David Cedillo

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  A list of the top returning individuals in each event among Region III schools from last year's outdoor season and links to full returnees rankings lists in each event. Liberty's Craig Danner is quite an athlete with versatility that he will make it a tougher time for him deciding on which event to focus on this spring. Danner was more of a 500 meter dash specialist this past winter, but moved up to the 1000 for the AA State Indoor Meet, which proved to be a wise move as Danner won his first state title in 2:34.34 performance. 

Hidden Valley senior Carolyn Bethel opened her indoor season in epic style with two monster PR's in a distance double of a 4:53.56 1600 and 2:52.46 1000. Her 1600 time is a US leader, while the 1000 time puts her US #2 currently, but ranks her #9 all-time in Virginia high school indoor history. The 1600 meter time for Bethel also inserts her well up on the state all-time indoor list at #13.

A shocking upset was seen at last Thursday’s Region II Championships with Loudoun County senior Patrick Joseph able to break away and defeat defending Group AA state champion and returning Foot Locker finalist Thomas Madden of Skyline. Joseph had beaten before, especially on the track with Joseph being the Group AA state champion at 1600 and 800 meters. However, anything above 1600 meters was Madden’s territory to own with personal bests of 14:59 for 5K and 8:59 for two miles.  Madden will undoubtedly be out for revenge against Joseph this weekend and should setup for a great individual battle.  

Over 11 years ago, it was a Saunders girl from Jefferson Forest leading her team to a regional title and onto another state championship. Today it is Erin Saunders, the kid sister of 2001 Group AA state cross country champion Shannon Saunders, who is out in front leading the Jefferson Forest girls on a quest to enjoy the same success from their great squads over a decade ago. The Jefferson Forest sophomore Erin Saunders won the Region III title on Thursday by 25 seconds in a time of 19:34 to lead her squad to a team title as well.

  Group AA All-State distance runner and VA #13 pre-season ranked David Cedillo of Brookville High School ('13) recalls his very first high school cross country race.

    MileStat.com will be staggering out a pre-season cross country top 25 returning individual runners list for the upcoming 2012 season in groups of 5 athletes over the next few weeks. Take a look at #11 through #25 on the boys' individual side which includes three Group AA runners who will be chasing after defending champion Thomas Madden and two Northwest Region runners who were strong finishers last fall in cross country.