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MARK WIECZOREK/GIG HARBOR BOYS FEATURE EUGENE, Ore. -- The fastest high school cross country coach in the nation finished seventh in the 800 meters at the Olympic Trials on Monday, wearing a T-shirt he bought at an American Eagle store and sportin...

The third Nike Elite Camp will bring together 20 top high school cross country runners and the program includes an exhibition mile that will be held on June 29 at Hayward Field. As a stipulation mandated by NCAA rules, the shoe-company sponsored e...

NEW BALANCE INDEX Ashley Erba and Jake Leingang are already looking ahead to the 2012 cross country season and used victories Thursday in the 5,000 meters at New Balance Outdoor Nationals to move into their summer training with reinforced confidence...

OREGON MEET INDEX Washington, beware. There is a new wave of young Oregon distance runners who are tired of having sand kicked in their faces every November at the post-season cross country meet known as BorderClash. Signs of life are all ov...

USA Track and Field has named five prep athletes to its junior teams that will compete at the Great Edinburgh International Cross Country Team Challenge on Jan. 7 in Scotland. The six-member sides are comprised of a mix of college freshmen and hig...

Two-time Foot Locker finalist Catarina Rocha of Peabody (Peabody, Mass.) was unaware that both of her parents ran in the national championship event until just over a year ago. Rocha, a junior who finished seventh on Dec. 10 at San Diego's Balboa ...

Foot Locker Finals Index It's been a wild ride for US#2 Molly Seidel through four years of cross country in Wisconsin - and that was before the final 600 meters on Saturday at Balboa Park. Seidel, who attends small private University Lake School (...

Foot Locker Finals Index Futsum Zeinasellassie didn't come to San Diego to make friends with Edward Cheserek. He wanted to stay serious, focused and win. "I was trying not to talk to him all week," Zeinasellassie said. "I wanted to focus on this r...

Reuben Reina is still a little bit mystified that his winning 1985 performance at what was then called the Kinney Cross Country Championship remains the fastest time run at San Diego's Balboa Park. More than a quarter-century later, America's most...

Edward Cheserek touched down in San Diego late Tuesday, arriving early with St. Benedict's Prep School coach Marty Hannon in order to prepare for Saturday's Foot Locker finals. Cheserek's 2011 cross country season has been nothing short of spectac...

PORTLAND - Futsum Zeinasellassie and the Christian Brothers Academy NJ ruled the day and walked off the Nike stage wearing "Champions" jackets at Portland Meadows. Zeinasellassie broke the course record by running by 15:03 and set the table for a ...

PORTLAND - For the past five years, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls set the bar for excellence at Nike Cross Nationals. On Saturday, F-M showed something else about why it is such a consistent winner. The Stotans refused to let adversity tip the te...

Twenty-eleven is the year that the girls championship at Nike Cross Nationals reached critical mass. Almost all of the nation's most compelling storylines arrived in Oregon this week and will play out over 5,000 (not too swampy) meters on Saturday...

Josh Thorson will miss not having his teammates from Wayzata High School in Minnesota around this weekend in Portland. That will be the biggest difference as Thorson makes his fourth trip to Nike Cross Nationals. "It's sort of a mixed bag (of e...

Before the celebration had died down at Wappinger Falls, N.Y., Steve Sawyer was dialing the police department back home in Northeastern Massachusetts. Sawyer is the long-time coach at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School, which won the NXN Northea...

In between a gut-wrenching conversation with his mother and one of the biggest cross country meets of his senior year, Evan Laratta managed to squeeze in some of the normal things. He reviewed the race plan for the Oct. 22 Montgomery County Cha...