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Robert Cheseret, of Colorado Springs, has been named to Team USA, which will travel to Scotland for the second Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country - International Challenge on Jan. 7.
Teams from the United States, Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a select European team will compete in men’s and women’s junior and senior races, according to a press statement from USA Track & Field.
Each country competing in the International Team Challenge will consist of nine athletes per team (six on the junior teams) with the first six athletes per team scoring. In cross country, the team with the lowest overall score wins.
Bobby Mack (Raleigh, N.C.) is the sole returning athlete on Team USA. He finished sixth last year.
Mack will be joined by:
Team captain Bobby Curtis (Ardmore, Pa.) who ran the second fastest 10,000m time by an American in 2011 with his 27:24.67 effort at the Stanford Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational.
Recent USATF National Club Cross Country Champion Jon Grey of (Minnetonka, Minn.)
Araon Braun (Flagstaff, Ariz.) who finished runner-up at USATF National Club Cross Country
Phil Reid (San Louis Obispo, Calif.)
Colby Lowe (Southlake, Texas),
Justin Tyner (Highlands Ranch, Colo.)
Landon Peacock (Blowing Rock, N.C.)
Robert Cheseret (Colorado Springs, Colo.).
Neely Spence (Shippensburg, Pa.) will lead the senior women’s team after finishing as the runner-up at the recent USATF Club Cross Country Championships.
Also on the team:
Alisha Williams (Colorado Springs, Colo.) who finished 4th at USATF Club Cross Country Championships
Sarah Porter (Blowing Rock, N.C.) the 2011 NCAA D-II 10,000m champion
Katie DiCamillo (Providence, R.I.)
Bethany Nickless (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Jamie Cheever (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Laura Thweatt (Boulder, Colo.)
Maggie Infeld (Washington, D.C.)
Betzy Jimenez (Austin, Texas).
The junior squads include a mix of outstanding high school seniors and collegiate freshman.
On the junior women’s side:
Aisling Cuffe (Cornwall on Hudson, N.Y.) a freshman at Stanford who was the top junior finisher for Team USA at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Kaitlin Flattman (Benton, La.) was recently named the SEC freshman cross country runner of the year, University of Arkansas
Jessica Jackson (Neosho, Mo.) from the University of Arkansas
Molly Seidel (Hartland, Wisc.), top finisher at the recent Foot Locker Cross Country Championships
Erin Finn (West Bloomfield, Mich.) runner up at Foot Locker Cross Country Championships
Katie Knight (Spokane, Wash.), third-place finisher at Nike Cross Country Nationals
On the junior men’s side:
Eddie Owens (Brooklyn, N.Y.), a Princeton freshman who leads the team after winning silver in the Junior Pan-American steeplechase in July
Michael Bradjic (Bay Village, Ohio), Ohio State freshman
Kirubel Erassa (Grayson, Ga.)., Oklahoma State freshman
Thomas Curtain (Leesburg, Va.) of Virginia Tech
Nathan Weitz (Spokane, Wash), 3rd at the Foot Locker Championships
Andrew Gardner (Spokane, Wash) 6th at the Foot Locker Championships
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