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3rd place - Clare Carroll (Roseville PAL Express) 15:28 - How tough can she be? Missing a shoe and still taking third place in the Youth Girls Division!
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The night before the big races ... the 2009 USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country National Championships in Reno, NV ... the skies dropped 4"-6" of snow on the course. This on top of 6"-10" that had fallen several days earlier. Throughout the day of the competitions it continued to snow but that didn't slow down the talented youth athletes of the Roseville PAL Express Track Club. To ensure athletes could compete in their events all races were delayed by meet management for one hour to allow everyone time to gain access to the park. This was due to the challenges cars had maneuvering through the snow filled roads into Rancho San Rafael Park.
To earn All American status an athlete had to finish in the top 25 individuals or their team had to finish in the top 3 teams. One RPAL athlete won her division: Christine Bayliss won the Midget Girls race garnering a National Champion title!
Another amazing story came from the third place finisher in the Youth Girls race. At approximately the 800m mark her right shoe came off when the girl behind her stepped on the back of her shoe. She still managed the run the last 2 miles without her shoe on the icy and slippery course. Along the way someone handed her back the shoe so she could carry it across the finish line since it held her timing chip. Way to go, Clare Carroll of Roseville PAL Express.
The trip to Reno was worth the effort. Check out how successful our athletes were in the results below.
- Ava Agustin (14:23) 101st place
- Marie Ong (15:01) 138th place
- Erin Cummins (15:07) 142nd place
- McKenna Weitzel (18:03) 193rd place
- Lauren Alexander (18:04) 194th place
- Melanie Arechiga (19:02) 197th place
- 13th place team
- Ryan Bayliss (12:38) 81st place
- Derek Vredenburgh (12:42) 91st place
- Miles Worthen (13:22) 140th place
- Nick Clay (14:15) 175th place
- Austin Mellick (14:42) 186th place
- Russell Agustin (16:35) 206th place
- 14th place team
- Christine Bayliss (10:55) 1st place ALL AMERICAN
- Chloe Pigg (11:33) 6th place ALL AMERICAN
- Femke Keukenkamp (13:36) 161st place
- Chase Worthen (13:45) 166th place
- Kylie Michaels (14:44) 202nd place
- 12th place team
- Logan Taggart (11:46) 73rd place
- Spencer Lachman (11:53) 88th place
- Patrick Mullholland (12:27) 153rd place
- Clare Carroll (15:28) 3rd place ALL AMERICAN
- Reaghan Emrick (16:54) 52nd place
- Allison Bayliss (17:35) 110th place
- Amihan Agustin (17:44) 119th place
- Kylee Webb (17:55) 132nd place
- Michelle Gonzalez (18:39) 177th place
- Danielle Nivinski (19:02) 192nd place
- Kylie Joerger (22:01) 218th place
- 10th place team
- Taylor Guinnip (14:48) 51st place
- Neilson Powless (15:09) 88th place
- Tristyn Martin (15:19) 108th place
- Ryan Hodgens (15:32) 127th place
- Reed Klaeser (16:16) 180th place
- Paul Zeiss (16:52) 206th place
- Austin Taggart (17:12) 215th place
- Steven Cummins (17:34) 225th place
- 13th place team
