1999 Foot Locker Northeast
Boys Preview
Dan Coval, Tristan Colangelo, Aaron Emery are top 3
by John Molvar
11/23/99 -- Danny Coval hasn't lost a race in 2 years
(until Saturday's second to Tim Keller at the
Mid East Championships in Dayton) but he also
hasn't been allowed by the Pennsylvania governing
body to run outside the state. He is used to winning big
and having no competition. How will he react to real
competition? I expect him to have no problem with
competition and I think he will win this race. After
Coval, there are several evenly matched runners, none
of whom can kick with Colangelo. Tristan likes to run
just hard enough to win, but he won't have that luxury
on Saturday. He will have to go all out and I expect
him to be up to the challenge. Aaron Emery had an
emergency appendectomy in early September. He came
back racing immediately and was getting beaten badly.
Many people didn't understand and kept complaining
that I was ranking him too high. Last week he won the
NY Federation meet and is ready for the big time
again. Jabaut hasn't faced much competition this
year, but with a 4.11 mile to his credit, there is no
doubt about his ability. Kerwin leads the perennial
awesome CBA team. Huber got roughed up at the NY
Federation meet but will look to rebound. Roba and
Vasilyadis came out of nowhere and are unknown even in
their own state, but could surprise a lot of runners
in this race. McGovern has been up and down all year
but looks ready now for the big race after winning the
New England race..
Key:
FF-place in last year's Footlocker Final
M,NE,S,W-place in last years Footlocker Region
all times have been converted to 800,mile and 2 mile
times plus or minus 1 second *-Junior **-Soph
***-fresh
Banned-runs in a state in which they are not allowed
to run in the Footlocker Meets. Note that seniors
from PA probably will run the Footlocker since they
will be banned but since their HS XC career is over
the ban is meaningless.
1 Danny Coval, PA (Banned,9.14)
2 Tristan Colangelo, MA (14N,9.17,4.17)
3 Aaron Emery, NY (25FF,3N,9.21,4.26)
4 Jason Jabaut, NY (4.11,1.55)
5 Brian Kerwin, NJ
6 John Huber, NY (15N,9.30,4.25)
7 Gudeta Roba, NY
8 Matt Emond, MA (9.23)
9 *Billy Vasilyadis, NY (4.35,10.00,2.02)
10 *Brian McGovern, CT (51N,9.26,4.20)
11 Chris Andrew, CT (31N,9.46)
12 *Justin Romaniuk, NY (39N)
13 Tim Carrol, PA (Banned)(4.21,9.44,1.56)
14 *John Drappi, MA (2.01)
15 Brendan O'Keefe, ME (46N,4.18)
16 *Said Ahmed, MA (19N,1.52,4.18)
17 Tyler Cardinal, CT
18 **Pete Meindl, NY
19 Renny Provey, CT (36N,4.19,9.28)
20 Darrel Andruski, NY (44N,9.40)
21 Walt Kingsbury, NJ (40N, 9.27,4.24)
22 Scott Munro, PA (Banned,4.18,9.37)
23 **Justin Corelli, NY (98N)
24 Joe Wieger, PA
25 Dave Barrett, NH
26 *Josh Palazola, MA (27N,9.40,4.29,2.00)
27 Matt Stephens, PA (4.36,9.58)
28 *Charlie Millioen, NY
29 Andy Caron, ME (9.44)
30 Colin Ingram, NH (96N, 1.56,9.56)
31 Tom Walsh, NY
32 Ryan Fennelly, PA
33 Matt Kalish, NH (23N,4.30,9.50)
34 **Kevin Catlett, NY (63N)
35 Andy Filachek, NJ
36 Bryan Skelly, NJ
37 Jeff Dichiara, NJ
38 *Adam Ambrose, NJ
39 Joe Iatauro, NY (35N,4.21,9.54)
40 Neil Graves, MA (9.57)
41 Vic Thillet, MD (4.18,9.40)
42 **Joe Halin, NJ (9.33)
43 Mark Bahnuk, NJ (4.24,1.58)
44 Andy Jackman, NH (37N,4.28,1.59)
45 Josh Barshard, MA
46 Kirk Dornton, NY
47 *Tim Scarpanato, NY (76N)
48 Jim Cyr, RI
49 Carlos Hunt, MD
50 Jon Kielisazk, RI
51 Jarrett Van Tine, MD (62N,4.26, 9.38, 2.00)
52 Johnny Rodriquea, NJ
53 Nick Pelklegringos, NJ
54 Matt Rodrique, ME (123N)
55 Ryan Fenton, ME (50N)
56 *Jerry Bonner, RI (61N,4.28)
57 Jeff Gaudette, ME (9.44)
58 Robert Dwyer, MA (4.19,1.56)
59 Eric Reinaver, CT
60 Dave Lantz, ME (9.44)
61 *Mike Myers NJ
62 Erik Eckstrand, DE (41N,4.30)
63 *Raymon Laboy, CT (9.38)
64 *Matt Rockwell, NH
65 Brian Hoffman, NJ
66 *Bruce Hyde, VT
67 *Ty Evenson, NY
68 *Pat Slattery, NJ
69 Mike Audette, VT
70 **Craig Moore, CT
71 Julio German, NY (30N,9.46 st)(inj)
72 *Ty Jensen, NJ
73 Bobby Mead, MD
74 Byron Gartrell, MA (9.38)
75 *Braxton Collier, DC (4.24,2.00)
76 *Pat Moulton, NH
77 Adrian Proietti, CT
78 Bill Henk, VT
79 Pat Norris, PA (banned)
80 Corey Elias, NH
The following runners are top Pennsylvania runners who
won't be allowed to run but deserve mention. The top
3 all had a chance to be top 20:
**Shawn Cavanaugh, PA (banned)
** Andy Weilamier, PA (banned)
*Dave Atkiss, PA (banned)
*Joel Moceri, PA (banned)
**Tim Erickson, PA (banned)
*Ryan Sheehan, PA (9.40,4.37) (banned)
Good Luck to all. Run hard.
John Molvar
[email protected]
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