by Larry Eder
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More info plus photos from Mike Scott on the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships, held this past Saturday in Charlotte, NC.
Saturday in Charlotte, NC, adidas-McMillanElite became only the second
team in history to capture both the men’s and women’s titles at the US
Club Cross Country Championships.
team was led by Natasha LaBeaud in 8th place and dominated the
competition defeating the 2009 Champions from the Boulder Running
Company (also an adidas-sponsored team) by 34 points. It was the first
women’s team title for the women of adidas-McMillanelite at these
championships.
1-2 finish of Aaron Braun and Nick Arciniaga and like the women, easily
defeated the Hanson-Brooks Distance Project by 30 points. It was the
men’s second team title in three years at these championships.
CHARLOTTE – McMillan Elite
(Flagstaff, Ariz.) captured their second men’s team title and their first
women’s crown as they swept the open team divisions Saturday at the 2010 USATF
National Club Cross Country Championships at McAlpine Greenway Park in
Charlotte, N.C.
The 13th annual USATF
National Club Cross Country Championships featured America’s top
post-collegiate club teams from across the United States vying for top honors
and bragging rights as the nation’s top cross country team. More than 1,100
athletes competed in the event, which featured a 10-kilometer men’s race and a
6-kilometer women’s race. The championships offered a total prize purse of
$30,000, with $25,000 going to the top open teams.
In the women’s team race,
McMillan Elite turned the tables on 2009 champions the Boulder Running
Company/adidas, scoring 69 points to the defending champion’s 109.
2010 USA Indoor 3,000 meter
champion Rene Metivier Baillie of the Running Republic of Boulder took the
overall title in the women’s 6 km, running 19:51.
The men’s 10 km, Aaron
Braun took the overall title in 29:36, to lead McMillan Elite as they placed
three runners in the top-ten, scoring 29 points for a 30 point win over
three-time team titlist Hansons-Brooks Distance Project (Rochester Hills,
Mich.). Braun’s teammates Nick Arciniaga and Scott Smith took second and eighth
in 29:40 and 29:53 respectively.
2010 Women’s National Champs – (l-r) Natasha LaBeaud, Danielle
Domenichelli, Lindsay Allen, Megan Duwell, Emily Harrison, Jaime
Winslow, Stephanie Rothstein, Erin Bedll, Asst. Coach Trina Painter
