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Where: St. Francis Retreat Center, hosted by Lansing Catholic. Michigan Catholic is run here, along with a few other races. From what I understand, the course has some turns and hills. A welcome respite from all the flat, fast regions. Michigan Catholic always runs slow, but that’s to be expected early in the season. My expectation is this will be one of the tougher regional courses.

2020 Boys: St. Louis, Ithaca, New Lothrop

2020 Girls: Ithaca, St. Louis, Pewamo-Westphalia

Top 25 Boys Teams: Lansing Catholic (Top 10), Ithaca (8), Pewamo-Westphalia (14), New Lothrop (22)

Top 25 Girls Teams: Lansing Catholic (Top Ten), Pewamo-Westphalia (Top Ten), Ithaca (9), New Lothrop (18)

Top 50 Boys (Division 3): Parks Allen (4), Espen Lehnst (6), Levi Maier (28), Chase Hobson (39), Josh Frary (41), Carson Brunk (46), Seth Coffin (48)

Top 50 Girls (Division 4): Lani Bloom (1), Hannah Pricco (12), Whitney Werner (13), CC Jones (16), Tessa Roe (23), Clara Krupp (34), Rachael Sierakowski (41)

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• Not sure if you’ve heard, but Hart has had a somewhat successful cross program over the past few years
• Audrianna has been a major help and has stepped up big at the State level
• She’s been either the 2^nd or 3^rd girl on their last three State title squads, and looks to be in place to do that again
• On any other team, she’d be the standout top runner, as she’s broken 19:00 many times, and even won Region 20 in 2019
• On the track as a freshman, she was able to show some 800m prowess and that continued this past spring, as she equaled her 7^th place finish in 2019
• And lowered her personal best from 2:21 to 2:18

• His MMOC race tells it all – he can hang with the big dogs
• Normally you don’t have a 5k time and it’s difficult to assess middle school comparisons as I feel there’s an even greater gap between high achievers and the rest of the field
• A 16:19 there, racing alongside the likes of Jacob Harberts, Ryan O’Rourke, Seth Norder, runners that will and have been in the mix
• Kilian backed it up on the track as well, attaining victory in all his middle school races, and running a respectable 9:57 while not being challenged (my guess is he had a ~9:40 in him, just judging by similar times from the athletes he competed against in that 5k)
• As far as middle school cross ratings go, his closest comparison from the past two years is: Hunter Jones. 

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Where: Delta College. I’m a big map guy. Name an area of the state and I’ve probably been there and my recollection of the Delta College area is FLAT. Once again, another regional that seems to run fast. The 2020 Region in this area was at White Pine and I’m having trouble (read: it’s late and I don’t want to search) finding ratings from 2019.

2020 Boys: Caro, Clare, Reese

2020 Girls: Reese, Clare, Sandusky

Top 25 Boys Teams: St. Louis (Top Ten), Caro (17)

Too 25 Girls Teams: St. Louis (Top Ten), Reese (8), Sandusky (11), Caro (12)

Top 50 Boys (Division 3): Aaron Bowerman (10), Matthew Pattullo (13), Ben March (15), Connor Stefanovsky (19), Nate March (23), Tristan Lovett (25), Erik Kent (31)

Top 50 Girls (Division 3): Mikenna Borie (15), Libby Munderloh (17), Jaiden Dickman (20), Jenna Sweeney (22), Makenzie Kreger (29), Kinsie Jacques (35)