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NTN Finals
Portland Meadows Race Track, Portland OR
December 1, 2007


Girls Championship

Results |

Manlius NY 83 repeats, Madeline Morgan AL 18:54.5
8 - 9 - 10 - 19 - 37 adds up to record 88-point margin

Returning to their winning formula after a brief hiatus, the Manlius girls (runners from Fayetteville-Manlius high school) won their second straight NTN title. With only one athlete graduating,the budding dynasty is starting to draw comparisons to New York rival Saratoga's great 2004 NTN championship team, which had four Foot Locker finalists. race story


Fans react to announcement that Manlius won. photo by Donna Dye


Controlled Aggression: Manlius Returns to the Style That Got Them Here

by SteveU

Speaking about race strategy the night before the big meet, a Wayzata MN runner was asked if his team was going to again try their run-even-pace-and-come-from-WAY-back style here against the big boys. “Yep,” he said, “Coach said you’ve got to dance with the girl that brought ya.”

That elicited a laugh and – unfortunately for Wayzata – not a top finish. But the principle inherent in that twisted little adage was made manifest for the winning club in the Girls Championship race. Last week at the NY NTN Regional, the favored US#1 Stotans from Manlius XC Club (Fayetteville-Manlius HS) and their coach did a little experimenting. They eschewed their typical aggressive start, and tried laying back and moving later in the race. They won, but it just wasn’t their style.

Fast-forward to a week later in the blustery, snow-speckled Portland Meadows. As the runners in the Girls Championship race hit the 1K mark, the controlled aggression was back for Manlius and the top 20 was filled with the green-and-red uniforms of the defending champs. When the score was announced at that first split, with the Stotans’ 58 points leading by about 100, you could feel anyone else’s hopes of winning being leeched right out of them and straight into the mud.

“All season long, our style has been to go out assertively, and make it a strength race,” said Coach Bill Aris of the club’s campaign as the F-M team. Last year the more conservative starting-style worked for that team, but trying with this year’s edition didn’t produce as good of a result. “They were actually kind of numb when they finished that race. Today, we went back to our original formula.”

The drama that remained was how much would Manlius win by and who would take second. The answers to those questions were “a record 88 points” and “Newhall (Saugus) CA.” Manlius would lose a little ground late, but still score 83. That was accomplished beginning with an 8-9-10 finish by freshman Courtney Chapman (19:23), sophomore Hannah Luber (19:25), and sophomore Mackenzie Carter (19:30). Soph Molly Malone (18th, 19:47) and junior Kathyrn Buchan (37th, 20:15) followed to complete the scoring, while junior Kristen Buchan (48th, 20:30) and senior Jocelyn Richards (49th, also 20:30) filled the six and seven spots.

It was, of course, also the second straight win by Manlius and the fourth straight by a New York club, which started with the wins by Kinetic (Saratoga HS) and Hilton (Hilton HS).


Manlius started its rout with 8th Courtney Chapman (right) and 9th Hannah Luber (left). Kaylin Mahoney (middle)
gave runner-up Newhall CA (Saugus) a brief lead by finishing 7th to go with teammate Katherine Dunn's 5th.

photos by John Dye

10th - Mackenzie Carter

19th - Molly Malone
with Victoria DeMedicis of Caution AL 20th.

37th - Kathryn Buchan


Top six all felt good

Newhall, which was setting course records all year as Saugus in ruling California, proved that Cali girls could run pretty well in the snow, mud, and cold after all, getting the runner-up spot with 171. It was a fine battle for spots 3-6, with New York powers Kinetic and Burnt Hills (Burnt Hills Balston) taking 3rd (194) and 5th (209), giving that dominant state 3 of the top 5. Hanover XC Club (Hanover NH) made it a 4th team from what most would call the northeastern part of the country with their 4th (206 pts.), while Caution XC Club (Mountain Brook AL) scored one for the Southeast by riding the jet stream of individual champ Madeline Morgan to a very close 6th (215 pts.).

