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Coronado Boys Cross
Country
2008 Outlook
You’d think that a team that
graduates seven of their top ten runners might consider
the upcoming season to be a “rebuilding” year. But
those remaining three veterans might argue that
perspective. Dusty Solis, Andrew Hugill and Jesse
Mathews will make up one of the best trios in the Pikes
Peak area. So, considering that the top three spots are
fairly solid, the key to the Cougar’s 2008 success lies
in who “steps up” to fill the fourth and fifth spots and
how good of a job they do in helping us to forget about
all of those great seniors we had last year..
Junior, Dusty Solis is destined to
be one of the areas top runners (for any distance above
400 meters) this year and the next. Look for some
intriguing races between Wes Rickman (Falcon), Brandon
Jarvis (Rampart), Andrew Goodman (Palmer), Kevin Johnson
(Falcon) and of course Dusty. And, look for Jesse
Mathews and Andrew Hugill to be nipping at their heels.
But it takes more than just three
runners to get the team to the State Championships.
Coronado will be looking for help from at least two
others and will therefore be looking for Dylan Witte,
Ryan Logan, Ben Vaske, Mile Roth, Zach Spiker, Andrew Joynton
and Chuck Voss to step up their efforts and fill the
void. New comer Hayden Johnson could also prove to
provide some of the fire power needed to make this team
a great team.
Rampart will again be the “team to
beat” in our Region, as they return four top runners
from their 2007 team. It’s not clear who Rampart will
find for their fifth runner, but you can be fairly
certain that they’ll find someone who can help keep them
in contention. Count on Palmer to have two good runners
and three others who can dip under 18 minutes. It looks
like they’ll have a slight edge over Coronado but this
edge can easily vanish if the Cougars can step up and
adequately fill those key fourth and fifth spots.
Lewis-Palmer looked as if they could provide some
fireworks in the team battle, but rumor has it that L-P
is moving back (down) to the 4A classification. We’ll
have to wait a few weeks to see how our region comes
together. With all of the changes in the 4A and 5A
classification, who knows who we might discover in our
regional meet in mid October.
Projected Finish @ Regional
Championship
- Rampart
- Palmer
- Coronado
- Durango
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