INDIANAPOLIS — More than 20 of America’s high cross nation athletes will don the pink, white and blue uniforms on the World Track and Field Cross Country Championships on March 30 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Last yr’s World Championships in Bathurst, Australia noticed the American crew take to the paths for the primary time since 2019, however this yr’s crew put collectively a stable effort in tough circumstances Down Under. We will intention to enhance additional.
Team USATF took fourth place within the 2023 medal desk due to the bronze medals received by the U20 Boys and U20 Girls. This is the primary crew medal win for the U20 women and the primary since 1982 for the U20 boys. In the senior crew competitors, the U.S. girls positioned fifth, the boys positioned sixth, they usually positioned fourth within the combined relay.
Friendship Park on the Danube River in Belgrade, web site of the 2013 European Cross Country Championships, will host 5 races on the schedule: senior males’s and senior girls’s 10K, males’s 8K beneath 20, and beneath. The crew will collect from -20 girls’s 6K and 8K combined relay.
Ellie Shea, whose tenth place end at Bathurst was the very best putting by an American U20 woman since 1991, returns together with bronze medal teammates Zariel Macchia and Allie Zeeland. Macchia received this yr’s USATF U20 cross nation title by lower than a second over Geelan. Cole Matheson is the one returnee from the boys’s U20 bronze medal crew. Matheson positioned second behind Kevin Sanchez on the USATF U20 Cross Country Championships.
The senior crew is led by Weini Kelati, who was the dominant girls’s winner on the USATF Championship with a margin of over 35 seconds, and Anthony Rotich, who was runner-up within the males’s race. Kelati was twenty first at Bathurst final yr and Rotich was forty fifth within the males’s race. As of 2023, Emmanuel Bol is ranked thirty first, making him the very best ranked male returnee.
Directory of senior girls
Name Residence Association Wayne Kelati, Arizona Flagstaff, Arizona Emma Grace Hurley Indianapolis, Indiana Katie Camarena Longmont, Colorado Oregon Allie Ostrander Seattle, Washington Pacific Northwest Kaylee Logue Erie, Kansas Missouri Valley Abbey Nichols Flagstaff, Arizona
U20 feminine participant roster
Name Housing Association Zariel Macchia Shirley, New York Long Island Allie Zeeland Forest, Virginia Jolena Quarzo Brownsville, Pennsylvania Three Rivers Mary Bonner Dalton, North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina Maddie Gardiner Charlottesville, Virginia Ellie Shea, Virginia Belmont, Massachusetts New England
Senior males’s roster
Name Resident Association Anthony Rotich Colorado Springs, Colorado Colorado Ahmed Muhumed Aloha, Arizona Emmanuel Bol Sierra Vista, Arizona Colorado Christian Allen Orem, Utah Reid Buchanan Kansas City, Missouri New England Anthony Cameli, Ohio state brecksville
U20 boys roster
Name Resident Association Kevin Sanchez Austin, Texas South Texas Cole Mattison Indianapolis, Indiana Noah Blaker Plymouth, Minnesota Hawaii Aidan Jones Minneapolis, Minnesota Birhanu Harriman, Virginia Arlington Potomac Valley Berkeley Nance Richmond, Virginia
Mixed relay roster
Name Resident Association Ella Donogoo Portland, Oregon Katie Izzo San Diego, California San Diego Imperial John Leniwicki Baltimore, Maryland Potomac Valley Casey Nevelbird Carruthers, Central California
Staff listing
Name Position Kathy Butler Senior Women’s Coach Rick Rothman Senior Men’s Coach Rita Gary U20 Women’s Coach Paul Greer U20 Men’s Coach Jack Ranson Head ATC Trinity Paris PT/ATC
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