All of these top 6 teams felt a sense of triumph; Kinetic, for example, has one of its least experienced teams in years. But Manlius seemed to have fulfilled a destiny to continue to rule the nation. As they cranked out the amazing cumulative performances in the late season, putting up decisive wins over a Saratoga team that was rapidly improving itself, it became clear that they were the team to beat here. But winning again was not just a matter of repeating what they did last year.

It was different this year for Manlius

“It was a lot different,” said soph Mackenzie Carter, speaking from the Tiger Woods Center later Saturday afternoon. “We had had three girls graduate, and they were really our leaders. We wound up with four new girls in the top seven. It’s been a pretty good mix and I think we all eventually bonded together in a way that was even better than last year. We were all leaders. It was amazing.”

Soph Hannah Luber also related that the team was well ready for the conditions. “We had two days last week where we ran in the mud. When we got here and saw it might be snowing and it was muddy again, we were excited because we knew we’d trained for it.”

Another factor that gave the Stotans a lift was the finish of junior Kathryn Buchan, who has struggled with an ankle injury most of the year. She often only ran once a week, doing a variety of cross-training, and had been out of the top five in some races (if she ran at all), after being #1 or #2 last year. Saturday, she got back in the scoring. “It felt so good to be able to contribute again,” she said. “It made everything I’ve had to go through the last few months worthwhile.”

Newhall ran for California pride

Meanwhile, in the Newhall (Saugus) tent after the race, there were plenty of smiles and good feeling. The team knew it had finished in the top four (eventually announced as 2nd) and that it had changed the impressions of California teams.

“We really wanted to run well for California,” said senior Katie Dunn, who ran 19:18 to combine on a 5-7 finish with freshman Kaylin Mahoney (19:23). “There was no way for us to prepare for this; we just had to be mentally tough.”

“Our top two ran extremely well,” said Newhall coach Rene Paragas, “and everyone else did what they needed to.”

Davidson and Griffin gave up Foot Locker for the team

With a team that is not just young, but relatively inexperienced, Kinetic had a very strong 3rd-place finish. Hannah Davidson, who gave up a chance to be a 4-time Foot Locker Finalist for her team and finished her fine harrier career in 4th, is the only senior. Hanover RC’s Georgia Griffin would have been a heavy favorite to make her first Foot Locker NE team, but ran in NTN NE instead. Her team wound up an at-large pick and was the highest-finishing at-large team in either race at 4th. Heidi Caldwell (tie for 10th) and Elizabeth Taylor (tie for 26th) had particularly strong races.

Individually, Davidson and Griffin were both in the hunt for the crown, along with Dunn and Burnt Hills’ Sam Roecker. But the two that separated themselves from the field finally were the favored Katie Flood of the Des Moines RC (Dowling Catholic) and Caution TC’s Madeline Morgan. Many waited for Flood to put the hammer down, but the soph is used to putting away competitors early and could not shake the persistent Mountain Brook HS junior.

Morgan pulls away late

Morgan would make a decisive move in the final 600 and pull away to victory in 18:54, 10 seconds up on Flood. Roecker kicked in for 3rd (19:06) to finish ahead of Davidson (19:08), just as she had done a week ago at the New York regional.

Madeline Morgan



It was a fantastic finish for Caution’s leader, who has had her ups and downs this year – running 2nd at the Firman Invite and winning NTN SE, but not finishing her state meet. “I did not have any idea I had a chance to win,” she said. “At the state meet I felt a lot of pressure to win, but in the NTN races there have been no expectations like that. It’s been all about the team. I do better when I feel like I’m not doing it for myself.”

Said Flood, who seems to be showing the effect of her series of hard races, “It was fun to have someone out there to compete with (compared to most of the season), but I don’t think I ran my best race.”

It was tough for anyone, individually or collectively, to run their best race in the snow, cold and mud of Portland Meadows. It was a matter of running solid, and having enough runners running solid to get a finish befitting of the performances that got you here. The teams in the top six definitely did that and the future bodes well for them.

