The chilly, sunny day didn’t cease the effective performances nor the followers from cheering on their favourite runners. The women’ championship race was extremely aggressive, and the highest ten will do properly in San Diego, CA in two weeks!
The boy’s championship race had among the finest fields in Midwest historical past. 30 boys on the mile in a conservative 5:00 for the mile, there have been 20 on the 2 mile mark, and 15 with 200 meters to go!
The Midwest is taking two of its finest groups in years to the FootLocker Nationals.
Victoria Garces and Juan Gonzalez Seize First Place Titles within the
forty fifth Annual Foot Locker Cross Nation Championships Midwest
Regional; Prime 10 Boys and Women Qualify for Nationwide Finals
RACE HIGHLIGHTS:
Victoria Garces of Midland, MI, and Juan Gonzalez of Fremont, NE, received the Foot Locker
Cross Nation Championships Midwest Regional immediately. Garces, a senior at Midland Dow
Excessive Faculty, claimed the title within the women’ championship race in 17:14.6. Jessie Jazwinski,
a senior from Shelby, MI, completed second in 17:25.1, and Norah Hushagen, a senior from
Forest Lake, MN, positioned third in 17:27.0. The highest two finishers, together with immediately’s fourth–
place finisher Emily Cohen of Englewood, CO, and fifth-place finisher Libby Dowty of
Morgantown, IN, participated in final yr’s San Diego, CA, nationwide championship occasion.
Gonzalez, a senior from Fremont Excessive Faculty, took the title within the boys’ championship
race in 14:58.8. Sean Fries, a junior from Minnetonka, MN, completed second in 15:00.0 and
Ben Crane, a senior from Wilmette, IL, completed third in 15:03.3. Gonzales and Crane, alongside
with immediately’s sixth-place finisher Benjamin Anderson of Highlands Ranch, CO, competed at
the nationwide championships final yr in San Diego, CA.
WHEN/WHERE:
Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024
College of Wisconsin Parkside in Kenosha, WI.
COURSE/WEATHER:
5,000-meter course; good course circumstances; 23 levels; windy; sunny skies
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS:
The highest 10 boys and the highest 10 women within the championship races qualify to compete towards
runners from the South, Northeast, and West Regional meets within the Foot Locker Cross
Nation Championships Nationwide Finals, on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024, at Morley Discipline,
Balboa Park in San Diego, CA.
2024 Foot Locker Cross Nation Championships – Midwest Regional Outcomes
College of Wisconsin Parkside – Kenosha, WI
Women
Place Title Hometown Excessive Faculty (12 months) Time
1) Victoria Garces Midland, MI Midland Dow HighSchool (12) 17:14.6
2) Jessie Jazwinski Shelby, MI Shelby Excessive Faculty (12) 17:25.1
3) Norah Hushagen Forest Lake, MN Forest Lake Space Excessive Faculty (12) 17:27.0
4) Emily Cohen Englewood, CO Cherry Creek Excessive Faculty (11) 17:33.3
5) Libby Dowty Morgantown, IN Indian Creek Excessive Faculty (11) 17:34.8
6) Ruby Ihmels Bismarck, ND Century Excessive Faculty (10) 17:39.2
7) Mallory Weller Fort Wayne, IN Fort Wayne Concordia Lutheran Excessive Faculty (11) 17:40.4
8) Rosie Mucharsky Denver, CO Denver East Excessive Faculty (12) 17:41.2
9) Kate Foltz Tuscola, IL Tuscola Excessive Faculty (11) 17:42.7
10) Brooke Chapman Westerville, OH Olentangy Orange Excessive Faculty (11) 17:48.4
Boys
Place Title Hometown Excessive Faculty Time
1) Juan Gonzalez Fremont, NE Fremont Excessive Faculty (12) 14:58.8
2) Sean Fries Minnetonka, MN Minnetonka Excessive Faculty(11) 15:00.0
3) Ben Crane Wilmette, IL New Trier Excessive Faculty (12) 15:03.3
4) Philip Cupial Woodridge, IL Downers Grove North Excessive Faculty (11) 15:03.4
5) Salvador Wirth Annandale, MN Annandale Excessive Faculty (12) 15:04.3
6) Benjamin Anderson Highlands Ranch, CO Mountain Vista Excessive Faculty (12) 15:05.0
7) Noah Bontrager Shipshewana, IN Westview Excessive Faculty (11) 15:05.8
8) Robert Mechura Roseville, MN Roseville Space Excessive Faculty (12) 15:05.9
9) Sam Quagliaroli Fishers, IN Fishers Excessive Faculty (12) 15:06.2
10) Liam Bauschke Mishawaka, IN Mishaw, (12), 15:06.8
