Newbury Park High transformed from anonymous runners to national champions in five years, breaking records and redefining teenage running expectations.

The team’s success stemmed from an extreme belief system that convinced runners they could always run faster than anyone thought possible.

By 2021, the squad needed privacy tents at meets to escape selfie-seeking fans and focus before potentially shattering more national records.

On the night before the national championship our team had been building toward for five years, there was only one thing left to do.

Buy a tent.

It was December 3, 2021. The boys of California’s Newbury Park High School cross country squad, the top-ranked high school cross country team in the United States, were eating a carb-loading dinner at an Airbnb in Hun

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