Caroline Eck was Mountain Vista's impact freshman last year. There are more coming this year. Photo by Alan Versaw.
5A Region 5's gift to 4A this year was Pine Creek. Other than that, 5A Region 5 remains the same blockbuster region it's been now for several years running.
The region did experience some (very temporary) thinning of the ranks due to graduation, but you probably wouldn't notice much of that if you looked only at the Mountain Vista roster. That roster, at least, looks impressively familiar. Coronado, another team near the top of the region, tells a similar story.
In any case, the first step is to look at a virtual meet of returning runners. And here is what that looks like:
