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DyeStat Elite - 2000 outdoor rankings - now updated to include all state championships and major summer meets - 5600 performances from 900 meets! - 
Deadline for corrections is October 20.

Latest Cross Country Highlights

AR Chile Pepper Festival - Big meet at University of Arkansas will feature big time college races followed by HS races.  Mountain Home AR boys will challenge perennial AR champion Rogers.  Clint Pevril's Preview 

CO Northglenn Inv - Alicia Craig 18:03 5k in cold-wet-mile high conditions, with Lisa Gibbs, Arvada W. CO, 2nd in 18:18, Alicia's closest race this year.  Craig led The Harrier US#3 Campbell County 36 to a 73-point victory over Fort Collins CO.  Midwest#7 Arapahoe CO won boys title with 61 points.  Mark Tower, Arvada W. sr, was fastest boy at 15:56.

NJ Shore Coaches Invitational - Cherokee wins great duel with Christian Brothers Academy, 64-73, as fifth runner breaks a tie. Cherokee 2-8-14-17-23, CBA 6-9-10-16-32. Ty Jensen, Marlboro 15:57 wins tight 3-way battle (Marc Pelerin, Cherokee 15:59, Mike Myers, Eastern 16:02). Erin Donohue 18:42 is fastest girl on tough Holmdel Park course. Complete results 

VA William & Mary Invitational - Western Albemarle boys 67; Austin Smith, Midlothian 15:16 (Jorge Ruiz, Harrisonburg 15:16; William Christian, Great Mills 15:17; L.A. Snead, James Robinson 15:19).  James Robinson VA girls 133; Karen Pulliam, Quince Orchard MD 17:00.  Complete Results

AZ Doug Conley Inv - Top 20 teams in AZ tangle at Tempe.  The winners: Hopi boys 117, US#16 Desert Vista girls 67.  Sally Meyerhoff, Mtn Pointe 16:45 2.9mi, Trevor Brown 14:24.  Details

FL Disney Invitational - boys US #11 LaSalle Cincinnati OH 34, US#13 Atlantic FL 63.  John Jefferson 14:23 3mi.  Marilyn Ruiz, St. Thomas Aquinas 17:42   Details

VT Thetford Academy - US#20 Bishop Hendricken RI boys and Northeast #8 Concord NH girls win 10th Woods Trail Run.  Details

DyeStat On-Site: MI Portage Invitational
Rockford sweeps on cold, wet day 
Rockford Boys 33 led by Dathan Ritzenhein 14:42 CR and 61-second margin - Rockford Girls 26 led by 1-2-3 finish of sr Linsey Blaisdell 17:47, sr Kalin Toedebusch 17:53 and fr Nicki Bohnsack 17:54
Story and photos: No competition for Dathan Ritzenhein
Story and photos: Rockford girls deliver 1-2-3 knockout
Donna on the Side at Portage MI - 40 terrific photos
Complete results and pictures - Portage home page

NY Baldwinsville Inv - Saratoga girls 19 behind Danielle Coon's 17:01 CR run; Laurel Burdick (2nd in 17:32) is only non-Saratogan in top 7.  Details

NC Hagan Stone Inv - Alan Webb's 14:37 shatters course record - "most spectacular performance in 17 years at Hagan Stone Park," says Charlie Brown.  Details

CA Central Park Invitational - Julie Allen 17:31 3mi leads Fountain Valley girls; Puneet Mahan 15:16 leads Norwalk boys.  Complete Results

DE Salesianum Inv - PA schools win Class A (large school) titles; Julia Pudlin 18:57, Ben Stern 16:30.  Details

NC Wendy's Invitational - Julia Lassiter-Lucas flashes Foot Locker form with 17:38 5k, 3rd best ever at McAlpine by a North Carolina girl.   Complete Results

FL St. Petersburg City Championship - Keswick Christian sr Christa Benton,  winner of the small school race at the Great American and a 1999 Foot Locker finalist, lowered her own course record by 32 seconds to win in 17:27 for 3 miles.  

A Tie for No. 1 !!!  Saratoga NY girls join Rockford MI on top.  Mountain View UT boys move up after GAXC victory.  Top 10 US and top 5 regional rankings

