October 2026 Race Results Review | Steamtown, XC and Middletown

Downstate: Manhattan and Mount Academy across years

Manhattan adds 5,722 distinct 2025 finish rows across 36 race tables. The coaches/alumni race appears in both published timing reports and is included once. The 2026 archive retains 6,455 rows across 35 race tables. Source spelling and truncated labels remain visible.

Manhattan 2025 results | Manhattan 2026 results | Search all 3,972 comparisons

The Manhattan comparison includes 1,412 matched athletes over 2.5 miles and 99 over 1.5 miles. In the 2.5-mile group, 885 recorded faster times in 2026, with a median change of 15.1 seconds faster. In the 1.5-mile group, 84 recorded faster times, with a median change of 38.3 seconds faster. These are distinct distance groups and matched samples.

Mount Academy now adds 287 individual finishes from 2025 and 474 from 2026 across the published boys and girls varsity and JV 5K tables. The 2026 archive also retains 45 varsity team-score rows. Its 51 matched athletes include 42 faster recorded times and a median change of 60.25 seconds faster.

Mount Academy 2025 results | Mount Academy 2026 results

Negative cutoff changes mean faster 2026 times. The Manhattan boys Eastern States winning time was 0.6 seconds faster, while its top-25 cutoff was 1.0 second slower. The girls winning time was 20.4 seconds slower, while the 20 athletes matched within that same named division had a median change of 0.8 seconds faster. Entrants, field sizes and conditions differ, so a winning time alone does not establish the strength of a returning group.

Positive athlete differences mean faster 2026 times. Both faster and slower examples remain visible. Matching requires normalized name and school, sex, the same distance and a one-year grade advance. Different divisions retain both labels in the tracker.

Downstate schools: same-division Manhattan samples

These 2.5-mile groups contain at least three matched athletes of the same sex who stayed in the same named division. They describe the listed samples, without adjusting for conditions or ranking team strength.

Manhattan 2025 boys | Manhattan 2025 girls | Manhattan 2026 official PDF | Mount Academy 2025 published results | Mount Academy 2026 published results

Regional schools: same-division McQuaid comparisons

These groups contain matched athletes over three miles who stayed in the same named race division between 2025 and 2026. Names, schools, sex labels and one-year grade progression must match.

Positive seconds indicate a faster 2026 time; negative seconds indicate a slower time. The sample combines boys and girls. Sample sizes, race conditions and the mix of athletes differ, so these changes describe each matched group and cannot rank team strength. Chenango Forks has only four qualifying pairs.

Elmira has eight faster results among nine qualifying pairs, with a median 83.7 seconds faster. Corning has 15 among 17, with a median 66.3 seconds faster. South Jefferson has a nearly unchanged median in its five-pair sample. Open the comparison tracker to inspect individual races and divisions.

Saratoga: complete 2025 and 2026 results

The archives now contain all 406 official timed rows across eight divisions in 2026 and all 602 across eight divisions in 2025. Modified races use 2 km, freshmen 3 km, and JV and varsity 5 km, according to the organizer.

2026 complete results | 2025 complete results

The official timer resolves differences in the secondary copy, including a missing varsity-girls finisher, one runner placed in a different division with a different time, and freshman distance labels. These searchable tables use the timer and organizer. The original 2026 PDF remains available.

Negative cutoff changes mean faster 2026 recorded times. The boys had a 39.7-second faster top-25 cutoff while the winner was 14.1 seconds slower. The girls had a 59.0-second faster winning time and a 14.9-second faster top-25 cutoff, while the top-50 cutoff was 11.6 seconds slower. These describe the finish-time distribution. Field sizes, entrants and conditions differ.

Saratoga adds 74 matched athlete pairs: 59 over 5 km, 14 over 2 km and one over 3 km. Of the 59 five-kilometer pairs, 50 recorded faster times in 2026. The median change was 54.2 seconds faster. The single-pair 3 km result is shown without drawing a group-strength conclusion.

Updated Ithaca profiles include Tsadia Bercuvitz, first in the varsity girls race in 16:31.8; Avery Whittaker, 12th in 18:37.1; Mattea Dauria, 13th in 18:49.1; Alasdair Smith, 21st among varsity boys in 16:12.9; and Aidan Lazzaro, 27th in 16:28.2. Their five-kilometer times remain separate from McQuaid three-mile comparisons.

Twelve new profiles cover Saratoga, Beekmantown, Voorheesville, Rondout Valley and Haddam-Killingworth runners, including boys winner Brent Pasek and girls runner-up Savannah Schmidt.

2026 official timing | 2025 official timing | Organizer course distances