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