Eli Hoeft's impressive run at the Lucky Lindy Invitational was the best time of the week. Who else ran fast? Check out the top 500 boys and girls times from the past seven days!
Both Hugo Ruiz and Mitchell Johnstone have run three race this year, and they have faced each other in all three. Now with today's only XC action in the state taking place at Loyola High School, it'll be four...
With the boys freshman class starting to show their talent last week, the best of the bunch was Edina's Otto Schreiner, who opened his season with a time of 16:34. Check out the top 100 boys and girls in each class!
Check out the latest performances run by Minnesota's graduates from all over the nation!
Better late than never! Here are the video interviews and highlight from last week's Monticello Invitational!
There was a bit of a shuffle after last week's meets, with some longstanding teams and athletes dropping off in favor of those on recent hot stretches. Check out what has changed in this week's Coaches Poll!
Lauren Peterson had the quickest time of the week in her wire-to-wire win at Faribault last week? Who else had a quick race? Check out the top 500 boys and girls performances from the first week of school!
We caught up with the race winners at the Faribault Invitational for a few words, and got some race footage too.
Check out all our footage and interviews from the famous Bauman/Rovn Invitational at Gale Woods.
We recorded the action at the Hastings Don Minnaert Invitational yesterday. Check out our race footage and on-site interviews!
Check out the interviews and race videos from yesterday's Gerry Smith Invitational hosted by Tri-City United!
Workout Wednesday is coming to Minnesota this fall. For the first episode, we got a chance to visit Farmington High School for a tough, endurance-building (and hopefully confidence-building) workout.
Harris Anderson had the best week of any junior in the state last week. Who else had a good week amongst their peers? Check out the top 100 runners in every grade so far this season...
Innocent Murwanashyaka opened his season strong for the Iowa Central CC Tritons, who are the defending NCAAJ National Champions. Check out how Minnesota's graduates performed last week!
Check out the first update for this season's Minnesota XC Coaches poll!
It was one of the best opening weeks in recent memory for Minnesota Cross Country, and there were no boys better than Caleb Haugland. Check out the 500 best times of the week for each gender!
We collected some of our observations of the events of this past week in cross country, and we want to hear yours! Check our our first Grains of Thought" article...
Check out our race videos and interviews from the Wabasha-Kellogg Gallop!
There weren't a whole lot of races, but there were a few notable ones. Check out the fastest times run by Minnesota athletes last week!
Check out the first edition of the 2018 XC Coaches Association Rankings!
Who has the strongest teams coming into the season based on last year's season bests? We calculate that it very-well may be the defending State Champs. Check out our preseason composite class team scores!
If you have either a camcorder or a camera and love the sport of cross country, you can help us! We still want help in providing the greatest possible amount of photo and video coverage possible...
In our final preseason preview, the only thing that is left is to look back at the best returning Class A boys teams, a field so saturated by youth that it is hard to imagine some of these squads ever growing up!
Which returning XC runners had the most balanced track seasons? Who improved the most from the fall to the spring? Who is also excellent in the 400? Check out our track and XC side-by-side comparision...
Do you have your fingers on the pulse of Minnesota cross country and track? Do you need another excuse to keep attending meets? Do you have a camera or a computer keyboard? Then we have an offer for you!
The Gatorade Players of the Year for track and field were named yesterday, and Minnesota's honorees were Emily Kompelien of Edina for the girls and Samuel Moore of Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale for the boys.
We salute Parker Wilhoit, an athlete who nearly lost his passion for running only to find it again and come oh-so-close to earning a qualification to the State cross country championships...
We salute Lukas Pierson, who didn't have quite the senior season he had hoped he would when it comes to individual State Meet sucess, but helped his St. James teammates pull off a remarkable accomplishment
We salute Jordyn Sterud out of Lac qui Parle Valley, a longtime pillar of a quality program in Class A. Her greatest accomplishments have not been individual, but the result of team efforts...