Team USA-ers Go Home to Iowa, USA 7 Mile

Six members of Team USA Minnesota are scheduled to compete at Saturday's USA 7 Mile Championships, held in conjunction with the Bix 7 road race.

Jason Lehmkuhle, Josh Moen, Antonio Vega, Kristen Nicolini Lehmkuhle, Michelle Lilienthal, and Meghan Armstrong will all compete in the Davenport, Iowa event.

For four of those athletes, the trip to the Tall Corn State will be a homecoming of sorts.

Lehmkuhle attended Drake University in Des Moines, Moen is originally from Readlyn, Iowa and attended Wartburg College in Waverly, Lilienthal is originally from Iowa City, and Meghan Armstrong is a graduate of the University of Iowa.

At the race, the Team USA Minnesota crew can expect strong competition. In the men's race, 2004 Olympic marathon silver medalist Meb Keflezighi headlines the field along with fellow Olympian Anthony Famiglietti, Olympian and former Twin Cities Marathon champion Dan Browne, and 2008 USA Half Marathon Champion James Carney.

In the women's field, U.S. Olympic marathoner Magdalena Lewy Boulet leads a field that includes 2009 USA 25K champion Sally Meyerhoff, 2008 USA 20K champion Jill Steffens, and Ilsa Paulson, the top U.S. woman at the recent Peachtree Road Race.

Gabrielson, Brown Staying Home ... Team USA Minnesotans Matt Gabrielson and Emily Brown will stay in the North Star State for their racing this weekend. Both are entered in the Boston Scientific Heart of the Summer 10K, to be held at Lake Nokomis on Saturday.

Brown will face former Twin Cities Marathon champion Nicole Aish in the race, as well as Casey Owens, Jenna Boren, Amy Lyons, and Melissa Gacek.

Heart of the Summer 10K course women's record-holder Katie McGregor of Team USA Minnesota will compete in the London Grand Prix 5000 meters on Saturday, as we reported, HERE, previously.