Sunday, December 5, 2010

NXN Nike XC Nationals

The Nike XC National Championship meet was held yesterday in Portland, Oregon.
Click here for meet results, photos, videos, interviews, history
You can watch videos of the complete races from 3 vehicles on this specially designed course.
The winning girls team, Manlius XC club from the Fayetteville-Manlius High School in Manlius, NY, a suburb of Syracuse with a population of about 32,000, won this national championship for the 5th time in a row with a team score of 27! Their team will have 6 of 7 runners returning for next year including the top four! The school has 1640 students in grades 9-12, so is a little smaller than Newton South. How is this possible to be so overwhelmingly superior nationally? I'm at a loss of words. I apologize for not having blogged info about the live webcast. Watch the race, watch the interview with F-M HS coach. Read Jon Waldron's comments at:
 http://nnhsxc.blogspot.com/2010/12/five-in-row-for-fayetteville-manlius.html

This should be the link to the whole girls race video:
http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=videos&year=2010&pg=1&event_id=13&video_id=34726&folder_id=2422&offset=20#video
The whole boys race video:
http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=videos&year=2010&pg=1&event_id=13&video_id=34721&folder_id=2422&offset=9#video

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