THIS
WEEK
- results, rankings, and other current news
(alphabetical by state)
AL 4th
Jesse Owens Invitational - St. Paul's AL soph Tara
Lenn 18:15 5k is fifth straight victory in fastest
time in Alabama this season. South #6 Hoover AL boys
dominate with first four runners and 16 point score.
Houston TN wins girls title. Meet draws 2,200
runners. Joey Warner's
report.
AZ Doug
Conley Inv - Marana Mtn View AZ sr Emily McGregor
18:03 5k. Rio Rico sr Eric Chavez 15:21.
Cataline Foothills boys and Mountain
Pointe girls win.
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Mohamed
Trafeh |
Clovis
preview - big meet on state
meet course Woodward Park, Fresno, this weekend (10/12)
will feature Mohamed Trafeh, Tim Nelson, and Rachel
Bryan.
33rd Yucaipa Inv - Big showdown
between Duarte jr Mohamed Trafeh and
Etiwanda sr Mike Poe ends when Poe
takes good spill just before mile - another big win
for Trafeh in 15:03 3m, #2 time ever on the hilly course
behind Ryan Hall's CR 14:52! DyeStatCal
on-site coverage.
Central Park Inv, Huntington Beach
- Chapparal NV jr Patrick Swick 15:31
3m.
Kenny
Staub Inv - Canyon Country sr Ryan Morgan
15:30 5k, Alhambra jr Lindsay Flacks
18:42.
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DyeStatCal Athlete
of the Week
Girls: Granite Bay jr Caitlin
Chock. Boys: Duarte jr Mohamed
Trafeh.
DyeStatCal Coach of the Week
Girls: Chris
Walsh, Campolindo Moraga. Boys: Kevin
Smith, Oak Park. |
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Pat Amato
Classic - US#5 Smoky Hill CO girls continue
hot with soph Katelyn Kaltenbach (left)
winning with a 9-second PR in 18:00 5k at Northglenn. Older
sister Megan Kaltenbach sat out the race as she is recovering
from illness. Smoky Hill is undefeated this season, winning
a local meet last week without either Kaltenbach while the
sisters were at the Great American. Smoky Hill's Brent
Vaughn broke a 10-year-old meet record in 15:32,
beating Alex Clayton by 41 seconds, but the team title went
to the Fort Collins boys.
HI Kamehameha
Inv - Woodbridge CA jr Michael Hadden 15:23
3m. Thousand Oaks CA sweeps team titles,
with their Whitney McDonald 18:25 winning
girls race.
IL Illinois
Week by IllinoisRunner.com - Edwardsville sr Stephen
Pifer, Normal West sr Meghan Braffet,
and US#16 Sandburg girls impress.
IL 32nd
Patrick Savage Inv - Carmel IN jr Katie Harrington
17:31 3m for a course record. Brother Rice IL sr
Brent Cunningham 15:11 won the top boys race.
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FL
Gator
Invitational - Cocoa Beach sr
Elly Kabboord, Footlocker South's 2nd
fastest returnee from last year, is defeated by Tampa
King jr Laura Bowerman, (left)
who sets a PR of 18:15. Kabboord 18:17. Miami
Our Lady of Lourdes wins team title over South
#7 Holy Trinity, 130 to 175 in matchup
of state's best. Soph Jeff Masterson 15:35
leads Mitchell boys 138. Bowerman
photo by Ricky Quintana |
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| GA
Alexander
Invitational Marist
girls upset Southeast #6 Lakeside-Dekalb, 83-84,
led by Christy Brewer's 30-second win
(right) in 18:43 5k. South #7 Brookwood
boys win. Wesleyan sr Cristan Duval 15:34
beats Georgia top rated Ashenafi Arega by 3 seconds. |
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IN
Indiana
Week
by IndianaRunner.com
US#13 Columbus North wins big Manchester
Inv with 45 points, Indiana #2 Northrop
Fort Wayne 61. North's Christian Wagner
15:01 5k (left) is second fastest
ever at Manchester. . Wawasee IN soph Rachel
Stichter 13:40 4k (right) edges Lake
Central IN sr Tiffany Redlarczyk by
3 seconds. This was the 34th Manchester Inv and the
meet director announced after the meet that it was the
last. Lawrence North IN sr Nef Araia 15:12
5k set a meet record in the Marion County Championships,
continuing undefeated in 7 races this season and leading
his team to victory. Araia also visited Notre Dame this
week and will visit Indiana and Stanford before making
a college choice. Cathedral swept team
titles in the Indianapolis City Championships. |
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KS Kansas
week by Anthony Bozarth - Shawnee Mission South jr Connie
Abbott 11:32 at Bishop Miege Inv. Blue Valley
North girls 27 over Shawnee Mission NW 41
at USATF Inv; Shawnee Mission NW boys 31.
