With an enrollment of 9,163 students, Cuyamaca College is one of the smallest programs in the California Community College Athletic Association.

But the Coyotes made history last year, when the men’s soccer team defied the odds by winning Cuyamaca’s first state championship.

Eleven months later, another Cuyamaca team is bidding for a state title. The Coyotes’ men’s cross country team is ranked second in the state heading into Friday morning’s Southern California Regionals at Liberty Station and the Nov. 22 state championship meet in Fresno.

“We’re a feel-good story,” coach Tim Seaman said earlier this week. “We’re a smaller team (that is) totally composed of runners from the East County area. And while they were very good runners in high school, they weren’t great. We knew going into th

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