This Week In 2019 XC: Girls 5K Leaders

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FOOT LOCKER WEST REGIONAL GIRLS 5K CHAMPIONSHIP


We enter the final two weeks of the 2019 cross country competition calendar. A year ago this week in 2019 XC, Foot Locker West Regional was held on the hard-surface rain course at Mt. San Antonio College on the same day as the Nike Team Cross Country Nationals on a wet golf course outside of Portland, Oregon. 

CIF Division I champion Carlie Dorostkar was the fastest among Golden State girls in Portland, placing sixth overall. Buchanan senior Corie Smith was 12th overall, and State Division II champion Alexandra Klos, a sophomore at Vista del Lago (SJ), was 28th. But the fastest 5K times on this date were posted by girls on the damp asphalt surface at Mt. SAC. 

Mia Barnett, now a senior at Crescenta Valley (SS), was the fastest that day, winning the FLW Region title in 17:02.40 while leading five other girls from CA onto the FLN West Region team for the Dec. 14 final in San Diego. 

Among those are returners for 2020-21: Sofia Abrego (Granada Hills Charter/LA), Dalia Frias (Mira Costa/SS) and Cate Joaquin (St. Francis/SJ). 

Because of heavy rain the previous day and overnight, organizers were forced to align the rain course at Mt. SAC -- avoiding the famous hills, switchbacks, and, in general, anywhere there was mud -- to accommodate the FLW races. In fact, a mid-event adjustment was necessary to make sure the reconfigured layout met the distance requirements for the Foot Locker National qualifying races. 

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