Virginia State Meet Preview
Bobby Lockhart aiming to be first in Virginia to win 4 straight state cross country championships, and Alan Webb's course record is also in his sights at Virginia state meet Saturday 11/10. Preview by MileStat

College Choices 2002 -- The early signing period for this year's seniors doesn't start until next week (November 14-21), but announcements are already rolling in: CA sprints Angel Perkins, Arizona; TX sprints Brendan Christian, Texas; PA distance Julia Pudlin, Yale; LA sprints Jonathan Wade, Tennessee; AL distance Tyler Stanfield, Samford; NC distance Laura Stanley, Duke; NC distance Julia Lucas, N. C. State; OH distance Angela Homan, Auburn; OR distance Dawn Morgan, Auburn; CA thrower Rachel Varner, Arizona; CA distance Shannon Rowbury, Duke; TX sprints Nicholas Johnson, Texas; GA distance Michelle and Jessica Brewer, Samford; TX hurdles Natalie Young, Illinois. Email choices to [email protected] with name of sender and a way to verify the information.

THIS WEEK on DyeStat results, photos, highlights from around the country. 30 state meets !   right: Klamath Union's 1-2 are also 1-2 in the Oregon state meet - Lauren Jesperson & Jacob Gomez
Saratoga sweeps powerful NY section 2 Bohnsack, Rockford rock in Michigan Leal, Trotter cruise in California leagues Tubbs loses in WA 4A! 6th to Jessie McLaughlin. Jesse Fayant leads US#13 Mead in WA Madia catches Cickay in PA. Cedar Cliff boys win. Hudson OH boys topple US#3 LaSalle. state record 15:06 5k for Bobby Curtis in KY Erika Odlaug finishes 12 for 12, a course record every race Owen, Mucchetti win CT Open
AR STATE MEET - Russellville boys 28 (1 2 6 8 11 12) led by Chase and Travis Feltner. Details AZ STATE MEET - Mountain Pointe sr Sally Meyerhoff 17:26 3.03m won her second state championship by 68 seconds, and led Mountain Pointe to the over all team championship. Sr Kevin Billington repeated as boys champion in 15:25. League action in California Yong-Sung Leal 14:36 3m takes 5 seconds off 27-year old course record at Hayward HS Amber Trotter photos by Keith Conning CA North Bay League - Ukiah sr Amber Trotter 16:31 wins by 35 seconds over Jenny Aldridge, who is 54 seconds ahead of anyone else; Aldridge leads US#18 Maria Carrillo girls 39 (West #9 Montgomery Santa Rosa 42). Santa Rosa boys 52 (Ukiah 61, Montgomery 64) behind 2-3 so Eddy McFarlin and sr Niles Vandeventer, with Maria Carrillo sr Jordan Kinley 15:40 winning the race. Details CA Hayward League - Arroyo jr Yong-Sung Leal won in 14:36 3m at Hayward HS, breaking the course record set in 1974 by Rich Kimball by 5 seconds. CA Southwestern League - Liza Pasciuto 19:04 leads Murrietta Valley girls 19. Host Temecula Valley boys 35 (Murrieta Valley 37). Details CA Marmonte League - a sweep for Royal; Tim Hearst 15:33 3m; Erin Roesinger 18:27. Details CA All-State rankings - Hagenbuch moves up to #3. Rankings CT Open Championships - Meghan Owen and Steve Mucchetti win. Danbury boys. Complete Results and photos DC DCIAA City Championships - Wilson sweeps, 6th straight for girls. Freshman Johnny Watkins (right) wins boys race. Story and pictures FL DISTRICTS - Berkeley Prep sr Rolf Steier 14:26 3m and Christian Indian Rocks 8th grader Melissa Kotchman 17:49 head Florda District Top Times list. Details GA Georgia State Meet - Lakeside-Dekalb sr Joe Thorne won 5A boys by 41 seconds in 15:49 5k on a hot, humid day that caused many dropouts on the hilly course. South#7 Brookwood was 5A boys champion. Georgia's ranked girls teams won in nearly identical fashion and girls named Brewer led the way for each. Michelle 