Meet Maria Mettler, the latest in a long line of Air Academy weapons. Photo by Alan Versaw.
Anyone who can read a list of attending teams could have told you the 4A races, and the Green races in particular, were going to deliver up some much-anticipated information about the status of several top teams.
Before we get to those Green races, though, let's give a shout out to Katie Till of Canon City and Cale Englert of Windsor, both of whom picked up their debut high school cross country wins in the Blue races.
Once the Green races began, we quickly learned we were wrong all along about the Air Academy girls. The Kadets are even better than we anticipated. We know Katie Rainsberger, Lilli Hamilton, and Kayla Wiitala all too well from the last two or three years. We knew the Kadets had brought in not one, not two, but three impact freshmen. We knew...
But, what we didn't know until Friday is that they also picked up Maria Mettler over the summer via a move-in from Nevada. Mettler, who also dab...
