Nike becomes presenting sponsor of
Foot Locker Cross Country Championships

NEW YORK, August 7, 2001-Foot Locker today named Nike as the presenting sponsor of the 23rd annual Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, the only true national high school cross country championships.

As part of their multi-year sponsorship, Nike will receive logo identification on all race materials, National Finals uniforms, and television spots during FOX Sports Network coverage of the National Finals race which takes place on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2001.

"The Foot Locker Cross Country Championships brings together the best and most promising high school runners to compete on a national level," said Tim Finn, president and chief executive officer, Foot Locker U.S. "As a company that has led the way in innovation in running product technology, Nike is a natural partner for this event."

Many successful professional runners have launched their careers at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, including Olympians Suzy Favor Hamilton, Brad Hauser, Meb Keflezighi, Bob Kennedy and Anne Marie Lauck.

"Nike has the largest and strongest prep running program in the industry which includes outreach to more than 100,000 young runners nationwide," said Josh Rowe, youth running manager, Nike. "This partnership with the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships is a perfect fit. There's no better place to enhance our support of youth running."

The Foot Locker Cross Country Championships is comprised of four regional 5K races which take place across the country. The Midwest (Kenosha, Wis.), Northeast (Bronx, NY) and South (Charlotte, NC) regional races are Saturday, Nov. 24, 2001 and the West (Walnut, Calif.) regional race is Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001. More than 10,000 of the nation's leading high school runners compete in the regional meets. The top eight finishers in each of the boys and girls seeded races qualify for the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships National Finals at Disney's Oak Trail Course at Shades of Green in Orlando, Fla.

With more than 2,000 stores worldwide, Foot Locker is the world's largest athletic footwear and apparel retailer and leading destination for running product. Foot Locker is part of Venator Group, a specialty retailer that operates more than 3,600 stores in 14 countries in North America, Europe and Australia.

Nike, Inc., headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., markets its products in more than 100 countries and is the world's leading sports and fitness company.

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College Choices 2001
1,601 college choices listed as of 8/6
Noteworthy additions this update:
Curtis McBride FL - Alabama
Tequirra Cox NY - Albany (SUNY)
Nicole Susser NY - Albany (SUNY)
Derrick Williams OH - Barton County CC (was Toledo)
Kyle Fugimoto MI - Hillsdale
Dan Krawiec MI - Hillsdale
Anthony Acklin NJ - Neosho County CC
Travis Yancey PA - Neosho County CC
Shannon Wommack GA - UT-Chattanooga
April Holliness TX - Baylor
Aaron Mitchell TX - Neosho County CC
Jonathan Wade LA - Tennessee

USATF JO - Sacramento

222 DyeStat Elite performances ranked - lots of Youth girls (13-14) make the lists - Complete results by day and age group

4 new US records by HS age winners on closing day; United Stars & Tiffany Abney sweep three relays, with 2 US records

400: Stephanie Smith GA 52.11 - new IG national record and top 20 all time US preps.
400H: Tiffany Ross FL 57.94, breaking her own national YW record. Talia Stewart CA 58.84 (Sierra Hill 59.10), with both smashing the old IG national record (1:02.02 Raasin McIntosh 1998).
100H: Virginia Powell 13.40 +0.6 - new YW national record.
YW relays: United Stars of Philadelphia and Tiffany Abney smashed the national YW 4x400 record by 4 seconds in 3:35.51 (Evelyn Dwyer, Dominique Darden, Danielle Rogers, Tiffany Abney), and the YW 4x800 record by 10 seconds in 8:53.93 (Abney, Rogers, Dwyer, Jessica Davis). They added 4x100 gold in 45.54 (Darden, Abney, Juliette Poussot, Jakki Bailey)

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Mountain View UT boys, Saratoga NY girls will defend their Great American titles and take first steps toward repeating as national champions in the Race of Champions in Charlotte NC September 22. The ROC will attract 26 of the leading boys teams in the country and 19 of the best girls teams. They include 6 each of the top 10 teams in The Harrier final team rankings for 2000.

Nate Brannen goes sub-4 too
Alan Webb won't be the only sub-4 high school miler when he matriculates at the University of Michigan in September. Michigan-recruit Nate Brannen of Canada ran 3:59.85 at the 8th Aileen Meagher International Track Classic in Halifax, Nova Scotia Sunday 7/8. Brannen became the third Canadian high schooler to break the 4-minute mile barrier, and it was the first sub-4 ever in Nova Scotia. Brannen told reporters afterward that he knew he was in shape for sub-4 when he ran his 1:46.6 800 in the Canadian national championships 2 weeks ago. "I saw 2:57 with a lap to go. I knew then if I wanted it I better go for it." Then, as he rounded the last turn, "I just wanted the race to be over." There was a rabbit for two laps and Brannen's training partner Matt Kerr pushed him through three laps before finishing second in 4:06.55.

Webb finishes 141st in the Boilermaker 15k road race at Utica NY Sunday 7/8. HS mile record holder Alan Webb appeared with Bill Rodgers and other distance greats in Utica at ceremonies for the National Distance Running Hall of Fame and took a 15k jog while he was there. Here is his results line:

Short Takes

• Jonathan Wade of Evangel LA is one of the earliest of the class of 2002 to announce his college choice. It is Tennessee, where the world class sprinter will play football as well. "I wanted to go where they were good in both (track and football)," Wade said. Obviously, they are at Tennessee. I was also looking for a football coach who would let me run track."
• TrackTalk gets its 3000th member!
• Missing some pictures from adidas Outdoor Championships in Raleigh last month? Carolina QuikShots left the site after the rain and still have some undelivered orders. You can contact them at 1-877-999-6816 toll-free or [email protected], and all pohotos taken at the meet are posted at www.quikshots.photoreflect.com.
• Sara Rowse raised her own Washington state record to 12-6 July 4 at the Freedom Fair Beach Vault in Tacoma WA. Arlington WA soph McKane Lee got a PR at the same event at 15-6.
• Sean Stevens will be inducted into the Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame August 2 as 2001 Male High School Athlete of the Year at a $125-a-plate dinner. Stevens, a two-time Tennessee 3A (big schools) cross-country champion and three-time 3200-meter track champion, just graduated from West High School in Knoxville and is a Wake Forest signee.
  
• Cassandra Richards got her season best long jump at 20-0.25 in winning the USATF Three Rivers championship in Pennsylvania.
• Brittney Mensen, former Georgia prep distance star who was a freshman at Arkansas this year, is transferring to Samford U., Birmingham AL
• Nick Schneider was named as the first recipient of a new Minnesota Runner of the Year award June 28 at the Calhoun Beach Club in Minneapolis.
• Nate Brannen, who will join Alan Webb at the University of Michigan this fall, ran 1:46.6 for 800 meters to finish second at the Canadian national championshi

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