State championship

Looking forward to the 2022 State Championship

2021/11/28: MileSplit posted an article with a "Mega Merge" of all 200+ XC schools in Colorado – Top Returning Boys Cross Country Teams For 2022 (cover photo of Hunter Strand, who has trained with us) – using the times of all returning (well, at least not graduating) runners to compute rankings for next season. Of course, this is just a static snapshot based on this year's times. It doesn't/can't encompass new team members, improvements, etc. Still, it gives an idea of the strength of the (possibly) returning runners.

There are no guarantees, because we first have to train and perform, but the outlook is good! We don't graduate ANY boys. Based on our times, we are ranked 21st in the State for next season, 6th in 4A and 3rd in our region! (The strongest region in the state.)

Now the challenge is to take that potential and work to exceed it.

In our region, we are behind Battle Mountain (9th in the State) and Central Grand Junction (13th). We are ranked ahead of Conifer (30th), Eagle Valley (36th), Steamboat Springs (65th) and the other 7 regional teams.

In 4A, the rankings are Niwot (2nd in State), Cheyenne Mountain (6th), Battle Mountain (9th), Central Grand Junction (13th), Mead (17th), Summit (21st), Centaurus (24th), Coronado (25th), Air Academy (26th), Erie (27th), Conifer (30th).

(P.S. Dom is ranked 13th in the State amongst returning runners!)

(Interesting aside: Mullen, who edged us out for 4th at Regionals, isn't ranked. Apparently they don't have five returnees.)

(Another aside: Battle Mountain has both Will Brunner and William Brunner in their top 5 returnees. Same guy with a name variation. Take out the second Brunner and add the scores of Battle Mountain's returning sixth runner and they drop down slightly to 11th in the state.)

2022 Girls State Championship

2021/11/30: Here is the Mega Merge for the Girls – Top Returning Girls Cross Country Teams For 2022. Same as the boys, it is only a snap shot of the non-graduating runners, not encompassing incoming 8th graders, improvements, etc. It provides insight into the strength of potential returning runners, but again, it's a look back, not a look forward. Next year's results depend on how well teams train and race next season.

Amongst this year's results, we are ranked 45th in the State, 14th in 4A and 5th in our region, quite close to the 4th and 3rd teams. 

In our region, we are behind Battle Mountain (8th in the State), Golden (29th), Mullen (33rd) and Green Mountain (36th).

In 4A, the rankings are Niwot (1st in the State), Durango (5th), Battle Mountain (8th), Air Academy (12th), Palmer (17th), Cheyenne Mountain (24th), Golden (29th), Silver Creek (31st), Mullen (33rd), Lewis-Palmer (34th), Green Mountain (36th), Thompson Valley (40th), George Washington (41st), Summit (45th), Mead (46th), Falcon (51st) of 200+ teams.

2021 State Championship

10/30/21 Summit Daily Article: Hagen puts freshman talent on display to place 7th at 4A state cross-country meet. Remeikis guts it out for 97th.

MileSplit Results and Story

Photos

2021 Cheyenne Mountain Stampede (Same course as State) Results and Review

WHEN:  Saturday, 30 October 2021, 3:30 p.m. start

WHERE:  Norris Penrose Events Center, Colorado Springs

The course is hilly, 100% gravel (mostly bike paths) and has two stream crossings. 

TRANSPORTATION: TBD

RACE TIMES:

9:00 - 5A Girls

9:40 - 2A Boys

10:20 - 5A Boys

11:00 - 2A Girls

11:40 - Unified

12:20 - 4A Boys

1:00 - 3A Girls

1:40 - 4A Girls

2:20 - 3A Boys

Live streaming of the event will be HERE.