first XC Leader Lists of 2001
More than 100 of the fastest cross country performances at 3 miles or 5k as received by DyeStat through September 14.
XC Leader List explained - Sept 14 lists - How to get listed

Great Race of the Great Bay

Carl Dambkowski, Granada CA, wins Section 3 - photo by DyeStat
DyeStat on-site with complete results and pictures
Olympian Regina Jacobs mixed with the athletes
DONNA ON THE SIDE IN SAN FRANCISCO - 50 pictures of athletes,
coaches, parents, and fans at the Great Race of the Great Bay.

This Week
week ending 9/12/01
US-ranked Poly boys, Dana Hills girls upset

• CA Laguna Hills Inv - Fine individual efforts -- Michael Haddan, Woodbridge, 15:09 in the 10th grade race, and Julie Allen, Corona del Mar 17:34 in the Division III Jr/Sr race -- were overshadowed by the puzzlement over mediocre showings by national ranked powers Poly Long Beach CA and Dana Hills CA.
• PA Weekend Roundup - two fastest 5k's of season run by Mark Mullelly 15:31 and Jessie Cickay 17:50 - Katie Stepp, (right) freshman transfer from Ohio, makes big splash by beating veteran runners in 19:24 5k over tough Centaur Invitational course. DyeStat Foot Locker Favorite Angie Saterstad 18:49 tough at Gettysburg. Course records at Bear Mountain by Chris Spooner, Lewisburg 16:18 and fr Brittany Dechert, N. Lebanon 20:28
• GA Berry-Darlington Inv - US#11 Brookwood GA pounded South#6 Hoover AL, 68-188. DyeStat FLF Joe Thorne, Lakeside Dekalb GA sr, pulled away from Brookwood's Dan Fassinger, 15:18 5k to 15:36, with Andrew Heath, Lassiter GA, third in 15:47. Best girl of the day was Kathleen Turchin, North Gwinnett GA jr, 18:52.
• KS Weekend 9/8 - 7 meets including Wamego and Topeka West
• NH Bishop Guertin Inv - Boys: Tony Tuax of Dover wins by almost a minute, but it is not enough for Dover to overtake host Bishop Guertin. Girls: Rachel Umberger of Concord leads her team to victory in 19:21
• OH Tiffin Carnival - 1A winners: St. Xavier boys 82, Turpin girls 113, Kevin Schwartz, Moeller Cincinnati sr 16:17, Maggie Infeld, Beaumont soph, 19:06. Best girls race of the day was in Division III: DyeStat FLF Sunni Olding, Minster soph, beat Carime Reinhard of Hopewell-Loudon by 5 seconds in 18:58.
• OH Heritage Days Inv - DyeStat FLF Brent DesRoches 15:59 by 40 seconds; DyeStat FLF Emily King 18:46 wins by 57 seconds to lead Dublin Coffman over Northmont 26-48 with a 1-2-4-6 punch.
• MT Weekly Roundup - Flathead sweeps own invitational behind DyeStat FLF Kurt Michels 14:41 3m (44-second margin) and super freshman Zoe Nelson 17:40 (64 seconds). Big wins at Great Falls by DyeStat FLF Heidi Lane 17: 51 3m (71 seconds), Joel Grieger 15:00 (46 seconds).
• NV Las Vegas Inv - Rubidoux CA boys, Green Valley NV girls,
  Tony Jones UT, Nikki Peterson NV win
• MD Mid Atlantic Classic - Magruder MD boys 99, Jefferson Forest VA girls 48 win at Goucher College.
• NV Reed Inv - Galena boys, Reno girls win
• WY Wayne Chaney Memorial - Tony Bachman 16:17.4 CR (5k) leads Campbell County 28
• FL 1st Health South Classic - close races in Sunrise
• FL Gulliver Inv - host boys 35 and Ransom Everglades girls 92 win in Miami
• TX Brenham Inv - US#7 Woodlands wins hilly 3 mile
• TN Pepsi Knoxville Coaches - Farragut dominates
• Arkansas Team Rankings - first coaches poll of season - Russellville boys, Bentonville girls lead 5A (large school) lists.

