Ryan Sandoval and Austyn Salvador could see a lot more of each other at this year's state meet--and with potentially a lot on the line. Photo by Alan Versaw.
This year's 3A is roughly last year's 2A, but several of the top 2A schools actually found themselves bumped all the way to 4A, leaving some of this year's 3A schools with some opportunity that may not have been there last year. As we've done with the first two installments of this series, we'll work our way through three different analyses of the top returning teams, then engage in a short discussion of what those analyses do, and do not, tell us.
We begin with a virtual meet scoring at 5K of all returning runners:
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