Newbury Park: The Final Chapter 

If anyone is trying to see what the new team looks like I run for Newbury Park and have been vlogging all our meets with weekly content documenting the new chapter of runners!

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​@@AsaFletcher Awesome. I think I'd like to check that out. I've been curious about what the team would or could become post-Young and Sahlman. How you guys would be on the state and national level, how you guys are viewed now just by having that name on your shirts. I've wondered if a national superstar (top 5-10) could possibly emerge within 2-3 years.

I only started paying attention late in the 2021 season and it felt and seemed like it couldn't get better. Were they probably better in 2020?

Even with maximal doping you’ll never see a high school team that good. It’s just a 1 in a trillion chance type genetics deal where you got 2 sets of genetic monster families on the same team

@@talling I absolutely do not think the Newbury guys were doping. But based on what you said I think you severely underestimate how much of a difference drugs can make. Highschoolers aren't tested in US xc and track. EPO, anabolics, or even SARMS could easily get a team of 4 ~15:30-16:00 high school guys to the Newbury Park level if they just went full YOLO mode and took super abusive doses.

@@FranklynAlvarez you don’t know what you’re talking about bro 😂. First of all SARMS and Anabolics do not improve running at all at a distance level. They actually hurt you as your aerobic system is heavily damaged by such substances. Look at all the bodybuilders dying from heart attacks as an example. EPO does provide a boost but mostly at the marathon level, it could take a 2:08 guy and turn them into a 2:02 guy, it’s less advantageous as you go down in distance tho. Oh, and abusive doses of EPO will hurt your performance by over thickening your blood and killing you. 5k guys only see a 10 second difference at most according to studies which is huge at the pro level but wouldn’t affect a high school team much. There will never ever be a possibility of another newbury park even with doping. There’s just not enough talent out there. And for the record, I think at least 10% of top ranked high schoolers cheat to some degree in track, especially in sprints.

@@FranklynAlvarez Do you even know what youre TALKING about here?

You also need to take into account that they had been coached well before highschool. These guys were great runners before they even were freshman.

You are welcome! I'm a huge fan of XC. I'm glad my documentary footage helped you tell this story. Good job.

If anyone is trying to see what the new team looks like I run for Newbury Park and have been vlogging all our meets with weekly content documenting the new chapter of runners!

Sounds like AI narrative

Yea fr, they are great quality and it's good to see a team that's still top tier compared to the average hs team

I am a coach un thé southern section D2 division and they are still a solid team only really behind Ventura which is led by a fast Anthony Fasthorse. Newbury definitely is still fast! But yeah won’t be anything like they used to be

If anyone is trying to see what the new team looks like I run for Newbury Park and have been vlogging all our meets with weekly content documenting the new chapter of runners!

I don't get what you mean about the underrated part. I thought that part was THE part. The fact that the greats were two sets of brothers was more than well known.

Did the coaches get poached by a university?

Sean Bronsan, who deserves all the credit for turning the Newbury Park program, around left for UCLA in August 2022 and let his runner, assistant coach wife take over the program. She has since left Newbury Park and Sean's UCLA contract was not renewed. The before and after of that team, without stars, Sean's first year at NP was amazing. @My_Personal_RU-vid

I was very disappointed that the head coach Sean B. Left 1 year before this group graduated. Without him the group seemed more inconsistent and digressed in their rate of progression. They seem to have left a lot of big wins and records on the table

They left in a high to not see the lows and now the guy isn’t even at ucla and the wife left too.. nice couple of years but the main programs in southern cal remain consistently strong for at least a decade

If anyone is trying to see what the new team looks like I run for Newbury Park and have been vlogging all our meets with weekly content documenting the new chapter of runners!

If anyone is trying to see what the new team looks like I run for Newbury Park and have been vlogging all our meets with weekly content documenting the new chapter of runners!

@@AsaFletcher bro I’ve seen those vlogs your editing is on point. It’s so cool to see your legendary school maintaining that insane legacy

If anyone is trying to see what the new team looks like I run for Newbury Park and have been vlogging all our meets with weekly content documenting the new chapter of runners!

Milesplit normally does a good job at covering the major headlines that happen. Unfortunately, a lot of their content is paywalled (same with runnerspace) but you should be able to get adequate updates through their site or their Instagram!

hdrunners does a great job of covering the meets they cover, mostly California.

The rest of their squad is made up of last year's JV and a transfer.

@@torunit4620 true but dev is really good, and you got to remember, that this is the jv squad of the best high cross country team ever, so that doesn’t mean they can’t still beat most people.

If anyone is trying to see what the new team looks like I run for Newbury Park and have been vlogging all our meets with weekly content documenting the new chapter of runners!

Newbury park 2021-2022 was a much better team than any of the state championship teams that York had

@@Rudyrats very likely so. I’m not really arguing that point. But I did get to see the Don Sage led York team back in 1999, which won the state title by over 100 points and scored the lowest score for their class ever recorded. However, over the long-haul, York is very likely the best boys cross country team in American high school history.

Otherwise, great video, and keep up the content!

Oh, yeah, I was complimenting Cantu as fulfilling his role well as the 5th guy! (e.g. trying to beat as many people as possible). I do agree that my wording was *really* confusing though now that you mention it haha.

they werent sick, that was dev, young brothers were never mentioned to be sick

Who cares

@@arshanbhangooyes they were even their dad said and it was lex or leo but one of them was throwing up like crazy that’s why when they went to the podium for the team award they weren’t there since they weren’t feeling well

@@yawn5_03 And Lex tossed his cookies after the 5K record as well.

​@lxvibes6869 If Leo Young won NXN, no matter how sick, Lex would have congratulated his brother at the finish. But Aaron Sahlman won and Leo disappeared.

one of them went to represent the U.S. in a race against Kenyan and Ethiopan of under 20 athletes.

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