FOOT LOCKER MIDWEST REGIONAL
Kenosha, WI, November 30, 2002

ALL PHOTOS BY CHRIS FOX

Colorado's Katelyn Kaltenbach warms up.
Katelyn's sister Megan - a Foot Locker finalist in 2000 and 2001 - warms up.
Megan and Katelyn hug last year's Midwest winner, Erika Odlaug, who is now a freshman at Colorado.
Megan and Katelyn look relaxed before the race.
Nikki Bohnsack of Michigan, a Foot Locker finalist in 2001, warms up. Bohnsack had her work cut out for her after being injured for much of the year.
The start of the race.
Megan Kaltenbach at the start.
Amber Smith, Nikki Bohnsack and Megan Kaltenbach lead.
L-R: Smith, Bohnsack, M. Kaltenbach, Michelle Sikes, Staci Honeyman
and Sunni Olding.
Megan Kaltenbach won her first-ever Midwest Regional title, finishing in 18:09.
Kaltenbach qualified for her third-straight Foot Locker National finals.
Amber Smith of Michigan qualified for the second-straight year.
Smith finished one second behind Kaltenbach in 18:10.
After qualifying for Nationals in 2000 but not 2001, Michelle Sikes (3rd, 18:17) will make a return trip in 2002.
Katie Harrington of Carmel, IN qualified for her first Foot Locker National meet, finishing fourth in 18:18.
Katelyn Kaltenbach (5th, 18:23) will join her older sister Megan at Nationals.
Sunni Olding (6th, 18:30) will make her first trip to Nationals, Nikki Bohnsack (7th, 18:31) will make her second.
Staci Honeyman of Reeder, ND (8th, 18:31) will make her first trip to Nationals.
Megan (left) and Katelyn Kaltenbach.
Megan Kaltenbach will attend UNC next year. (She's holding a bear which was a gift from Erika Odlaug.)
Amber Smith.
Michelle Sikes, one of only two seniors who qualified. She's headed to Wake Forest next year.
Amber Smith and Michelle Sikes.
Angela Bizzari won the freshman-sophomore race in 18:28, a time which would have finished 6th in the seeded race.
Runners must compete in the seeded race, however, to qualify for nationals. Bizzari is a freshman from Cincinnati, OH.
Top L-R: Harrington, Sikes, Smith and M. Kaltenbach. Bottom L-R: K. Kaltenbach, Honeyman, Bohnsack and Olding.
Megan Kaltenbach with boys' winner Chris Solinsky.
K. Kaltenbach with Solinsky and M. Kaltenbach.
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