19:39 and Jessica Brewer's 1-2 finish led South#4 Harrison to an easy 28 point score in 5A. Christy Brewer 19:41 led South #5 Marist 25 in 4A. Harrison had the edge in total team time, 101:38 to 102:59. Westminster swept 3A, the 10th straight year for the girls and 6th straight for the boys. Complete Results IL STATE MEET - Deerfield sr Erika Odlaug made it 12 for 12 -- 12 races, 12 records -- by winning in 13:25 2.5m, 24 seconds faster than Maria Cicero's meet record set last year and 5 seconds faster than Erika's own Detweiler Park course record set earlier this season. Micah VanDenend, coming back from a broken leg a year ago, outkicked Stephen Pifer and Sam Romanowski in the last 200 meters to finish in 14:19 3m -- fastest of the day -- and lead Glenbard South 118 to the AA team title. Complete Results KY STATE MEET - ailing Bobby Curtis (left) sets state record 15:06 5k at tough Kentucky Horse Park on warm day with soft footing. Curtis missed a several days of training recently because of a flu bug. Curtis ran 14:58 at this course during the season, but Kentucky only recognizes state meet marks as state records. Details and photo MA For the 4th straight week, Phillips Andover sr Melissa Donais set a course record when she ran 18:01 3.1m on her home course in a dual meet. This took 7 seconds off her own record set October 20. MI Michigan State Meet - US#3 Rockford girls 76 win behind Nikki Bohnsack's 17:40.3 5k, 28 seconds better than Shannon Stanley, avenging Bohnsack's only loss of the season. Caledonia sr Tim Ross 15:04 is fastest boy of day (Novi sr Tim Moore 15:11) and 8th fastest 5k in the country this season. Detroit Catholic Central boys win 4A with 186 points (US#8 Milford 205). Complete results and 52 top times listed MN STATE MEET - Soph Ladia Albertson 14:18 4k and 8th grader Bria Wetsch 14:29 broke away after favorite Shannon Bergstedt collapsed at 2.25 miles. Hopkins sweeps AA team titles. Details, top times and photo MO Missouri State Meet -Adam Perkins beats Marc Tegenkamp in battle of juniors, 15:59.8 to 16:11. - Complete Results MS STATE MEET - Pearl boys, unbeaten in MS for 2 years, three-peat in 4A with 6 runners in the top 12 for 30 points. Jake Raines, East Central, won in state record 15:27. Julia Cathcart, Starkville, 11:36 was the fastest girl of the day. There were three team sweeps: Ponotoc 3A, Tupelo 5A, and St. Andrews 2A, making 8 straight for the St. Andrews girls. NC STATE MEET 4A/3A -North Mecklenburg boys ended one of greatest NC seasons ever. Mt. Tabor runners broke the boys and girls meet records. jr Matt Debole 15:02 broke Ricky Brookshire's state meet record (1999). sr Carly Mathews 17:44 broke meet record held by Casey McGraw (1999). Asheville sr Milos Mitric 15:11 broke the 3A meet record. Complete Results. NH Meet of Champions - Manchester Central sweeps team titles. Hanover sr Catherine Bryson 18:31 5k and Dover sr Tony Truax.16:10 are fastest of day - Complete Results NM STATE MEET - Gallup sr Felicia Guliford's 19:11 5k was fastest of the day by 54 seconds in this high altitude venue as she led her team to its 6th straight 5A title to finish the season undefeated. Another streak was continued by Albuquerque Academy boys (4 straight 4A titles, 2 undefeated seasons in 3 years). NV Nevada State Meet -Chris Clauson, Christa Avena are fastest of the day. Galena boys, Carson girls win 4A. Lowry sweeps 3A. Nikki Peterson leads Faith Lutheran to 17 point score in 2A. Complete results and photos NY New York sectionals - Saratoga sweeps Section 2, with US#1 girls scoring 21 points (1-7-9-10-14-16-17) to top