We're just two weeks out from Nike Cross Regionals - Southwest, which is the big gate leading to Nike Cross Nationals in Portland.
An invite to the big show in Portland requires a top-five individual finish (excluding members from auto-qualifying teams.) Additionally, there are five at-large berths on the line. The top two teams from each region will earn automatic-qualifiers to Nationals, while there will be four at-large berths coming from third and fourth place teams.
At first glance, Colorado has got some serious potential to send quite a few to Portland...
There have been some big-time leaps over the past year, though here's the list of top returners from NXR-SW...
Valor's Cole Sprout tops the boy's list, along with familiar challenger Easton Allred coming out of Corner Canyon.
Though, they'll both have Leo Daschbach to battle. Daschbach is the 10th fastest returner from last year's race, but his 14:14 victory over Sprout on this very course changes things quite a big heading into this...