Kansas #8 Olathe East boys 59, Kansas #5
Free State 67 at Haskell Nation Sweepstakes;
Free State girls win.
MA McIntyre
Inv - The class of Massachusetts girls was divided between
Division 1 and Division 2 and the two won't meet head to head
until the Foot Locker Northeast regional. Oliver Ames sr Sara
Powell won Div 1 in 18:26.0, and Bromfield sr Ari
Lambie won Div 2 in 18:25.2.
MD Harford
Invitational - C. Milton Wright sweeps team and individual
honors: Boys 35, Girls 73, sr Pat Bailey 15:23,
soph Kelli Buck 18:26. Course records for
both Bailey and Buck.
ME Festival
of Champions - Ellsworth boys 83. Cumberland
RI girls 55. Fastest individuals are Brewer sr Heather
Clark 19:33 5k and Belfast ME soph Levi Miller
16:25.
MI 43rd
Oakland County Championships - US#14 Milford MI
boys 31 points, the lowest score in this meet since
1962 and 76 points ahead of runnerup Novi.
MI O.K. Silver Jamboree - Allendale jr Jamie
Watson 17:40 5k, 24 seconds ahead of Kelloggsville
sr Nicole Bush.
MO Missouri
Runners Nation week - West Plains sweeps
Horton meet in Memphis, US#3 boys 19 and girls 24. Sr Josh
Harper 15:14 3m and soph Jennifer Harper
18:16 lead the way. Blue Springs boys get
a perfect 15 at Parkway West Inv in St. Louis.
MT Helena
Preview - Flathead soph Zoe Nelson 16:46
3m at 4400 feet, breaking her own course record by 43 seconds
and continuing undefeated season with a course record in all
five meets.
NC Wendy's
Inv - Spring Valley SC freshman Kate Niehaus
18:08 5k wins a big invitational. North Forsyth NC sr Bobby
Mack 15:39 wins boys invitational division. Team
champs are Watauga NC girls 79 and Dorman
boys 89.
NC Hagan
Stone Classic - South View boys repeat
led by Jason Williams 16:04.
NH Great
Bay 5K road race - Home schooled New Hampshire soph Chantelle
Dron finished 8th in 17:39, third fastest woman overall.
NH Hillcat
Inv - Hillsboro-Deering sr Zach Emerson 15:35
5k took 42 seconds off his own course record.
NJ Shore
Coaches Inv - Hawthorne Christian sr Lindsay Van
Alstine 18:29 5k is fastest of meet on hot day at
Holmdel Park, winning by nearly 2 minutes. Trotter twins are
1-2 in a different race, Amanda and Katy finishing together
in 18:46. Oskar Nordenbring 16:11 was fastest
boy of the day, with 38 boys breaking 17 minutes. Boys team
title went to Mainland with a 16:52 average
time, followed by Christian Brothers Academy 16:57.
NJ Northern Hills Conference - Passaic Valley
sr Jesse Mizzone 18:13 5k, taking 8 seconds
off her own course record at Lewis Morris Park, Morristown
NJ.
NM Gallup
Bengal Inv - US#6 Albuquerque Academy boys 39, US#7 Los
Alamos girls 24 show their muscle
NY New
York week on armorytrack.com - John Jay's Hakon
DeVries outduels Syosset's Marc Alizzi in
season-leading 16:18.9 over State Meet course at Sunken Meadows.
OH League
Meets - Davidson Hilliard girls scored a
perfect 15, led by Melissa Hornor 18:22 5k. Davidson's boys
were almost as good, with 26 points, but Reynoldsburg jr John
Ealy 15:12 got in ahead of Davidson's big 4 for the
individual win.
OH Greater
Catholic League of Cincinnati - LaSalle
33 repeats, led by Eric Mayhaus 15:20 5k,
seventh fastest ever at Rapid Run Park.
OK Cowboy
Jamboree - Stillwater sr Andrew Tower 15:48
5k, third fastest prep time ever on the Oklahoma State U.
course, beating Edmond's Tyler Schmiedeberg by 10 seconds.
Union's Sarah Saffa 10:56 3200m beat Brianna
McLeod 11:11 and Rachel Barber 11:17.
TN Knoxville City Championships
- Knoxville West sr Dusty Miller 14:47 3m.
Farragut girls 35 and Webb boys
31 win team titles.