Colonie 55, Columbia 95, Shaker 104, and Bethlehem 134. Saratoga's 8th grader Nicole Blood 17:26 5k led the way, and Colonie soph Eryka Perrault also cracked 18 minutes with a runner-up time of 17:58. The first 9 girls were sophomores or younger. Section 3 girls set meet records in three divisions: Fayetteville-Manlius sr Laurel Burdick 17:56 5k, Homer sr Tracey Brauksieck 18:08, and Beaver River soph Lauren Moser 18:50. In Section 4, Notre Dame Elmira sr Molly Huddle set a course record in 17:35. Sec 8: Wantagh sr Jean Coleman 18:50. details on armorytrack.com OH Ohio State Meet - US #24 Hudson boys topple US#3 LaSalle Cincinnati, 61-78. Turpin Cincinnati girls 77 (Davidson Hilliard 148). Allen Bader 15:07 5k over Wesley Smith by 0.2 - "What a race!" said a spectator. "Bader led from start to finish with Smith glued to his shoulder the entire way". Michelle Sikes 17:50; Angela Homan 17:54. Seventy five times qualify for Leader List. Complete Results and photo OR STATE MEEET - Klamath Union aces Lauren Jesperson and Jacob Gomez are 1-2 in state, both timed in 15:29 5k, but Bend won the war, 100-118, on a 56-point swing in the 5th runners. Also in the mix were Sunset sr David Axel 15:32 and Grant jr Alec Wall 15:38. Results, highlights, top times, and photo PA Pennsylvania State Meet - N. Allegheny sr Stephanie Madia 19:04 5k runs down Council Rock soph sensation Jessica Cickay at the wire by half a second. Cickay's US#11 team finishes 9th to Allentown Central Catholic 143 (North Penn 169). US#19 Cedar Cliff boys 87 win AAA. Baldwin sr Dan Mazzocco 16:03 is fastest of the the day (Andy Weilacher 16:05). Cickay was treated at Hershey hospital for heat exhaustion after her race. Details RI STATE MEET - US#21 Bishop Hendricken poured in 5 of the top 9 runners to win the boys race with 26 points. North Kingston sr Lindsay Vieira 19:19 5k led her team to the girls title with 48 points. St. Raphael sr Garrett Vaslet 16:29 was the boys individual winner. Complete results TN Tennessee State Meet - Andy Baksa 15:03 leads US #7 Farragut to AAA title. Houston girls dominate AAA with 7 girls in the top 15 for a score of 25, tieing the state record for low score. All undergrad Harpeth Hall girls won Division II with 31 points. Megan Cauble 18:20 3m of Knoxville West wins AAA girls. Complete Results TX Texas regionals - US#1 Kingwood boys win Huntsville region with 54 points; US#12 Kingwood girls 30 (5 of top 10). Marcus sweeps Lubbock region both teams scoring 40 points (girls are US#25). US#18 The Woodlands boys 53 in Arlington region. Fastest of the four regions were Allen sr Valerie Lauver 11:02 and Austin El Paso sr Frank Lozano 15:11. More highlights. VA 37th Virginia Independent Schools State Meet - Boys race won impressively by Kippy Keino, Fork Union Military Academy (yes, a grandson of THAT Kip Keino) in 16:27 5k on hot, windy day over tough Woodberry Forest course. St. Mary's 21 dominated the girls race. Story VA Regionals - Handley Winchester sr Bobby Lockhart warms up with 15:15 5k at Great Meadows. West Springfield sweeps Northern AAA; Phil Gaeta 15:02 2.98m; Kiera Carlstrom 17:38 (Kelly Swain 17:58). Details and regional top times WA Washington State Meet - heavy favorite Alison Tubbs, with a sore foot added to her recent back pains, finished 6th behind Olympia sr Jessie McLaughlin 18:20 5k. US#13 Mead boys win 13th Washington state title, with Jesse Fayant upsetting Chris Lukezic by 2 seconds. Complete results and highlights
Erika Odlaug meets the press after record run in Illinois	Madia catches Cickay Pennsylvania State Meet photo by Don Rich