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MI Girls Top 25
MI Boys Top 25
AR Coaches Poll, Week 6
VA Alexandria City Ch.
MD Mervo Mustang Inv - Curley boys, host Mervo girls win
GA State Rankings 10/11 - Brookwood girls, Lakeside-Dekalb boys are No. 1. 
NE Class A Rankings 10/11 
KS State Poll, Ballot 3, Oct 12
NY Brewster Bear Inv
VA William & Mary Inv 
NJ Shore Coaches Inv - Cherokee tops CBA on 5th runner. Erin Donohue 18:42
NJ Boys Rankings - Cherokee heads Conrad Haber's first list
FL flrunners.com Invitational
FL Panther Invitational
AZ Doug Conley Inv - top 20 AZ teams tangle in Tempe
VA Boys Rankings 10/8
NY Girls Rankings 10/8
NY Boys Rankings Week 4
AR UA Little Rock Inv - Russsellville boys, Mtn Home girls
SC Citadel Invitational
VT Thetford Academy - 10th Woods Trail Run
CA 22nd Clovis Inv - Ozzie Pina 15:31 5k leads Poly Long Beach 77 to big win at state meet site in Fresno (Woodward Park).
AL Jesse Owens Inv - Scott Fuqua 15:39 5k
CA Kenny Staub Inv - Anita Siraki 17:18 breaks Amy Skieresz course record by 12 seconds; Peninsula girls 42
FL Disney Inv - John Jefferson 14:23 3mi, Cinci LaSalle 34 
DE Salesianum Inv
CA Central Park Inv 
NC Wendy's Inv  
NY Baldwinsville Inv - Saratoga girls romp
NC Hagan Stone Inv - Alan Webb shatters 17-year course record in 14:37
MI Portage Invitational - a rout for Rockford - Dathan Ritzenhein 14:42
NY Manhattan Inv - start lists
MT Helena Invitational - Flathead sweeps. David Vidal 14:46
NM New Mexico State Meet Preview - dynasties expected to continue for Gallup boys and girls and Albuquerque Academy boys.
AR Coaches Poll Week 5 - Mountain Home boys, Bentonville girls lead 5A-4A lists.  Berryville tops both small school rankings.
NE Class A Rankings - Kearney boys, Lincoln SE girls still Number One. 
OH Fairmont Firebird - Allen Bader 15:39 3.1mi leads US#15 LaSalle Cincinnati OH 46 in 24-team meet.  

Prior Weeks Ticker Tapes
Last Week's Headlines

Latest information on big upcoming meets: 
Manhattan Invitational - Start lists for 28th running of giant meet.  More than 9,000 runners.  Start Lists
Mt. SAC - Biggest meet of the season, with 90 races starting 8 minutes apart over a day and a half - Entries postmarked after 9/29 require a $40 late fee.  see DyeStat Mt. SAC home page - 10/21 at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut CA
Foot Locker Championships - Regional entry deadlines are looming for the post-season meet that crowns the king and queen of high school cross country at Disney World in December.  see DyeStat Foot Locker 2000 home page for information and prior year results.  Also see separate region pages: Northeast - South - Midwest - West Regional meets are 11/25 except the West (12/2)
Georgetown Prep - Schedule revised because of PSAT test day. 10/21 at Rockville MD 

Question of the Week Summary
Results of all the weekly questions on the DyeStat front page this year.  See how well you predicted big meets.

Eugene OR 8th grader  
Erin Gray, 
competing in the big Willammette Inv 10/7 against 255 collegiate and adult runners, finished 37th with a time of 18:54 5k. 

Karen's Diary
All-American shot putter Karen Freberg of California is keeping a diary of her recruiting year - Part 3: First College Visit

Texas reported near Girls PV
Perhaps inspired by Stacy Dragila's gold at Sydney, the Texas UIL is reported to be ready to vote for girls pole vault at its October 15 meeting (David Butler) 

The Meteoric Rise of San Lorenzo Valley  How a new coach and a new attitude made national champions of the girls from the mountain forests above Santa Cruz CA.  What are their new "impossible dreams" on the eve of the GAXC in Charlotte?  DyeStat Feature

DyeStat XC Leader Lists 10/4
Now 489 times from 118 meets!!!
Boys 5k - Dathan Ritzenhein 14:31
Boys 3 Mile - Alan Webb 14:25
Girls 5k - Alicia Craig 17:30
Girls 3 Mile - Anita Siraki 16:44
DyeStat Leader Lists 10/4 

Foot Locker Cross Country Championships
What does it take?

• to win a region
• to qualify for the national finals (8th in region)
• to win the nationals
• to make All-American (15th in nationals)

see stats for last 3 years of national finals and regionals

Molvar's List
First of John Molvar's top 100 boys rankings and Foot Locker preview for the 2000 season - can Ryan Hall or Alan Webb keep Dathan Ritzenhein from all-time No. 1 ranking?   see Molvar's List

New Saratoga Springs dynasty looms
The Great American combined scoring lists offer food for thought for the HS girls cross country scene.  Not only did  the Saratoga Springs NY girls win either way, the Race of Champions or the combined unofficial tally, but their Junior Varsity team would have have scored well against highly rated varsity teams in Charlotte!  The three freshmen and two sophs on the Saratoga Springs JV team scored a perfect 15 in the JV race with times ranging from 19:17 to 20:32.  Plotting those times against the combined varsity results would give the JV team 47-133-143-148-154 for a total of 625 points (without displacing anyone).  That score is better than Brookwood GA 717, Oak Ridge TN 1022 and SE Raleigh NC 1166.   It is within 100 points of such teams as Esperanza CA 621, Colonie NY 583, Lake Braddock VA 550, and Honeoye Falls Lima NY 545.

