Colorado needs to breathe some new life into their fortunes at NXR-SW. In terms of boys, the team most people look to to fuel that dream would be Mountain Vista.
2014 Colorado State Meet Champion: Palmer Ridge or Mountain Vista (Interpret as you will, keeping in mind the heat factor of the 5A boys race)
2014 Colorado State Meet Runner-Up: Niwot (4A) or Fort Collins (5A)
Colorado Representation at NXR-SW 2014: MountainVista (5th), Palmer Ridge (10th), Fort Collins (11th), Durango (15th), Boulder (19th), Niwot (20th), The Classical Academy (21st), Monarch (25th), Alamosa (27th), Lamar (29th), Battle Mountain (30th)
You could make the case that NXR-SW 2014 saw Colorado's poorest showing since the regional format was adopted in 2007. We could argue for a while about whether that's mostly due to the rise of Utah or to some other factor. But whatever the net result of all that talking might be, the Colorado folks aren't especially happy with ...
