Boys 5K
Two of our top seeds in the boys 5K are also entered in the 3200 meter run, so unlikely will see both Emerson Miller of Buchholz or Alec Miller of Sarasota racing in both and will scratch to focus on the other. Going to guess that the 3200 will be their choice, but if not then certainly the two unrelated Millers could push for a time close to 15 minutes flat.
Without them, The King's Academy senior Colton Lawson would be the fastest entrant and seed after running 15:26 earlier this cross country season at South County Regional Park as the Spanish River Invitational champion. Despite dealing with illness around regional time, Lawson still gutted up a fifth place finish in the 2A race and last week finished as the runner-up in the FACA All-Star Senior Meet.
His track bests from last spring include a 4:20 1600 meter performance and 9:31 run in the 3200 meter run. Still an unsigned senior, Lawson will likely be focusing on the 5K at the next level on the track and curious to see how close to 15 minutes flat that he can run on Saturday night.
Dayton Law, a graduate of Satellite High School last spring and didn't go far from home to run for his high school coach Doug Butler at Eastern Florida State College, is coming off a 36th place finish in the 8k race at the NJCAA D1 Cross Country Championships last weekend. Law has a 5K cross country best of 15:54, but certainly is fit enough to run well in the 15 minute range on the track and last spring flirted with sub 9 in the 3200 with his 9:03 performance at the FSU Relays.
After Lawson, the next fastest high school competitor in the field is Alejandro Romagosa with a 15:47 5K best and two weeks ago helped lead the Christopher Columbus boys to a 4A runner-up finish in the state cross country meet.
Could see a pack of runners behind him ready to break 16 minutes for the first time taking advantage of racing a 5K on the track including Vero Beach's Kenand Willard, Bloomingdale's Brandon Witherow, Southwest Florida Christian's Hayden Tank, Newsome's Trevor Connaster, South Florida HEAT's Hunter Morgan, and Pedro Menendez's Ryan Jones all in that 16:01 to 16:15 time range from their cross country season bests.