Nike Cross Nationals
December 06, 2008 @ Portland Meadows in Portland, OR
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The first thing you learn after the gun goes off is that this isn't just like any other race.
Texas 2-Step: Texas stars Reed Connor and Chelsey Sveinsson add course record wins to NXN haul.
Eleanor Fulton raised a few eyebrows with a 17:45 finish for third place. Photo by Alan Versaw
MileSplit US #1 North Central boys, competing as North Spokane XC Club, used a late surge to capture the Nike Cross Nationals. Reed Connor raced to a course record 15:15...
Race video from the championship boys at the 2008 Nike Cross Nationals held Saturday, December 6th in Portland, Oregon.
Championship girls race video from the 2008 Nike Cross Nationals held Saturday, December 6th in Portland, Oregon.
PORTLAND, Ore. – It’s not uncommon for it to get rough at the start of an elite cross country race. Shoving happens. Elbows. Some tripping. But rarely does...
PORTLAND, Ore. – Normally we see a stoic Fayetteville-Manilus squad unfazed by success, already on to the next challenge. Not this time. This time they made room...
Fayetteville-Manlius girls win 3rd straight national title with 66 points. Chelsey Sveinsson (Texas) wins individual title. Reed Connor (The Woodlands, TX) wins...
There isn't much sanity left to be salvaged--it's all XC tomorrow here in Portland, Oregon.
Mark Rowe, Head Coach at Green County High School and Kentucky Ambassador for Nike is serving as the Regional Individual Manager for the Southeast at Nike Team Nationals...
NXN Girls Team Previews: Thumbnail sketches and analysis of all 22 girls teams.
NXN Boys Team Previews: Thumbnail sketches and analysis of all 22 boys teams
North Allegheny has a team compression of 2:57. But not in the way you think.
The Emmaus girls came into the season with two goals in mind. To repeat as state champions in AAA, and to improve on their 5th place finish at the Nike Cross Northeast...
Photo by Victor Arrieta
Allison Homer of Blacksburg is the comeback story of the year in Virginia high school cross country. Homer's junior year was completely lost due...
Photo by Larry Rouse
There are several paths to compete at a national high school cross country championships. Ask Kathleen Lautzenheiser. As a freshmen, she competed...
Ben Veilleux and the Clarke County boys represented the "little guys" very well by racing and matching up well against the "big boys" and top teams...
Photo by Victor Arrieta
One month ago, Josh Hardin was fourth in his regional meet in a time of 16:14. The Potomac Falls senior certainly timed his peak perfectly as...
NXN Southwest: Tremblay nips Tonn (Margot Kelly photo); Schwaderer edges Nelson; Fort Collins, Albuquerque triumph
NXN Midwest: Kroy (York, IL), led by Steve Sulkin, avenged its loss to Naperville North at the IHSA Champs a week ago. Geneva (IL) XC and Stephanie Morgan (OH) are...
Coming into this season, Roselle (Lake Park) senior Lindsay Flanagan had one just one goal in mind – to bring home a state title. Flanagan won the IHSA 3A crown in...
MileSplit US #13 North Penn, led by junior Brad Miles (PennTrackXC photo by Megan Clugh) overcame early season doubts and lofty expectations to claim its second straight...
Tatnall, a small Delaware private school with big aspirations, has positioned itself amongst the nation's best.
A big weekend of competition generally means some major movement in the national rankings, and that is certainly the case this week. Making the biggest leap is Tatnall...
Despite some big upsets last weekend and a few surprise performances, the XC Regional Rankings saw few changes at the top. The rankings by Marc Bloom and Rich Gonzalez...
Week 4 of the MileSplit Top 12 Individual Rankings are up! A lot of movement took place in specific regions due to a few head-to-head match-ups that created some major...
A lot of competitive invitationals took place last weekend, meaning that a few of the top teams in the country lost to unranked squads. With those loses comes new teams...
A few big match-ups across the nation mixed up the regional rankings a bit. Joseph Manilafasha's great performance at Liberty Bell (CO) put the senior atop the Midwest...
A monster performance by Saugus (CA) vaulted the team from the third spot in the MileSplit National CC Rankings to the top spot. Meanwhile, boys US #1 North Central...
Each week Rich Gonzalez and Marc Bloom will release their XC Regional Rankings, ranking the top ten teams in each of the nine NXN regions. Check out their Week 2...
With the second full week of the cross country season complete and in the books, many of the top athletes around the country have now had a chance to compete in some...
The first round of XC Regional Rankings, released by NSSF and produced by Marc Bloom and Rich Gonzalez, ranked three Illinois boys teams and three Illinois girls teams...
The National Sports Scholastic Foundation (NSSF) released the first enstallment of the XC Regional Rankings, put together by Marc Bloom and Rich Gonzalez. The rankings...
Every week this fall leading to Nike Cross Nationals, we'll publish the MileSplit National Cross Country Rankings. In our first installment North Central (WA) boys and...
Another week, another edition of the XC Regional Rankings by Marc Bloom and Rich Gonzalez. Little major movement took place. The biggest jump coming by Geneva (IL)...