Peter Franklin figures as one of the top returning Northern League runners for next year, and there's no doubt that Mountain View should be among the top teams. Photo by Alan Versaw.
Looking for a tough league? This one should do nicely on that score.
Niwot finished a very strong second at state, but ends up no better than fourth in their league in a long-way-off snapshot of the season ahead. To be fair, graduation does hit Niwot pretty hard this year, but this is about a lot more than how many Cougars are graduating.
This is a rough league from top to bottom and having two teams like Mountain View and Thompson Valley in your league is guaranteed to make difficult all that follows.
Thompson Valley brings back two tough front runners in Jarrett Thollot and Logan Simington. Mountain View gets two leaders back in Peter Franklin and Adam Marcus.
The league is piled deep in returning sub-18s. It might be that one of the important things for next year is not to get so busy beating up on each oth...
