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2007 Foot Locker Nationals
December 8, 2007 Balboa Park, San Diego CA


National Finals
- Northeast - South - Midwest - West

the RACES
Boys - Girls

VIDEO
Boys Race | Girls Race
interviews:

Mike Fout | Ashley Brasovan |

Pre-Game Show

PHOTO ALBUMS
the race: Boys | Girls
the finishers: Boys | Girls


DONNA ON THE SIDE
Friday | Saturday

WHAT'S GONE BEFORE
Prior Years on DyeStat
2006 | 1997-2005

Doug Speck's Recaps

MEET'S OWN SITE
All past results
from 1979 to 2006 - by year & time
Girls winners - Boys winners

MEET RECORDS
Orlando
Boys - 14:29 Dathan Ritzenhein 1999
Girls - 16:24 Amber Trotter 2001

Balboa Park San Diego
Boys - 14:36 Reuben Reina 1985
Girls - 16:39 Melody Fairchild 1990

Brasovan and Fout victorious!

Photos by John Nepolitan

Early patience pays off for Brasovan and Fout

by Dave Devine

On a day when pre-dawn rains sullied the rolling cross country course at San Diego’s Balboa Park, two unlikely candidates emerged from behind a pair of ambitious early paces to win the boys and girls Foot Locker National Championship races.

Flitting across a slick, mud-spattered course, Florida junior Ashley Brasovan broke from a five-runner chase pack to catch early leader and pre-race favorite Jordan Hasay as the two ascended a steep climb for the second time. Brasovan then blistered the downhill to gap Hasay and pull clear for an 8-second win (17:20) over defending Foot Locker champion Kathy Kroeger, who rallied past Hasay for second. Hasay (17:31) hung on gamely for third, fronting NE champ Neely Spence (4th -17:35) and MW champ Claire Durkin (5th- 17:44).

Boys’ champion Mike Fout of Indiana followed a similar tack for his victory, dogging Luke Puskedra UT and Kevin Williams CO through blazing opening splits of 2:10 and 4:28, to come from off the pace for a 14:50 win. Despite his status as the Midwest regional champion, Fout’s triumph nonetheless upended pre-race formcharts which installed California’s German Fernandez and Illinois’ Chris Derrick as co-favorites entering the weekend. Derrick, seemingly out of the race at the two-mile point, surged powerfully from sixth to snag the runner-up slot (14:57) and complete a 1-2 Midwest sweep which mirrored that region’s qualifying race. Fernandez pushed in for third (15:09), with South champ Colby Lowe fourth (15:12) and the never-fully-faded Puskedra claiming fifth (15:15).

In the battle for regional bragging rights, the Northeast girls barely edged the South girls, with both squads locked at 42 points through five runners, and the Northeast claiming the win on the tie-breaker. The Midwest boys, behind the 1-2 showing of Fout and Derrick, doused the hopes of any other region with their stingy 29 points, well clear of runner-up Northeast with 59.


Friday at Foot Locker

Runners hang out at "the Del" on a cloudy day.

Get ready for the races...

Sun sets on San Diego and the cross country season


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