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Always one of the best conferences in Minnesota, the Lake Conference Championships were again a thrilling meet with fast times, dominant victories, and many PRs at the legendary Gale Woods Farm course.
It was another huge day for a dominant Wayzata cross country program that has now won four straight boys and back-to-back girls Lake Conference titles. This year the boys won by a dominant 20 points and the girls won by an even more dominant 47 points.
The Wayzata boys averaged a new state-best time of 15:50 en route to a dominant victory over the previous top-ranked team in Minnetonka. They put nine runners under 17 minutes to easily wrap up a huge victory.
The girls did them even better, winning by a whopping 47 points and owning a 5K average at the meet that was 30 seconds better than the Minnetonka girls. Their team average of 18:46 is a new Minnesota state best for the season.
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2023 Lake Conference Boys Team Results
| Rank | Team | Score |
| 1 | Wayzata | 35 |
| 2 | Minnetonka | 55 |
| 3 | Edina | 64 |
| 4 | Eden Prairie | 110 |
| 5 | Buffalo | 127 |
| 6 | Hopkins | 152 |
| 7 | STMA | 185 |
2023 Lake Conference Girls Team Results
| Rank | Team | Score |
| 1 | Wayzata | 29 |
| 2 | Edina | 76 |
| 3 | Minnetonka | 79 |
| 4 | STMA | 93 |
| 5 | Hopkins | 106 |
| 6 | Eden Prairie | 162 |
| 7 | Buffalo | 187 |
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In the individual races, it was one close finish right at the line and a runaway victory by one of Minnesota's young stars. On the boys side it was Wayzata's Will Weber who was narrowly able to hold off Minnetonka's Sean Fries at the line and on the girls side, rising Minnetonka star Evie Malec ran away for an easy victory.
Both Weber and Fries ran top-ten Lake Conference times all-time a the meet, now ranking #6 and and #8 all-time. Wayzata's Connor Olson still holds the record with a time of 15:09.8. Fries ran thefastest sophomore time in meet history.
On the girl's side, Minnetonka's Evie Malec dominated en route to a 26-second victory, running a time of 17:49.4 which is the 4th fastest time in meet history and the 2nd fastest freshmen girls time at the meet all-time.
The girl's individual race should be just as good if not better next year with the top five runners all returning in Malec, Sydney Drevlow, Jazleen Malherek-Osorio, Avery Marasco-Johnson, and Alyson Kleyman. Even scarier is that the Wayzata girls will return their top six finishers from this year's meet and will get Maddie Gullickson back from injury.
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