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2002 FOOT LOCKER AND ARCADIA INVITE 3200 CHAMP (AT 8:48.44) CHRIS SOLINSKY
LEADS GROUP OF ELITE PREPSTERS INTO USA CROSS COUNTRY
CHAMPIONSHIPS
(HOUSTON, TX) Chris Solinsky, a senior at Stevens
Point Area Senior H.S. of Stevens Point, WI., today
confirmed his participation in next week's USA Cross
Country Championships at Buffalo Bayou Park in
Houston, TX.
Solinsky won the 2002 Foot Locker National Cross
Country Championship for high school athletes,
covering the 5-kilometer (3.14 miles) course at Balboa
Park in San Diego in a time of 14:40.5. Solinksy won
by 20 seconds, which tied Dathan Ritzenhein's 2000 win
for the biggest victory margin of victory. His time
was the third-fastest ever on the course.
Solinsky, who attends the same school that
produced three-time US Olympian Suzy Favor-Hamilton,
won the Wisconsin state title last year in both the
1600 and 3200 meter runs on the track, and enters the
USA Cross Country Championships with personal bests of
4:08.61, and 8:48.44 (in his Arcdia Invite win).
In addition to Solinsky, six other Foot Locker
finalists are entered in the meet.
Third place finisher Bobby Curtis, a senior at Saint
Xavier H.S. in Louisville, KY; junior
Ryan Deak of Maclay H.S. in Tallahassee, FL., senior
Alec Wall of Grant High in Portland, OR; junior Brian
Sullivan of The Woodlands HS in The Woodlands, TX; and
junior Galen Rupp of Central Catholic HS in Portland,
OR., are all entered in next Sunday's 8-kilometer
junior men's championship race for runners 19 and
under.
In the junior women's 6-kilometer race, which happens
on Saturday, junior Rachael Forish of Lamar High
School in Arlington, TX is the lone Foot Locker Cross
Country Championships competitor that has entered so
far.
"High school distance running enthusiasts will have
an opportunity to see these athletes race against each
other and against the best 19-and-under distance
runners in the country here in Houston," said USA
Cross Country Championships media relations consultant
Paul Merca.
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 America's 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.
The top six finishers in each of the six championship
races on the spectator-friendly Buffalo Bayou course
(junior men, junior women, senior men, senior women,
menís short-course, womenís short course) earn berths
on Team USA.
In last year's event in Vancouver, WA., Deena Drossin
won her fifth national women's eight-kilometer harrier
title 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 Tim Moore (24:48) were the national
junior champions.
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