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State Meets abound

NM State Meet - Two-time Foot Locker national finalist jr Felicia Guliford 19:50  5k was not in top shape but still led US#14 Gallup girls to 5A win.  Guliford was 51 seconds slower than last year on the Red Rock SP course, and two 3A girls ran faster times on a cold, windy, rainy day at 6500 feet elevation -- Jackie Gallegos 19:33 and Erin Lewis 19:45.  The Gallup boys, ranked US#19, were upset by Sandia, 32-56.   Complete Results and Highlights 

MO State Meet - sr Jason Sandfort 15:43 leads West Plains 78 over Lee's Summit 85   Complete Results

Oregon-Washington BorderClash II
Once it was Prefontaine vs. Lindgren.  Now it is the top 40 runners from Oregon vs the top 40 from Washington in the 2nd BorderClash Nov 12 at Nike World Headquarters in Oregon.  See the updated favorites list after the state meets - BorderClash home page

VA StateMeet preview - Pearl Watts runs down the action that will unfold at  Great Meadows VA Saturday 11/11.  There's more than just Alan Webb.  Details

Alan Webb signs with Michigan, it was reported 11/8 in the Washington Post.  The Virginia star visited Michigan last month along with friendly rival Dathan Ritzenhein, but Ritzenhein has since announced he will attend Colorado.   

MA Class Meet Preview - Jake Klim picks top 10 individuals and top 5 teams

TX State Meet Preview - fans expect a showdown at Round Rock 11/11 when senior stars Rod Koborsi and Steve Maddox square off.   Maddox has had the upper hand in the past, but Koborsi has been improving all season.  

RI State Meet - sr Ryan McConnell 16:14 and Bishop Hendricken boys 43.
jr Lindsay Vieira 18:59 and North Kingstown girls 49.  Complete Results

NY District Meets - US#1t Saratoga Springs girls crushed the field with 19 points (Colonie 75), led by Danielle Coon's 17:22 5k victory.  Niskayuna fr Catlin McTague was second in 17:48, followed by two Saratoga freshmen, Ali Rowe 17:53 and Amanda Meyer 17:57.   Saratoga Springs had 9 of the top 14 runners, including four freshmen and an 8th grader. Results on armorytrack.com

TN State Meet - Houston sweeps AAA, boys 69 by 3 over Farragut and girls 76.  Fastest of day are Sean Stevens, Knoxville West 15:13 and Sarah Damen, Oak Ridge 17:40  Complete Results

VA Central Region - John Piersol runs down Austin Smith, 16:01 to 16:08 for 5100 meters, but Smith's Midlothian 36 wins team title. Jeannie Addison 19:00 joins state meet favorite ranks; leads Thomas Jefferson Governor 67.  Pearl Watts' report 

WA State Meet - Mead 95 wins 4A boys; E. Valley Yakima wins 2A in tie breaker over South Whidbey; sr Michael Kiter, Shadle Park  15:55. sr Jodee Adams Moore 18:36 and Newport-Bellevue 77   Complete Results

MS State Meet - jr Robert Stevenson 16:05 leads Pearl in 4A; St. Andrews sweeps 2A with 18 and 16 points. Complete Results

NH Meet of Champions - so Rachel Umberger 18:54 5k leads US#11 Concord girls 31.  Keene 33 wins boys title.  Pelham sr Patrick Moulton 16:17 wins race.   Complete Results

OR State Meet - Two epic battles decided in home stretch before crowd of 7,000. Bend sr Lane Neely 15:35 5k  (10 seconds faster than Ian Dobson in 1999) over Douglas sr Joey Hambrick and S. Eugene sr Eric Heinonen.  Klamath Union sr Liz Lindgren 18:47 5k catches McKay jr Dawn Morgan as defending champion Paris Edwards, Ashland sr,  fades.  Jesuit boys 86-98 over BendComplete Results (This corrects earlier error on the winner of the boys race.)

PA State Meet - Paige Miller 18:47 5k wins AAA girls as Lauren Bricker collapses with 40 meters to go.  Parkland girls topple N. Allegheny 100-118.  Shawn Cavanaugh 16:15 over Karl Dusen by 3 seconds.  Coatesville over Cedar Cliff 112-123. Details.  Also see State Meet interviews  and the final Delaware Valley Coaches Poll.  on DyeStatPA.

MN State Meet - Benilde-St Margaret's sr Nick Schneider 15:50 -- his stress fracture is healing!  US#17 Wayzata boys 58.  Complete Results

NC State Meet - US#5 North Mecklenburg put four runners under 16 minutes and won the 4A boys title over Mount Tabor, 71-90, with North sr Stephen Haas winning the race in 15:12.  Complete Results

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Cross Country Leader Lists

now 1,561 marks from 292 meets as of 11/7 - State Meets pump in hundreds of new times. More coming.
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Karen's Diary 
Last 2 campus visits and then decision time for California thrower Karen Freberg.  She chooses in early signing period, and the winner is: Southern Methodist University.

The Harrier rankings  
No change at the top, but jockeying for position goes on below No. 1 teams: Mountain View UT boys and Saratoga NY-Rockford MI girls.  Top 10 US and top 5 regional rankings as of 10/30 - Next update: 11/19

THE HARRIER
For more news and training programs on the current cross-country season, subscribe to "The Harrier's High School Cross Country Report," published by Marc Bloom.  

To order a subscription, go to The Harrier web site.

DyeStat Elite - 2000 outdoor rankings - updated to include all state championships and major summer meets - 5600 performances from 900 meets! - Final rankings coming soon. 

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

Foot Locker Championships 
This is 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)

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

 

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IN State Meet - Franklin Central sr Aaron Fisher 15:12 5k became the first Indiana runner to win three straight individual titles since the first meets in 1946-48, breaking the hilly Indiana U. course record by 20 seconds.  Also under the old record was runner-up Winamac jr Mike Haschel 15:24.  Girls champion was New Prairie fr Amanda Vanwanzeele 14:05 4k.  Valparaiso swept the team titles in the one-class meet. Complete Results

MI State Meet - Dathan Ritzenhein 14:10 CR leads US#4 Rockford boys to first state title, 56-89, over defending champion US#7 Novi.  US#1t Rockford girls win again with depth, although Rochester Adams places 1-2 (Katie Boyles  17: CR). Amazing 105 marks meet DyeStat Leader List cutoff.   Complete Results and splits

OH State Meet - US#20 Cincinnati St. Xavier boys beat US#24 Cincinnati LaSalle for the "Battle of North Bend Road" as well as the state Division I championship, 66-99.  LaSalle's Alan Bader 15:21 5k won the race, but the St. X pack (4-5-6-22-29) was too strong.  US#17 Cincinnati Colerain girls won their 4th straight title. Lindsay Zinn 17:42 is fastest girl of the day. Complete Results

IL State Meet - York Elmhurst sweeps - first time ever in IL for same school to win both boys and girls titles. Complete Results 

GA State Meet - Lakeside-Dekalb jr Joe Thorne 15:41 5k wins by 48 seconds, but can't keep Collins Hill from winning 5A team title, 107-109. South#8 Marist girls 38 win 4A.  Complete Results

AR State Meet - sr Eric Gross 16:06 in mud and Mountain Home boys 39. jr Jamie Owensby 15:22 and Bentonville girls 62.  Complete Results

CT State Open - US#11 Danbury wins boys all class title with 76 points; sr Brian McGovern 15:33 5k; Meghan Owen 15:04 4k (Chelsea Lenge 15:08); Fitch girls 82.  Complete Results

VA Regionals - Alan Webb cruises a minute slower than last week but still wins Northern Virginia AAA regional by 10 seconds in 14:56.  Runnerup Matt Maline leads Oakton to team title.  Kelley Otstott 17:38 (verbally committed to Georgetown) leads Jefferson girls to 1-point win over RobinsonStory and results by Pearl Watts - In AA regionals, Bryce Ruiz 15:03 breaks a Seneca Lassiter record, and  Bobby Lockhart gets course record 15:29 but isn't satisfied.  VA Regional Roundup by VA HS Runnersworld

KY Regionals - Fastest of all are soph Bobby Curtis, St. Xavier 15:02 5k, and jr Elizabeth Campbell, North Hardin 18:45.  Complete Combined Results

PA Julia Pudlin has been breaking course records all season and she did it again 11/2 at the Devon campus of Episcopal Academy in the Girls Inter-Academic League Championships  She toured the hilly 3.1 mile course in 17:51, breaking her previous best time of 18:57, for her fourth straight league title, which she first won in 8th grade. 

