The 5A Girls race could easily be the most exciting of any classification when the state track and field meet convenes on Thursday.
Author's note: This is the first installment in a series of following-the-state-meet-articles. I doubt I'll have time to write one for each classification and gender, but we'll touch on each of the most intriguing team races.
In what follows, we will take you chronologically through the 5A Girls state meet, discussing each of the events and many of the athletes who figure to play prominent roles in determining this year's team state title.
The major team contenders are Fort Collins, Pine Creek, and Cherokee Trail. That doesn't mean it's impossible for any other team to win it, just that any reasonably objective analysis is going to land on these three teams as the primary contenders. And so, they will be the focus--though not exclusively so--of this article.
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