Pre-Season XC Rankings - Private School Boys Individuals

While the transfer of Josh Morris to Fork Union with personal bests of 15:34 for 5K and 9:29 for 3200 meters will certainly hurt the chances of many private school state champion hopefuls for this fall, Episcopal rising junior Reid Nickle (pictured above by Brandon Miles) is confident of his chances of defeating Morris and others in November at Woodberry Forest. Nickle had a great sophomore year with track bests of 1:57 for 800, 4:26 for 1600, and 9:37 for 3200 meters as well as VISAA state runner-up indoors 1600 meters.

Several runners made considerable improvements during the track season from last fall to provide for a handful of returnees who will be gunning for state titles including the Woodberry Forest duo of Max Anderson (4:22 1600, 9:42 3200) and Kevin Bennert (9:48 3200), while Michael Bailey of Greenbrier Christian made an enormous drop from his cross country 5K PR of 16:51 when he posted a time of 15:46 on the track for 5000 meters at the MileStat.com Elite Track Gala...