Most teams would settle for a rebuilding year after winning a State Title & graduating 4 of their top 5 runners, but some programs have proven they can reload from year to year. This is one.
We're posting every day for the next 30 days, highlighting some of the teams to watch for the upcoming fall season. Today: the squads that just missed our top 30.
We kick off a thirty-day buildup to the start of the fall season with a list of teams that just missed the cut for the top 30, but are worth watching.
If any girls team in the Southern Section can challenge the dominance of the Wolfpack, it will be Sydney Hwang's Claremont squad.
Defending Division 1 champ Great Oak doesn't top either the 3 Mile or the 5K returning rankings - but the Wolfpack had the best crew of returning 1600 runners in California this spring.
Will Granada be the team to challenge the dominance of the Southern Section girls' squads in 2018?
Dana Hills has five of their seven runners back from the squad that finished 3rd in division 1 - more than enough talent to be a contender for the title this fall.
2017 could have been the season to end the Great Oak streak, but Tori Gaitan and Fatima Cortes slammed the door shut on their challengers (and it might not open again for a while...)
St. Francis (Mountain View) has a load of talent back to defend the Division 2 title. Who else looks like a contender this far out from the start of the season?
It's now a summer tradition! We will count down the days to the start of the fall season by spotlighting one boys and one girls team each day.