Power Shift in North Dakota?
There are rumors that two girls have transferred from national power Bowman ND to Dickinson ND, and results of the Northern Hills Invitational last week at Spearfish SD suggest the rumors are true. Bowman, 7th nationally in The Harrier pre-season rankings, finished 3rd with 117 points behind Dickinson 41 and Campbell County WY 70. Tony Bachmann and Campbell County won the boys race. Story and picture.

Foot Locker Favorites
Here are 145 runners - DyeStat's picks as most likely to succeed in the Foot Locker Cross Country Championship regionals, where only the top 8 win a coveted ticket to Disney World for the national finals in December.
DyeStat presents the Pre-Season Foot Locker Favorites

First 2001 Cross Country Results

AL Challenge of Champions - soph Ryan Deak (left) opens his 2nd HS year with a 1-minute margin in 15:29 (3.06 miles) in Mobile. Maclay Tallahassee teammate Kara Newell put down freshman Tara Lynn, of St. Paul's AL, to win the girls invitational in 12:21 (2 mi) Details

AR UALR Inv - Russellville boys overpower field with 17 points, with top three finishing together in 16:45 (5k): Travis Feltner, Chase Feltner, and Bryan Garner. Complete Results.
KS Weekly Report - Erin Mortimer wins high calibre matchup over Harper McConnell and Trish Nicoley in 11:35 (3200 meters). Lawrence boys upset Shawnee Mission Northwest.. Tony Bozarth's Kansas report
TX Flower Mound Marcus Inv - host girls upset - Plainview OK girls, led by Foot Locker Favorite Jessie Gordon, invaded Texas and left with a victory over host Flower Mound Marcus TX, ranked US#8 and South#1 in The Harrier pre-season rankings. The Marcus boys, ranked 7th in the South by The Harrier, won with 55 points. Results
TN Pepsi-Knoxville Coaches #2 - Farragut sweeps; Andy Baksa 5:20, Deanna Kulesz 18:58. Story
MT Libby Inv - Kurt Michels, assuming leadership of the Flathead boys team with David Vidal and Seth Watkins graduated, won easily in 15:13 (3 mi) on a blistering hot high 80s day in the northern Rockies. .Montana weekend report
TX Plano Inv - Foot Locker Favorite Valerie Lauver, of Allen TX, was the fastest girl of the day at 11:34 (2 mile), winning by 34 seconds. Results
MO Truman Inv - Lee's Summit MO sweeps; Adam Perkins 9:56.41 (3200m); Amy Hastings 11:41.29. Complete Results
PA Viking Inv - Mark Mullelly and Erin Franklin win nicely. Story
PA Weekend 9/1 - Andy Weilacher 15:42 (5k). Story
TN Run for the Hills - US#10 Jefferson Forest girls 45, with Saunders girls 1-2. Bryce Ruiz 15:28 3m (CR by 42 seconds) leads Jamestown VA boys 41. Results
MO First Capital Inv - Results
TX Brazoswood Inv - Klein Oak, South #10 in The Harrier, wins in the mud without #1 and #3 runners before weather stops the meet. Story
TX Woodlands Inv - US#10 Kingwood boys edge US#7 The Woodlands, 49-54, on a rainy, muddy day in Texas. Results
GA Carrollton Twilight - Brookwood GA boys, US#11 and South #4 in The Harrier rankings, go 1-2-4-6-7 to crush defending state champ Collins Hill, 20-82. Collins Hill girls return the favor in a nail biter, 55-64. Complete Results
UT Grass Relays - Mountain View sweeps 10-mile relay; Amber Harper is fastest girl. Story
KY Tiger Run - 4 runners go to the hospital with heat exhaustion in Louisville but Bobby Curtis, Ali Sauer, South Oldham boys, New Albany girls perservere and win. Results

Returning Runners - ranked lists of undergrad distance runners who made DyeStat Elite and XC leader lists in 2001-2002: Midwest - Northeast - South - West

Pre-Season National XC Rankings
Poly Long Beach CA boys and Saratoga Springs NY girls start the season #1 in Marc Bloom's Nike / Foot Locker Super 25. The Harrier Rankings