UT
Orem
Kiwanis Inv - Davis HS sweeps team titles,
with the US#5 boys winning 51-59 over US#16 Campbell County
WY. The Davis girls also beat Campbell County, 35-62. Fastest
individuals were Murray soph Nichole Torgersen 19:24
and Campbell County's Andrew Jones 16:26. The 5K course was
wet and slow.
VT Woods
Trail Run, Thetford Academy - Killingly CT sr Meghan
Owen 18:33 5k (Catherine Bryson 18:43, Jessica Flinn
18:57). Essex VT sr David Shenk 16:27.
WA Sunfair
Inv - West #9 Mead boys and Mt.
Spokane girls win team titles. Fastest individuals
are Auburn Riverside WA sr Carl Moe 15:24
and Colbert WA freshman Megan O'Reilly 18:04. |
List #4
DyeStat
Elite
National cross country list grows to 950 performances beating our
cutoffs for 5k and 3 miles.
List Number 4 | How
to Get Ranked with NEW
online input form.
The
Harrier rankings #2
9/23/02 -- Marc Bloom's second Super 25 of the season
keeps The Woodlands TX boys and Saratoga
Springs NY girls as national leaders, but there was a lot
of movement below. Six new teams cracked the top 10: Albuquerque
Academy NM boys, Grant Portland OR boys, Liberty MO boys, Smoky
Hill Aurora CO girls, Los Alamos NM girls, and Desert Vista Phoenix
AZ girls. The Harrier top
10 national and top 5 regional teams
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DyeStat
on-site
The first weekend in October brings the 5th annual Portage
Invitational, featuring many of Michigan’s top
teams. It is almost a pre-state meet, as 70 teams that
qualified for the Michigan state finals last year are
entered. Rockford's Nikki Bohnsack, a Foot
Locker Favorite, missed the meet with a hip injury. |
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COMPLETE
RESULTS and ACTION PIX - 3700 runners
- On a perfect Midwest autumn day -- fluffy white clouds
against a bright blue sky and refreshingly cool 50s temps
-- Rockford MI sweeps team titles. Canada's
junior champion Amy Kohlmeier (left)
gets a PR 17:33 5k, just 2 seconds off Sharon Van Tuyl's
course record, in her first big race since a stress fracture
on the eve of the World Cross Country championships in
Dublin last March. Dustin Voss 15:41
(right) is fastest boy of day.
Donna on the Side -
100 pictures of the sideline scenes |
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Great
American 2003
NSSF plans "pomp
and pageantry"
Date moves to first weekend in October - venue still not announced.
Marc Bloom story on
NSSF plans for 5th Great American
the
future of Great American
early thoughts
by NSSF
9/30/02 -- NSSF launches 30-day evaluation, but makes
these commitments:
- There WILL be a 2003 meet
- Nike partnership will continue
- Entry standards will not be tightened; meet will
grow
- Permanent site will be sought
- Social experiences will be continued
- Meet management issues will be given a high priority
Great
American is sold to NSSF
CHARLOTTE 9/26/02 -- Founder Rick Hill announces
sale on eve of 4th Great American Cross Country Festival. NSSF,
which already operates the Nike Indoor Classic and the adidas Outdoor
Championships, acquires the premier meet for high school cross country
teams. Story by Marc Bloom
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Lauren Jespersen
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plus 42 honorable mentions |
Week
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Chris Solinsky
Nicole Blood
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Ivy League going
D3?
NOT
An Internet hoax said that the New York Times reported
the Ivy League was considering pulling out of Division 1 athletics
and dropping to D3. This report found its way into Track and Field
News. Brett Hoover, assistant director of the Ivy League, said that
T&FN willl print a retraction in its next issue because "That
report NEVER ran in the New York Times and it is 100 percent UNTRUE."
T&FN editor Garry Hill said that letters of apology have gone
out to all schools concerned.
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Last
Week
September 27-28 at
Charlotte NC Great
American home page
Complete
Results - 100+ pix in Donna
on the Side
AR Week
4 roundup by Arkansas TrackStats - Russellville boys
and West Plains MO win big.
California
on DyeStatCal
Stanford Invitational
Lauren Jespersen, Tim Nelson push each other to another
course record
135
runners meet DyeStat Elite cutoffs
Stanford
Highlights
Boys Div I - Record time as Lauren Jespersen (Klamath) nips Tim Nelson
(Liberty Christian, Redding) both under CR with 14:54 runs!!! (cf Ian
Dobson 15:05 in 2000). - Mead (Washington) takes Team - Results
Boys Div II - Babey Wagnew (Helix, La Mesa) 15:03 winner - Jesuit (Sacramento)
takes Team Title - Results
(Yong-Sung Leal was entered, but did not run; reportedly still injured.)
