New Mexico Cross Country Countdown Series

The New Mexico Cross Country Countdown breaks down the top 25 New Mexico 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 the state championship format have been taken into consideration. These rankings are based on past two seasons of performances and do not include teams that did not compete last year due to a lack of athletes and team information. All top returning runners are only projections and may include athletes no longer on the team due to transfer or out-of-state relocation.

#18 Clovis Wildcats

The Wildcats could end up a team full of surprises should they return the handful of runners from the class of 2022 that did not compete in the spring cross country season. They will return sisters Shylee Tree and Kira Tree from the 2020-2021 state meet with 38th and 60th place performances. From there we begin to jump into speculation with the squad that could be lining up this fall. The 2019 season saw runners like Yazmean Ladezman who finished 112th appearing to make a return as well as some newcomers like Jackie Diosdado who just wrapped up track and would like to continue the momentum to cross country. Clovis is almost a certainty to make it out of district 4-5A but if they would like to claim a district victory against rival Hobbs they will have to find some key replacements.

5A Girls

2020 State Finish: 8th

State Titles: 0

Individual State Titles: 0

2021 Clovis Rankings

New Mexico Ranking	18th
5A Ranking	9th
District 4-5A Ranking	2nd

Top Returning Runners

Name	Grade	Personal Best (5k)	Best State Finish
Shylee Tree	Sr	22:12	38th
Kira Tree	Fr	26:05	60th
Yazmean Ladezman (Proj)	Sr	25:48	112th (2019)
Jackie Diosdado (Proj)	Sr	N/A	N/A