But what about the future hopes of victory here? It doesn’t look good unless you run for Manlius. They graduated exactly one of their top seven, and that was their #7 runner Saturday. Going back to his boys’ teams’ performances back in the first two years of NTN, Coaches Bill and John Aris have had clubs finish 2nd, tied for 2nd, 1st and 1st in the four editions of NTN. And with the “synergy,” as Bill Aris likes to call it, it looks like the Stotan girls are going to be around a while. A long while.

2. Katie Flood IA
3. Sam Roecker NY (R),
4. Hannah Davidson NY
5. Katherine Dunn CA, 6. Georgia Griffin NH


Results

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Event 4 Girls 5k Run CC Championship
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Name Year School Finals Points
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Results - Women
1 Morgan, Madeline 09 Caution XC Club 18:54.5 1
2 Flood, Catherine 10 Des Moines RC 19:04.3 2
3 Roecker, Samantha Burnt Hills XC Club 19:06.9 3
4 Davidson, Hannah 08 Kinetic RC 19:08.0 4
5 Dunn, Katherine 08 Newhall XC Club 19:18.0 5
6 Griffin, Georgia 08 Hanover RC 19:18.4 6
7 Mahoney, Kaylin 11 Newhall XC Club 19:23.5 7
8 Chapman, Courtney 11 Manlius XC Club 19:23.6 8
9 Luber, Hannah 10 Manlius XC Club 19:25.1 9
10 Caldwell, Heidi 10 Hanover RC 19:30.8 11
10 Carter, Mackenzie 10 Manlius XC Club 19:30.8 10
12 Bottorff, Juliet 09 Wilmington XC Club 19:31.7 12
13 Thompson, Melanie 09 Hunterdon XC Club 19:36.0 13
14 Pennings, Tori 08 Warwick Rc-G 19:36.3 14
15 Decker, Ashlie 10 Des Moines RC 19:37.0 15
16 Haws, Natalie 08 Davis XC Club 19:40.0 16
17 Mc Guirk, Elizabeth 08 Portland XC Club 19:45.3 17
18 King, Sydney 11 Kinetic RC 19:47.9 18
18 Malone, Molly 10 Manlius XC Club 19:47.9 19
20 DeMedicis, Victoria 11 Caution XC Club 19:48.5 20
21 Keklak, Andrea 11 Wicked XC Club 19:51.0 21
22 Reyna, Lisa 10 Fort Collins RC 19:53.4 22
23 Adams, Christine 10 Anaheim XC Club 19:55.2 23
24 Greibeland, Lillian 10 Warwick Rc-G 19:56.4 24
25 Benzel, Miranda 09 Fort Collins RC 19:58.4 25
26 Taylor, Elizabeth 08 Hanover RC 19:59.9 26
26 Goutos, Cassandra 10 Kinetic RC 19:59.9 27
28 Upshaw, Tara 09 Carroll XC Club-G 20:00.0 28
29 Eddy, Candace 09 Davis XC Club 20:01.9 29
30 Bingham, Margaret 08 Westfield XC Club 20:02.8 30
31 Whipps, Lucy 10 Rose City XC Club 20:05.6 31
32 Gregory, Meaghan 09 Burnt Hills XC Club 20:06.4 32
33 Winslow, Amanda 09 Suwanee XC Club 20:06.6 33
34 Randall, Anne 09 Newhall XC Club 20:09.5 34
35 Jones, Alexandra 09 Rose City XC Club 20:11.4 35
36 Spratford, Katrina 08 Hunterdon XC Club 20:12.6 36
37 Buchan, Kathryn 09 Manlius XC Club 20:15.2 37
38 Cyrus, Rachael 10 Burnt Hills XC Club 20:16.0 38
39 Arthur, Claire 10 Wicked XC Club 20:16.5 39
40 Viger, Rachel 10 Fort Collins RC 20:18.3 40
