Monday, December 06, 2010

NXN: Wayzata Boys 9th, Eden Prairie Girls 12th

Minnesota teams exceeded expectations at Saturday's Nike Cross Nationals in Portland, Oregon.

MSHSL Class AA boys' champions Wayzata, ranked #15 going into high school cross country's unofficial national championship, placed 9th in the 22-team meet. Edina, runners-up to the Trojans at the NXN Heartland Regional, finished 18th.

Eden Prairie, the Class AA and Heartland Region girls' champions, placed 12th in the competition, after being ranked #19 before the meet.

Individually, Adam Zutz of St. Francis, the Class AA individual champ, led Minnesota runners with a 23rd-place finish in the boys' race.

Jamie Piepenburg of Alexandria, the Class AA girls' runner-up, led Minnesotans with a 36th-place finish. Class AA girls' champ Maria Hauger finished 64th.

Find complete results HERE (boys) and HERE (girls).

A video web-cast replay of the event is HERE.

2 comments:

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  2. Hey,

    Great video interviews and footage from the NXN event http://magicbulletmedia.com/MNR/NikeCrossNationals2010/

    Feel free to post on your blog!!

    Thanks

    ReplyDelete