2001 USA Winter Cross Country Championships
	Vancouver, Washington - February 17th, 2001
		Junior Women - 6,000 Meters

Race Conditions:
Sunny, breezy and chilly, 40 degrees (chill factor of 25 degrees farenheit).
Thick grass with spots of soft mud.

Race in Review:
A group of 23 started this race into strong headwinds. The 1st of three two-kilometer
loops was covered in 14:24 by a lead group of 5:Victoria Chang, Emily Blakeslee,
Alicia Craig, Laura Zeigle and Alisha Williams. At the end of the second loop around
the corner, covered in 14:21, the lead group was reduced to three: Chang, Craig,
and Zeigle. Through the thick grassy region midway in the third circuit, this group
began to separate, with Zeigle steadily pulling away over Chang to win the race.

Results:
 PLACE	ATHLETE NAME              	                  TIME        
 =====	=======================	=====================	========
     1	Laura Zeigle		ASC Striders		21:18.4
     2	Victoria Chang		Stanford University	21:30.3
     3	Alicia Craig		Unattached		21:46.6
     4	Alisha Williams		Western Slope Runners	21:54.6
     5	Emily Blakeslee		Unattached		21:55.5
     6	Michel de la Vina	Unattached		22:23.5
     7	Felicia Gliford		Wings of America	22:41.6
     8	Shawn Kelley		Unattached		22:43.8
     9	Lisa Cappello		Unattached		22:44.0
    10	Nora Colligan		Unattached		22:56.5
    11	Molly Landreth		Unattached		22:57.6
    12	Amandal Archuleta	Unattached		23:00.2
    13	Erin Lewis		Wings of America	23:39.0
    14	Jessica Baldwin		Unattached		23:44.6
    15	Dawn Morgan		Unattached		23:44.6

Notes 'N' Quotes:
Laura Ziegle, winner - junior at Bingham HS in South Jordan, UT.  
She has personal bests of 4:54 in the mile, and 10:35 for 2 miles.  She 
finished third in the 2000 Foot Locker finals, and 12th in 1999 as s 
sophomore.  This is Ziegle's first national team.

"I just felt good throughout the race…I thank God for the strength to help me 
through the race."  On her current training mileage, "I'm running about 40-45 
miles per week.  My coach hands me the workouts and I just go and do it."  

Quotes:
Victoria Chang, freshman at Stanford, 2nd Place
"The conditions were great and I thought the course was firm and held up 
well. We were worried about it maybe being too muddy, but it dried up well. I 
could only feel the wind at the end of the 2K loops, otherwise it wasn't a 
factor. Laura ran great, and had just a little more. She looked great and 
made her move strongly so I had to let her go when she surged with about 800 
to go. I was more concerned with qualifying for the World Junior
Championships - my coach told me before the race all I needed was top six."

**Taken from USATF Media Release.