Ritz chooses Colorado - With "a huge weight off my shoulder" now he can really fly.  steveu interviews Dathan Ritzenhein

CROSS COUNTRY TICKER TAPE
Check here every day for the latest news items.

NM New Mexico State Meet
MO
Missouri State Meet
RI
Rhode Island State Meet
ME
Maine State Meet
VA
State Meet preview - by Pearl Watts
VA
Independent Schools Championship
VA
Catholic Schools Championship
MA
Class Meet Preview
MA
The Klim Poll 4
OR
BorderClash - updated favorites list
DyeStat Cross Country Leader List 11/7

TN
State Meet
VA
AAA Central Region
WA
State Meet
MS
State Meet
AL
State Meet Start Lists - link to CFPI Timing
NH
Meet of Champions
NH
Class Championships - US#11 Concord girls 26; Liz Gesel 19:05 5k
NC
State Meet
PA
State Meet
OR
State Meet
AR
State Meet
GA
State Meet
MN
State Meet
IN
State Meet
OH
State Meet
IL
State Meet
MI
State Meet
CT
State Open Championship
VA
Regional Roundup - by VA HS Runnersworld
AR
Coaches Poll Week 9
KY
Regionals
VA
Northern Region
VT
State Meet - jr Mint Henk 15:56 3.15mi leads U-32 boys 26
SC
Independent Schools (SCISA) Ch.
IA
State Meet
KY
Meet of Champions - Bobby Curtis 15:17, Rachel Sanford 18:59
WI
State Meet
NY
Boys Rankings by Cuffe - Week 7
NY Girls Rankings by Doherty - Week 7
GA
State Rankings -  last before state meet
OH
State Meet Preview - St. Xavier vs LaSalle, 3rd time
MA
Klim Poll 3 - MA boys
PA
State Meet Preview - by Don Rich
MO
StateMeet preview 1A-2A boys


Prior Weeks Ticker Tape -
Last Week's Headlines



Last Week's Headlines

MN Nick Schneider injured, but still running - Minnesota star (2nd in 2-mile and 4th in 1-mile at Foot Locker Outdoors last June) was hobbled with achilles tendon injuries earlier in the season and now he has a stress fracture of the fibula.  He still ran in his MN district meet with a brace (and won!).  Now he is reported planning to run in the MN State Meet Saturday 11/4.   In the midst of all this, Schneider has verbally committed to attend Duke next fall.

CA Ryan Hall 14:52 3mi in DeAnza League championship 10/31 at Yucaipa HS.   Hall leads Big Bear 29 to title with 7 of top 13 finishers.   A few days earlier (10/27), the 2000 national Foot Locker mile champion signalled he was rounding into shape by winning an all comers 2-mile at Azusa Pacific U. in 8:58.6.  He beat former NAIA indoor mile champion Ricky Etheridge by 5 seconds.  Afterward, Hall told SoCal track writer Rich Gonzales on CalTrack that he was lethargic earlier in the season because of side effects of taking the prescription drug acutane to treat a facial blemish problem.   

OH the story of Northbend Rd - Cincinnati rivals St. Xavier and LaSalle are only 5 miles apart and both are nationally ranked - they will meet again for the third time this year in the OH State Meet 11/4.  Preview

IA Iowa City West girls win 3A state meet as Jeni Frudden 10:59 2mi leads a 1-3-5-8-14 effort by the US#6 squad.  Ben Glaser, W. DesMoines Dowling, 15:22 won the boys title, with Chris Jones 15:39 second.  Both Frudden and Glaser were undefeated this year.  Complete Results

CA Buena Vista Inv - McFarland sr Andres Gomez reversed the result in a rerun of his great duel with Taft jr Billy Nelson at Mt SAC.  Gomez 15:44 won this time by 4 seconds with a surge in the last mile, both breaking the record on Taft's home 3.1 mile course.  

