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Northville approved to go to NXN - DyeStat 11/23

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DyeStat.com   Nov 24th 2015, 2:42am
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Northville approved for NXN

 

By Doug Binder, DyeStat Editor


 

The parents of the girls cross country team from Northville, Mich. and the Michigan High School Athletics Association have reached an agreement that allows the team to attend NXN.

 

While details of the agreement have not been made public, the bottom line is that at 4 p.m. Eastern on Monday athletes who qualified for Nike Cross Nationals eight days earlier found out that they were allowed to make the trip to Portland. 

 

 

Lexa Barrott, who led the team to its surprising second place finish at NXN Midwest, said it had been a trying week for the team. 

 

"I think as a team we were trying to stay positive," Barrott said. "We were still doing practices by ourselves the way that we would in the scenario where we could make it to Portland. But we also gave ourselves a reality check every once in a while. We just knew that if it did work out, it was meant to be."

 

Michigan's state association has taken a hard line stance against its high school teams competing in the post-season, even as clubs, since Nike's first attempt to stage a championship event in 2004. Forty-nine other states' associations have been OK with it or been much less restrictive. 

 

"We were all really relieved," Barrott said of Monday's news. "It was a very stressful week. Parents didn't sleep much. I didn't sleep much. I couldn't stop thinking about it. It's a big stress relief."

 

Northville's entry also affects the potential at-large teams in the stacked Midwest region. Naperville North IL and Carmel IN are eligible to chosen by the selection committee that will add some additional teams to the national field after the NXN Southeast, Northeast and New York regionals conclude on Saturday.



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