Short Takes

• Aptos CA runners ran away with both varsity races in the North Monterey County Early Bird Inv. Senior Brett Gotcher won by 41 seconds in 15:20 3mi, and jr Casey Nevitt won the girls race by 50 seconds in 18:12.
• Canyon CA swept team time honors in the grade-separated Seaside Inv at Ventura CA. The US#16 Canyon boys 76:18, more than than a minute faster overall than US#9 McFarland. Canyon was led by Foot Locker Favorite Jameson Mora's 14:43, best time of the day. (distance not known).
• FLF Billy Nelson, Taft CA sr, won by 30 seconds in 15:35 (distance unknown) at Morro Bay CA, but FLF Lindsey Owen, Nordhoff CA soph, was a 10-second loser to Templeton jr Kristen Browning 19:09.
• Rockford MI's US#4 girls team rolled a perfect 15 at the Bath Invitational 9/8 led by FLF Nikki Bohnsack's 18:47 5k. The next four runners, all Rockford, were Brittinie Ogden 19:12, Kristie Powers 19:18.5, Kelsey Todebusch 19:26.7, and Lindsey Stebbins 19:27.9
• FLF Liza Pasciuto, Murrieta Valley CA soph, won the Bronco Inv on the twisting Prado Dam course in Chino CA in 15:48 (3 miles plus 255 feet).
• Karen Pulliam of Maryland, a DyeStat Foot Locker Favorite, ran 25th 9/8 in the Peter Geraghty Invitational at Mount St. Mary's University. Bad performance? No -- Karen had arthroscopic surgery on both heels to remove bone spurs just 2 weeks earlier. Her dad tried to talk her out of running, but she said she would run just as far in a workout anyway.
• DyeStat mentioned US#1 girls team Saratoga Springs' "incredible depth" at the Great Race of the Great Bay in San Francisco. So a Saratoga track parent sharpened his pencil and added the Saratoga JV and Freshman/Soph times to the 45 varsity team times. Figured this way, Saratoga would have placed 1st, 12th, and 15th.
• The Swain Family owns the Monroe Parker Invitational in Virginia. Lake Braddock jr Kelly Swain won this year's meet 9/5 in 18:10 over the 2.98 Burke Lake course. Kelly also won the meet last year and older sister Erin, former Foot Locker finalist now at North Carolina State, won in 1999.
• Erika Odlaug is really enjoying the 2.5 mile course at Lakewood Forest Preserve in Wauconda IL. First she ran 14.34 to take 26 seconds off the old course record held by former Foot Locker finalist Victoria Jackson. Then she came back 9/5 and ran 18 seconds faster at 14:16 to win the Art Campbell Invitational by more than 2 minutes over Katie Birn, who was 6th in the 2000 Illinois AA state meet.
• DaBryan Blanton, US#1 in both the 100 and 200 last spring, used his speed on the football field Friday 9/7 to run 287 yards on 13 carries in a 72-23 romp by Forney TX, which is #1 in the Dallas Morning News 3A rankings. The DyeStat All American got all of his yards in the first half with touchdown runs of 78, 59, 41, 41 and 16 yards. That wasn't even a PR game for Blanton; 2 years ago he gained 38l yards in one game.
• Angela Homan, Spencerville OH senior, won the Columbus Grove Invitational 9/1 in a swift 17.56 (5k).

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

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

College Choices 2001
1,663 college choices

Next for DyeStat on-site
The meet is on, and we will be there.

Saturday Sept 15
Hilliard OH

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• GA Berry-Darlington Inv
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• Great Bay results
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• Illinois boys XC preview
• Pennsylvania team XC previews
• PA weekend 9/1
• TX Plano Inv
• TX Flower Mound Marcus Inv
• TX Brazoswood Inv
• MO Truman Inv
• MO First Capital Inv
• AL Challenge of Champions
• Foot Locker Pre-Season Favorites
• PA Viking Inv
• TN Run for the Hills
• TX The Woodlands Inv
• UT Grass Relays
• KY Tiger Run - Louisville
• Missouri XC preview
• New Jersey XC preview
• GA Carrollton twilight results
• Idaho pre-season rankings
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• PA Girls AA preview
• OR-WA Border Clash page
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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.
  meet page
• 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 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