41 Love, Kaitlyn 09 Westfield XC Club 20:20.6 41
42 Hofer, Mariah 10 Yankton XC Club 20:21.0 42
43 Jamieson, Dana 08 Wicked XC Club 20:27.6 43
44 Van Rysselberghe, Noel 09 Portland XC Club 20:28.1 44
45 Stephens, Taylor 08 Carroll XC Club-G 20:28.9 45
46 Petruzzellis, Katherine 10 Hunterdon XC Club 20:29.5 47
46 Hylton, Ellie 09 Wicked XC Club 20:29.5 46
48 Buchan, Kristen 09 Manlius XC Club 20:30.5 48
49 Richards, Jocelyn 08 Manlius XC Club 20:30.6 49
50 Boozer, Leslie 09 Caution XC Club 20:31.3 50
51 Kearns, Alexa 10 Rose City XC Club 20:31.4 51
52 Neer, Waverly 11 Westfield XC Club 20:31.5 52
53 Kohl, Keena 08 Anaheim XC Club 20:33.9 53
54 Akande, Olanike 10 Suwanee XC Club 20:34.0 54
55 Selix, Ariana 08 Anaheim XC Club 20:34.5 55
56 Ogan, Cassandra 09 Fort Collins RC 20:34.6 56
57 McGinty, Allyson 09 Suwanee XC Club 20:35.8 57
58 Diethelm, Catherine 11 Caution XC Club 20:36.6 58
59 Hilson, Megan 10 Yankton XC Club 20:36.7 59
60 Zajac, Rachel 09 Lake Central XC 20:39.0 60
61 Jauregui, Brianna 09 Newhall XC Club 20:40.8 61
62 Wirthlin, Julianne 09 Davis XC Club 20:41.0 62
63 Steinberg, Jade 08 Yankton XC Club 20:41.3 63
64 Moore, Nina 08 Newhall XC Club 20:41.4 64
65 Bellon, Brianne 10 Kinetic RC 20:42.5 65
66 Stalker, Rachel 11 Burnt Hills XC Club 20:44.1 66
67 Black, Bridgette 08 Hanover RC 20:44.5 67
68 Sternhagen, Kristin 08 Yankton XC Club 20:45.0 68
69 Whitney, Colette 10 Hunterdon XC Club 20:45.1 69
70 Wilk, Riley 11 Burnt Hills XC Club 20:45.6 70
71 Harper, Jessica 10 Carroll XC Club-G 20:46.0 71
72 Bona, Anna 08 Lake Central XC 20:47.1 72
73 Drapeau, Alyssa 11 Burnt Hills XC Club 20:47.5 73
74 Pettit, Claire 08 Warwick Rc-G 20:48.4 74
75 Ffitch, Taylor 08 Rose City XC Club 20:49.1 75
76 Mahoney, Shannon 11 Portland XC Club 20:53.1 76
77 Flood, Elizabeth 08 Des Moines RC 20:54.4 77
78 Crawford, Briana 09 Suwanee XC Club 20:55.1 78
79 Mojtabaeezamani, Laleh 08 Keller XC Club 20:55.8 79
80 Borroughs, Amanda 11 Kinetic RC 20:56.7 80
81 Parsons, Molly 10 Wilmington XC Club 20:57.1 81
82 Schutte, Payton 11 Portland XC Club 20:57.4 82
83 Storey, Lauren 08 Davis XC Club 20:58.5 83
84 Payonk, Dana 10 Lake Central XC 20:58.8 84
85 Hagler, Claire 09 Portland XC Club 20:59.8 85
86 Carey, Brigid 08 Caution XC Club 21:00.1 86
87 Fehr, Kallie 10 Wilmington XC Club 21:00.2 87
88 Hill, Lauren 08 Carroll XC Club-G 21:00.3 88
89 Plenus, Megan 10 Lake Central XC 21:01.1 89
90 Ehrman, Breanne 08 Westfield XC Club 21:01.7 90
91 Hansen, Emily 10 Davis XC Club 21:03.1 91
92 Creager, Krista 09 Yankton XC Club 21:03.5 92
93 Bahra, Rebekah 11 Anaheim XC Club 21:08.5 93
94 Leahey, Kayla 10 Warwick Rc-G 21:09.5 94
95 Naples, Kim 09 Warwick Rc-G 21:10.5 95
96 Buenaga, Kaitlin 09 Wilmington XC Club 21:11.3 97
96 Rodriguez, Grace 09 Hanover RC 21:11.3 96
98 Follett, Kirsten 10 Fort Collins RC 21:11.6 98
