Shorewood is a Division 2 school based on enrollment. We are one of the only D2 schools in the Milwaukee area with a serious cross country team. That means that most of the teams we will race for the state title are from up north or out west, which means that we never run against them until state. Instead we run in a lot of large invitational meets in our area that are dominated by some of the better Division 1 teams.
Our biggest challenge this year will come from Monroe.
Monroe was Division 1 last year and has a very good group of Juniors returning. They won the Verona invite last week while we were winning the rebel invite. Just for fun a comparison of the top six runners last week looks like this :
Monroe ------------- Shorewood
Kehoe 16:28 ---- Walsh 16:40
Miles 16:44 ----- Haury 16:47
Wells 17:10 ------ Erickson 17:00
Klein 17:21 ------ Stewart 17:18
DeNure 17:33 --- Salmon 17:32Liimatainen 18:06 - Valusek 17:37
Of course anything can happen over the course of a season. Ankles get twisted, bones break, fatigue and illness take a toll. However at the moment it looks like State could be very exciting and close again.
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