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West
captain Abdi Abdirahman.
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Tom
Wyatt of Charles Wright High School in Tacoma, Washington.
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Alex
Dunn of California's San Lorenzo Valley High School.
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Dunn,
a senior, used an amazing kick at the West Regional
to grab a qualifying spot for this meet.
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Mark
Matusak, a junior at California's Loyola High School.
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Evan
Garber, a senior at Mead High School in Spokane, Washington.
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Garber
is the Washington 4A State Cross Country Champion...
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...and
continues an excellent tradition at Mead.
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Stuart
Eagon, a senior at Oregon's Beaverton High School.
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Galen
Rupp, a senior at Central Catholic High School in
Portland, Oregon.
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Rupp
has the great fortune of attending a school where
Alberto Salazar is the cross country coach.
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Mohamed
Trafeh, a senior at Duarte High School in California.
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Shadrack
Kiptoo of Kenya has lived in New Mexico for more than
a year. State rules dictated...
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...that
he had to sit out a year before competition on the
high school level. Now that he's...
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...eligible,
he's established himself as one of the top runners
in the country.
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Regional
champions (L-R) Shadrack Kiptoo, Matt Withrow, Brian
Sullivan and Ben True.
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Lopez
Lomong of New York, and originally Sudan, does a stride
before the race.
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Ryan
Deak gets ready to race.
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As
planned, the South team got out quickly at the start.
Though that tactic helped many of them qualify...
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...from
the flatter McAlpine Park course in North Carolina,
it may have ultimately hurt them here, on the hillier
Balboa Park course.
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