Brock Dykema ran front of the pack for Silver Creek last fall. Expect it to be a tighter pack this fall. Photo by Alan Versaw.
Colorado's 4A Region 4 is little changed from last year. Berthoud is out (to 3A) and Frederick is in. The rest is static. Well, at least static in terms of the teams on the list. As you're about to find out, there's nothing static about this year's ordering of the region's teams.
Traditionally, this is among Colorado's strongest regions. Recently, that's been more true with respect to girls teams than boys, but it's been a pretty tough region where the boys are concerned, too. Don't expect anything important about that to change this year, except that maybe the boys come up to the established level of the girls this fall.
You're used to the routine by now. We look at what the data tells us, starting with a scoring of the top cross country times of last year's returning runners. Here's what we see when we do that:
