home results
National & NTN Regional Rankings
On December 2nd, in Portland Oregon, teams from all over the nation come to compete to be crowned the best team in America.  Two teams from each region of the United States are invited and four wild-card teams also get an invitational.  There are currently 8 regions including the Northeast, Southeast, South, Midwest, Heartland, Southwest, Northwest and California.  Your Willmar Cardinals are in the Heartland region and are currently ranked #2.  New regional rankings come out every week.

Also, there's the Super-25, which ranks the top-25 teams in the nation.  This is done by Marc Bloom who also writes the Harrier.  He's been ranking teams for 31 years now!  In the season's third poll, the Willmar Cardinal boys are ranked 10th!
Heartland Region top 10 Week 8:
1.) Potosi XC Club (Potosi,Missouri)
2.) Willmar XC Club (Willmar, Minnesota)
3.) Zumwalt XC Club (Fort Zumwalt South, Missouri)
4.) Eden Prarie XC Club (Eden Prarie, Minnesota)
5.) Rosemount XC Club (Rosemount, Minnesota)
6.) Lee's NorthXC Club (Lee's Summit North, Missouri)
7.) SLUH XC Club (University, Missouri)
8.) Bismark XC Club (Bismarck, North Dakota)
9.) Wayzata XC Club (Wayzata, Minnesota)
10.) Riverdale XC Club (Pleasant Valley, Iowa)

copyright @ John Dye
Super 25 rankings (10/31/2006):
copyright @ Marc Bloom
Willmar is ranked #10 in the nation, dropping from #6 in the previous update. click link above for top 25 teams.