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McKeel (Lakeland)

2A Region 2 · District 4

#5 Preseason 2A Boys#17 Preseason 2A Girls#8 Week 1 2A Boys

Preseason returner projection (Boys): proj. rank 5 in 2A · score 210 · top-5 avg 18:00.6 · spread 3:08.0 · 6 returners from state
Aidan Alam (SO) 16:17.8; Cal Howard (JR) 16:55.4; Nolan O'Steen (SR) 17:59.8; Andrew McKnight (SR) 19:24.3; Nico Burke (SO) 19:25.8
Preseason returner projection (Girls): proj. rank 17 in 2A · score 393 · top-5 avg 22:46.0 · spread 1:33.5 · 6 returners from state
Elin Jonsson (JR) 21:49.7; Emma Hollingsworth (FR) 22:49.3; Camille Wiggs (SO) 22:52.9; Ava Tobias (SO) 22:54.9; Audrey Ross (FR) 23:23.2

Current roster (12)

AthleteClassThis season (5k)Last season (5k)Races
GAudrey Ross203023:23.21
GAva Tobias202922:54.91
GCamille Wiggs202922:52.91
GElin Jonsson202821:49.71
GEmma Hollingsworth203022:49.31
GMadylin Toy203023:42.31
BAidan Alam202916:17.81
BAndrew McKnight202719:24.31
BCal Howard202816:55.41
BKeith Kopp202719:30.11
BNico Burke202919:25.81
BNolan O'Steen202717:59.81

Team ranking writeups

#8 — 2A Boys Week 1 · 288 points — (P)

5-man average 18:01.2 · 1-5 spread 3:08.0 · finished 3-16-47-110-112 · projected

The best 1-2 in the class after Bolles and the worst 3-5 in the top ten. Aidan Alam 16:18.4 — third in 2A, fourth on our individual board, a rising sophomore off a 16:17.8 state run as a freshman — and Cal Howard 16:56.0 at sixteenth. Then Nolan O'Steen 18:00.4 at 47th, and then it collapses: Andrew McKnight 19:24.9 and Nico Burke 19:26.4 at 110th and 112th.

McKeel has the lowest 5-man average of any team ranked 6th through 10th and it still scores 288, because two runners in the first sixteen do not outrun two runners past 110. The Wildcats did not enter a meet, so there is no evidence either way about whether their four and five moved this summer. It is the single most leveraged unknown in the class.