MileSplit50 Girls Team Rankings Countdown

19.

Team: Saratoga Springs (NY)

Analysis: With five of its seven returning--including one of the country's best talents, Kelsey Chmiel--Saratoga should be a team to be reckoned with in New York and on the national scene. A year ago, Kinetic scraped into NXN after a third-place finish at NXR New York, but what's important is that its second and third runners, Sheridan and McKinley Wheeler, are both back. And they're only in the eighth-grade.

If the Wheeler's improve significantly, and senior Ciara Knott and Skyler Knott (8th) make big steps, too, then Saratoga is on pace to cut through its rather large spread (2:41.20) and its 18:44.26 average.