A few people have emailed me about how amazing it is that we had two girls, from our little area, place in the High School National Championship. Those being junior Julie Nacouzi of Montgomery 25th and senior Jacque Taylor of Casa Grande 40th. And it is amazing yet not that uncommon. In fact we have actually had two girls in the top seven twice before. Here is a look at how our girls have done.
1994 Julia Stamps, Santa Rosa 1st, won by 31 seconds.
1997 Sara Bei, Montgomery 10th and Trina Cox, Santa Rosa 24th.
1998 Sara Bei, Montgomery 3rd and Trina Cox, Santa Rosa 6th.
2000 Sara Bei, Montgomery 1st, course record and Amber Trotter, Ukiah 7th.
2001 Amber Trotter, Ukiah 1st, course record, won by 40 seconds.
2007 Sarah Sumpter, Healdsburg 22nd.
2008 Jacque Taylor, Casa Grande 30th.
2009 Julie Nacouzi, Montgomery 25th and Jacque Taylor, Casa Grande 40th.
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Fastest times ever run at Nationals
Year Time Athlete Gr High school City St Course
2001 16:24 Amber Trotter 12 Ukiah Redwood Valley CA Orlando, FL
1990 16:39 Melody Fairchild 12 Boulder Boulder CO San Diego, CA
1981 16:40 Connie Robinson Cincinnati OH Orlando, FL, different course from 2000.
1994 16:41 Julia Stamps 10 Santa Rosa Santa Rosa CA San Diego, CA, 2 seconds off CR.
1985 16:43 Erin Keogh 11 Langley McLean VA San Diego, CA
1983 16:43 Janet Smith 12 Edison NJ San Diego, CA
1984 16:48 Cathy Schiro 12 Dover NH San Diego, CA
2000 16:55 Sara Bei 12 Montgomery Santa Rosa CA Orlando, FL, set CR that Trotter broke.
The three fastest times ever run by girls from the west team were all from Redwood Empire.
Elsie Allen’s Celedonio Rodriguez has gotten our boys represented with his 18th place finish in 1998.
