Agreed. I suspect Palatine is a (very strong) early favorite to get a bid. Hard to imagine 4 more teams coming up with better resumes in the next few weeks.

I know it's early in qualifying process, and I'm from same state, but I'd say Palatine girls did themselves a world of good at NXR-Midwest. After finishing close 2nd in IL behind Naperville North (ahead of a fantastic Glenbard West team), they finished an even closer 3rd with 119 pts, behind Carmel (103pts) and Naperville N (113 pts). Tight 2-6 pack, depth to back it up, and their frontrunner is rounding back into form (7th at NXR after some relatively down races - for her - in October)

meylen-wise says SS ran about same last 2 weeks, maybe a tad better against shen...we will see soon enough!

Shenendehowa was just off the list @ #43. I thought Saratoga ran their best race of the year (so far) at State.

lost on tiebreaker to your #16 there....very solid team

shenendehowa MIA