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Latest Cross Country Highlights

State Rankings all over the place - coming.

SD State Meet - Rapid City Stevens sweeps AA team titles behind Erik Gumstrup 16:19 5k and Steph Richardson 15:43 4k in 30 mph winds.  State record holder and 3-time champion Jessica Fox is slowed by a foot injury and settles for 6th.  Eighth grader Patrick Grass 16:57 leads Pine Ridge boys to upset over  #1 ranked Madison, 42-45, in Class A.   Highlights and Detailed Results

GA Last Chance Inv - Collins Hill boys 72, South #7 Marist girls 45. Details

RI Brown Invitational - US#12 Christian Brothers Academy invades from New Jersey with 4 of top 9.  Unranked St. John's Prep MA beats out US#20 Hendricken RI for second. Natasha Roetter 17:28 wins by more than a minute.  Highlights

the Webbmaster smashes VA record  13.57! - South Lakes VA sr Alan Webb won the Virginia Concorde District championship in 13:57 on the hilly 2.98-mile Burke Lake Park course, 22 seconds under the old record (Sharif Karie 14:19, 1996).  It was only the fourth time under 14:30 in 27 years on this configuration at the busy Burke Lake course.  Pearl Watts' complete report with detailed splits - Also, report on Patriot & National Districts

OH Cincinnati Districts - US#11 LaSalle and Ohio#1 St. Xavier win boys titles.  US#12 Colerain girls win. Lindsay Zinn 17:39 beats defending state champion Chelsea Homan 18:03.  Highlights

MT Flathead boys win 4th straight Montana title, 4th straight year with less than 30 points.   Complete Results

WY Campbell County - Coach Orville Hess's teams swept the Wyoming State Meet.  The US#3 girls 18 placed 6 in the top 10, led by Alicia Craig 18:20 5k at 5300 ft altitude.  The boys bid for a national ranking themselves by trouncing US#17 Rock Springs, 26-66.  Complete Results 

MD Georgetown Prep Classic - a Good Counsel MD sweep - US#24 boys 125 beat W. Springfield VA 147 and Gaithersburg MD 180.  Girls win a tight battle with 131 pts over Thomas Jefferson VA 143, T.C. Williams VA 163, and River Hill MD 163.  Individual winners: Ben Stern, Georgetown Day, 15:43 5k.  Thomas Jefferson jr Jeannie Addison 18:59.  Details

UT State Meet - US#1 Mountain View boys and US#4 Bingham girls repeat; defending champs Laura Zeigle, Phoebe Ko lose to Amber Harper and Kassi AndersonDetails and pictures

New DyeStat XC Leader Lists
810 times from 186 meets as received through 10/19/00
(updated list coming Saturday 10/28)
Boys 5k - Dathan Ritzenhein MI
14:31, Alan Webb VA 14:36 - national championship (Foot Locker) showdown is brewing
Boys 3 Mile - John Jefferson FL
14:23, Webb 14:25
Girls 5k
- Julia Pudlin
PA 17:14, Alicia Craig 17:30 -Pudlin claims top spot on swift dual meet; Craig had the edge at Great American.
Girls 3 Mile
- Anita Siraki
CA 16:44 - only girl to break 17:00

OR BorderClash Favorites - The 2nd running of the Washington-Oregon post season tussle will be November 11 at Nike World Headquarters in Portland.  Here are the favorites - BorderClash home page

MA One Month until Grafton - with the state meet a month away, Jake Klim sizes up Mass harriers and sees St. John's, Josh Palazola, Neil Graves, and Mohawk at the head of the 2000 class.   Details


Mt. SAC -  Complete Results, Stories, and 100 pictures added!


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.

The Recruiting Game

Karen's Diary, Part 4 - Getting to be a veteran: 2nd home visit and 2nd campus visit for California thrower Karen Freberg

the NAIA option - Part 5 of Donna Dye's series tells of opportunities at the smaller schools.  Also Recruiting Tips

The Harrier rankings 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 as of 10/8 - Next update: 10/30

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SD State Meet
GA
Last Chance Inv
NC
Guilford City-County
NH
Junior High School state meet
AL
Auburn Tiger Classic - Matt Tillman 16:07 5k and Smith's Station 23
RI
Boys State Meet Qualifiers
NV
Elko Invitational
OR
McKay 4-way - Jenna Goff edges Dawn Morgan by 2 seconds
CA
Mariner Invitational - Jesuit boys, Antioch girls, Shannon Rowbury and Efeson Yosief
VA
Patriot, National districts
RI
Brown Invitational
KS
4A Regionals
KS
6A Regionals - Scott Loftin 15:30; Maize sweeps; "Magnificent Seven" battle.
OH
Cincinnati Districts
PA
Conference Meets - Karl Van Dusen 15:59 at Tennent
VA
Concorde, Liberty Districts - Alan Webb 13:57, new Burke Lake record by 22 seconds!
FL
Panhandle Championship - Ryan Deak 15:04 3mi and Maclay 47; Katie Devaux 18:22 CR
FL
Greater Gainesville Inv
FL
Billy Mills Classic
MT
State Meet
WY
State Meet
MD
Georgetown Prep Classic
CA
Mt. SAC Invitational
SD
State Meet preview
AR
Coaches Poll, Week 7
NV
Carson Invitational - Wolf, Sparks win
SD
Regional Meets 
PA
District Championship Schedule
GA
Georgia Rankings 10/17
NM
New Mexico Rankings 10/17
NE
Class A Rankings 10/17
Prior Weeks Ticker Tapes
Last Week's Headlines

