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DEFENDING JUNIOR MEN'S CHAMPION TIM MOORE CONFIRMS HIS
ENTRY IN THE USA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS IN
HOUSTON
BILLY NELSON (Above) AND VALERIE LAUVER ROUND OUT TRIO
OF 2002
NATIONAL JUNIOR TEAM MEMBERS ENTERED IN USA WORLD
CROSS COUNTRY TEAM TRIALS
(HOUSTON, TX) Defending junior men's 8-kilometer
national cross country champion Tim Moore of Novi,
MI., today confirmed his participation in next week's
USA Cross Country Championships at Buffalo Bayou Park
in Houston, TX.
Moore, a freshman at the University of Notre Dame in
South Bend, IN., won last yearís national junior title
for athletes 19 and under, covering the 8-kilometer
(4.97 miles) course at the Fort Vancouver National
Historic Site in Vancouver, WA., in a time of 24:48.
At last yearís IAAF World Cross Country
Championships in Dublin, Ireland, Moore finished in
54th place, in a time of 25:47.
Moore was the winner of the 2001 Foot Locker National
Cross Country Championships.
Meet organizers also announced the entry of
fellow 2002 USA junior team member Billy Nelson (ex-Taft HS Central
Section)
Nelson, a freshman
at the University of Colorado in
Boulder, finished third in last yearís nationals in
Vancouver, running 25:04, and placed 33rd in last
yearís world junior meet in Dublin.
Yet another standout from last yearís USA national
junior team, Valerie Lauver of Allen, TX., returns to
her home state to run in the selection race for this
yearís IAAF World Cross Country Championships at the
end of March in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Lauver, currently a freshman at the University of
Missouri, and the winner of the 2002 Texas 5A state
title in the 3200 meter run, placed fifth last year in
Vancouver in 21:40 over 6 kilometers (3.74 miles), and
36th at the world championships.
The USA Cross Country Championships comes to Houston,
under the guidance of meet director Jon Warren, the
cross country coach at Rice University.
The USA Cross Country Championships brings together
many of Americaís top distance runners, and serves as
the selection meet for the USA national team that will
compete in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships
on March 29th-30th in Lausanne, Switzerland.
In last year's event, Deena Drossin won her fifth
national women's eight-kilometer harrier title at Fort
Vancouver in a time of 26:31, while Meb Keflezighi won
the men's 12-kilometer championship in 35:45. Regina
Jacobs (12:55), and Tim Broe (11:26) each won the
women's and men's 4-kilometer title, while Maria
Cicero (21:05) and Moore (24:48) were the national
junior champions.
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