Last Week In Review: Sept. 27- Sept. 30, 2012

David Pickett

flrunners.com Invitational 13

On-Site Coverage

flrunners.com Invitational 13: Boys ROC Preview

The two favorites going in are probably Carlos Miranda of Palmetto Ridge and Avery Lopez of Belen Jesuit. Miranda hasn’t really shown himself yet this season, but put up a 15:17 at Pre-State last season and had a 15:30 road race win in August. Lopez is the new leader for the Belen Jesuit dynasty and has a couple of wins under his belt already this season including UF and Fleet Feet. He is also coming off of a stellar track season.

Print Your FREE FLR 13 Meet Program

There will only be one copy of this program distributed per team in the team packets. No others will be available at the meet, so print your copy now!

flrunners.com Invitational Team Seeding

Drum roll please! Here is the much anticipated list of seeding's for this weekend's flrunners.com Invitational 13, the largest race in the state of Florida. This year we have twenty races over two days and around 4,600 athletes registered!

flrunners.com Invitational New Varsity Division, Schedule Changes

We were shocked to find that the Saturday races filled up completely over a month before the entry deadline. So we scrambled to figure out how to rework the schedule to safely and efficiently handle more teams and fit in another race. Here is the 2012 schedule.

Videos

Interview: Cadi Rowe - Girls JV Blue Champion Interview: Sam Shaffer - JV Blue Champion Interview: Robert Roy - JV Blue Runner-Up Interview: Olivia Rovin - Girls Small School Champion
Interview: Christina Hamilton - Girls Small School Runner-Up Interview: Amanda Spring - Girls Large School Champion Interview: Hannah Loder - Girls Large School - Third Place Interview: Troy Clark - Boys Small School Champion
Interview: Abdin Fator - Boys Large School Champion Interview: Jonathan Mott - College Mens Champion Interview: Taylor Tubbs - Large School Runner-Up Interview: Justin Schanze - Boys Large School Runner-Up
Interview: Canaan Meester Kitterman - Boys Large School - Third Interview: Dalton Shelton - Boys Small School Runner-Up FLR 13 Boys JV Blue Interview: Anne Marie Blaney - Womens College Champion
Interview: Sabrina Quijano - Girls Middle School Champion Interview: Mason Jones - Boys Middle School Champion Interview: Coach Sommers - Estero - Girls ROC Champions Interview: Kacy Smith - Girls ROC - 5th Place
FLR 13 Girls Small School FLR 13 Girls Large School FLR 13 Boys Small School Interview: Girls ROC - Sarah Candiano/Katy G. Solis
Interview: Sarah Day - Girls ROC - 6th Place Interview: Bryce Seymour - Girls ROC - 4th Place Interview: Nikita Shah - Girls ROC Runner-Up Interview: Julia Montgomery/Ella Worth - Pine Crest - Girls ROC
Interview: Emily Edwards - Girls ROC Champion Interview: Coach Ruiz - Belen Jesuit - Boys ROC Champions Interview: Kenneth Pineiro - Boys ROC - 13th Place Interview: Kurt Convey - 8th Place - Boys ROC
Interview: Tyler Bennett/Ace Brown - Boys ROC - 5th/6th Place Interview: Nick Morken - Boys ROC - 4th Place Interview: Daniel Salas - Boys ROC - 3rd Place Interview: Avery Lopez - Boys ROC- Runner-Up
Interview: Carlos Miranda - Boys ROC Champion Interview: Brianna Jackson - Girls Invitational Champion Interview: Courteney Zboyan - Girls Invitational Runner-Up Interview: J.C. Cornett - Boys Invitational Champion
Interview: Xavier Walton - Boys Invitational-Runner-Up Interview: Salvador Medrano - Boys Invitational - Third Place Interview: Nic Jacobsen - Boys Invitational - Sixth Place Interview: Autumn Bartlett - Girls Unseeded A - Champion
Interview: Olivia Nicholson - Girls Unseeded B Champion Interview: Olympian Adam Goucher - FLR 13 Special Guest FLR 13 Boys Race of Champions FLR 13 Girls Race of Champions
FLR 13 Girls Invitational FLR 13 Girls/Boys Middle School FLR 13 Girls Unseeded A FLR 13 Girls Unseeded B
FLR 13 Boys Unseeded A FLR 13 Boys Unseeded B FLR 13 Boys Large School FLR 13 College Men - Mile
FLR 13 College Men - 2 Miles FLR 13 College Men - Finish FLR 13 Boys Invitational

Great American Cross Country Festival

On-Site Coverage

Great American Recap: Thomson 14:43, Assumption Wins, St. X 2nd

The state of Kentucky had a meet quite a meet to remember on Saturday at Great American in North Carolina.  Three teams finished in the top seven with multiple individuals finishing in the top 20.  This meet further shows how much running has changed in Kentucky over the last few years.

Great American: Miller leads Patriots, Lexington's Langston runs 15:18

Mann's Laura Miller led the Patriots to the Great American invitational second place team finish with an individual win (18:11), 30-seconds ahead of second place. Lexington's Zack Langston finished eighth overall in the race of champions (15:18). The Wildcats finished 11th out of 31 teams.

