Steven Cross of Merritt Island dominated Chain of Lakes Park earlier this season at the short-course Astronaut Invitational. Can he defend?
Team Outlook
Belen Jesuit has won every flrunners.com Invitational Boys Race of Champions since the beginning of the decade in 2010. But could this be the end of their five-year win streak?
The 3A #1 ranked Belen Jesuit boys will face not only tough competition from within the state, with teams like Lyman and Trinity Prep, but their biggest threat hails from the state of New York. This year we will be visited by St. Anthony's from Long Island. They are the second-ranked team in the Empire State (behind defending national champs Fayetteville-Manlius) and ranked 18th in the MileSplit Saucony Flo 50 national rankings, after finishing 8th at NXN last year (but lost 4 of their top 7).
It will require a tall order for anyone to take down Frederick Buckholtz led St. Anthony's, who looks to become only the third out-of-state team in meet history to upset...