WI State Meet - Stevens Point soph Chris Solinsky 15:32 5k beat favored Waukesha West sr Matt Esche by 7 seconds.  US#21 Waukesha West girls 79 led by Serena Ramsey's runnerup finish to Kaukauna sr  Brook Novak 14:11 4k.  Complete Results

CA Seaview League - Newport Harbor sr Amber Steen 17:45 and Woodbridge fr Michael Hadden 15:24 won over the 3-mile Woodbridge Invitational course.

XCtrack.com Poll - Brad Herbster's committee has Mountain View UT boys and Saratoga NY girls number 1, with Rockford girls 3rd behind Campbell County WY.  Details

MO Districts - Adam Perkins 15:37 5k;  Lee's Summit sweeps 4A team titles; Raytown soph Courtney Cockerell 18:40.  Details

FL Bay Conference - Course records by both Rolf Steier 14:53 3mi and Christa Benton 17:13, each winning by more than a minute.   Details

ID State Meet - Best times of the day on slow, sandy surface were by soph Matt Knoff, Highland 16:38 5k and fr Karley Meikle, Hillcrest 19:53.  Meridian, Vallivue, and Preston sweep.  Complete Results

OH Regionals - US#20 St. Xavier Cincinnati 49, US#24 LaSalle Cincinnati 62 in Southwest region.  LaSalle's Allen Bader wins in 15:26 5k.  Details

CO State Meet - Smoky Hill soph Megan Kaltenbach 18:42 5k wins second straight state meet; announces she will run in Foot Locker this year (last year she skipped it for a soccer tournament).  Bret Schoolmeester 15:53 is fastest boy of the day.  Details

Ritz will run with the Buffaloes
The Grand Rapids MI Press reported 10/29 that Rockford MI star Dathan Ritzenhein has verbally committed to attend Colorado over Michigan and Oregon.  With this off his chest, Ritzenhein said now he could just concentrate on "running my best."  So he went out and won his regional meet in 14:18, leading his team to a 19-point score.  The US#1t Rockford girls were nearly perfect with 16 points.  Their big three of Lindsey Blaisdell, Kalin Toedebusch, and Nicki Bohnsack tied for first at 18:00, with Kelsey Toedebusch and Aimee Keenan 4-6.. Rockford regional results

VA District Roundup - Bryce Ruiz 15:26, 2nd fastest ever at Newport News park (Seneca Lassiter, 15:15). Matt Kealy, Ocean Lakes 15:46 CR. Dustin Sweeney 16:53 CR. Western Albemarle sweep.  Bobby Lockhart 15:14. Jorge Ruiz 15:08

KS State Meet - Shawnee Mission NW boys 42 win 7th straight 6A title; girls 62 win too. Scott Loftin 15:53 5k.  Matt and Megan Noonan win 4A titles. Erin Mortimer wins 6th straight 3A crown for Mortimer family.   Details

IL Sectionals - last step before state meet.  Tony Rakaric 14:46 3.05 mi.  Dan Glaz, Stagg 14:40 3mi edges Adam Roche, York by 3 seconds. York boys 48, girls 43, both win. Paul Jellema 14:55 3mi. Details 

CT Class Championships - Danbury boys win Class LL with 37 points resting No. 1 and No. 2.  Best times of day:  Brian McGovern 15:40 5k, Chelsea Lenge 15:08.  Complete Results 

State Rankings all over the place - Arkansas - New Jersey - Massachusetts - Georgia - New York Girls - New York Boys - Virginia -

PA Districts - West Allegheny's Lauren Shaffer failed to qualify in District 7, the area around Pittsburgh. She had moved up the AAA this year, after winning the AA State Championship in 1999 in a time that was the second fastest in the state. Lauren Bricker wins the D7 title. Mount Lebanon junior Shawn Cavanaugh makes up for two recent losses to Baldwin junior Dan Mazzacco, winning the District 7 title. CB East's Karl Dusen led his team to the District One title wiht a 15:25. Katie Ewart, coached by PA legend Paul Vandergrift, makes it two wins in a row over Wissahickon senior Paige Miller. More on PA Districts on Don Rich's DyeStatPA

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

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


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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