BOY'S FOOT LOCKER SOUTH PREVIEW

Thet Foot Locker South boy’s seeded race promises to be a scorcher. With half of the South’s National Championship team returning one could imagine that Bumbalough’s course record of 14:32 might be in Jeopardy. Below is a glimpse on what DistancePreps.com expects to happen in tomorrow’s race.

1)   Sean McGorty (12^th) Chantilly – Virginia - Sean has been on fire this season running sub 15 multiple times and winning his races in a dominating fashion. Sean is a former qualifier and the RUN AWAY favorite for tomorrow’s race.  If anyone hopes to beat Sean they’ll have to outlast a 14:43 guy with a title of Foot Locker All- American on his resume. Going into the race we wonder, “Can anyone beat this guy?”

2)   Jacob Thomson  (12^th) Holy Cross – Kentucky – Jacob is another returning national qualifier who hopes to be on fire tomorrow. When Thomson raced McGorty at Great American he lost by less than 1 sec. With PR’s of 14:43 for 5k and 8:58 for 3200, don’t count him out in the race for the top South spot.

3)   Joshua Brickell (12^th) – Peachtree Ridge –Georgia – Josh is the top returning runner in the South this year having run 14:41 for 4^th at last year’s South Region. He also ran faster than any of the returners in San Diego and if we rescored 2011’s national meet without the seniors Josh would place 4^th. He is coming off a win at the Georgia state meet and will be looking to run his best these next 3 weeks.

4)   Robert Domanic (12^th) Lewisville Hebron – Texas – After missing the last round of rankings Domanic has come up swinging. Domanic recently won the Texas X-C State championship in a very fast time of 15:04 running almost 40 seconds faster than he did last year on the same course. Domanic is a former qualifier and it is hard to argue with experience.

5)   Bakri Abushouk (12^th)  Cary – North Carolina – This is Bakri’s first time making the top five and could very well finish in the top 3. Abushouk recently won the NC State meet in a time of 15:13 and followed it up with a 9:04 two mile, beating  Ben Huffman (9:08) by 4 seconds.

Others to Watch:

Andres Arroyo – Florida

Thomas Madden – Virginia

Jack Manesiotis – South Carolina

Colin Godwin – North Carolina

Nick Tuck - Virginia


By: Darrin DeTorres