THIS
WEEK
week ending 9/26/01 - alphabetical
order by state
- AL Azalea City
Classic - Tara Lenn 20:14 leads St.
Paul's Episcopal girls 54 (Murphy 66). Ryan Lenaghen
17:17 leads McGill-Toolen boys 33.
- AR Panther Inv
- Rogers sweeps team titles; boys get 5 in top 11
headed by 1-2 Jake Conley 16:20 5k and Tony Chambers 16:52.
Jessie Barnes, Bentonville 15:47 (4k). Complete
Results
- AZ Page Inv
- John Scott 16:27 led host Page 48 to a 1-poihnt
win over Coconino. Tuba City girls 41.
- CA Dana
Hills Inv - Emily Vince, Peninsula 16:55.
Abadir Barre, Mt. Carmel 14:44 (Michael Haddan, Woodbridge
14:49). US#10 Dana Hills girls 127 (Woodbridge 130).
El Toro boys 97, second straight invitational win
for El Toro.
- CA Cowchip
Classic - Giliat Ghebray, Logan Union
City 15:14 (3m), beating old course record by 5 seconds
and Jason Carwile by 13. US#15 Jesuit CA boys 44.
Shannon Rowbury, Sacred Heart Cathedral SF 18:06.
Montgomery girls 53, led by Kim Conley 18:33 in 3rd.
- CA Mt. Whitney
Inv - McFarland boys 38, Buchanan 107,
with Casey Burchill 15:17 5k individual winner. Heather
Hansen 18:14 and Madera girls 55 (McFarland 66,
Buchanan 77).
- FL Raider Classic
- Daniel Parker, Boone sr 14:52 3m for
18 second win over Sean Burris. Elly Kabbord, Cocoa
Beach 18:28. Details
- FL Florida State
Inv - Lee Yaracs 14:50 3m led Ridgeview
boys 61 (1-3-6-14-37). Zita Magloire, Chiles sr 18:07.
Estero girls 83. Details
- HI Iolani
Inv - Amber Trotter, impressive winner
of the Great Race of the Great Bay 2 weeks ago, had an enjoyable
weekend in Hawaii, winning by 78 seconds in 17:01. An observor
wrote: "She had a big smile on her face as she came
down the stretch. It was truly a dominating performance
from a truly amazing athlete." Trotter's time would
have placed her 4th in the boys race.
- IL Palatine
Inv - Invading Davidson Hilliard OH swept
the team titles a week after hosting the Meet of Champions.
Davidson Boys 48 (3-6-8-14-17) and Girls 45 (4-5-8-10-18).
Sam Romanoski, Lake Zurich IL jr 15:06 3m, Jean
Marinangeli, Buffalo Grove IL sr 15:06 2.5m.
- IN Culver
Academy Inv - Michelle Rafferty and Nef
Ariai, winners of the Meet of Champions at Hilliard
OH last week, repeated at the Culver meet. Rafferty, Carmel,
14:!5 4k outkicked Tiffany Redlarczyk, Lake Central by 5
seconds. Ariai, Lawrence North 15:41 (distance unknown)
was 21 seconds better than Nick Kruse, Lake Central. Carmel
swept the team titles, with the girls team (46 pts) beating
previous Indiana 2nd and 1st ranked teams Chesterton 97
and Valparaiso 101.
- KS Weekly Report
by Tony Bozarth - David Williams, Wichita
West 16:34 edges Matt Swedlund, Topeka Washburn Rural, by
a half second. Erin Mortimer, Riley County, beats
Trish Nickoley, Shawnee Heights.
- MD
Bull Run Inv - Runners
cope with hot day and the killer Hereford HS hills. In one
of the rare sub-19 tours over Hereford's 3-mile course,
Tenke Zoltani (left) 18:53 led Dulaney
MD 110 to victory in the elite division. Zoltani missed
Karen Pulliam's course record by only one second. C.
Milton Wright MD 68 won the boys elite team title with
ease, while, Ryan Blood, E. Pennsboro PA 16:14 ran
the fastest time of the day. Blood won a see-saw battle
with pre-race favorite Pat Bailey of CMW (16:15) in the
last strides, with Shane Stroup 4th. Complete
Results
- MI Spartan
Inv - Rockford MI girls 55, trouncing
Colerain Cincinnati OH 117, Stevenson MI 118, and Clarkston
MI 120. Nikki Bohnsack's 2nd place finish in 18:20 paced
Rockford, with Shannon Stanley, Adams Rochester winning
in 18:18. Big Rapids 98 edged Grand Ledge by 3 points
in Division 1, while Andrew Bauer, Lahser Bloomfield
Hills MI had the fastest time of the day, 15:47, running
in Divisions 2-3-4.
- MN Eagle Inv -
soph Shannon Bergstedt 14:33 (distance unknown) leads
Hopkins to team victory. Boys race cancelled due to storm.
- MT Mountain
West Classic - Biggest meet in Montana. Kalispell
freshman star Zoe Nelson broke a course record for
the third straight week, running 17:52 3m at the U. of Montana
golf course. That was a second faster than the old record
of Canadian star Emily Kroshus. US#2 Mead WA boys 44
(Kalispell 81), led by Jesse Fayant 15:03 in 2nd place.
