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NEWS ARCHIVE Items on the home page of tnrunning.com are removed and archived here when they areone monthold, allowing the home page to load faster. News items are archived by calendar 01.07 | 02.07 | 03.07 | 04.07 | 05.07 | 06.07 | 07.07 | 08.07 | 09.07 08.31.07: VASQUEZ, ZIMMERMAN WINNERS AT CHEROKEE CLASSIC: In what was the first real benchmark for many East Tennessee high school harriers, Dobyns Bennett senior Josh Vasquez and Webb School sophomore Amber Zimmerman were the overall winners at the Cherokee Classic Cross-Country Meet in Knoxville. Vasquez, 4th at last years's State meet, clocked 15:53 to beat Knoxville West's Matt Sonnenfeldt by four seconds, as Science Hill won the team title with a 63-point tally. In the girls' race, Zimmerman the reigning Division II state champ, won in 19:01, fifteen seconds clear of Farragut's Alex Newby in second, as Dobyns-Bennett scooped the team award. Notable absentees included Oak Ridge's boys' and girls' teams and also Science Hill's girls. [results] 08.31.07: JORGENSEN IMPRESSIVE IN SEASON OPENER FOR VANDY: Vanderbilt freshman, Rita Jorgensen, showed that she is going to have an immediate impact on the Lady Commodores' cross-country campaign this year. The Memphis runners, who won four state titles at the State track meet for White Station High in May, clocked 14:28 over the 4K course at the Belmont-Vanderbilt Opener in Nashville. Jorgensen placed 4th and first for the 'Dores, with Nashville's Lauren Weaver (nee Williams) leading Belmont's squad in 8th place, 18 seconds back. The race was won by Tennessee's Sarah Bowman in 14:01, as UT won the team title with 53 points, eight points ahead of Vanderbilt in 2nd. Belmont placed 3rd with 73 points. Although they didn't supply the race winner, Belmont dominated the men's 5-kilometer race, held a half-hour later. The Bruins, led by senior, Jacob Buckman, placed all of their 5 scorers in the top 10, racking up just 23 points., some 61 pointsclear of Eastern Illinois in 2nd. Gabriel Rodriguez won the race in 15:01, while the first Tennessean home was Belmont assistant coach, Daniel Matena in 15:43, one second ahead of fellow BU grad Ryan Snellen. [results: women | men] 08.31.07: CLEMENT BOWS OUT IN 1500 SEMI-FINALS IN OSAKA: Knoxville's Treniere Clement was eliminated in the women's 1500m semi-finals at the WorldChampionships. The 25-year-old Georgetown grad could only manage a 9th place finish in the speedy second semi-final of the women's 1500. Clement (right) clocked 4:08.32, as Ukrainian Iryna Lischynska won in 08.29.07: CLEMENT SAFELY THROUGH 1500 PRELIM HEATS IN OSAKA: Knoxville's Treniere Clement (right) ran well in the last of three 1st round heats of the women's 1500m at the 11th World Championships in Osaka, Japan. In a race that was sluggish for the first 800 meters, the 25-year-old used her sub-2 minute 800 speed to good effect and qualified automativally for Friday's semi-finals with a 2nd place finish in 4:10.85, just behind heat winner Yelena Soboleva of Russia. "The goal was to make it back, and that's what I did," Clement said. "Coach (J.J. Clark) said that if you run inside, the will be an opening... The opening came late in the race, in the last 300.. I tried to kick as hard as I could in the last 100. I feel really good." [results] 08.26.07: CLARK BOWS OUT IN 800 SEMI-FINALS IN OSAKA: Knoxville's Hazel Clark had a very disappointing run in the first of threesemi-finals of the 08.25.07: CLARK ADVANCES to 800 SEMI-FINALS IN OSAKA: Knoxville's Hazel Clark advanced to the semi-finals of the women's 800m at the 11th World Championships in Osaka, Japan, but only just. The 30-year old, whose form has been inconsistent since late June, failed to nab one of the three automatic qualifying berths in each of the six heats, and had to wait until the last heat to see if she would advance. "I was running wide a lot," she said post-race, and I made some bad moves, but I'm okay. I hope that makes it into the next round."She did, but only by a tenth of a second. Clark clocked 2:00.61, and was the only American to advance. The fastest qualifier was Kenya's Janeth Jepkosgei, who clocked 1:58.95. [results] 08.25.07: STOUFFER 3RD AMERICAN, CLOCKS 59:07 AT CRIM 10-MILER: Sevierville's Tere Stouffer returned to Michigan, where she grew up, to take on a 08.18.07: DALTON, STOUFFER TOPS AT PHIPPS BEND 5K: Peter Dalton and Tere Stouffer were the overall male and female winners at the Phipps Bend 5K in Surgoinsville. Dalton, 24, a former ETSU runner from Ireland, who now serves as assistant coach