Footlocker Nationals

Over the weekend the Footlocker National race was aired live over the footlocker cross country website, http://footlockercc.com/. The race was on Saturday December 14th in San Diego's Balboa Park. There were eighty runners there, forty girls and forty boys. All the runners had an all paid for trip to San Diego for the race. They stayed in a luxurious hotel, Hotel Del Coronado and in their hotel rooms they found a plethora of free items, ranging from t-shirts to free running shoes and racing spikes! All the runners spent about two or three days in San Diego before the race. They spent their time bonding with the other runners from their region and enjoyed themselves on the beach before they had to race. The course they had to run on was very challenging. There was a monster of hill that they had to run up three times! The race itself was great to watch. Although the quality of the video was not the best, you could see every exciting part of the race and you did not miss anything important. The winners of the races were Grant Fisher from the Midwest for the boys race and Tessa Barrett from the Northeast for the girls race. The links below will take you to the full results of each race. Did you watch the races and what did you think about them?

Girl's race: http://footlockercc.com/2013/results/girlschampionship.pdf
Boy's race: http://footlockercc.com/2013/results/boyschampionship.pdf
Photos' Link: http://www.footlockercc.com/2013/nationalphotos/awards/index.htm

Girls Finalists

                                                           

Tessa Barrett and Grant Fisher

Boys Finalists

Footlocker Regional Race

Over the Thanksgiving Break, a few of our runners ran in a post-season race, Footlocker. Footlocker is a race down in North Carolina. People living all over the southern region run in this race. From Texas to Maryland and all the states in between race in Footlocker. Not only does this region run in the Footlocker race, but other regions have this same race. The regions who compete in this race are the West, Midwest, Northeast, and the Southern region. The top ten in the Championship races of each region qualify for Footlocker Nationals in San Diego. Over the weekend our own Molly B. qualified for Nationals! She finished in ninth place, beating her previous best time by a minute! She will be racing on December fourteenth. It will be broadcasted live on the footlocker website (http://www.footlockercc.com/). You can also find the results of all the races in the link.  We also had many others run in the Footlocker South race. They all ran in their age group race. Many of them came home with a personal best. I would love to hear what you think of the Footlocker race and if you raced how did you do?                                                                                                                                                                                                

The Beautiful McAlpine Park, NC

State Meet Reflection

TES Boys XC second place plaque

On November first we competed in the State Meet. Unfortunately we lost and came second. Our nemesis Woodberry Forest beat us. On our team Steven J. came just short of being All-State, coming in the top twenty. He was one spot away, he finished twenty first. I came third, coming behind Alex L. from Fork Union, and Hale R. from Potomac. Although we did not win, we were happy with the results. If you asked anyone on the team in the beginning of the season, you would have gotten a negative response, but we surprised ourselves and we are proud of ourselves for accomplishing second place. Our goal next year is to rebound and finish first as a team.
On the girls side, they came fifth. They had Molly B. winning the meet for her second time in a row. She finished in front of second place by almost a minute! Katie B. also had a great performance, coming in second for the team and fourth overall. Both of them were All- State, top twenty. In the comments tell me how your state meet went?

Top Ten Boys

Top Ten Girls

   


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