Great American Combined Scoring - Doug Padilla, the computer expert  who scored the meet, likes to do things like this because he is a former world class runner himself.  Here is the scoring as if all 4 classes - 1500 runners -- had been in a single division. Some of the team rankings change.  BOYS - GIRLS

NM Gallup Inv - US#8 Gallup NM boys 60, US#13 Albuquerque NM Academy 107;  Gallup NM girls, still without Felicia Guliford (hip injury), edge Los Alamos NM 81-91.  Guliford is expected to return for NM state meet and Foot Locker.   Highlights

KS USATF Inv - battle of the best of MO, KS, AR.  Adam Perkins 15:45 5k, Lee's Summit 70 wins close boys race. (Midwest #8 Shawnee Mission NW 6th). Lawrence Free State girls topple Shawnee Mission NW 40-49.  Details

HI Iolani Inv - Montgomery CA sweeps easily on hot, muggy day in paradise.  Complete results.

WA Sunfair Inv - US#5 Flathead MT boys 14 beat US#9 Mt. Spokane WA 24 and US#22 University WA in unusual format (all Number One's in one race, Number Two's in another race, and so on through Number 7.)  Fastest times:  Michael Kiter 15:18 and Jodee Adams-Moore 17:58 (8th best ever in this meet)  Highlights

FL Gator Inv - Jefferson twins (Sean 15:52.66 and John  15:53.05) lead US#14 Delray Beach Atlantic 41 to 191 point margin in Open Division.  Fastest times of meet are in Invitational Division, with Mike Swope 15:38 edging Rolf Steier by 1 second.  Swope's Winter Park 121 wins Invitational title.  Christa Benton continues her fine campaign with a 17:59 Girls Invitational tour, 51 seconds ahead of team champion Boyd Anderson's #1 Andrea Austin.  Complete Results

UT Orem Kiwanis Inv - Mountain View UT sweeps.  US#2 boys 32 behind Dustin Bybee 15:53 5k and Chandler Goodwin 16:02; Girls beat Bingham UT on 6th place tie breaker after both teams score 41 points.   Amber Harper, Orem, 19:00 leads seven girls ahead of Zeigle twins, with freshman Heidi Magill's 2nd place 19:06 leading Mountain View.  Details

CA Stanford Inv - monster meet draws 275 HS teams from West Coast to Palo Alto CA - San Lorenzo Valley CA girls 159 win big, Buchanan CA boys 278 edge Don Bosco CA by 10 (US#7 Mead WA 496 is 6th) - sr Anita Siraki, Hoover Glendale CA 18:12 5k is fastest girl overall - Canadian sr Marcel Hewamudalige 15:54 shades Arroyo CA so Yong Sung Leal by 1 second for top boys time.  Ryan Hall 16:08.   Pearl River NY girls make long trip worthwhile by winning Division 4. 
Complete Results all 5 divisions and composite scores

Bobby Lockhart of the Shenandoah Valley  Handley Winchester VA junior stays in the valley in western Virginia until it is national HS running prime time.  His ridiculously easy win at Fort Frederick State Park MD 9/30 showed he is ready to come out again.  DyeStat Feature on Bobby Lockhart 

NH 26th Manchester Inv - 1999 Foot Locker Northeast champion Melissa Donais, Phillips Andover MA jr, won the Elite Division in 18:54, nine seconds ahead of Emily Hampson.  Next were Liz Gesel and Sarah Girard, who led US#9 Manchester Central girls 42 to the Elite title.  Mohawk MA sr Neal Graves, running in the Small School division, posted the fastest boys time of the day at 15:56.  
Complete Results

TX Aldine Inv - Klein Oak soph Steve Magness wins in 15:06 3mi, and then comes the flood of six straight The Woodlands runners, all meeting the DyeStat Cross Country Leader List cutoff.  Details

NY 36th McQuaid Inv - Peter Meindl 14:55 3 mi and Michelle Skiles 17:30 have fastest times of the day.  Highlights

MD Fort Frederick - Bobby Lockhart 15:22 5k wins in a breeze by 53 seconds.  Handley VA sweeps with freshman Kristin Novara 20:08 leading girls team. Complete Results and pictures.

Frostburg Invitational - Baldwin-Wallace sweeps college meet, women for 7th straight year, at Fort Frederick MD. Complete Results and Pictures

College Choices 2000
Lists now have 1,532 names as the late signing season ends and the class reports to college.  This update includes Erin Price GA - the 6'2" athlete signed a volleyball scholarship at Alabama, but will also high jump (5-9 PR).

First Class of 2001 choice is Kendra Wecker, of Marysville KS, the US#1 javelin thrower (169-5), who will go to Kansas State.  The 5'11" Wecker will sign a basketball scholarship (she is the No. 1 rated player in Kansas) but will also compete in track. Full story on Rivals' goPowerCat.

Send college choices information to John Dye at dye@dyestat.com, giving name of athlete, home state, college choice, phone numbers, and relationship of sender to the athlete.

 DyeStat XC Leader List 

DyeStat brings you national listings of cross country performances for the 2000 season.  These are not rankings - cross country times are inherently not comparable.  But the fastest runners in the country should be recognized.  DyeStat is compiling the national leaders meeting cutoffs at 3 miles and 5k, with updates at least weekly.

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