If you're looking for a wild card who could potentially spin the 2A girls race for a loop, you need look no further than Jenna Anderson. Photo by Alan Versaw.
Fresh off of moving down from 3A, Hotchkiss dominated this thing for their first-ever state cross country title (they'd been second a couple of times before, though) last fall. The entire team is back and has yet to be seriously threatened by any 2A school they've gone up against.
And, realistically, that gives them the look of favorite going into Saturday's race. But I think it would be reasonable to expect the gap to be a little smaller than last year.
Natalie Anderson and Jenni Celis give Hotchkiss a formidable 1-2. And Hotchkiss is no stranger to hill work. But, both Lyons and The Vanguard School are the kind of programs that could potentially create problems for the Bulldog machine. A gap between Hotchkiss and either Lyons or Vanguard that seemed unbridgeable at the start of the season has shrunk over the...
