Cecilia Kastner and Claire Shepherd helped give Salida a strong presence toward the front of the 2A-3A girls race, but how might the other 3A powers have fared if they had been in the same race? Photo by Alan Versaw.
The St. Vrain Invitational readily accommodates teams and individuals who want to run up to the 4A-5A races. It's part of what makes the St. Vrain such a great mousetrap.
But, when you do that, you create some goofiness in the scoring. It's not easy to look at the 2A-3A results and know with any certainty which small school team had the best effort at St. Vrain. Sure, Salida won the 2A-3A girls race, but how would Peak to Peak have done with their top two runners in the 2A-3A field? And, what about The Classical Academy and Denver North, who ran their entire teams in 4A-5A? What if Lily Tomasula-Martin had run in 2A-3A?
While any merge involves some assumptions that are not necessarily totally true, bringing these teams and individuals back into 3A via a merge helps us ge...
