adidas presents the
1999 USA Winter Cross Country National Championships
Junior Women's 6k Race Recap
The junior women's 6k race is scheduled to begin at 10:45 am Saturday February 13th. Race Recap will be posted ASAP following the conclusion of the race.
RACE CONDITIONS: Mostly sunny with an occasional light breeze - temp. 48 degrees F. Race course is mostly flat with good footing despite wet conditions from morning rain. RACE IN REVIEW: Fifty-two junior women toed the line for the start of the race under sunny skies and 48 degrees. The soft, wet grassy turf provided a delightful challenge. At the first mile (5:30) it was Erin Sullivan and Mariel Ettinger at the lead pack of 15. Two kilometers were passed in 6:39 with Dana Boyle and Jenn Modliszewski now as the front of the lead group, which had then reduced to ten. By four kilometers (13:45) five runners separated from the rest: Dana Boyle, Erin Sullivan, Sara Gorton, Cheryl Smith and Ashley LaBudde. With 500 meters to go the group rounded one of the sharp bends together and the race boiled down to who could surge and sustain. At 400 meters, Boyle and Sullivan both made a move to separate themselves. At the end it was Sullivan who proved superior. NOTES 'N' QUOTES: Winner Erin Sullivan from Mt. Mansfield HS in Jericho, Vermont, won her second consecutive Foot Locker title on December 12, in Orlando, Florida, a feat only two other women, Erin Keogh and Melody Fairchild, have accomplished. Sullivan, in only her second season of cross country competition, also played soccer in the fall. Today's victory marks Sullivan's first U.S. title. "I was really excited, it felt great. It's so much easier running with a group of people. Running by myself is much harder. I definitely wanted to win, and I'm just going to keep plugging until we go to Belfast (site of 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, March 27-28 in Belfast, Ireland).

 

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