Madeline Morgan Wins Muddy 2007 Nike Team Nationals, Fayetteville Manlius Dynasty Rolls [ Full Race]

Описание: Prior to 2008, Nike Cross Nationals was called Nike Team Nationals. This is the race broadcast replay from 2007.

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From 2007 DyeStat recap:

Manlius NY 83 repeats, Madeline Morgan AL 18:54.5
8 - 9 - 10 - 19 - 37 adds up to record 88-point margin

Returning to their winning formula after a brief hiatus, the Manlius girls (runners from Fayetteville-Manlius high school) won their second straight NTN title. With only one athlete graduating,the budding dynasty is starting to draw comparisons to New York rival Saratoga's great 2004 NTN championship team, which had four Foot Locker finalists. race story


Controlled Aggression: Manlius Returns to the Style That Got Them Here

by SteveU

Speaking about race strategy the night before the big meet, a Wayzata MN runner was asked if his team was going to again try their run-even-pace-and-come-from-WAY-back style here against the big boys. “Yep,” he said, “Coach said you’ve got to dance with the girl that brought ya.”

That elicited a laugh and – unfortunately for Wayzata – not a top finish. But the principle inherent in that twisted little adage was made manifest for the winning club in the Girls Championship race. Last week at the NY NTN Regional, the favored US#1 Stotans from Manlius XC Club (Fayetteville-Manlius HS) and their coach did a little experimenting. They eschewed their typical aggressive start, and tried laying back and moving later in the race. They won, but it just wasn’t their style.

Fast-forward to a week later in the blustery, snow-speckled Portland Meadows. As the runners in the Girls Championship race hit the 1K mark, the controlled aggression was back for Manlius and the top 20 was filled with the green-and-red uniforms of the defending champs. When the score was announced at that first split, with the Stotans’ 58 points leading by about 100, you could feel anyone else’s hopes of winning being leeched right out of them and straight into the mud.

“All season long, our style has been to go out assertively, and make it a strength race,” said Coach Bill Aris of the club’s campaign as the F-M team. Last year the more conservative starting-style worked for that team, but trying with this year’s edition didn’t produce as good of a result. “They were actually kind of numb when they finished that race. Today, we went back to our original formula.”

The drama that remained was how much would Manlius win by and who would take second. The answers to those questions were “a record 88 points” and “Newhall (Saugus) CA.” Manlius would lose a little ground late, but still score 83. That was accomplished beginning with an 8-9-10 finish by freshman Courtney Chapman (19:23), sophomore Hannah Luber (19:25), and sophomore Mackenzie Carter (19:30). Soph Molly Malone (18th, 19:47) and junior Kathyrn Buchan (37th, 20:15) followed to complete the scoring, while junior Kristen Buchan (48th, 20:30) and senior Jocelyn Richards (49th, also 20:30) filled the six and seven spots.

It was, of course, also the second straight win by Manlius and the fourth straight by a New York club, which started with the wins by Kinetic (Saratoga HS) and Hilton (Hilton HS).


Manlius started its rout with 8th Courtney Chapman (right) and 9th Hannah Luber (left). Kaylin Mahoney (middle)
gave runner-up Newhall CA (Saugus) a brief lead by finishing 7th to go with teammate Katherine Dunn's 5th.


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