The reason why they were not ranked top 10 in the state is that I don’t think the rankers took the following runners in consideration:
-Morgan Nygren, who was out for the 2020 season due to health issues
-Tiffany Sax - she was an incoming freshmen so I don’t think the rankers have ever heard of her
-Lexi Darley - who transferred from another school but I don’t think they rankers knew she was going to NP.
So that’s 3 runners in their top 5.
-Samantha Spaulding - she hasn’t really done much of high school CC before and I think she transferred from elsewhere.
Without those 4, the team would have only McDonnell, Hawkins, and Brotcke. Other than that, there wouldn’t be enough depth for this team to be a top 10 team in the state.
But those 7 merged into one team and formed into the Magnificent 7.
There are many schools whose both boys and girls team were in the top 10 regularly. FM. They actually won both boys and girls NXN in 2014. Boys won in 2005 and girls got second. Great Oak had many years where both their boys and girls teams made top 10. Loudoun Valley did in 2019. American Fork in 2015. Wayzata in 2014.