Preseason All-StanCo XC Girls' Team

Richardson, Beliera, Ruvalcaba, and Garcia

Producing an all-anything list is inherently controversial and problematic. Attempting to produce a pre-season all-whatever list is destine to unravel as the season unfolds. To illustrate this folly, all you have to do is compare any NCAA pre-season football ranking to those at the end of the season to see that even the most knowledgeable analysts can be oh so wrong. With all of that said, I am still going to give this a shot. I will view it as the starting point of what I hope will be a successful season for all StanCo XC runners.

Preseason All-StanCo XC Girls' Team
The girls' list is perhaps easier than the boys' given that only 2 of last year's top-ten all StanCo team graduated (whereas with the boys eight of the ten graduated). I should also say that the names are in no particular order--they are NOT RANKED! All underlined athletes were on last year's end of season list.

Mendoza, Torres, and Maravilla

MYA TORRES, 11th, Gregori
SAVANNAH MENDOZA, 11th, Modesto
TORREY MARAVILLA, 11th, Gregori
SABRINA GARCIA, 12th, Riverbank
KIM RUVALCABA, 11th, Riverbank
HALEY RICHARDSON, 12th, Riverbank
LUPE VENTURA, 12th, Patterson
MEAGAN WARWICK & NICOLE WARWICK, 10th, Modesto Christian
JOCELYN BELIERA, 10th, Riverbank
MAKENZIE SALYER, 12th, Turlock

Richardson, Garcia, and the Warwick twins

Technically that is 11 names. I found it extremely difficult to separate Nicole and Meagan Warwick last year. Meagan eventually made the end of the year list, but Nicole was probably the next one in line. It doesn't take a genius to see that Riverbank is still loaded with up front talent (but not very deep). Barring injury they are easily the best team in the county. Gregori could easily put two in the top three in the MMC, but it remains to be seen it they can muster the supporting cast to battle a MoHi team that returns nearly intact from top to bottom.

Young and Derdivanis

TEN MORE TO WATCH  (again in no order)
CASSIE DERDIVANIS, 11th, Turlock
ANNA PERRONE, 12th, Oakdale
KERRY YOUNG, 10th, Modesto
HAYLEE OSGOOD, 11th, Downey
ARIELLE NAMES, 11th, Downey
EMILY CARIASO, 11th, Pitman
RAVEENA SAMRA, 12th, Turlock
LISETTE CARRETERO, 12th, Ceres
MICHELLE LAYNE, 12th, Enochs
SONIA PEREZ, 11th, Modesto

Names and Osgood

A few notes here: Lisette Carretero will probably be a distant second behind Ventura in the WAC. She is a solid runner but Ventura is figuratively in a different league. Michelle Layne has the talent to make the top-ten list, but I'm not even sure that she is running this year. Kerry Young is a HUGE talent with little varsity experience. MoHi will need her to take the MMC. Turlock and Downey probably will battle for the 4th/5th best teams status in the county (behind RBK, MoHi, and Gregori--in that order).

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Tomorrow night I'll try to get the boys' list posted.