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USATF Announces World Cross Country Team
INDIANAPOLIS - USA Track & Field on Thursday announced the
Team USA lineups that will compete at the 31st IAAF World Cross Country
Championships, March 29-30 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Team USA will be led by Deena Drossin (ex-Agoura HS), who won
the silver
medal, and Colleen De Reuck, who captured the bronze medal, in
the
senior women's 8 km race at the 2002
World Cross Country Championships in Dublin, Ireland. Their
performances, which led the U.S. squad to the team silver medal, marked
the first time that two U.S. women had won individual World Cross
Country medals at the same event since 1970, when Doris Brown won the
individual title and Maureen Dickinson was the runner-up. Team USA's
performance in Dublin was the best performance by a women's 8 km squad
since finishing as the runner-up at Boston in 1992.
Two-time 12 km cross country champion Meb Keflezighi (ex-San Diego
HS) will
lead the men's long course squad, along with 2002 U.S. 12 km runner-up
Abdi Abdirahman. Team USA's short course squads will be led by 2003
men's and women's runners-up Dan Wilson and Collette Liss.
Team USA's junior squads will be led by 2003 champions Bill
Nelson of the University of Colorado (ex-Taft HS) and Clara Horowitz of
Duke
University (ex-Head Royce School, Oakland).
A total of six races will be held at the World Championships
in the following divisions: senior men's 12 km and 4 km, senior women's
8 km and 4 km, junior men's 8 km and junior women's 6 km.
Athletes earned their places on the U.S. team during a
two-day trials competition that mirrored the format used at the World
Championships. At the USA Cross Country Championships February 15-16 in
Houston, Texas, three championship races were held each day with the
top-six finishers in each competition qualifying for the trip to
Lausanne.
Drossin qualified for the U.S. team by winning her sixth
U.S. women's 8 km national title (1997, 1999-2003) in Houston, easily
defending her crown in 29 minutes, 6 seconds. Drossin is now all alone
in second place on the all-time women's list for victories in that
event. She entered the competition in Houston tied with National Track
&
Field Hall of Famer Doris Brown, who won five titles (1966, 1968-71).
Drossin also won the U.S. 4 km title at the 2000 U.S. Championships and
is the only woman in history to win the short and long course titles at
the same event since the short course race was added in 1998.
After winning the silver medal at last year's World Cross
Country Championships, Drossin is considered one of the favorites to win
America's first world cross country title since Lynn Jennings won her
third consecutive crown at Boston in 1992. Drossin's possibilities of
winning the world title increased recently with the announcement that
defending women's world cross country long course champion Paula
Radcliffe of Great Britain has opted not to defend her title in Lausanne
in order to prepare for the London Marathon.
Drossin proved her fitness March 8 in winning her fourth
consecutive USA 15 km road title at the Gate River Run in 47:15. Her
performance bettered her previous American record set at the same event
in 2002 (48:12) by 57 seconds.
Other members of Team USA's 2002 silver medal winning
women's 8 km squad competing in next week in Lausanne include last
year's bronze medal winner Colleen De Reuck, 23rd place finisher in
Dublin Milena Glusac (ex-Fallbrook HS), Elva Dryer (28th)
and Amy Rudolph (31st). Rudolph
will compete on Team USA's short course squad after finishing fourth in
that event earlier this year in Houston. Other members of the U.S.
women's long course team include Katie McGregor and Sara Wells.
Additional members of the U.S. women's 4 km squad include Collette Liss,
Ann Marie Brooks, Sarah Toland, Molly Austin and Heather Sagan.
Team USA's 12 km men's squad will be looking to get back on
the medal stand after grabbing the team bronze medal at Ostend, Belgium
in 2001. Veteran performers from that team Meb Keflezighi, Abdi
Abdirahman and Nick Rogers will lead the charge, along with the
University of Colorado's Edwardo Torres, who placed third at the USA
Championships. Chad Johnson and David
Cullum (ex-Mission Viejo HS/UCSB) are making their first
trips to the World Cross Country Championships.
