Dylan Souza

We took the top-800 boy 800M runners in Arizona history and then plotted out which teams would have the best fantasy 4x800 squad of all-time. 64 teams made the cut. See if your school and your athletes are in there.

 Dylan Souza (Sr., Catalina Foothills) and Yasmine Yacut (Sr., Desert Vista) are the top 800 meter returnees for the 2011 track season.

 The Xavier JV girls with Coach Van Sickle accepting an award for their first place win in the JV National race.

 

It didn't take long for Albuquerque Academy and American Fork to establish their places at the front of last year's NXR-SW event. Photo by Alan Versaw.

 The Catalina Foothills 4A I State Champs had the fastest combined times of the day! Photo by Derrik Woodbury

History of Mt. Sac Cross Country Invitational  Celebrating it's 61st year, the Mt. Sac Cross Country Invitational has come a long way since it's start in 1948 with ten schools (only boys) participating on the 1.2 mile course.  In 1965 a new 3 mile more spectator friendly course was redesigned with added hills (Poop-Out) and some "switchbacks" but it wasn't until the 1970's when girls and women started running in the event. Each year the Mt. Sac Invitational has grown in size and in the number of races needed to accommodate all the runners.  The event this weekend is host to 570 teams and 20,000 athletes not including the 5,800 Junior College runners last weekend or the Middle and Junior High runners this weekend.