at nearby Milligan College, clocked 16:10 and was 49 seconds ahead of the next finisher, Jonesborough's Bentley Hankins. Stouffer, 41, a former UT runner who lives in Sevierville and who is a regular TR contributor, clocked a zippy 17:46 to place 4th overall and finish over a minute clear of female runner-up, Molly Allen of Kingsport (18:48). Stouffer is training for the Twin Cities Marathon on October 7th, where she will be shooting for a 2008 Olympic Trials berth. [results] 08.18.07: SCOTTS SWEEP AT ELVIS 5K: Husband and wife team, Jef and Michelle Scott, were never seriously threatened for the overall male and female titles at the Elvis Presley International 5K Run in Memphis, and they left town with a couple of $300 checks for their morning's work. A weaker than usual field for the annual race which commemorates the King's death, and starts and finishes outside the gates of Graceland, offered little in the way of a threat to the former Western Kentucky University runners. Jef, 35, clocked 15:39 to beat runner-up and masters champ, Brian Pope of Oxford,MS, by 45 seconds. Michelle, 37, the women's cross-country coach at her alma mater, clocked 18:42 to beat runner-up, Memphian Lydia Gibson, by fifty seconds. Jeannie Watts, 46, of Slayden,MS, was the first female masters finisher, in a time of 22:19. [results] 08.18.07: BARROW NOTCHES ANOTHER WIN IN MURFREESBORO: Forty-nine year-old Amy Barrow notched her second female overall win in as many weeks at the Fenton Payne and Fred 5K in Murfreesboro. Barrow, who won the Smyrna Parks 5K last week, ran away from her female competitors early on in his 4th annual race held at MTSU. She clocked 19:10 to beat runner-up Kristi Phillips by a 34-second margin. Three minutes earlier, Leonel Avalos, visiting from Mexico, comfortably won the men's overall title, clocking 16:06, twenty-three seconds up on Jacob Carrigan. Dough Murphy, 41, claimed the male masters title, clocking 18:06, good for sixth overall. [results] 08.18.07: KROEGER BEGINS CHASE FOR THIRD TITLE: Independence junior Kathy Kroeger ran away with the past two Class AAA cross country state titles, but she hit a glitch in her plans for title No. 3. She got hurt. Kroeger's health will be the biggest question mark entering the high school cross country season, which officially starts Monday. [more, The Tennesean] 08.18.07: BRENTWOOD RUNNER SETS PACE: Last year, Sean Keveren was forced to prove he was the state's top male cross country runner. 08.18.07: ROSSVIEW HIGH BIYS, HARPETH HALL GIRLS RANKED #! IN THE TENNESSEAN'S PRE-SEASON MIDDLE TN RANKINGS: The Tennessean's Tom Kraeger provides us with a Middle Tennessee prep cross-country primer, listing the top 10 returners and the paper's pre-season team rankings. [more, The Tennesean] 08.18.07: STOUFFER SECOND OVERALL AT VMC 5K : Only Clinton's Eric Vandervort was able to outpace former Lady Vols cross-country stand-out, Tere Stouffer, at the VMC 5K in Knoxville. Vandervort, 40, clocked 16:46 to win, but Stouffer, 41, of Sevierville, clocked 18:08 to finish second overall in the 390-runner field, despite using the race purely as a workout. [results] 08.11.07: HILL & BARROW CRUISE TO SMYRNA PARKS 5K WINS: Thirty-year-old Kevin Hill and 49-year-old Amy Barrow cruised to comfortable overall victories at the Smyrna Parks 5K, held at Sharp Springs Park. Hill won by a whopping 44-second margin, clocking 15:45, as former Belmont assistant coach, Aaron Bishop, visiting from Kentucky, nabbed second in 16:29. Barrow clocked 19:06 to lead the females, while Theresa Peacock, 45, ran well in second, clocking 19:18. Brentwood's Paul Scalisi, 47, clocked 17:22 to lead the male masters home. In the accompanying 1 mile race, added for the first time this year, Bishop came back to win, clocking 4:41 to outkick Chris Kennedy, and Peacock led the ladies home, clocking 5:58. Among the more impressive runs in the mile was that of 66-year-old Margie Stoll, who set a new age 65-69 state record, with her 7:01 run, and Murfreesboro's Theresa Peacock who set a new age 45-49 mark of 5:58. [results: 5K | 1 mile] 08.05.07: INTERVIEW WITH SEAN KEVEREN: National high school cross-country champ, Kathy Kroeger, may have sat this track season out, but Brentwood's Sean Keveren helped keep the national prep spotlight on the Volunteer State by posting some very impressive times. Despite getting off to a somewhat late start this spring due to a hip flexor problem, Keveren went unbeaten by a Tennessean all year, easily won the AAA 1600 and 3200-meter races at the State Meet, and helped Brentwood High to their first