Kurt Michels gave Kalispell a sweep of individual
honors by winning the boys race in 14:47. North Central
WA girls 60 (Kalispell MT 67).
- NH Bobcat Inv
- Dover NH sr Tony Truax 15:55 5k, Bishop Guertin
boys 75 (Salem 80), Rachel Umberger 19:14, Pinkerton
girls 57
- NY Suffolk
Coaches Inv - Christian Brothers Academy
NJ 23 (2-3-5-7-8) dominated Varsity B, with Brian Dalpiaz,
Sayville 16:11 5k winning individual honors on a very hot,
humid day. US#16 Bronxville NY girls won Varsity
C with 40 points, and Northeast #6 Pearl River NY
won Varsity B girls with 37 points.
- OH Ohio
Catholic Championships - US#21 St. Xavier
Cincinnati 26 dominated with 5 of the top 11 and 7 out
of 21, led by 1-2 Kyle Kowalski 16:35 and Ben Wietmarshen
16:38. Beaumont 92 won the girls race by 2 points
over St. Joseph Academy.
- OH Van Wert Inv
- Angela Homan, Spencerville OH 18:16 5k for big
45-second win over Sunni Olding, Minster OH.
- PA NorthEast Inv
- Christopher Spooner, Lewisburg 16:44, Tricia Learn, Mansfield
19:49. Allentown Central girls 48. Shikellamy boys 116.
- PA Carlisle Inv
- North Allegheny girls 145 (Wyomissing 152). Angie
Saterstad 18:20 5k (Debbie Huss 19:03). Cumberland Valley
boys. Dorian McDonald, Liberty 16:01.
- SC Schlotzsky's
Inv - Elizabeth Couch 19:07 on tough 5k
course leads Spartanburg girls, Wade Hampton
boys, Tommy Hunt, Spartanburg 16:17.
- WA Bellevue
Inv - Seattle Prep sr Ray Rogers ran off
with a 71-second win in 17:35 over a flat 5k course. Mike
Sayank, Sammamish 15:32 won the boys race. Eisenhower
swept the team titles.
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Complete
Results and Action Pictures - Team
Pictures -
Big Winners are CURTIS - TUBBS
- DEAK -
KINGWOOD TX - SARATOGA NY
Boys
Race of Champions
Soph Ryan Deak FL 15:12 rallies
late over Kyle Perry UT 15:18, Chris Solinsky WI 15:18,
Brett Gotcher CA 15:19, Chris Lukezic WA 15:21, and
Allen Bader OH 15:24.
Kingwood TX 162 (13-17-27-36-69) emerges victorious
from super balanced team battle. LaSalle OH 183, Canyon
CA 202, North Mecklenburg N C 213, Farragut TN 216,
plus six more teams under 300.
Girls
Race of Champions
Allison Tubbs crushes field from start to finish;
16:55 time beats college women's time;
Saratoga NY girls 77 (5-8-20-21-23) put down
Utah (Mountain View 105, Bingham 109)
CURTIS
15:09 is fastest of day
Boys seeded Invitational race was as good as BROC at
the top, with Bobby Curtis KY and Joe Thorne
GA going at it stride for stride. As he usually does,
Curtis pulled away late to win by 6 seconds in 15:09,
fastest boys time of the long day.
Girls
Inv-Seeded: Jenny Aldridge
CA 18:17, Shaker 123 over Columbis NY 126.
Donna
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Alan Webb wins first college race!
NC State sweeps team titles!
College
Men - College
Women
Webb has moved on to college, but he
is still Number One
photo by John Dye
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Leader List update 9/21
Now 340 cross country performances from 98 meets as received
by DyeStat through September 21
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- What's it like for the Rockford
MI boys now that Dathan Ritzenhein has gone to college? Two
Rockford boys write to DyeStat
Electronic Connections
- Bend OR
track mom writes about the pendulum of emotions from September
8 to September 11 as she follows events in San Francisco and
New York electronically.
Harrier
Rankings shaken up by first 2 weeks of action - LaSalle
Cincinnati OH boys take over #1, as Poly Long Beach CA
falls to 10th; Carmel IN girls claim #2 behind Saratoga
Springs NY - Sept
17 Harrier rankings
NEW
TRAGEDY: 8
U. of Wyoming track athletes killed in van accident -
one of the victims, Morgan McLeland, was a Wyoming state champion
in cross country and led Campbell County WY to the US#4 ranking
in 1998. Police say the other driver was drunk and charged
him with vehicular homicide.
OLYMPIAN
PAUL CUMMINGS DIES IN FISHING ACCIDENT - Paul Cummings,
a 1984 US Olympian at 10,000 meters and a noted distance runner
from the mile to marathon, drowned in Strawberry Reservoir,
Utah, when high winds overturned his canoe while fishing Monday
9/17. Anders Arrhenius, father of HS discus record holder
Nik Arrhenius, was a BYU classmate of Cummings. Anders writes:
"One of the few distance runners that bonded with us
throwers. A great friend and a great man.
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.Last
Week
week ending 9/19/01
High School
runners show how to cope after September 11
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
- OH Meet
of Champions
Carmel IN girls upset
Rockford MI; Milford MI boys, Nef Araia, Nikki
Bohnsack win inaugural 3-state meet.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
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Short Takes
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- FLV Jesse Mizzone, Passaic 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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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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