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Nike Indoor Classic adds Youth Events
Seven new events for younger runners have been added to the Nike Indoor Classic March 9-10, 2002 at the PG County sports complex, Landover MD. The new events are Freshman Mile and 4x200 and 4x400 relays for Bantam, Midget and Youth age groups. Meet preparations are well underway, and meet managers expect the 4th running of NIC to be the best yet. Details

Border Clash III runners will be determined by Oregon, Washington state meets Saturday 11/3. Top 40 boys and top 40 girls from each state will be picked. This year's meet at Nike World Headquarters, Beaverton OR, November 11 will be televised. Details

State Meet Previews Maryland - Pennsylvania - Arkansas

Elites are lining up for Lincoln
LINCOLN NE 10/31/01 - The inaugural running of the Midwest Indoor Track Classic is still over 3 months away, but an impressive number of elite athletes -- both prep and Olympic level -- have already committed to come to Lincoln in February. A half dozen events for Olympic/world class athletes will be run along with a full slate of high school events. Details on early entries

HARRIER RANKINGS 10/29
Kingwood TX boys, Saratoga Springs NY girls still #1. Canyon CA boys, Esperanza CA girls, Haddonfield NJ boys make biggest moves. DyeStat scores rankings by region and finds West and Midwest are strongest.
Harrier Magazine Rankings 10/29 - Next rankings: November 19.

Checking in with the Distance Gods - DyeStat's most prolific TrackTalker steveu finds them at NCAA Pre-Nationals - Dathan Ritzenhein, Eric Logsdon, Sara Bei, Alicia Craig, Anita Siraki, Shalane Flanagan, Erin Donohue, Ale Barrientos, Matt Tegenkamp - read how former HS stars are adjusting to college life.

XC Leader List update 10/18
The lists grew to 1,287 performances from 318 meets this week (ending October 18), with fewer additions because the biggest meet, the Manhattan Invitational, runs only 2.5 miles, too short to be listed. Biggest move this week was by Bobby Lockhart, with his second straight hot 5k, a 15:03 course record at Manassas VA, giving him two of the top 6 times of the season.
XC Leader List explained - Oct 18 lists - How to get listed

It will be starry in Orlando for the Foot Locker national finals in December. Nike, the new presenting sponsor of the meet, is bringing a sensational lineup of elite athletes to meet the 64 prep runners who qualify out of the four Foot Locker regionals. They are eight elite runners and two superstars: Suzy Favor-Hamilton, Regina Jacobs, Kara (Wheeler) Goucher, Sarah Schwald, Bob Kennedy, Pascal Dobert, Abdi Abdirahman, Meb Keflezighi, Michael Johnson, and Stacy Dragila.

Georgia indoor state meet cancelled - Loss of facility -- the meet piggybacked on the USA Nationals at the Georgia Dome the past 8 years -- causes Georgia to cancel its 2002 state meet, joining three other states with facilities problems affecting indoor track. The fate of the Georgia Dome track is up in the air since the USA Nationals moved to the NY Armory. Georgia announcement

Indoor seasons threatened
Indoor track seasons in 2002 are severely jeopardized by lack of facilities in at least three states -- Alabama, Maryland, and North Carolina. In Alabama, the state says it lacks funds to make needed repairs to Celebration Arena in Priceville. A public campaign to SAVE INDOOR is being headed by Grissom AL coach Randy Bunn, as reported on James Guthrie's web site, Alabama Runner. In Maryland, the ancient National Guard Armory in Baltimore will not be available because of installation of a new floor and more military use of the facility in the post-terrorist era, sending seven regionals and dozens of in-season meets in search of a home. The new Prince George's County facility, home of the State Meet and the Nike Indoor Classic, is too expensive for schools to use with the frequency that the Armory was used. In North Carolina, high schools have shared the Greensboro Coliseum with the ACC championships to save setup costs in the past. This year, the ACC is moving to the new facility at UNC in Chapel Hill, but this facility has limited seating and thus limited gate receipts. "At this point, indoor track seems dead unless we get a corporate sponsor ($10,000)," NCHSAA executive director Rich Strunk told the Raleigh News & Observor.
[Editor's Note: In response to this story, the University of North Carolina told DyeStat that UNC can host the high school state meet; it is the state association's call. UNC is hosting a major high school meet February 1-2 and a college meet with 45-60 teams in addition to the ACC. "We feel that facility can hold enough spectators," the spokesman said.]

Foot Locker Favorites
Here are the runners DyeStat 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. The list is updated for information received as of October 5.
Foot Locker Favorites as of 10/5

Amber Trotter talks about her past, present and future. How she lost and found the joy of running. Interview

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