This
Week
week ending 9/19/01
High School runners
show how to cope
Carmel girls beat Rockford in Hilliard
OH
Kingwood boys beat The Woodlands in Texas
Lawrence KS coaches salvage meet at Rim
Rock Farm
sophs Haddan, Peterson rule Woodbridge
in CA
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- TN Tennessee Classic at Knoxville
was won in course record time by DyeStat
Foot Locker Favorite (FLV) Scott Fuqua in 14:58,
followed by a hard closing Andy Baksa (15:05) Farragut
dominated both AAA races.
- WA Weekly
Highlights - Chris Lukezic, Auburn sr, 14:45 (3m), Allison
Tubbs, 15:22 (2.9m).
- MA Jake
Klim's Poll #2 - Owen Washburn, Amherst; St. John's
Prep; Drew Wiechnicki, Monument Mountain; and East Bridgewater
top Division 1 and 2 lists.
- GA gatfxc.com
rankings Sep 19 - Harrison girls, Brookwood
boys, Kathleen Turchin, and Joe Thorne are
#1
- NJ Boys
Top 10 by Conrad - Old Bridge still Number 1,
but things haven't shaken down yet.
- UT Murray
Inv - Orem sweeps; Orem jr Amber Harper
17:48 (3 mi); Hurricane jr Tony Jones 15:10.
- SC Coaches
Classic - Steve Boyd, Summerville 15:48 (3.1m),
Angelina Blackmon, Northwestern 18:34, Summervile
girls 124, Byrnes boys 125.
- KS Weekly
Roundup - Heroic efforts by Lawrence area coaches salvaged
a high school meet at Rim Rock Farm 24 hours after the U.
of Kansas cancelled the KU Invitational. There were only
20 teams instead of 150, but the coaches were rewarded by
a summit meeting of KS distance runners: Matt Noonan
and Amy Hastings each made late moves to shake top
rivals Adam Perkins and Erin Mortimer.
- TX Andy Wells
Inv - host Kingwood TX swept this meet, with
their US#7 boys team beating US#9
The Woodlands, 37-58. The two teams carry their Texas
argument to Charlotte this week in the Great
American Championship. Brian McKinstry
- CA Woodbridge
Inv - Sophomores rule -- Michael Haddan 14:55
(3mi) won a big invitational for the second straight week,
and Nikki Peterson, Faith Lutheran Las Vegas NV,
17:17 was 5 seconds better than Maryann Pynchon. Pre-season
US#1 Poly Long Beach boys were again unimpressive as El
Toro won the boys team scoring. US#8 Murrieta Valley
girls won behind Liza Pasciuto.
- PA Briarwood
Inv - sophomore sensation Jessica Cickay ran
18:26 (3.1 miles) the first sub-18:30 ever by a girl at
fabled Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia, eclipsing such prior
stars as Donna Fidler, Jackie Kelly, Sheila Klick, and Julia
Pudlin. PA Weekend
Roundup
- OH Meet
of Champions - Carmel IN girls upset Rockford
MI despite Nikki Bohnsack. Nef Araia IN and
Milford MI win boys. Results
- CO Liberty
Bell Inv - Smoky Hill Aurora jr Megan Kaltenbach
17:49 (5k), with freshman sister Katelyn Kaltenbach
19:04 making her debut on the DyeStat XC
Leader List. Boys winners were Payton Batliner,
Highlands Ranch CO 15:34, cousin of former Colorado University
star Adam Batliner, and Campbell County WY 96 (Cherry
Creek 114, Fairview 134)
- DE Lake
Forest Inv - US#20 Good Counsel MD boys 54. Meet
record 18:52 by Meredith Lambert, Tatnall DE sr.
- AR Coaches
Poll #2 - Team Rankings - Russellville boys,
Fayetteville girls top big schools. Berryville
sweeps small school lists.
- ID Tiger-Grizz Inv - Shaun Kelley
leads invading Box Elder UT to boys victory with
16:37 time, best of the day over hills, sand, and turns.
Freshman Rilee Buttars, Skyline, won the girls race
in 20:51.