XC previews and rankings in the states
Pennsylvania - Are Shawn Cavanaugh and Julia Pudlin back from injuries? Previews of all classes, individual and teams.
Maryland - capsule summary by Matt Bryant
Illinois - boys AA and A preview by Scott Bush, IllinoisRunner
Georgia - Marist girls, Rebecca Mullen, Brookwood boys, Joe Thorne top early rankings
New Mexico - Gallup, Sandia, Albuquerque Academy, Felicia Guliford tabbed for success
Massachusetts - St. John's Prep, Oliver Ames favored in pre-season Klim Poll
Nevada - Phil Lawton looks into his crystal ball
Arkansas - Clint Pevril's scouting report of all classes
Kansas - Shawnee Mission NW boys, Olathe South girls lead 6A lists
Idaho - Brett Hill ranks Capital boys, Meridian girls best in A1-Div 1
New Jersey - Is this the year CBA falls? Conrad Haber thinks so - Old Bridge is this year's designated challenger.
Missouri - Missouri Runner's Nation analyzes all four classes. Adam Perkins is Show-Me State's best from 400 to 5,000 meters.

Short Takes

• Angela Homan, Spencerville OH senior, won the Columbus Grove Invitational 9/1 in a swift 17.56 (5k).
• Jesse Mizzone, Totowa NJ jr, was the female winner of the Pine Barren Festival 5k Run at Tabernacle NJ with a time of 17:33.
• Valparaiso IN girls, ranked US#20 and Midwest #8 by The Harrier, fell to Chesterton in a tri-meet at Lafayette Jefferson IN. Chesterton wrapped Valpo's top 3 in a 1-2-3-6-7 blanket. Valparaiso's boys, ranked US#22 and Midwest#7p, won 28-35. Results from IndianaRunner.com
• Erika Odlaug returned from her tour of England and Scotland with the USA junior team to open her cross country season with a course record 14:34 for 2.5 miles at Lakewood Forest Preserve in Wauconda IL. The Deerfield IL senior took 26 seconds off the old record held by former Foot Locker finalist Victoria Jackson.
• Sheila Klick, 1998 Foot Locker finalist with Archbishop Prendergast of Philadelphia, has transferred from Villanova to LaSalle and will run cross country for LaSalle this fall. (from PennTrackXC)
• Jeremy Silverman of Annville PA, US#4 in shot put in 2001, is switching from Virginia Tech to UCLA. He was released from his letter of intent at Virginia Tech because of a coaching change.
• Nik Arrhenius will delay his Brigham Young throwing debut for 3 years. The Mountain View UT thrower, whose incredible throw at Arcadia added 9 feet to the US discus record, will serve on a Mormon mission in Sweden for 2 years and then will redshirt for another year, according to his father, Anders Arrhenius, who is a native of Sweden.
  

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Summer is ending, leaves will turn, snow will fall, and we're going to Disney World -- it is the 2001 cross country season. DyeStat is previewing the season over the remaining days before Labor Day. This is the information you need to plan your season and pick the winners.

• Pre-Season Leader List - top returning runners in the US ranked by their performances last year in outdoor 2 mile, cross country 3 mile, and cross country 5k. Also ranked by Foot Locker regions: Midwest - Northeast - South - West
• Great American - Rick Hill's extravaganza is the early season highlight, bringing together the top teams in the country in a festive atmosphere. There is more than one meet this year, with a new name for the series: Nike's Great Races of America. First, on September 8, is the Great Race of the Great Bay in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Then, on September 21-22 at Charlotte, is the 3rd Great American Championships.
• 23rd Foot Locker - complete information on the big series that leads to crowning the national champion boy and girl at Disney World in December. Four regional meets produce 64 runners who advance to the national finals. The top 3 boys and top 2 girls finishers from last year have gone to college, opening the way for new champions. Returning Runners from 2000 - Nike named presenting sponsor - FLCCC champions 1979-2000 - FLCCC regional pages: Midwest - Northeast - South - West - FLCCC home page
• Foot Locker Favorites - DyeStat's picks of the top 20 runners in each region who figure to be in the hunt for the coveted 8 tickets to Disney World for a beach party, Magic Kingdom parade and, oh yes, the national finals. These lists will be updated through the season to reflect the ups and downs and new faces.
• Nike Athlete of the Week - DyeStat will select the boy and girl with the most noteworthy accomplishment of the preceding week. There will also be an Athlete of the Year award at the end of the season.
• The Harrier Rankings - The only national and regional team rankings - by Marc Bloom, veteran running writer and publisher of The Harrier magazine. The Rankings
• 54th Mt. SAC Invitational - biggest meet of the year in terms of raw numbers (14,000 runners) - 80 HS races over the hills and abandoned airplane runways of Mount San Antonio College, Walnut CA - 3 races on the course at any given moment, with races starting every 8-10 minutes - meet page
• 29th Manhattan Invitational - the Eastern version of biggest meet of the year (10,000 runners) - venerable meet at venerable Van Cortlandt Park in New York City at the upper end of the 7th Avenue subway in the Bronx - meet page
• 3rd Nike Border Clash - The best runners from Oregon and Washington battle for Pacific Northwest bragging rights on the campus of Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton OR, which is close to the Oregon-Washington border.
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• Calendar - All the meets that we know about.
• State Previews - what to expect in the states - Pennsylvania - Georgia - New Mexico - Massachusetts - Nevada - Arkansas - Kansas -