Latest information on big upcoming meets: 
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.

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THE HARRIER
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DyeStat's UPCOMING FEATURED MEETS

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* = DyeStat On-Site

10/20-21 * CA Mt. SAC
10/21 FL Billy Mills Classic
10/21 MD Georgetown Prep
11/12 * OR Nike BorderClash
11/25 Foot Locker regions Midwest, * Northeast, South 
12/2 * CA Mt SAC Foot Locker West regional
12/9 * Orlando FL, Disney World - Foot Locker national finals

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

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.
 

 


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


Last Week's Headlines

SC Furman Inv - South #4 Mt. Tabor NC boys 127; South #10 Brookwood GA girls 101 (South #4 Mt Tabor NC 110); Laura Stanley, Carolina Day 18:33 5k; Brandon Bartholomew, J.L. Mann SC 15:52.  Complete Details

MI Gabriel Richard Inv - 1-2-4 punch of Chris Toloff 15:00 5k, Tim Moore 15:20, and Mark Avenius 15:55  leads US#8 Novi MI over Saline MI, 51-54  Complete Results

VA 9th Glory Days Inv - Oakton VA sr Matt Maline 15:25 5k is 2nd best ever on this course.  Centreville fr Dacie Barr 18:36 is 9th best girls time.  US#24 Good Counsel MD boys win with 64 points.  Details

OH Great Catholic League South - Xavier Cincinnati beats US#11 LaSalle Cincinnati, 23-46, as four of Ohio's top 10 teams meet in a conference championship.   Details

TX Conroe Inv - US#6 The Woodlands boys 22 for easy win; Luis Bordes and Steve Magness 1-2 in same time: 15:37 5k.  Details

PA 45th Wm Tennent Inv - Virginian Bryce Ruiz invades PA and leaves with big 14:57 5k win -- 12 seconds better than PA #1 Karl Dusen and the 2nd fastest time ever on this course (Dan Coval 14:47, 1999).  Details

AR Chile Pepper Festival - Edmonds Memorial OK spots Mountain Home AR the first 3 places (Eric Gross 15:26 5k) and then unleashes 52-second 1-7 pack before Mtn Home's 5th for a 50-52 victory at the University of Arkansas.  Perennial AR champ Rogers was a distant 3rd at 137. Amanda Jordan, Bishop McGuinness OK, captured her third Chile Pepper title in 11:36 2mi.  Complete Results

CA Crystal Springs Inv - Ale Barrientos showed she is returning to last year's form by kicking to an 18:06 victory (hilly  2.95-miles) over front running Gunn soph Ruth Graham.  Barrientos, the leading US miler and 2-miler before suffering a stress fracture last June, led US#6 San Lorenzo Valley to a decisive 28-76 victory over Buchanan.   SLV packed its first five in a 52-second span, adding 5-6-7-9 (Raquel Barrientos, Jenny Lewis, Shiloh Whiting, and Hilary Schwartzbach) to go with Ale's first place.   In the boys race, St. Francis sr Eric Chaves 15:01 won a great 3-way race with Bellarmine sr Neil Davis 15:06 and Logan jr Giliat Ghebray 15:13.

CA Orange County Championships - Fountain Valley jr Julia Allen 17:22 beat Newport Harbor sr Amber Steen by 5 seconds in a duel of nationally ranked runners.  

NY's Manhattan Invitational calls itself "the biggest and the best" HS cross country meet and almost proved it Saturday 10/14 at venerable Van Cortlandt Park on Broadway in the Bronx.  On a glorious 

sunny autumn day, the starters sent off a record 9,900 runners from 15 states and 321 schools.  Biggest headlines of the day were earned by US#1 Saratoga Springs NY girls, but shining almost as bright were Danbury CT boys, Julia Pudlin, Austin Smith, and Charles Millieon.  
Detailed Results
- The Boys StoryThe Girls Story - Donna on the Side
 
DyeStat Manhattan Invitational home page

Pennsylvania undergraduates will be able to compete in the Foot Locker cross country championships this year.  Don Rich reports on PIAA ruling in DyeStatPA

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.

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