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.
A Team that finished at the bottom of class 5A, Alamogordo is looking to make huge strides toward a finish in the top 5. The Tigers bring back one of the top returners in the state with Celso Garcia who finished 3rd and boasts one of the few runners under 16-minutes. The rest of the Alamogordo squad is still a work in progress as they return all their runners who finished toward the back of the pack. For a team that finished 13th out of 15 schools in 2019, to ideally be around 8th in 5A enter this season speaks highly of their potential. Considering that teams that may be ahead of them on paper but could fall victim to th...
