PREVIEW
Location: Appleton Golf Course, Appleton
Weather: 70's, humid, cloudy, chance of thunderstorms late
BOYS
Virtual Meet Projections: Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd (24), Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta (80), Benson/KMS (88), BOLD (96)
Top Individuals: Mikey Kvaal (LQPVDB, 16:29), Noah Stewart (MACA, 16:57), Ezekiel Sather (LQPVDB, 17:16), Rory Schackelford (YME, 17:29), Nathan Frank (BOLD, 17:41)
The Skinny: With many of these teams going on just one day of rest after running at Morris, it will be interesting to see how everything plays out. Class A #6 LQPVDB is the very strong favorite and have a lot of momentum after taking down West Central Area, and they even have some room to improve too (I'm sure Mikey Kvaal would have liked to be a little bit quicker than 17:23). But one runner that we really need to watch, and who may find himself ranked very soon, is MACA's Noah Stewart, who shattered his PR by 34 seconds in his first race of the season. Stewart is coming off an excellent track season that saw him run 10:16 in the 3200m, so it may not be all that surprising to see improvement, but this much so soon has got to have both him and racing fans excited.
GIRLS
Virtual Meet Projection: Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd (29), Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta (55), Ortonville (86)
Top Individuals: Isabel Schirm (LQPVDB, 20:11), Meredith Carrington (MACA, 20:30), Clarissa Vanderwal (Ortonville, 20:48)