NXR-SW Preview: Utah's Top Boys Teams

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Much is made of Casey Clinger and McKay Johns, but Patrick Parker is another Caveman who can put a little hurt on you, too. Photo by Alan Versaw.

Around the entire region, the Utah boys teams are very well known for their domination of NXR-SW. Although Mountain Vista of Colorado has now seemingly carved out their own niche at NXR-SW, it doesn't look like that's on account of any sort of decline from the Utah schools.

For several years, American Fork and Davis were givens. Now, it seems that Timpanogos is making a serious bid to join the two long-standing powers as givens.

So, we'll do what we usually do here and take a look at the data from several different angles.We begin with an examination of the rankings of returning cross country runners from last fall. I'm breaking a little here from usual practice and including both 3 Mile and 5K rankings. You'll see in a moment why.

Utah All Schools Boys Rankings of Returning Cross Country Runners (Top 8 Teams)

There's a bifurcation of resu...