Despite dominating some great teams all year, the Bruins of Blacksburg needed all the help they could get this time around at WakeMed in the NXN-SE Regional.
This weekend was just the icing on the cake for the Albemarle senior and Rice University commit.
In his final high school XC race, Edison's Yared Mekonnen decided he wanted one more race.
Pine Crest freshman Tsion Yared nabbed one of the five individual qualifying spots at NXNSE to make it to Portland, Oregon and Nike Nationals. Her time of 17:42.40 was the third fastest of any Floridian this week behind only Foot Locker qualifiers Bailey Hertenstein (17:41.20) and Amanda Beach's 17:41.20. In case you were wondering her time would have placed 8th overall behind Hertenstein among all Foot Locker South entrants. We merged the results of all the races from FL South and NXNSE to see who won the week.
Hayden Tullos of Marietta will return to NXN Nationals as an Individual Qualifier this time around. photo by Mary Ann Magnet
Watch as Great Mills senior Annie Imhof sacrifices seconds to help a competitor finish at NXN Southeast Regionals on Saturday.
Photo Albums will be going up from NXN Southeast throughout the night from all 6 races!
See what happens when two of the top teams in Florida, Bolles and Pine Crest team up for the Mannequin Challenge while at the NXN Southeast Regional in Cary, North Carolina.
As the races at NXN Southeast and Foot Locker South take off we'll provide you with the latest updates on how our Florida athletes are doing. Following both meets we will have race videos, interviews, photos, complete results and more so keep it locked on Flrunners.com!
Follow the action from today's Foot Locker Northeast and Nike Cross National Southeast regionals here!
What NC teams and individuals have the best chances to advance tomorrow? The entire Southeast heads to WakeMed where NC looks to hold down their home turf.
Complete Entries for the NXN Southeast Regional at WakeMed park on Saturday.
Only the Episcopal girls have advanced to Nike Cross Nationals, but that was before the days of the regional qualifiers. We went back and took the results dating back to 2007 to see who the top Florida programs at NXNSE were over that time. Our legacy scores form an "all star" team for each school and score each.
The Belen Jesuit boys won NXN Southeast in 2011, but they aren't the top team in our legacy team scores which takes all athletes from a given program and forms an "all star" squad. Trinity Prep, combining their top runners from both the 2011 team and 2015 team that finished as runner-up, edged out Belen by just 9 points. Columbus who also punched their tickets to Portland in 2010 rounded out the top three.
Sarah Bodmer is the top NC returner to NXN Southeast from last season, and hopes to advance to NXN this weekend.
David Melville and Ben Savino are the top two returners to NXN Southeast from NC. Both will be in contention for an individual bid to NXN!
See which Maryland runners are entered for the NXN Southeast Regionals coming up on Saturday in Cary, North Carolina!
The Foot Locker South Regional and NXN Southeast Regional are just days away! Florida has sent both individuals and teams to the finals of both events in the past decade, but who will punch their tickets on Saturday? We want to know what you think. Vote for the number of individuals you think will advance from Charlotte and head to San Diego for Foot Locker Nationals and the amount of individuals/teams you think will leave Cary, North Carolina en route to Portland, Oregon for NXN.
Here is the greatest tool around. Check out the improvements athletes made from States to NXN-SE last year here.
Here are the top 500 rankings for the NXN-SE region. This list includes athletes who will be competing at Foot Locker as well but either way Virginia is well represented on this list.