Ten Class A Boys Teams With Shots At Winning In 2018


Greenway/Nashwauk-Keewatin

You cannot talk about GNK without talking about Geno Uhrbom. There is no single runner in Class A, nor has there been in a long time, who is more exciting than Geno Uhrbom. One of the best freshman in the nation and the third-place finisher at state a year ago, Uhrbom spearheaded yet another young, talented squad that had been ranked highly all season, even in spite of Uhrbom finishing well over a minute ahead of GNK's typical number-two runner Greg Peterson. But while the graduation of Cody Staydohar really hurts by pushing GNK's returning 1-5 spread up to an almost-staggering three minutes, Peterson has been showing great and consistent growth the past two years (he is coming off of running 10:05 in the 3200m last track season) and could be on the verge of breaking out into being one of the state's best number-two runners. If he does that, it won't take a whole lot of improvement from the rest of GNK's squad to push for an even higher finish at state than their seventh-place spot in 2017.

Top 2017 Returners

1) Geno Uhrbom 2021 15:36.94
2) Greg Peterson 2020 17:03.40
3) Spencer Engel 2020 17:23.10
4) Daniel Olson 2022 17:47.40
5) Dylan Dechampeau 2020 18:35.90
Average Time: 17:17.35 Total Time: 1:26:26.74 1-5 Split: 2:58.96
6) Terrence Palkki 2019 18:52.20
7) Ryan Olson 2020 18:54.40