99 Berard, Tanelle 11 Des Moines RC 21:13.4 99
100 Kershner, Kate 08 Wilmington XC Club 21:14.3 100
101 Potter, Rachael 09 Wicked XC Club 21:15.4 101
102 Treichel, Kathryn 11 Kinetic RC 21:17.2 102
103 Olson, Jen 10 Rose City XC Club 21:18.3 103
104 Bonja, Michelle 08 Newhall XC Club 21:18.4 104
105 Clarke, Holly 10 Wicked XC Club 21:20.2 105
106 Murakami, Amber 10 Newhall XC Club 21:20.5 106
107 Conway, Megan 11 Kinetic RC 21:22.3 107
108 Henderson, Jackie 08 Lake Central XC 21:23.4 108
109 Holland, Alexandra 10 Westfield XC Club 21:27.0 109
110 Mepham, Emily 08 Wicked XC Club 21:27.6 110
111 Blackwell, Lauren 11 Wilmington XC Club 21:28.7 111
112 Xiong, Lucia 09 Carroll XC Club-G 21:34.7 112
113 Davidson, Kelly 09 Anaheim XC Club 21:35.4 113
114 Scott, Chelsea 10 Keller XC Club 21:38.6 114
115 Vincent, Ashley 10 Keller XC Club 21:38.8 115
116 Hedquist, Meghan 11 Davis XC Club 21:42.7 116
117 Jensen, Kailey 09 Lake Central XC 21:44.1 117
118 Burton, Jessica 11 Westfield XC Club 21:45.3 118
119 Bergmann, Erin 11 Rose City XC Club 21:47.5 119
120 Oldham, Katelyn 09 Wilmington XC Club 21:50.5 120
121 Lu, Amy 08 Anaheim XC Club 21:52.6 121
122 Kacius, Anna 11 Lake Central XC 21:53.0 122
123 Corcoran, Alexandra 08 Caution XC Club 21:53.3 123
124 Follett, Kelsey 08 Fort Collins RC 21:59.4 124
125 Wood, Corey 10 Anaheim XC Club 22:01.8 126
125 Tobias, Heather 10 Des Moines RC 22:01.8 125
127 Maring, Alexa 08 Suwanee XC Club 22:04.6 127
128 Brown, Martha 08 Burnt Hills XC Club 22:04.8 128
129 Ellis, Reed 08 Caution XC Club 22:06.8 129
130 Dawson, Kelly 08 Keller XC Club 22:10.2 130
131 DiVenuta, Lisa 09 Warwick Rc-G 22:11.6 131
132 Donohue, Meghan 08 Hanover RC 22:12.7 132
133 Williams, Sydney 11 Suwanee XC Club 22:13.8 133
134 Gilbert, Caitlin 09 Carroll XC Club-G 22:14.7 134
135 Gezon, Katie 08 Suwanee XC Club 22:18.7 135
136 Smith, Bre-Anna 10 Westfield XC Club 22:18.8 136
137 Lacy, Mary 08 Des Moines RC 22:22.8 137
138 Murphy, Elizabeth 08 Portland XC Club 22:24.8 138
139 Curtis, Christine 08 Hunterdon XC Club 22:25.8 139
140 Cammock, Ethelin 10 Yankton XC Club 22:31.2 140
141 Swanson, Katie 09 Davis XC Club 22:33.5 141
142 Cammock, Hiley 11 Yankton XC Club 22:34.8 142
143 Salazar, Maria 09 Portland XC Club 22:36.7 143
144 Higgins, Tara 08 Rose City XC Club 22:41.7 144
145 Schaumburg, Jessica 08 Hunterdon XC Club 22:53.0 145
146 Spellman, Sarah 10 Des Moines RC 22:55.7 146
147 Durrwacher, Julie 10 Keller XC Club 22:56.0 147
148 Chilson, Denise 10 Fort Collins RC 23:01.8 148
149 Baldino, Maria 08 Hunterdon XC Club 23:15.0 149
150 Coval, Shelby 11 Keller XC Club 23:30.1 150
151 Mydosh, Megan 11 Warwick Rc-G 23:38.8 151
152 Reed, Emma 10 Keller XC Club 24:37.4 152
153 Pawlowski, Jill 08 Carroll XC Club-G 24:53.0 153
154 Brown, Catherine 08 Hanover RC 25:45.5 154

