The 2021 Colorado State Championships PowerMerge

Bobby Reyes
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Who won the 2021 Colorado State Cross Country Championship PowerMerge?

Editor's Note: The following does not take race temperatures into consideration - it was definitely warmer for the afternoon races.

We'll start with the boys...

Cheyenne Mountain.

They solidified their US No. 2 ranking in dominating fashion. Not only did they have four in the Top-10 of this all-classification merge, but they had a team average of 15:47, and a 1-5 split of 42-seconds. In this merge they tallied an impressive 40.5-points.

For historical comparison - last year's 4A state champion Niwot squad had a team average of 15:55. The 2018 Dakota Ridge squad that finished third at NXN averaged 16:15 at State in 2018, the 2019 Dakota Ridge squad that seventh at NXN in 2019 averaged 16:07 at State, and Mountain Vista's 2017 third-place NXN squad averaged 16:08 at State.

And the girls?

Niwot.

But not by much. 

4A state champs and US No.1 Niwot averaged 18:30.08 and had a 1-5 split of 47 seconds. They tallied 62 points in thi...