The Harrier Rankings
Super 25 national team rankings of the 2004 cross country season
Pre-Season
by Marc Bloom, editor, The Harrier

Pre-season US#1 teams in Marc Bloom's Harrier Super 25 rankings are Saratoga Springs NY girls and York Elmhurst IL boys. Saratoga has been #1 nine of the last 11 years, but faces a serious challenge this year from Smoky HIll Aurora CO, like Saratoga boasting two returning Foot Locker national finalists. York, returning to national power with coach Joe Newton's best team since the Don Sage-led teams of the late 1990s, is picked to bump last year's top team, The Woodlands TX, down to #2.

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The Harrier
Super 25 National Rankings
2004 Pre-Season 8/27/04

1.York Elmhurst IL
2.The Woodlands TX
3.Jesuit Portland OR
4.Ferris Spokane WA
5.Royal Simi Valley CA
6.Albuquerque Academy NM
7.Roosevelt Des Moines IA
8.Don Lugo Chino CA
9.Columbus North IN
10.Jesuit Tampa FL
11.Mountain View Orem UT
12.Central Catholic OR
13.Denver South CO
14.Marshall MN
15.Dexter MI
16.Christian Brothers NJ
17.Milford MI
18.Toms River North NJ
19.Winter Park FL
20.Cedar Cliff PA
21.Liberty MO
22.Kingwood TX
23.Murrieta Valley CA
24.Lockport NY
25.Fayetteville-Manlius NY

 1.Saratoga Springs NY
2.Smoky Hill Aurora CO
3.Clarkston MI
4.Los Alamos NM
5.Ventura CA
6.Carroll Southlake TX
7.Bay Shore NY
8.Yankton SD
9.Bowling Green OH
10.Bellarmine Prep WA
11.Fountain Valley CA
12.Iowa City West IA
13.Jesuit Portland OR
14.Hatboro-Horsham PA
15.Holy Trinity FL
16.Gwynedd Mercy PA
17.Snohomish WA
18.Flathead Kalispell MT
19.Reno NV
20.West Plains MO
21.Fremont Plain City UT
22.Mountain Pointe AZ
23.Naperville North IL
24.Pope John Paul FL
25.Kingwood TX
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