Saucony Elite 50 Team Girls Rankings Week 5

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Simi Valley cleaned up at Clovis this weekend. (Photo by Bob Binnie)

Saucony Elite 50 Team Girls | Week 5

*Editor's Note: The Saucony Elite 50 refers to the top-50 teams in the country (25 boys and 25 girls).

Simi Valley (CA) showed up big at the Clovis Invitational, winning with 60 points and the 6th fastest total team time average on the course!  They are back in a big way and currently ranked #7 in the US, of course led by US#2 Sarah Baxter, who is an unstoppable force of her own. 

On the other end of the country #2 Unionville and #4 Fayetteville-Manlius battled once again at the Manhattan Invite, this time over 4k instead of 5k.  The score was an oh-so-close 89 to 92 between the squads with #8 Assumption 3rd with 146 and #24 Pennsbury 4th with 159.  Unionville has won both match-ups of the year, but despite the shorter distance Fay-Man looks to be improving each time out and could very well be in title contention form by the end of the year.  Now this is what XC is all about!

#10 Blacksburg (VA) won another big one at Albermarle with a mere 24 points to win by over 100 points.  In addition, Myers Park (NC) joins the rankings at #25 and they could be very competitive with #16 Green Hope (NC) later in the season.

Stay tuned each week as we bring you the Saucony Elite 50 Team Girls every Wednesday morning!

Rank School State
1 Carmel IN
2 Unionville PA
3 Davis UT
4 Fayetteville-Manlius NY
5 Seaholm MI
6 Wayzata MN
7 Simi Valley CA
8 Assumption KY
9 Monarch CO
10 Blacksburg VA
11 Naperville North IL
12 Capistrano Valley CA
13 Palatine IL
14 Northville MI
15 Bozeman MT
16 Green Hope NC
17 Saratoga Springs NY
18 New Trier IL
19 Fort Collins CO
20 Cherry Creek CO
21 Park City UT
22 Coeur D'Alene ID
23 Glenbard West IL
24 Pennsbury PA
25 Myers Park NC
Watch list (Alphabetical order): American Fork (UT); Arrowhead (WI); Barrington (RI); Buchanan (CA); Cardinal Gibbons (NC); Desert Vista (AZ); Legacy (CO); Rockford (MI); Saline (MI); St. Francis (CA); The Woodlands (TX); Xavier Prep (AZ)