 The girls of Carmel, Indiana would earn the Midwest girls' first podium finish in NXN history after Wilmette XC Club (New Trier High School, Illinois) had tied for third with Wilmington XC Club (Tatnall School, Delaware) but finished fourth on the sixth-runner tiebreaker.Those two teams, however, like the rest of the field, finished far in the rear-view mirror of the Fayetteville–Manlius dynasty.For the seventh year in a row, Fayetteville–Manlius would win the national championship.