Team Scores
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Rank Team Total 1 2 3 4 5 *6 *7 *8 *9
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Results - Women
1 Manlius XC Club 83 8 9 10 19 37 48 49
Total Time: 1:38:22.60
Average: 19:40.52
2 Newhall XC Club 171 5 7 34 61 64 104 106
Total Time: 1:40:13.20
Average: 20:02.64
3 Kinetic RC 194 4 18 27 65 80 102 107
Total Time: 1:40:35.00
Average: 20:07.00
4 Hanover RC 206 6 11 26 67 96 132 154
Total Time: 1:40:44.90
Average: 20:08.98
5 Burnt Hills XC Club 209 3 32 38 66 70 73 128
Total Time: 1:40:59.00
Average: 20:11.80
6 Caution XC Club 215 1 20 50 58 86 123 129
Total Time: 1:40:51.00
Average: 20:10.20
7 Fort Collins RC 241 22 25 40 56 98 124 148
Total Time: 1:41:56.30
Average: 20:23.26
8 Wicked XC Club 250 21 39 43 46 101 105 110
Total Time: 1:42:20.00
Average: 20:28.00
9 Davis XC Club 281 16 29 62 83 91 116 141
Total Time: 1:42:24.50
Average: 20:28.90
10 Rose City XC Club 295 31 35 51 75 103 119 144
Total Time: 1:42:55.80
Average: 20:35.16
11 Warwick Rc-G 301 14 24 74 94 95 131 151
Total Time: 1:42:41.10
Average: 20:32.22
12 Portland XC Club 304 17 44 76 82 85 138 143
Total Time: 1:43:03.70
Average: 20:36.74
13 Hunterdon XC Club 304 13 36 47 69 139 145 149
Total Time: 1:43:29.00
Average: 20:41.80
14 Des Moines RC 318 2 15 77 99 125 137 146
Total Time: 1:42:50.90
Average: 20:34.18
15 Westfield XC Club 322 30 41 52 90 109 118 136
Total Time: 1:43:23.60
Average: 20:40.72
16 Yankton XC Club 324 42 59 63 68 92 140 142
Total Time: 1:43:27.50
Average: 20:41.50
17 Anaheim XC Club 337 23 53 55 93 113 121 126
Total Time: 1:43:47.50
Average: 20:45.50
18 Carroll XC Club-G 344 28 45 71 88 112 134 153
Total Time: 1:43:49.90
Average: 20:45.98
19 Suwanee XC Club 349 33 54 57 78 127 133 135
Total Time: 1:44:16.10
Average: 20:51.22
20 Wilmington XC Club 377 12 81 87 97 100 111 120
Total Time: 1:43:54.60
Average: 20:46.92
21 Lake Central XC Club 413 60 72 84 89 108 117 122
Total Time: 1:44:49.40
Average: 20:57.88
22 Keller XC Club 585 79 114 115 130 147 150 152
Total Time: 1:49:19.40
Average: 21:51.88



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