DyeStat ends coverage of the 2000-2001
school year with a huge statistical feast:

• DyeStat All-Americans - our first attempt at selecting the best of the best - the most outstanding runners, throwers, and jumpers in America in 2001. The DyeStat All-American team has 39 male and 44 female athletes and relays, plus many more honorable mentions. Season performance lists are given for each All-American.
• DyeStat Elite - final 2001 outdoor rankings include 5,090 performances - the top 100 athletes in the USA in each event. We had to keep it open this late because many of the best marks of the year came from post-season national meets, Junior Olympics, and international competition. The database ended the season with 9,000 performances from 863 meets.
• New faces - DyeStat Elite performances by freshmen or younger athletes in 2000-2001. Most are freshmen (class of 2004), but some are even younger. A rising 7th grader, Brandi Cross of Houston TX, tops the list of newcomers in the girls 400! The New Faces lists are a future book for national champions of 2004 or sooner.
• Top returnees - Who will replace the superstars of 2001? The answer lies in the 1,280 DyeStat Elite performances by undergraduates in 2001. We list the top returnees to 2001-2002, ranked by event, with analysis of the likely national champions.

DyeStat Featured Meets
Meets that will be covered in depth, mostly on-site, by DyeStat in 2001-2002

• Great American - Nike's Great Races of America
  • 9/8 Great Race of the Great Bay, San Francisco CA
  • 9/21-22 Great American Championships, Charlotte NC
• 9/15 Meet of Champions, Hilliard OH
• 9/22 Bull Run Invitational - Hereford HS, Parkton MD
• 9/28-29 flrunners.com Invitational, Winter Haven FL
• 10/6 Portage Invitational - Portage MI
• 10/13 Manhattan Invitational, Van Cortlandt Park, New York NY
• 10/20 Mt. SAC Invitational, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut CA
• 11/10 Oregon-Washington Border Clash, Nike World HQ, Beaverton OR
• 11/24 Foot Locker Cross Country regionals - Northeast, Midwest, South
• 12/1 Foot Locker Cross Country West regional - Mt. SAC, Walnut CA
• 12/8 Foot Locker Cross Country National finals - Disney World, Orlando FL
• 12/15 Bishop Loughlin Games, New York Armory
• 1/5 Hispanic Games, New York Armory
• 1/19 New Balance Games, New York Armory
• 2/9 adidas Midwest Indoor Classic, Lincoln NE
• 2/14-16 Simplot Games, Pocatello ID
• 3/9-10 Nike Indoor Classic, Landover MD
• 3/8-10 National Scholastic Indoor Championships, New York Armory
• 4/6 Mobile Meet of Champions, Mobile AL
• 4/13 Arcadia Invitational, Arcadia CA
• 4/20 Mt. SAC Invitational, Walnut CA
• 4/25-27 Penn Relays, Philadelphia PA
• 5/3-4 Roosevelt Memorial Inv, Dayton OH
• 5/10-11 Texas State Meet, Austin TX
• 5/25 Great Southwest Classic, Albuquerque NM
• 6/1 California State Meet, Cerritos CA
• 6/8 Golden West Invitational, Sacramento CA
• 6/14-15 adidas Outdoor Championships, Raleigh NC
• USATF Junior Nationals, date and site to be announced