Freshman boy out of Texas opened under 15:30. Don’t know course well enough to comment. Think there’s your answer to fastest. At least so far. Regarding Jaden Merrick lots of self hype I take his results with a grain of salt and his self promoting comments about his unrecognized world records. There are plenty good kids this year bad thing about cross is times don’t matter much when comparing. Courses are all different. Only true comparison is headed to head or Track. Good coaches are telling kids to race for place in cross country.