Jorge Martinez Photo by Jaren Brooks
The New Mexico Cross Country Countdown breaks down the top 25 boys and girls teams returning this fall. These rankings will include projected top runners and weighing how each team may do in their respective districts and state competitions. Changes to class alignments and adaptions to state championship format have been taken into consideration.
#25 Hobbs Eagles
Hobbs kicks off our New Mexico boys cross country countdown as a team that is relatively thin in-depth but has a chance to compete for the District 4-5A title this year. This eagles squad looks very different from the 2015-2016 team that was able to win back-to-back 5A trophies with the help of a plethora of sub-16 minute runners led by Andrew Bosquez. In 2019 they were able to notch a 4th place finish with four of the runners from that team returning this season. Finding athletes to fill the void left by Adolfo Mendoza, Brendan Curtis, and Daniel Kaney will be monumental if Eagles want a chan...
