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Nicole
Blood of Saratoga Springs (NY) High School won the Northeast Regional.
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Jenny
Barringer, a senior at Oviedo (FL) High School won the South Regional.
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Barringer
finished third at nationals in 2003.
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Ramsey
Kavan, a senior at Yankton (SD) High School won the Midwest Regional.
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Kavan
also won the inaugural Nike Team Nationals one week earlier.
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Last
year's runner up as a freshman, Marie Lawrence of Reno (NV)...
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...High
School won the West Regional.
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Lawrence
was considered one of this year's favorites.
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Melissa
Dewey (#24), Crystal Reed (#50) and Jenny Barringer (#21) got out
quickly at the start of the race.
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The
course features a downhill start, so it is easy to get sucked into
starting a little too fast.
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Many
of the girls from the West (in green) and South (in blue) started
quickly.
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#46
Kauren Tarver, #30 Miranda Walker, #12 Aislinn Ryan, and #20 Brittany
Sedberry.
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The
course consists of two nearly-identical laps of a figure-eight-like
course.
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L-R:
Ryan, Sedberry, and Lindsey Ferguson.
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The
event is also scored by team, with the top five runners from each
region factoring in.
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Saratoga
Springs High School teammates #11 Nicole Blood...
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....#15
Lindsey Ferguson, and #13 Caitlin Lane.
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#14
is Nichole Lister from New York and to her right, in blue, is Jillian
Skinner.
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Chantelle
Dron, a home-schooled senior from New Hampshire.
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Not
long after the half mile mark, Aislinn Ryan leads three regional
winners (R-L Barringer, Kavan, and Lawrence).
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