boys' team title. And then he really got rolling. A solo 4:11.41 Mile at the Music City Distance Carnival came the following week, and then two weeks later he placed 7th at the Nike Outdoor National meet in Greensboro,NC, clocking 8:55.16 over 2 miles. That makes him the second fastest prep 2-miler in Tennessee history (behind Brentwood Academy's Andrew Bumbalough), and, of greater note, the fastest returning 2-miler in the nation. [more] 08.04.07: HALL, GAUTIER WINNERS AT MISSIONARY RIDGE RACE FILLED WITH SADNESS: Locals, Patrick Hall, 22, and Jan Gautier, 42, were the overall winners at the Missionary Ridge 4.7-mile race in Chattanooga, clocking 25:16 and 30:42 respectively. "It was like running in soup," Hall, who won the Fall Creek Thaw 15k earlier this year, said of the race day heat and humidity. The humidity caused former UTC stand-out and early leader, Rodney Stoker, to drop out of the race midway through. "I left Tim [Ensign] and caught Stoker about halfway through, then when Tim caught him he dropped. Too bad - he seems to be in pretty good shape." Ensign placed second overall and first master, clocking 26:03. However, the event was marred by the loss of 19-year-old John Bruner of nearby Dalton,GA, who collapsed and died during the race, in which his parents, John and Margie, were also competing. [results | article on Bruner, the chattanoogan.com] 08.04.07: HORTON, PAUL WINNERS AT GOODLETTSVILLE 4-MILER : Knoxville's Alan Horton and Bonita Paul of Bowling Green,KY took overall honors at On the women's side, Paul, 25, a former Western Kentucky University star who hails from South Africa, was never seriously threatened, and cruised around the challenging course in 22:57, a new course record. Michelle Scott, 38, matched her husband's feat and finished 2nd female in 24:16. First male and female masters finishers were Springfield's Keith Woodall and Nashville's Amy Barrow, 49, with times of 23:17 and 25:18 respectively. [results | photos] 08.03.07: BARBER RETAINS NATIONAL 60-64 STEEPLE CHAMP IN MAINE: Loudon's Bob Barber crushed the field with an impressive 7:39.78 clocking in the M60-64 2000m Steeplechase at the U.S. Masters Championships in Orono, ME. The 61-year-old former UT stand-out won the event by thirteen seconds, and was just two seconds off the U.S record he set at last year's national championshipis in Charlotte. [results] 08.03.07: CLEMENT RUNS OUT OF GAS AT CRYSTAL PALACE: Knoxville's Treniere Clement toed the line in the women's 800m at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in London, England, with the fastest 2007 time in the field. But after taking the lead at 400m(58.8) and leading through 600m (1:29.5), Clement ran out of gas and faded badly in the home stretch, finishing 6th in 2:01.50, as Lucia Klocova of Slovakia won in 1:59.91. [results]
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4:08.32. "I was prepared to go out at any pace - slow or fast," she said after the race. "I lost focus with about two laps to go when I clipped a girl and I was trying to regain my balance." Fellow American Erin Donohoe also finished 9th in her semi-final, meaning that there will be no U.S representative in the final on Sunday. [
loaded field at the prestigious Crim 10-miler in Flint. The 41-year-old (right), who won 4 state titles at Royal Oak Shrine High School in Detroit before attending UT on a scholarship in the late 80s, placed 3rd among Americans and was first master home, clocking an impressive 59:07 despite the hot and humid conditions and a power cucross the entire city on the eve and morning of the race. "I was satisfied with my run. I would have like to have broken 59:00 and being first Amarican, but I'm happy. The night before, with no AC was, uncomfortable but everyone was in the same boat." Stouffer collected $1300 for her Crim effort, and now has five weeks until the Twin Cites Marathon in Minneapolis-St Paul, where she hopes to earn an Olympic Trials Marathon qualifier. [results] 
the 10th annual Goodlettsville Classic 4-miler. Horton, a 2008 Olympic Trials marathon qualifier who was in town to attend a cycling race in which his girlfriend was competing, hung back early on, content to sit behind a lead pack of five runners, but the 27-year-old accountant moved up through the field in the second half of the race to win in 20:27, three seconds ahead of Bowling Green's Jef Scott. "I was pleased with my run," Horton told TR. "I ran conservatively for the first two miles, since I wasn't sure who everyone was, but I through in a surge at 2.5 miles. Jef was tough and almost got me at the end." 
