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2009 - Florida's 10 Year Look-back at the top 5 finishers from Foot Locker South - DyeStatFLPublished by
The "Foot Locker Experience" is still alive as the annual gathering of the nation's best harriers enters its 37th year of existence.
Representatives from the Sunshine State participated in the inaugural Foot Locker competition in 1979, and over the years we've seen many Floridians make the annual trek, initially to Atlanta and then more recently to Charlotte, NC's McAlpine Greenway to compete for a spot in the national limelight and the right to be called a "Foot Locker Finalist".
Over the past 10 years, Floridians have won the Foot Locker South Championship Race once on the boys side (Jimmy Clark/Creekside/2010), and once on the girls side (Kathryn Fluehr/CSN/2010). 2010 was a good year !
We look back at the last 10 years to see how the top 5 Florida finishers in the Elite Seeded races fared after the racing was finished.
2009
Success was evident at Foot Locker South in 2009 as we sent a total of 5 runners to Foot Locker Nationals. The Brasovan era of top 2 finishes was not in the too far distant and the hope was more All-American finishes would be in the offering at Nationals.
CSN's Fluehr Twins were seen as the top runners in the State for the girls along with Winter Park's Shelby Hayes making the cut for the trip to San Diego.
We were in the middle of a great upswing in depth for Florida Boys distance running. 3 in the top 10 for the "Dirty South", as they became known, was a huge testament to the State's depth and rising national prominence. Although he didn't quite make the cut in 2009, this was a launching pad for the likes of Creekside's Jimmy Clark who would return in 2010.
After opting for NXN in 2009, Brian Atkinson becoming Florida's first 2 time National qualifier in both Foot Locker and NXN (Elliot Clemente joined in 2010 and Nick Diaz joined the Club in 2014).
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