Week 1 In Review

Aug 20, 2012

The cross country season kicked off with a number of great team and individual performances from around the state.

What did we learn this weekend?

The Cardinal Gibbons girls look as good as advertised, running without Rachel Bartolomeo to boot.
Megan Sullivan, Darby Middlebrook, and Bakri Abushouk are in great shape coming off summer training.
Broughton boys look very deep: 6 guys separated by only 20 seconds in the 3000.
Cary's boys also look very good, just like a top 5 team in 4A should look at this point of the season.
Lincoln Charter has a very good 1A girls' team, and Sophia Bhalla is a contender for a top 5 finish.
Don't put much stock in the times the Watauga senior boys ran; they actually did three 3000m repeats, and the race was the middle one. Michael Holland might make the difference for them.
Mount Tabor's boys are right where they should be to be in the top 10 in 4A, and perhaps sneak into the top 5.
Suprise team of the week: RJ Reynolds' boys, who edged out Reagan; both squads look like state meet teams.
Not sure how much you can take away from a 5x2500m relay, but Pinecrest's boys looked strong, and Green Hope's girls ran the top two relay times.
Mount Tabor's girls did not look like a top-10 team in 4A, and the Forsyth County area did not look strong for girls, but it's early. The return of Vanessa Bateson for Mount Tabor could be critical.