Century's top 5 are freshman. two others were sophomores.

SC loses Emily Powell and Anna Weaver, but bring back 5 of their top 7.

Westminster loses 3 of their top 6 including their #2 and #3.

Liberty is led by a freshman and sophomore, but their next three were seniors.

Winters Mill loses no one, 4 of their top 6 and 3 of their top 4 were freshman.

NC graduates 5 of their top 6 including Molly Donovan

I can not remember ever seeing so many freshman in the county results for our county. Usually you see more in the girls results then boys, but not this many. 7 of the top 11 finishers from the Blue Ridge Conference were freshman (all from Century, Liberty, Winters Mill and SC), while in the Chesapeake conference only 1 freshman finished in the top 20 (and Westminster, NC and FSK had no freshman on their varsity team)

[falconrunner11]

Do you think the teams will get better with these freshman?

[CoachSpongeBob]

You can already see many of these kids are becoming better that are running track. As they gain experience they will naturally become better racers. Now whether they become better comes down to training and desire to get better, health, and coaching.

There is an advantage to those kids that run track though. Every year you see it, those that run on the track teams gain a lot and come in stronger then next year. They gain valuable race experience.

[falconrunner11]

Do you think most of these teams have a chance of winning some meets again next year?