With Emily Wolff graduating in the spring, Mandee Middleton is next in line to take over the front-running responsibilities at Arapahoe. Photo by Paul Jaeger.
This article is a first in what promises to be a lengthy series of looks at the state of various league cross country races going into next year. Some caveats here are that these analyses do not include incoming freshmen, have no way of taking into account who decides to work just a little bit harder next summer, and are unable to foresee any league realignments on the horizon (some of that news, however, should be coming out of the CLOC committee meeting later this month).
In any case, taking this year's performances into account, we'll take a league-by-league look (and I can't promise to get to every league in the state) at what this year's cross country looks like with the seniors factored out.
We start with the Centennial League where, to nobody's surprise, Cherry Creek has a very strong hand headed into ...