Queen Amber Reigns Supreme, Leads West to Romp
1. West 33 (1 6 7 9 10 11 12 20)
2. Northeast 61 (3 4 13 19 22 23 26 27)
3. Midwest 71 (2 14 16 18 21 24 25 29)
4. South 73 (5 8 15 17 28 30 31 32)
1 Amber Trotter (12) West Ukiah HS Redwood Valley CA 16:24.07
2 Erika Odlaug (12) Midwest Deerfield HS Bannockburn IL 17:04.30
3 Natasha Roetter (12) Northeast Lexington HS Lexington MA 17:05.14
4 Molly Huddle (12) Northeast Notre Dame HS Elmira NY 17:19.59
5 Laura Stanley (12) South Carolina Day School Fletcher NC 17:34.54
6 Felicia Guliford (12) West Gallup HS Gallup NM 17:35.67
7 Jackie Zeigle (12) West Bingham HS South Jordan UT 17:41.84
8 Valerie Lauver (12) South Allen HS Allen TX 17:45.40
9 Amber Harper (11) West Orem HS Orem UT 17:46.10
10 Heidi Lane (12) West C.M. Russell HS Great Falls MT 17:46.93
11 Julie Allen (12) West Corona Del Mar HS Corona Del Mar CA 17:50.51
12 Sally Meyerhoff (12) West Mountain Pointe HS Tempe AZ 17:51.40
13 Tracey Brauksieck (12) Northeast Homer Senior HS Cuyler NY 17:51.87
14 Megan Kaltenbach (11) Midwest Smoky Hill HS Aurora CO 17:52.68
15 Kara Scanlin (12) South Episcopal HS Ponte Vedra Beach FL 17:53.19
16 Kristina Roth (12) Midwest Celina HS Celina OH 17:53.83
17 Mindy Sullivan (12) South Coronado HS Lubbock TX 17:56.74
18 Angela Homan (12) Midwest Spencerville HS Delphos OH 17:57.27
19 Liz Gesel (12) Northeast Central H.S. Manchester NH 17:58.19
20 Zoe Nelson (9) West Flathead HS Kalispell MT 18:00.88
21 Jessica Gall (12) Midwest West Lafayette HS West Lafayette IN 18:01.25
22 Laurel Burdick (12) Northeast Fayetteville-Manlius HS Manlius NY 18:03.34
23 Stephanie Madia (12) Northeast North Allegheny HS Wexford PA 18:06.15
24 Jackie Mulrooney (12) Midwest Arrowhead HS Hartland WI 18:08.67
25 Nicole Bohnsack (10) Midwest Rockford HS Rockford MI 18:14.01
26 Jessica Cickay (10) Northeast Council Rock HS Newtown PA 18:14.64
27 Lindsay Van Alstine (11) Northeast Hawthorne Christian Academy Midland Park NJ 18:16.79
28 Julia Cathcart (12) South Starkville HS Starkville MS 18:23.88
29 Amber Smith (10) Midwest Westwood HS Ishpeming MI 18:34.19
30 Carly Matthews (12) South Mount Tabor HS Winston-Salem NC 18:39.23
31 Jessica Hellender (12) South Cooper City HS Cooper City FL 18:51.63
32 Brooke Stewart (11) South A&M Consolidated HS College Station TX 19:09.99
By Stephen (steveu) Underwood
Amber Trotter dared the girls field to chase her Saturday at the
23rd Foot Locker CC Championships.
She had no takers.
So the Ukiah, Calif. senior blistered a 5:04 first mile, 20 seconds
up on the rest of the field, and won as she pleased in an eye-popping
course-record 16:24.0, smashing the previous mark by over 30 seconds.
She also beat the meet record by 15 seconds.
The effort marked the final statement of the fall in Trotter's
remarkable comeback from a battle with anorexia that sidelined her
last spring after she was 7th here in 2000.
The interesting battles, strategy-wise, came for the next several
spots in the top ten. For the most part, it was a battle between
Erika Odlaug and the girls of the Northeast. Molly Huddle, Natasha
Roetter and Tracey Brauksieck all went out hard early, along with
Odlaug. Then Roetter took control of second for quite a while. But
in the final stretch, Odlaug dug down deep and passed Roetter in
the final meters, 17:04.3 to 17:05.1.
Huddle came in fourth at 17:19.5, then a great battle for 5th was
taken by Laura Stanley over Felicia Guliford, 17:34.5-17:35.6. But
Guliford marked the start of the West surge that took the team title.
The remaining standouts that wrapped it up for the West squad were
Jackie Zeigle (7th), Amber Harper (9th), Heidi Lane (10th) and Julie
Allen (11th). Val Lauver of the South team, however, broke up the
sweep with an 8th-place finish.
That gave the West 33 points, 28 ahead of the Northeast.
(much more to come)
Foot Locker National Finals
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