Prep Cross Country- The Iowa Association of Track Coaches released their fourth edition of the team rankings for the season and seven of our local teams found spot in the top 20, including a pair of teams from the same programs.
Class 3A
The boys’ and girls’ teams of Fort Madison remained in the top 20 after each team put three runners in the top 10 at the Ron Hunerdosse Invite in Fairfield. The Bloodhounds on the girls’ side even have two runners ranked in the top 25 (Avery Rump at #13 and Addison Rump at #21).
Yet, Fort Madison had both teams fall in the rankings as the boys’ team reeled back from #17 to #18 and the girls’ team moved to #11, which was two spots back from their ranking last week.
Class 2A
A win at the Van Buren County Invite did neither to hurt or help Mediapolis’ position as they stood still at #19. The Bulldogs did add a new runner into the top 30 to join Simon Wendel in Will Schmidgall.
Class 1A
The boys’ division of the Southeast Iowa Super Conference continues to be competitive as Columbus vaulted up three spots in the rankings to #5 after winning the Sigourney Invitational, scoring a mere 34 points.
For the race, the Wildcats had five runners place within the top 10 at the meet, with each of their top six runners clocking a time sound of 18 minutes and 50 second mark. Ryan Villa anchors the squad as he has seen time within the top 30 individual rankings.
Van Buren County stumbled back to #11 after taking second at their own invite and WACO and Pekin kept their position at #14 and #15 in the rankings.
On the girls’ side, Van Buren County did move back in the rankings from a top 10 spot to #11 in this week’s rankings. The Warriors had a nice week, winning their own invite and the Ron Hunerdosse Invite after putting runners 5th through 8th place.
Up Next
The meet to circle on your calendar will be the Timm Lamb Invitational on Thursday, September 18th, as the Southeast Conference and most of the Southeast Iowa Super Conference get ready to run against one another at Rodeo Park Trail.