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The final runner to watch this year doesn’t even have to deal with any of the other top runners in the state. He is lucky enough to be in Class A and not in AA. In Class A there is no one that can touch this guy. This guy’s name is Shane Streich of Waseca. Shane has been to state every year from seventh grade through his junior year. According to milesplit he ran a 17:25 as a seventh grader. Not many kids at that age can do that. During the runner’s eight grade year he pulled off a 16:31. That’s a whole minute he cut off between his first two years of cross country. Streich finished 14th as an eighth grader at the state meet. You knew at this point we had a special runner coming up. His freshman year he shocked us even more. He ran a 16:15 and ended up fifth. The athlete kept on impressing into his sophomore year running a 15:52 at state and finishing third behind two seniors. Setting Shane up to win his junior and senior year. Unfortunately, his junior year a guy by the name of Keeghan Hurley showed up and beat Shane by over 20 seconds. He still ran a good race though running a 15:50 finishing second with a big gap on third place (MSHSL State Cross Country Championships).  This will be Streich’s last year to claim that state championship. With Keeghan gone he is the clear favorite to win it all. Shane doesn’t have to deal with the AA kids and no one in Class A can come close to him. Even if the runner did have to worry about Class AA the only one he would have to worry about would be Connor Olson. Now that would be a fun race to watch. We will get to see those two battle it out at the Roy Griak Invitational though. Watching the two best runners go at it is always fun and guaranteed to make you nervous