– Kenny Cormier, who 10 years ago today won the Foot Locker National Championship. Arkansas coach John McDonnell said, “He had it all – the head, the body” yet three years later he was out of the sport completely and soon in the Marines as a sniper. Where is he today? This is his story.
LRC 10 Years Later: Finding Kenny Cormier10 years ago today, Kenny Cormier was atop the running world after winning the 2004 Foot Locker National Championship thanks to his legendary 100+ miles per week. Three years later, even though Arkansas coach John McDonnell said, “He had it all – the head, the body,” he was completely out of the sport and joining the Marines. Where is he today? That is a bit complicated.
LRC 2014 Boys’ Preview: A Race For The Ages For the first time in history, the top three boys from last year all return, led by 2013 champ/4:02 miler Grant Fisher. He’ll try to hold off John Dressel (2nd last year), Matthew Maton (3rd last year, 4:03 mile, broke Galen Rupp‘s Oregon state meet course record) and a slew of other contenders in one of the deepest Foot Locker fields ever.
LRC2014 Girls’ Preview: 2012 Champ Anna Rohrer Seeks to Reclaim Her TitleHannah Debalsi is back, as is two-time FL West champ and four-time qualifier Makena Morley, who won her region by an astonishing 38 seconds. But neither of them is the favorite. That would be 2012 champ Anna Rohrer, who ran 16:57 at FL Midwest (just missing her CR) despite not running this summer.
LRC Unbelievable: Fayetteville-Manlius Sweeps Boys’ & Girls’ Titles At NXN High School Team Nationals The F-M girls were upset last year to snap their streak of seven straight NXN titles but they’re back on top in 2014 and had some company on the podium; the F-M boys, runners up in 2004 and 2010, broke through to win their first NXN title. Individually, Tanner Anderson (15:11) and Allie Ostrander (17:19) got the wins.
*DyeStat: FM Breaks In New Course With Historic Sweep
*Coach Bill Aris Post-Race Video Interview
*MileSplit: Tanner Anderson’s Individual Sacrifice (Not Racing FL) Rewards Him Well In addition to the individual win, his team got 3rd.
High School Talk On The Message Board:
*FM SWEEPS NXN BOYS & GIRLS!
*Petition to let Tanner Anderson Race Footlocker
*Wayzata in 9th at 4k, finishes 2nd?! And only ranked 24th in Dyestat??!!
*BEST COMPROMISE between Footlocker and NXN
*Meanwhile in Wisconsin, the Hacker legacy lives on
*Footlocker West Results
Seb Coe Says Russia Could Be Banned From International Competition If Doping Allegations Are Proven Coe’s got a good point.
*IAAF Head Lamine Diack‘s Son Papa Massata Says He’s Not Involved In Covering Up Doping, But Admits He Has Dealings With Head Of The Company Involved In Cover-Up
*Sergey Bubka “Deeply Shocked” By Russian Doping Claims He shouldn’t be. “Doping” and “Russia” go together like “wedding” and “cake.”
*Sebastian Coe Wants Independent Drug Testing Body
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