With no definitive team favorite going into Saturday, the competition for supremacy is expected to be a battle at the Festival of Champions at Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast. The Scarborough Red Storm are the defending champions and have won the event four times over the past eight years. They are expected to challenge once again.
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With the Maine Festival of Champions meet coming up on Saturday, we've got the 500 fastest boys runners of all-time from the meet.
With the Maine Festival of Champions meet coming up on Saturday, we've got the 500 fastest girls runners of all-time from the meet.
Want to know who the individual & team champions have been from each year of FOC, well we've got the list for you.
North Carolina, Vermont and Maine are the destinations of choice for a handful of schools.
The 15th running of the Festival of Champions is set to be held this Saturday at Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast. The event has blossomed into the premiere cross country race in Maine, and has also attracted out of state teams over the years.
Here is the Boys virtual meet based on 2016 season's best times
Here is the Girls virtual meet based on 2016 season's best times
We've scored the Festival of Champions using the seed times submitted by their teams respective coaches.
We've scored the Festival of Champions using the seed times submitted by their teams respective coaches.
FOC Photopalooza 5000+ images from Maine's largest one day HS Sporting event(via MileSplit)
We couldn't make up our mind so we decided to go with two.
We've scored FOC with just the Class B teams to get an idea of where teams stand with one month to go.
WATCH Quincey Lyden of Westbrook win the Freshman Race at FOC(via MileSplit)
Legacy team scores look at a team's best seven runners over the history of a specific meet, in this case the Maine XC Festival of Champions. By compiling the fastest seven times run by any runner in that time period, we then score those athletes against each other.