Videos

Boys Championship Race Girls Championship Race Sean McGorty Interview Maggie Drazba Interview
Christian Brothers Team Interview Assumption Team Interview Jacob Thomson Interview Hannah Long Interview
Boys Champ Race Finish Boys Champ Race Midway Boys Champ Race Start Girls Champ Post-Race (1)
Girls Champ Race 4700m Girls Champ Race 4000m Girls Champ Race 2500m Girls Champ Race 1200m (2)
Girls Champ Race 1200m (1) Girls Champ Race 600m Girls Champ Race Start Girls Champ Pre-Race (3)
Girls Champ Pre-Race (2) Girls Champ Pre-Race (1)

Greater Louisville Classic

On-Site Coverage

SMC men win Louisville Classic cross country meet

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The 7th-ranked SMC Pioneer men won the 11th annual Greater Louisville Classic on Saturday, Sept. 29. The event at E.P. Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Ky., included more than 90 teams from 29 states in six separate college races. (via www.gosmcpioneers.com)

LIVE UPDATES AT THE GREATER LOUISVILLE CLASSIC

KYtrackXC.com will be Live at the Greater Louisville Classic providing coverage all day long starting with the college races in the morning and the high school/middle school action in the afternoon.  Check back on the comments on this article for live updates all day long.

Greater Louisville Classic High School Preview

The Greater Louisville Classic is held on the same course as the Trinity/Valkyrie Invitational, but they are two totally different meets each year.  Trinity/Valkyrie brings an intense team battle that is more regionally based (KY, IN, OH) with most of the top Louisville schools in attendance, whereas Greater Louisville brings in more depth from throughout the state of Kentucky giving teams from the far west (Paducah area) a chance to compete against teams from the north and areas right outside of Louisville.

Liz Anderson Building on Breakout Season

Exceeding expectations is nothing new to Liz Anderson.  For the junior cross country runner and her team, the expectations have never been higher. The season has only just begun, but the Commodores are already making headlines, thanks primarily to their remarkable success last fall. 

Greater Louisville Classic College Preview

Louisville, KY- The Louisville Sports Commission (LSC) will host 115 colleges and universities from 24 states in the 11th Annual Greater Louisville Classic (GLC), which for the first time in the 11 year history should be the largest college meet contested in the United States in 2012.

Videos

GLC: Men's Gold Race Start GLC: Men's Gold Race Lawi Lalang, Stephen Sambu, & Paul Chelimo GLC: Men's Gold Race Finish Line 4th Place On GLC: Women's Gold Race Start
GLC: Women's Gold Race 1.5 Mile Mark GLC: Women's Gold Race Finish GLC: Men's Gold Race 1.5 Mile GLC: Men's Silver Race Start
GLC: Men's Blue Race 1.5 Mile Mark GLC: Women's Blue Race 1.5 Mile Mark GLC: Women's Blue Race 2 Mile Mark GLC: Women's Blue Race Finish
GLC: Men's Silver Race Start GLC: Men's Silver Race 1.5 Mile Mark GLC: Men's Silver Race Finish Starting with 6th Place GLC: Women's Silver Race 1st & 2nd Finish
GLC: Women's Silver Race Finish GLC: Varsity Boys Start GLC: Varsity Boys 1.5 Mile Mark GLC: Varsity Boys Finish 1
GLC: Varsity Boys Finish 2 GLC: Varsity Girls 1.9 Mile Mark GLC: Varsity Girls Finish Line GLC: JV Boys Finish Line
GLC: JV Girls Finish Line 1 GLC: JV Girls Finish Line 2 GLC: Middle School Boys Finish GLC: Middle School Girls Mid-Race

Paul Short Run

On-Site Coverage

Lauren Berman & Robinson boys impressive runners-up at Paul Short

Three Virginia schools in James Robinson, North Stafford, and West Potomac traveled up to Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to compete against many of that state's best teams as well as watch some top collegiate action at the Paul Short Run. The Robinson squad enjoyed a lot of success at the meet with their boys' squad, ranked #7 in Virginia, beating some of the top tier teams in Pennsylvania with a runner-up team showing. Meanwhile, Robinson's top girl in Macey Schweikert did not run, but her teammate Lauren Berman shined in her absence to finish runner-up individually with a 5K personal best time of 18:22 for the VA #15 ranked sophomore Berman.

Carl Paces USM at Paul Short Run

  BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Senior Molly Carl (York, Maine) placed 16th among 342 finishers to pace the University of Southern Maine women's cross country team to a 25th-place finish at the prestigious 39th Annual Paul Short Run held Friday at the Goodman Campus Course on the campus of Lehigh University. (via www.southernmainehuskies.com)

Roy Griak Invitational

On-Site Coverage

The Citadel Invitational

On-Site Coverage

Marathon journal - week 5: Riverside alumna Hayley Lyons

I start my first big girl job this week, which means, as far as running and training go, I’ll be getting up before the sun to get my workouts in.  Luckily, I started training my body for this almost a year ago, when I started forcing myself to wake up before 6 or 7 a.m.