2002 USA men's marathon champion Dan Browne will bring
veteran leadership to the men's short course team that includes Ian
Connor, Luke Watson, Dan Wilson, Sandu Rebenciuc and Karl Savage.
2003 USA men's long course champion Alan Culpepper, and his
wife Shayne, this year's women's short course champion, have opted not
to compete in Lausanne. 2003 U.S. men's short course champion Robert
Gary also has chosen not to compete.
2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
USA Team Roster (Alphabetical by event)
Senior Men 12 km Place at U.S. Champs Affiliation
Residence
Abdi Abdirahman 5th - 39:36 Nike
Tucson, Ariz.
David Cullum 7th - 39:44 Nike Farm Team
Cupertino, Calif.
Chad Johnson 6th - 39:43 Nike
Portland, Ore.
Meb Keflezighi 2nd - 38:34 Nike
Mammoth Lakes, CA
Nick Rogers 4th - 39:31 Nike
Eugene, Ore.
Edwardo Torres 3rd - 39:04 Univ. of Colorado
Boulder, Colo.
Senior Men 4 km
Dan Browne 6th - 12:59 Nike
Portland, Ore.
Ian Connor 9th - 13:05 Nike
Columbus, Ohio
Sandu Rebenciuc 4th - 12:58 U.S. Army
Lafayette, Colo.
Karl Savage 5th - 12:58 Unattached
Lenoir, N.C.
Luke Watson 3rd - 12:57 Univ. of Notre Dame
South Bend, Ind.
Dan Wilson 2nd - 12:57 Asics
Lenoir, N.C.
Junior Men 8 km
Brett Goucher 4th - 27:25 Stanford University
Palo Alto, Calif. (ex-Aptos HS)
James Hower 6th - 27:31 Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
Tim Moore 5th - 27:29 Univ. of Notre Dame
South Bend, Ind.
Bill Nelson 1st - 27:08 Univ. of Colorado
Boulder, Colo.
Bret Schoolmeester 2nd - 27:17 Univ. of Colorado
Boulder, Colo.
Andrew Weilacher 3rd - 27:19 Unattached
Flagstaff, Ariz.
Senior Women 8 km
Colleen De Reuck 2nd - 29:42 Nike
Boulder, Colo.
Deena Drossin 1st - 29:06 Asics
Mammoth Lakes, CA
Elva Dryer 8th - 31:19 Nike
Albuquerque, N.M.
Milena Glusac 3rd - 30:17 adidas
Fallbrook, Calif.
Kathryn McGregor 4th - 30:27 adidas
Minneapolis, Minn.
Sara Wells 6th - 30:29 Asics
Edina, Minn.
Senior Women 4 km
Molly Austin 6th - 15:34 Unattached
Boulder, Colo.
Ann Marie Brooks 3rd - 15:22 Team New Balance
Boulder, Colo.
Collette Liss 2nd - 15:19 Nike
Indianapolis, Ind.
Amy Rudolph 4th - 15:23 adidas
Providence, R.I.
Heather Sagan 7th - 15:36 adidas
Lynchburg, Va.
Sarah Toland 5th - 15:27 Nike
Boulder, Colo.
Junior Women 6 km
Amy Hastings 3rd - 24:19 Arizona State Univ.
Tempe, Ariz.
Laura Hodgson 2nd - 24:10 Univ. of Washington
Seattle, Wash.
Angela Homan 6th - 24:39 Auburn University
Auburn, Ala.
Clara Horowitz 1st - 23:34 Duke University
Durham, N.C.
Julia Lucas 5th - 24:25 North Carolina State
Raleigh, N.C.
Rebecca Walter 4th - 24:21 Univ. of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Schedule of Events
March 29, 2003 March 30,
2003
1:30 p.m. Junior Women's 6 km 1:30 p.m.
Junior Men's 8 km
2:20 p.m. Senior Men's 4 km 2:20 p.m.
Senior Women's 4 km
3:00 p.m. Senior Women's 8 km 3:00 p.m.
Senior Men's 12 km
LINK TO IAAF WORLD
CC CHAMPS COVERAGE!!
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