Foot Locker Northeast Regional 2009

Photo by Don Rich

Photo by Don Rich

The first of the two national high school cross country championship races were held this past weekend in Portland, Oregon with the Nike Cross Nationals. The boys' race certainly featured many of the nation's best battling it out to the wire, while the girls' race was missing the unofficial "Big 3" in Megan Goethals (MI), Chelsey Sveinsson (TX), and Aisling Cuffe (NY) but stellar depth was found in both races as Foot Locker finalists, All-Americans, and state champions were found deep into the field.  

Chris Bendtsen & John Raneri

Sara Sargent: 18:42.2 8th place and first time qualifier as a frosh

David Oster: 16:01.6 3rd place and first time Foot Locker Qualifier

Chelsea Ley: 18:33.1 3rd place and 3-time Footlocker Qualifier

Brad Miles: 15:52.8 Boys Foot Locker Northeast Champion

Aisling Cuffe: 17:45.9 Course Record on her way to her first Northeast Individual Championship

2009 Foot Locker Northeast Boys Seeded Race: Footage from 6 spots on the course

2009 Foot Locker Northeast Girls Seeded Race: Footage from 6 spots on the course

KINGS PARK, New York -- Aisling Cuffe continued her season of domination on Saturday at the Foot Locker Northeast Regional with a performance that surprised even herself. Facing relentless gusts of wind that reached speeds of 50 miles per hour and put Suffolk County on severe weather alert, Cuffe became the first girl in Sunken Meadow Park history to break 18 minutes.

  Photo courtesy John Olson, SCRUNNERS                                                    

  Photo by PFFlyer                  

Take a guided picture tour of Sunken Meadow State Park. Pictures by Karen Ward and Christopher Hunt and narrated by Tim Fulton.

 Foot Locker announced today, that Saucony, Inc., has become the official sponsor for the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships (FLCCC), the nation’s premier high school championships for cross country runners.

For the first time, the Foot Locker Cross Country Northeast Regional will be held someplace other than historic Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, meet director Phil Zodda announced yesterday. The qualifier for the Foot Locker National will still take place on Nov. 28 but instead will be held at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, the site of last year’s New York State Public Schools Championships.