The New Mexico Cross Country Countdown breaks down the top 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.
#13 Hobbs Eagles
This Class of 2021 has built themselves up to be the best we've seen from Hobbs in recent memory. Four seniors make up this squad that is coming off a 6th place finish in 2019 led by All-state performer Mitzi Madrid. Although they land 6th within 5A coming into this season it absolutely possible that Hobbs is contending for a top 3 finish in December. Considering they were 5 points away from surpassing La Cueva which returns most of their team as well. Daniela Juardo, Ashley Martinez, Azucena Carillo, and the lone underclassman Yisel Palacios round out this Eagles squad. Expect Hobbs to get by district contention comfortably as...
