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<span style="font-size: 13.63636302947998px;">NCRunners is counting down the top 25 boys teams heading into the fall season. The full rankings will be released on the first day of official practice: Friday, August 1st. These are subjective rankings (not computer generated); they take into account returning team rankings, returning team averages, team rankings in the 1600 and 3200 from indoor and outdoor track, and a school's "Improvement Rating." Improvement Rating is a custom metric developed by researching the improvement in a team's 5-person average from year to year, in comparison to that same team's ranking. Improvement Rating numbers and methodology will be released on the weekend of August 2nd.</span></p>
South Mecklenburg returns a full top 7 - including 5 rising seniors - to try to write a season sending that will make them forget last year's.
| South Mecklenburg (NC) | ||||
| 1) Ryan Kavanaugh | 16:55.00 | 157 | ||
| 2) Ben Talbert | 16:55.00 | 158 | ||
| 3) William Adam Thomas | 16:59.00 | 169 | ||
| 4) Drew Kromer | 16:59.00 | 170 | ||
| 5) Eric Procunier | 17:45.00 | 392 | ||
| Average Time: 17:06.60 Total Time: 1:25:33.00 1-5 Split: 50.00 | ||||
| 6) Henry Crew | 17:54.00 | 443 | ||
| 7) Niclas Danner | 17:58.00 | 466 | ||