Boys Div III - Alex Dunn (San Lorenzo Valley, Felton) outleans soph Jake
Schmitt (Redwood, Larkspur) for win at 15:20 - Oakmont (Roseville) takes
Team Title - Results
Boys Div IV - Mohamed Trafeh (Duarte) runs off an hides during 14:58 win
- Fillmore Team Titlest - Results
Boys Div V - Nick Neely (Crystal Springs Upland) winner 16:07 - College
Prep (Oakland) Team Winners - Results
Girls Div I - Phyllis Blanchard (Rancho Cotate, Rohnert Park) 18:01 winner
- St. Mary's (Portland) takes Team win!! - Results
Girls Div II - Caitlin Chock (Granite Bay) great 17:25 win!!! - Sultana
(Hesperia) team titlests!! - Results
Girls Div III - Ciara Viehweg (St. Ignatius) winner 18:07 - San Lorenzo
Valley nips Oak Park 124-126 - Results
Girls Div IV - Gabi Rios-Sotello (St. Mary's, Berkeley) 18:58 winner -
Piedmont stunning 24 points team!! - Results
Girls Div V - Heather Iatauro (Tri-Valley, Grahamsville, NY) 18:07 solo
run - Tri Valley takes Team win!! - Results
Other
California Action
Dana Hills Inv - Mar Vista jr Troy Swier 14:24
3m wins by 68 seconds and takes down Division 3 junior meet record held
by former San Diego runner Meb Keflezighi (14:37 in 1992). Woodbridge
jr Michael Haddan 14:29 breaks Div 2 junior meet record.
29th Bell-Jeff Inv - Loyola CA's Mark Matusak 14:20
3m, fourth fastest ever at this meet. Maranatha CA sr Laura Meyers
17:12 3m, sixth fastest.
DyeStatCal
Athletes of the Week
Woodbridge jr Michael
Hadden and Gunn Palo Alto sr Ruth
Graham
DyeStatCal
Coaches of the Week
Girls -John
Mahr of Sultan-Hesperia. Boys - George
Wright of Poly Long Beach
KS Weekly
Roundup by Anthony Bozarth - Kansas #1 Lawrence sweeps
both boys divisions at Topeka Seaman Inv. Trisa Nickoley
12:04 over Ashley Chapman 12:15 at Royal Valley.
MI Harbor Beach
Inv - North Huron MI sr Katie Kelly
won by 54 seconds in 18:24 5k.
MN Roy
Griak Inv - Hopkins MN jr Shannon Bergstedt 18:28
5k leads US#6 ranked girls team to victory with 109 poinhts. Central St.
Paul MN sr Forrest Tahdooahnippah 15:38 (David Van Orsdel
15:39) and and Roosevelt DesMoines IA 43 win boys race.
MO Weekly
Report by Missouri Runners Nation - Liberty MO sr Adam Perkins
won a battle of Foot Locker favorites over Edwardsville IL sr
Stephen Pifer, 15:41 5k to 15:55, in the Hancock Inv
at St. Louis. Pifer pressed the pace for much of the race, but Perkins
pulled away in the last 1000 meters. Perkins' US#10 Liberty team
won easily with 28 points, placing all 7 runners in the top 14. In KC
Metro Championships, Blue Valley West claimed both individual titles:
Paul Hefferon 16:05 and Elle Pishny
19:03.
MT Mountain
West Inv - Flathead MT soph Zoe Nelson 17:02 3m
in wire to wire victory by 71 seconds over Mead WA's Jamie Geissler and
18 seconds better than the course record at Missoula. It was Zoe's 5th
straight course record win this season. Flathead boys and girls
swept the team titles. Richie Nelson, Shadle Park WA, was the boys individual
winner in 15:16.
NH 28th
Manchester Inv - Fastest of day were Greely ME jr Ben True
15:48 5k, breaking Tony Truax's 2001 course record by 1 second,
and Hanover NH sr Catherine Bryson 18:42 on a hilly,
windy course.
NM 24th
Albuquerque Academy Inv - Albuquerque Academy NM jr Leslie
Luna (L) 18:53 3.02m is first girl to break 19 minutes on this
hilly dirt course. US#6 Albuquerque Academy NM boys,
US#7 Los Alamos NM girls win easily, each with 26 points.
Josh Rogers, La Cueva 16:01 wins boys race.
