Nike Cross Regional Southeast: By The Numbers

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Sunday, Nov. 19 at WakeMed Park, North Carolina

States in the Southeast Region:  11

Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Washington D.C. 

Top two teams and five individuals not on qualifying teams automatically advance to NXN. Four at-large team berths and five at-large individual berths (new this year) will be named later. 

BOYS

States represented at NTN/NXN:  

Virginia 9 times

Florida 7 times

Tennessee 6 times

North Carolina 4 times

Georgia 3 times

Kentucky 3 times

Maryland 2 times

Alabama 1 time

Delaware, South Carolina, West Virginia and Washington DC have never qualified a team for Nike.

 

States with the longest streak, current:  

1 - Florida and Tennessee, 2022

Longest consecutive state streak, all time:

3 - Virginia sent teams from 2006-08, 2017-19

 

At-large bids: 1

2017 Green Hope NC  

 

Current nationally ranked teams (as of 11/16/23): 1

No. 4 Belen Jesuit FL

 

Teams with the most NTN/NXN appearances:

Brentwood TN:  3 times

St. Xavier KY:  3 times

Loudoun Valley VA 3

Belen Jesuit FL 2

Severna Park MD:  2 times

Brookwood GA:  2 times

Midlothian VA:  2 times

Chapel Hill NC:  2 times

The Bolles School FL 2 times

Farragut TN, Green Hope NC, Marietta GA, Trinity Prep FL, Winter Park FL, Miami Columbus FL, Jamestown VA, Jefferson VA, Blacksburg VA, Oak Ridge TN, Daniel Boone TN, Hoover AL, Broughton NC and Western Albemarle VA have all qualified once.    

 

Longest team streak appearances: 

Loudoun Valley VA 3, 2017-19

Longest current team streak appearances:  

1 - Belen Jesuit FL and Farragut TN

 

Highest national finish:

Loudoun Valley VA 1st place 2017

Loudoun Valley VA 1st place 2018

 

DyeStat preseason picks to qualify for NXN:

Belen Jesuit FL

McCallie School TN

Current Prediction:

Belen Jesuit FL

McCallie School TN

Notes:  Belen Jesuit of Miami has its best team ever, and possibly the best in Florida history, and has been the best team in the Southeast region this fall by a wide margin. Still, the team has a significant challenge this weekend when it will honor its state meet in Florida by running a strong team before transitioning to the NXR Southeast regional at WakeMed Soccer Complex in Cary, N.C. two days later. Joshua Ruiz and Marcelo Mantecon give Belen Jesuit a strong 1-2 punch but the team is also deep and could put together a low score on Sunday. The battle for the No. 2 spot could be very close. Last year, Farragut of Tennessee got the spot and McCallie School, also of Tennessee, was third. Those two schools compete in different classifications and won their state titles again this fall and they are two of the leading contenders to gain the second automatic qualifying berth. McCallie School fell out of the rankings for a bit, but it appears that strategy to have the A-list lineup ready to go at the end of the season may be paying off. However, there are more teams that are in the mix: University of West Virginia, Marvin Ridge of North Carolina, Vestavia Hills of Alabama and Calvert Hall of Maryland are among them. Individually, Noah Valyo, the North Carolina state champion, Ethan Edgeworth, the Alabama 2A/1A champion, Tommy Latham from Georgia, Berkley Nance of Virginia, and Miles Ramer and Keegan Smith of Tennessee are all leading contenders for NXN qualifying. 

 

 

GIRLS

States represented at NXN/NTN:

Virginia 14 times

Delaware 7 times

Kentucky 4 times

North Carolina 4 times

Florida 3 times

Maryland 3 times

Alabama 2 times

Georgia 2 times

Tennessee 1 time

Washington D.C., South Carolina and West Virginia have never qualified a team for Nike.

