The 2018 Cross Country season is about to start but it will look very different from last year.
The Old NBL & SCL have been dissected, a new league has been added along with three Napa County schools.
Here is a very rough look at who is back from last year and who the new league leaders might be.
Possible league leaders in alphabetical order.
NBL Oak division
Will McCloud, Senior, Maria Carrillo
2017: 4th NBL, 38th NCS III, State qualifier
Rory Smail, Junior, Maria Carrillo
2017: 3rd NBL, 12th NCS III, 67th State III
Colton Swinth, Junior, Maria Carrillo
2017: 5th NBL, 11th NCS III, 60th State III
NBL Redwood division
Lucas Chung, Senior, Windsor
2017: 2nd NBL, 6th NCS III, 46th State III
Alec Dierke, Junior, Analy
2017: 9th SCL, 28th NCS IV
Hunter Larson, Junior, Windsor
2017: 14th NBL, 33rd NCS III
Vine Valley Athletic League
Justin Cox, Senior, Sonoma Valley
2017: 3rd SCL, 19th NCS III
Emmanuel Guzman, Senior, Vintage,
2017: Sac-Joaquin Section Division 2 state qualifier
Owen Hite, Sophomore, Casa Grande
2017: 11th NBL, 40th NCS III
Coastal Mountain Conference
Aidan Barker, Junior, Technology
2017: 5th CMC
Paden Collard, Junior, Cloverdale
2017: 15th NCS V, 4th CMC
Isaac Methum, Senior, Rincon Valley Christian
2017: 6th CMC
Andre Williams, Senior, Sonoma Academy
2017: 4th State V, 3rd NCS V, 3rd CMC
Short meet schedule, Complete meet schedule
First meet of the year
Aug. 31, 2018, Friday
Rancho Invitational 4 pm
First CMC meets
SEPT. 12, 2018, Wednesday
ROSELAND UNIVER, ROSELAND COLL, RINCON VALLEY, ST VINCENT POINT ARENA, TECH, UPPER LAKE, CALISTOGA (Hosted by SONOMA ACD)
KELSEYVILLE, MIDDLETOWN, CLEAR LAKE, LOWER LAKE at Cashe Creek Winery
First VVAL meet
SEPT. 26, 2018, Wednesday
1st VVAL Center Meet at Maxwell Park (Sonoma Valley Hosts)
First of new NBL meets
OCT. 10, 2018, Wednesday
Montgomery, Maria Carrillo, Santa Rosa at Spring Lake
Ukiah, Piner at Healdsburg
Analy, Elsie Allen at Rancho Cotate
Cardinal Newman, Windsor at El Molino
NOV. 7, 2018, Wednesday
CMC CHAMPIONSHIP (HOST WILLITS)
NOV. 9, 2018, Friday
NBL/Redwood Championship Meet at Spring Lake
NOV. 10, 2018, Saturday
NBL/Oak Championship Meet at Ukiah
VVAL Championship Meet at Spring Lake Park (Casa Grande Hosts)
2017 League Finals returners with 2018 leagues moving to listed
2017 NBL Spring Lake 3.05 mile 2 Chung, Lucas Windsor 15:41 5:08.5 JR, Redwood 3 Smail, Rory Maria Carrillo 15:55 5:12.9 SO, Oak 4 McCloud, Will Maria Carrillo 16:03 5:15.6 JR, Oak 5 Swinth, Colton Maria Carrillo 16:04 5:16.0 SO, Oak 8 Frankl, Harrison Maria Carrillo 16:27 5:23.6 JR, Oak JV 1 Kapustka, Pierce Maria Carrillo 16:33 5:25.4 SO, Oak JV 2 Philip, Patrick Maria Carrillo 16:52 5:31.6 SO, Oak 10 Hosbein, Nolan Casa Grande 16:56 5:32.9 FR, Vine Valley 11 Hite, Owen Casa Grande 16:57 5:33.4 FR, Vine Valley 13 Moon, Logan Casa Grande 16:59 5:33.9 SO, Vine Valley 14 Larson, Hunter Windsor 16:59 5:34.0 SO, Redwood JV 4 Pugh, Owen Maria Carrillo 17:07 5:36.6 SO, Oak 15 Esponda, Garrett Casa Grande 17:09 5:37.1 JR, Vine Valley 16 Hite, William Casa Grande 17:10 5:37.4 FR, Vine Valley 18 Engel, Andrew Santa Rosa 17:15 5:39.1 SO, Oak 19 Gotshall, Andrew Casa Grande 17:18 5:40.2 SO, Vine Valley 21 Armstrong, Chris Ukiah 17:22 5:41.5 SO, Oak 23 Theuerkauf, Kyle Montgomery 17:25 5:42.3 JR, Oak 24 Oru-Craig, Brent Montgomery 17:29 5:43.7 JR, Oak 25 McCamey, Andrew Santa Rosa 17:30 5:44.2 FR, Oak 26 Van Den Daele, Leopold Cardinal Newman 17:42 5:48.1 SO, Redwood 27 Grams, Steven Santa Rosa 17:43 5:48.5 FR, Oak 28 Richter, Justin Montgomery 17:45 5:49.0 JR, Oak 29 Alvarado, Brandon Montgomery 17:45 5:49.1 JR, Oak 2017 SCL Spring Lake 3.05 mile 2 Hayes, Nathan 11 Piner 15:58, Oak 3 Cox, Justin 11 Sonoma Valley 16:18, Vine Valley 4 Godinez, Dante 11 Healdsburg 16:39, Oak 5 Delgado, Emmanuel 11 Piner 16:40, Oak 7 Villeda, Rene 10 Piner 16:51, Oak 8 Vanden Heuvel, Jack 9 Healdsburg 16:52, Oak 9 Dierke, Alec 10 Analy 17:15, Redwood 10 Cano, Jeremiah 10 Piner 17:17, Oak 11 Chauvin, Jake 11 El Molino 17:48, Redwood 12 Pichardo, Michael 11 Petaluma 17:50, Vine Valley 13 Riordan, Eric 10 El Molino 17:51, Redwood 2017 MCAL 5k College Of Marin Indian Valley Campus, Novato 22 Casey Potrebic 9 Justin-Siena 17:56, Vine Valley Vintage at Sac-Joaquin Section Subsection Championships Division 2, 3 Miles 5th 11 Emmanuel Guzman 15:49.8 Vintage, state qualifier at sectionals, Vine Valley 45th 10 Dylan Frye 16:58.0 Vintage, Vine Valley Napa had no underclassman run at Sac-Joaquin Section Championships 2017 MEL no results available 2017 Coastal Mountain Conference Finals Andre Williams 11 Sonoma Academy 17:20 Paden Collard 10 Cloverdale 17:28 Aidan Barker 10 Technology 18:31 Isaac Methum 11 Rincon Valley Chris 18:31 Luke Fuette 9 Sonoma Academy 19:01 Morgan Piper Cordo 11 Sonoma Academy 19:10