- MO Missouri
Southern Stampede - Ashley Sanders, Clinton MO,
18:28 (5k) beat Jamie Owensby, Bentonville AR, by 17 seconds.
Brian Gosnel, Tahlequah, 15:37 won the boys race
by 5 seconds over Chase Feltner, Russellville AR.
- NC Cougar
Inv - In a meet taken over by the NC State University
Club after ACC rules prevented the university from hosting
it, Mt. Tabor jr Matt Debole 15:54 and Jordan soph
Katherine Merrill 18:55 ran away with wins over a
hilly twisting 5,038 meter course. Chapel Hill swept
the team competition with Mt. Tabor second in each race.
- NH Sanborn
Inv - Pelham sweeps. Zach Emerson, Hillsboro-Deering
jr, sets 16:20 course record.
- CT Wilton
Inv - US#14 Danbury boys 29, with all seven under
16 minutes on flat 3-mile course, led by sr Andre Laboy
14:54, who was 3rd. Ahead of Laboy were Steve Mucchetti,
Ridgefield sr, and Alex Bloom, Guilford sr, both timed in
14:41. Danbury JV showed team depth with perfect 15 and
7 of top 8. Ridgefield girls 39.
- NC Greensoro
8-mile relay (5x2500)- Course records were broken by
both winners: North Mecklenburg NC boys 39:34 and
Meyers Park girls 50:15.
- MT Great Falls double tri - Flathead
freshman Zoe Nelson continued to impress with a course
record 18:58 on the all hills 3-mile Great Falls course
that coaches judge to be a minute slower than other MT courses.
She won by 73 seconds and was 23 seconds faster than Heidi
Lane in a different race. Flathead sr Kurt Michels
was a 47-second winner in 16:08. Montana
weekend report
- TN UT
Chattanooga - Milton GA boys 51, Brentwood TN girls
41 (G.P.S 42)
- IL Richard
Spring Inv - Erika Odlaug, Deerfield IL sr, humbled
another course with a 13:30 (2.5 miles) on the Illinois
state meet course in Peoria. That was 19 seconds faster
than Maria Cicero's state meet record set last year and
58 seconds faster than Odlaug's own time last year. Micah
VanDenend was the boys winner in 14:29 (3 miles).
- KY
Trinity Inv
- St. Xavier Louisville KY jr Bobby Curtis (left)
and South Oldham KY sr Isaac LaFond continued their
1-2 season duel with Curtis winning 14:44 5k to 15:06. St.
Xavier Cincinnati OH was a strong team winner with six
runners in the top 25 and five scorers spanning 15:47 to
16:21.
- CO Cherry Creek Inv - Bret Schoolmeester,
Denver Christian, who was shut out of the Liberty Bell Friday
when Denver Metro schools withdrew to observe the national
day of prayer, won Saturday in 15:18 5k.
- AL Great
Muddy Classic - hometown McGill-Toolen sweeps.
Short Takes
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Amber Trotter,
Ukiah CA winner of the Great Race of the Great Bay, is
off to Hawaii this weekend (9/22) for the Iolani Invitational.
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- FLV Jesse Mizzone, Pascack Valley
NJ jr, ran an 18:10 5k, second fastest ever at Darlington
Park, Mahwah NJ. She won by 2 minutes, 17 seconds.
- FLV Molly Huddle, Notre Dame NY
sr, shattered the course record by 17 seconds in the Corning
Hawks Classic with a time of 18:42.
- Sacred Heart San Francisco sr Shannon
Rowbury edged Granite Bay CA soph Caitlin Chock
16:41 to 16:46 in a duel of DyeStat FLV's at the Lowell
Invitational in San Francisco.
- FLV Tim Nelson, Liberty Christian
CA jr, won the Nevada Union Inv in 16:01 (distance unknown),
but soph John Wihtol and sr Nick DeFelice were not far behind
to lead Jesuit 37 to the team victory. Reno 26 was
the girls team winner.
