Pacific Association at the
Saturday, December 10th Smithfield, Rhode Island By our standards there was a lot of snow and according to the Providence natives there was a lot of snow. The Rhode Island annual weather figures called for a 5% chance of snow. But the biggest plus on the weather was that the meet was not on Friday! Of the 1968 finishers 151 (7.6%) ran for the Pacific Association. Of the 250 individual medals (top 25 in each of the 10 age groups) 26 (10.4%) were won by our PA runners. We had three second place finishers. Of the 30 team medals (top 3 in each of the 10 age groups) three (10%) were awarded to PA teams, two were for first place. When you realize that there are 57 associations throughout the nation our athletes are well above the average. Last year there were 2420 finishers, 170 ran for the PA. Please note that these numbers come from the result sheets which list only the finishers. We do not know if any runners did not finish the race or, because of the weather, did not start the race Following age groups are PA medal winners: Bantam Boys (born 1995 or later) � 3000m � Winner�s time 12:17 (last year 10:57) Ty Serna � AEIOU � 21st place � 13:07 Zach Stoll � Silver State � 23rd place � 13:11 Bantam Girls (born 1995 or later) � 3000m � Winner�s time 12:39 (last year 10:50) Kyla Aiuto � Diablo Valley � 9th place � 13:52 Midget Boys (born 1993 or 1994) � 3000m � Winner�s time 11:00 (last year 9:53) Robbie Smith � Buffalo Chips � 8th place � 11:45 Jeroen Keukenkamp � Buffalo Chips � 20th place � 11:57 Buffalo Chips 3rd Place 106 points Midget Girls (born 1993 or 1994) � 3000m � Winner�s time 12:08 (last year 10:46) Tiffany Heflin � Silver State Striders � 2nd place � 12:08 (last year, as a Midget, she placed 2nd and the year before that, as a Bantam, she placed 2nd) Madison Knight � Silver State Striders � 25th place � 13:03 Youth Boys (born 1991 or 1992) � 4000m � Winner�s time 14:02 (last year 12:50) Ethan Mark � Pleasanton Heats � 21st place � 14:42 Philip Macquitty � unattached � 22nd place � 14:42 Youth Girls (born 1991 or 1992) � 4000m � Winner�s time 15:55 (last year 14:19) Nicole Hood � Pleasanton Heats � 2nd place � 16:02 (last year, as a Midget, she placed 1st Kelsey Smith � unattached � 6th place � 16:17 Jacque Taylor � Santa Rosa Express � 9th place � 16:18 (last year, as a Youth, she place 13th) Danzel Bradshaw � Alex Van Dyke � 17th place � 16:27 (last year, as a Youth she placed 11th) Jennifer Bergman � Los Gatos � 24th place � 16:35 Intermediate Boys (Born 1989 or 1990) � 5000m � Winner�s time 14:56 (last year 15:43) No PA runners in the top 25 Intermediate Girls (Born 1989 or 1990) � 5000m � Winner�s time 17:51 (last year 18:08) Chelsea Reilly � Buffalo Chips � 7th place � 18:19 (last year, as an Intermediate, she placed 5th) Casey O�Day � Buffalo Chips � 8th place � 18:19 Joelle Slater � Silver State � 9th place � 18:20 Nicole Lajeunesse � Silver State � 13th place � 18:28 (last year, as a Youth, she placed 10th) Lauren Lewis � Buffalo Chips � 20th place � 18:39 Hillary Kiger � Buffalo Chips � 21st place � 18:47 Katie Fritzke � Buffalo Chips � 25th place � 18:49 (last year, as an Intermediate, she placed 16th) Buffalo Chips � 1st place � 33 points Young Men (Born 1987 or 1988) - 5000m � Winner�s time 14:54 (last year 15:37) No PA runners in the top 25 Young Women � (Born 1987 or 1988) � 5000m � Winner�s time 17:21 (last year 18:23) Maritza Garcia � Buffalo Chips � 2nd place � 17:50 Karen Frazier � Buffalo Chips � 4th place � 18:04 Cecily Lemmon � Buffalo Chips � 5th Place � 18:13 Erin Lewis � Buffalo Chips � 6th place � 18:17 Ursula Bergmooser � Buffalo Chips � 10th place � 18:41 Buffalo Chips � 1st place � 22 points By comparing the winning times with last year you can see what the snow can cause. Note that in the 5000m races the course was altered (shortened) because of very high snow in a very narrow area.
2005 National Junior Olympics
Cross Country Championships
| Club | Individual Medals | Team Medals | Individual age groups | Team age group | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasanton Heats | 2 | YG 1, YB 1 | |||
| Silver State Striders | 5 | BB 1, MG 2, IG 2 | |||
| Diablo Valley | 1 | BG 1 | |||
| AEIOU | 1 | BB 1 | |||
| Santa Rosa Express | 1 | YG 1 | |||
| Los Gatos AA | 1 | YG 1 | |||
| Buffalo Chips | 12 | 3 | MB 2, IG 5, YW 5 | MB, IG, YW | |
| Alex Van Dyke | 1 | YG 1 | |||
| Unattached | 2 | YG 1, YB 1 |
| Club | BG | BB | MG | MB | YG | YB | IG | IB | YW | YM | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEIOU | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Pleasanton Heats | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 36 | |||||
| Silver State Striders | 5 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33 | |
| Buffalo Chips | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 33 | |
| Castro Valley | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Palo Alto | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Diablo Valley | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Los Gatos AA | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 12 | ||||||
| Parson TC | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Santa Cruz TC | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| San Luis Distance | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Roseville Express | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Tamalpa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Santa Rosa Express | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| City Track | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Alix Van Dyke | 7 | 7 | |||||||||
| Salinas Valley | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Pride | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Unattached | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||||
| Total | 12 | 14 | 22 | 21 | 27 | 24 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 151 |
In 2006 this meet will be in Spokane, Washington. In 2007 it will be in Lawrence, Kansas.
