1. Woodbridge Cross Country Classic (CA)
- - -
Description: Get. Ready. For Woodbridgeee! Yet again, this meet will bring the heat with a litany of epic races. There's the national-level battle boys between No. 2 Great Oak (CA) and No. 3 Newbury Park (CA), No. 15 El Paso Eastwood (TX) and No. 17 Southlake Carroll (TX) and the equally impressive girls race featuring No. 5 Great Oak (CA), No. 10 Desert Vista (AZ), Desert Hills (UT) Southlake Carroll (TX). If that wasn't enough, it looks like the meet record of 13:55 on the boys could go down with a legendary performance from Nico Young, the returning fourth-place finisher at NXN whom many believe to be one of the top contenders for the 2019 version the race.
No one broke 14 minutes at last year's race, but more than one athlete could earn that honor in 2019, including Young's teammate, Jace Aschbrenner, Austin Vandegrift's Anthony Monte, or Great Oak's Gabe Abbes. The girls race will feature the debut of McKinney North's London Culbreath and efforts from Buchanan's Corie Smith, Del Oro's Riley Chamberlain, Great Oak's Tori Gaitan and Desert Vista's Lauren Ping and Grace Ping. Gaitan was seventh as a sophomore at Woodbridge.