Author's note: This is now the third 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 will touch on each of the most intriguing team races.
In what follows, we will take you chronologically through the 4A 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 Mountain View, Niwot, Thompson Valley, and Valor Christian. 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 four teams as the primary contenders. And so, they will be the focus--though not exclusively so--of this article.
Of the big four, Mountain View and Niwot come into state as the best-positioned. But, there are real possibilities for TV and Valor as well. Other teams are conceivably in the hunt as well but probably need some thi...