 

States with the longest streak, current:

1 - North Carolina and Tennessee

Longest consecutive state streaks all-time:

7 - Delaware 2006-12

7 - Virginia 2013-19

 

At-large bids: 4

2007 Mountain Brook AL

2009 Hidden Valley VA

2011 Midlothian VA

2017 Blacksburg VA

The Southeast Region received three bids to NTN in 2004 and 2006.

 

Current nationally ranked teams (as of 11/16/23): 4

No. 11 Tatnall School DE

No. 17 Cardinal Gibbons NC

No. 23 Assumption KY

No. 28 Webb School of Knoxville TN

 

Number of different teams to qualify for NTN/NXN: 21

Teams with the most NTN/NXN appearances:

Tatnall School DE 7 times

Blacksburg VA 7 times

Assumption KY 3 times

Eleanor Roosevelt MD 2 times

Midlothian VA 2 times

Collins Hill GA 2 times

Green Hope NC 2 times

Lake Braddock VA 2 times

Roxbury VA, Scottsboro AL, C. Milton Wright MD, Episcopal School of Jacksonville FL, Lawton Chiles FL, Mountain Brook AL, Hidden Valley VA, Cardinal Gibbons NC, DuPont Manual KY, Loudoun Valley VA, Pine Crest FL, Cuthbertson NC and Webb School of Knoxville TN have qualified once.

 

Longest team streak appearances:

Tatnall DE 7 2006-12.

Longest current team streak of appearances:

1 - Cuthbertson NC

1 - Webb School of Knoxville TN

 

Highest national finish:

Tatnall DE 3rd 2008

Tatnall DE 3rd 2011

 

DyeStat preseason picks to qualify for NXN:

Cuthbertson NC

Webb School of Knoxville TN

Current Prediction:

Tatnall School DE

Cardinal Gibbons NC

Notes: Tatnall School had the most impressive run of any girls program in regional history with seven consecutive appearances at Nike Team Nationals and Nike Cross Nationals from 2006-12. Although no girls team from Delaware has qualified since, Tatnall has an opportunity to add to its regional record Sunday in its return to WakeMed Soccer Complex. Tatnall prevailed Oct. 7 in the Garmin Race of Champions at the Great American Cross Country Festival, part of an impressive three-meet stretch with the group earning victories Sept. 30 at the Carlisle Invitational in Pennsylvania, followed by Great American and culminating Oct. 14 at the Manhattan Invitational in New York. Abby Downin, Katie Payne, Carlita Kaliher, Ruby Schwelm and Katrina Endres all placed in the top seven to lead Tatnall in the Delaware Division 2 state championship meet. The next three teams behind Tatnall at Great American were Cardinal Gibbons of North Carolina, Assumption from Kentucky and reigning regional champion Cuthbertson of North Carolina, all of which will be in contention for an automatic berth, in addition to last year’s NXR Southeast runner-up Webb School of Knoxville, which arrives again at WakeMed as an underdog, but even stronger than last season. Assumption is seeking its first NXN appearance since 2013 and Cardinal Gibbons hasn’t qualified for NXN since 2017, which is also the last time the region secured an at-large berth, with Cuthbertson and Webb School of Knoxville both pursuing back-to-back trips to Oregon. Cuthbertson has had its lineup compromised with the absence of senior Stella Kermes, last year’s regional runner-up, who hasn’t competed since Great American, but the presence of NXN veterans Charlotte Bell and Justine Preisano makes the lineup capable of returning to Oregon in December. Hannah Rae Shaffer leads Cardinal Gibbons, which earned eighth at the regional last season, and is joined by fellow top 10 finishers from last season Eliana Black of IMG Elite from Florida and Aidan MacGrath from West Springfield in Virginia. Allie Zealand from Pacers in Virginia, as well as Covenant School teammates Reese Dalton and Maddie Gardiner are among the top individual contenders, in addition to Brynn Crandell of Indian River in Delaware, Alivia Cleveland from Fort Mill in South Carolina, Sarah Tole of Auburn in Alabama and Madeline Gump from Morgantown in West Virginia having strong opportunities to earn individual qualifying berths as well.