Cross Country season has officially started, but we are still a few weeks away from any serious meets, so it's a little bit of a mystery how things will stack up this fall. But what we can do is look back on what kids did last year and how they project to do this year based on who returns for each team. This is never a perfect ranking because it doesn't account for injured runners, transfers, fast freshmen, etc... But it gives us an idea of how things stack up in each classification going into the season. Also keep in mind that these rankings are based on PR from last year and some teams ran faster courses than others which could skew them a little bit.
Up next is class 5A Girls where the heavy favorite to defend their team title is Decatur. They return the talent up front and enough depth that it will be hard for anybody to challenge them. The most likely team who could contend with Decatur is a familiar face in McIntosh who knows how ...