- FLV Giliat Ghebray, Logan CA sr,
pulled away after 2k to win the Carondelet-DeLaSalle Inv,
Concord CA, by 36 seconds in 15:36 (4.83 k)
- Niskayuna NY soph Caitlin McTague
17:45 (3.02 m) ran off with the Shaker Invitational by 51
seconds. The host Shaker boys beat Shenendehowa 41-44
but the Shaker girls lost to Colonie 41-53.
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Tim Moore, Novi
MI sr, won the Walled Lake Western Invite at Gilbert Willis
Park in Wixom, MI, running 15:45 on one of the toughest
courses in MI, just 5 seconds off the 1988 course record
held by Brian Grosso, the 1988 Foot Locker (nee Kinney)
Cross Country champion.
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Bulgarian exchange student
Milos Mitric, Asheville NC, won the Spartanburg
SC Eye Opener recently in 15:50 (5k). Mitric reportedly
had a 3000/5000 double in the Balkan National Championships
with PRs of 8:26 and 14:40 to go with a PR of 3:55 at
1500 meters. Next: the Race of Champions at the Great
American Championships in Charlotte 9/22.
- At Pine Grove NY, Homer sr Tracey Brauksieck
upset FLV Laurel Burdick, Fayetteville-Manlius sr, 18:47-19:13
(distance unknown).
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Handley Winchester VA sr
Bobby Lockhart had his recruiting visit to Wisconsin
postponed so he stayed home and won the James Wood Invitational
for the fourth straight year in 15:38. Lockhart called
it "a good workout."
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Enumclaw WA sr Allison
Tubbs is too fast for the girls. So they let her run
with the boys in a 3-way meet at Emerald Ridge WA. She
placed third overall with a time of 16:46 over a hilly
3-mile course.
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High school runners show how
to cope
at cross country meets across America
Ceremonies were held
before high school cross country meets, just 5 days after
the horror of terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Below, saying the Pledge of Allegiance at the Meet
of Champions, Hilliard OH. Right, singing God Bless
America at the Briarwood Invitational in Pennsylvania. In
Colorado, Smoky Hill Aurora coach Jeff Bliven reported that
running in the Liberty Bell Invitational Friday "did
wonders" for his kids. "They needed to try to
get back to normal, yet run with respect and heavy hearts."
photo by John Dye, DyeStat
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photo by Don Rich, PennTrackXC,
who said, "It was an uplifting day, a day that started
to renew my own spirit, the spirit that our kids give to all
of us."
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Meet of Champions in Hilliard
OH
Carmel IN girls upset Rockford
MI; Milford MI boys,
Nef Araia, Nikki
Bohnsack win inaugural 3-state meet.
HILLIARD OH 915/01 -- The meet started with a minister asking why
we should run today, leading the young athletes in the pledge of
allegiance, and shouting the invocation, "RUN!" Then a
very American boy of Ethiopian descent answered the minister's question
with the most brilliant run of the day.
Meet of Champions: Results
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Right: Nikki Bohnsack
(R) led all the way, but was pushed by Michelle Rafferty,
whose Carmel IN team beat Bohnsack's Rockford MI
Below: Nef Araia (R) held
off Wesley Smith to win in 15:12, tied for US#1
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.Last
Week
week ending 9/12/01
Great
Race of the Great Bay
DyeStat on-site with complete results and pictures
Olympian
Regina Jacobs mixed with the athletes
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Angela Homan,
Spencerville OH senior, won the Columbus Grove Invitational
9/1 in a swift 17.56 (5k).
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Marc Bloom's Nike / Foot Locker Super 25. The
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College
Choices 2001
1,663 college choices
Status
of DyeStat
We got out of Washington
DC safely Tuesday after the terrorist attack and made our
way home to Baltimore. Shortly thereafter, DyeStat was off
the air. Our Internet host is a New Jersey firm, but we
learned for the first time that the computer that actually
serves DyeStat is in a building in Lower Manhattan 4 blocks
from the World Trade Center. Power in that building was
turned off Tuesday afternoon and DyeStat was down for 40
hours. No web page. No email. I'm sure you will understand
the disruption in service. It was very inconvenient, but
surely a very minor issue in the whole scheme of things
this week.
-- John Dye
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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
- 9/15
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
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