NY 38th
McQuaid Inv - Northeast #5 Honeoye Falls-Lima girls win AA for 5th
straight year. Fastest of day are Lakewood OH sr Michelle Sikes
17:13 3m and Stephane Hetherington, of St. Michael's,
Ontario Canada, 14:35.
NY Weekly Summary
by George Febles, armorytrack.com
NY E.J. Hermann Inv - Holy Names NY sr Liz
Maloy wins big in 17:34. Colonie girls and Sauquoit
Valley boys win easily.
NY Tully Inv - Phoenix NY jr Ashley
Hughes 18:40 3.1m.
OR Northwest
Classic - Central Catholic OR jr Galen Rupp made
a successful season debut with a 15:31 5k, winning by 36 seconds. A mid-race
surge took South Eugene soph Erin Gray 18:28 to victory
over defending state champ Christy Paul, Hood River Valley
senior, who finished in 18:54
Pennsylvania
Week - by Don Rich, PennTrackXC
Red Lion jr Kate Papenberg and Cumberland Valley
jr Brian Fuller win at Carlisle. Eric Soder and
Jesi Christiansen win at Sharpsville.
TX Aldine
Invitational - Cinco Ranch Katy TX jr Kyle Miller 14:41
3m (Steve Magness 14:46) in Div 1 was fastest boy of meet. Fastest girl
of the day was Langham Creek TX sr Brittany Brockman 11:15
2m in Div 2.
UT Wahsatch
Rendezvous - Lone Peak UT soph Katie Bowen 17:10
2.91m. Ogden UT sr Todd Gilbert 15:23. Bingham
sweeps combined scoring by seven races, runners 1 through 7.
WA Bellevue
Invitational - fastest of day are Issaquah WA jr John Harding
15:28 3.1m and Bellevue WA sr Marie Foushee 18:13.Eisenhower
WA sweeps team titles.
WV Chick-Fil-A
Inv - Hudson OH sr Wesley Smith 15:17 5k won AAA
division by 58 seconds over rolling hills. Oak Glen WV twins Justin
and Josh Simpson ran 1-2 in A-AA in 15:20 and 15:23.
DyeStat
Foot Locker Favorites - Start with the top returning
runners from last year's meet, add the best mile and 2-Mile times last
spring, and mix with care. You have the DyeStat Foot Locker Favorites,
our picks of the top 20 contenders per region for the coveted 8 tickets
to San Diego for the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships national
finals.
2002
Nike Athletes of the Year
presented
by DyeStat
the dominant high school track and field athletes of 2001-2002
- the 2002 Nike Athletes of the Year
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Featured Meets
Meets that will be covered in depth by DyeStat
in 2002-2003
* = DyeStat on-site meet
- CROSS COUNTRY 2002
- * Sep 7 - Midwest
Meet of Champions, Hilliard OH
- * Sep 21 - Iolani
Invitational, Kualoa HI
- * Sep 27-28 - Great
American Cross Country Festival, Charlotte NC
- * Oct 5 - Portage
Invitational - Portage MI
- * Oct 12 - Manhattan
Invitational, Van Cortlandt Park, NYC
- * Oct 25-26 - Mt. SAC Invitational, Walnut CA
- * Nov 17 - OR-WA BorderClash, Nike World Headquarters,
Beaverton OR
- FOOT LOCKER
CHAMPIONSHIPS
- INDOOR 2003
- * Dec 21 - Bishop Loughlin Games - New York Armory
- * Dec 27 - Holiday Classic - New York Armory
- * Jan 11 - Hispanic Games - New York Armory
- * Jan 25 - New Balance Games - New York Armory
- * Feb 7 - Millrose Games - Madison Square Garden
NYC
- * Feb 8 - Colgate Women's Games - Madison Square
Garden NYC
- * Feb 13-15 - Simplot Games - Pocatello ID
- * Mar 15-16 - Nike Indoor Classic - Landover
MD
- OUTDOOR 2003
- * Mar 28-29 - Sugar Bowl Classic - New Orleans
LA
- * Apr 4-5 - Mobile Challenge of Champions - Mobile
AL
- * Apr 11-12 - Arcadia Invitational - Arcadia
CA
- * Apr 24-26 - Penn Relays - Philadelphia PA
- * June 13-14 - adidas Outdoor Championships -
Raleigh NC
- * June 19-22 - USATF Nationals - Palo Alto CA
- June 28-29 - 1st National Decathlon/Heptathlon
Ch. - Albuquerque NM
- July - USATF Junior Olympics
- August - AAU Junior Olympics
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