(Nyajock Pan of South Portland saved her best race of the season for the Class A State meet, where she clocked the fastest time for a freshman girl in the State of Maine for 2009, 20:17. Pan placed 14th in the meet and qualified for the New England Championships)

Check out the top ranked freshman girls from the 2009 XC season. There are some very talented athletes who will be the future of Maine running in the coming years. Click headline to view Top 50.

(Silas Eastman of Fryeburg Academy was the top freshman xc runner in the State of Maine 2009. Silas ran 16:21 at Twin Brook to place 2nd in the Class B State meet)

Check out the top ranked freshman boys from the 2009 XC season. There are some very talented athletes who will be the future of Maine running in the coming years. Click headline to view Top 50.

Check out the Maine athletes who will be running at the Footlocker Northeast Regional or Nike XC Northeast Regional

As of 11/17

Maine Girls Footlocker Entries

Abbey Leonardi (Kennebunk)

Abby Mace (Maranacook)

Emily Durgin (Cheverus)

Kathleen McMahon (Brunswick)

Kirstin Sandreuter (Greely) 8^{th grader}

Maine Boys Footlocker Entries 

Will Geoghegan (Brunswick)

Liam Cassidy (Brunswick)

Kelton Cullenberg (Mt. Blue)

Henry Gaudion (Gould Academy)

Chris Miller (Blair Academy)

Logan Price (Greely)

Stefan Sandreuter (Greely)

Max Payson (Phillips Exeter Academy-Falmouth)

Maine Boys Nike Entries

Luke Fontaine (Cony)

Nate Hathaway (Scarborough)

Zach Brown (Scarborough)

Follow our Fall Bloggers Melody Lam (Mt. Blue) & Sam Seekins (Erskine) as they compete in their senior seasons. Check back to read their weekly entries. Click headline to see all blog entries for the fall.

New entry posted on 11/15 by Melody Lam

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New entry posted on 11/15 by Sam Seekins

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Check out the MaineTrackXC.com exclusive history of the Boys New England XC Championships

Maine Boys Team History 

Maine Boys All-New Individuals 1999-Present

Boys New England Championship team winners

Boys Top 10 Individuals 2002-2009

Boys Top 10 Individuals 1970-1999

Boys Top 10 Individuals 1935-1969

With the defending champion Abbey Leonardi (Kennebunk, ME) opting not to compete in the 75^th annual New England XC Championships, the race for the title was wide open. Last year’s runner-up Emily Durgin (Cheverus), was looking to win the title that eluded her by just two seconds as a freshman. The skies opened up as the girl’s race was just about to get started, the rain was pouring down, not what you call great XC weather. Click headline to read more...

Girls Race Video

John Raneri (New Fairfield, CT) used his home course advantage, to pull away from the rest of the field at the half way point. “I’ve run this course 8 or 9 times, I know the spots where to make a move.”- Raneri would say postrace.  To read more click headline...

Boys Race Video

Emily Durgin (Cheverus) wins New England title 18:35

Top 5's Will Geoghegan (Brunswick) 3^rd 16:13 – Nate Hathaway (Scarborough) 5^th  16:19

All New England

Abby Mace (Maranacook) places 10^th 19:07 – Fiona Hendry (Cheverus) 13^th 19:16 & Emily Attwood (Cape Elizabeth) 23rd 19:46 earn All-New England honors

Kelton Cullenberg (Mt. Blue) 10^th 16:35 – Darik Frye (Hampden) 18^th 16:44 – Jason Kaake (Morse) 20^th 16:46

Teams

Cheverus Girls place 5^th (Top performance for a Maine team ever) – Cape Elizabeth 12th

Greely Boys finish 9^th to lead Maine teams – Scarborough 12^th – Cheverus 13th

Click headline to view photos of Maine Athletes

More highlights to come to later including photos and recaps

Full Results | Photos

Girls Individual winner: Emily Durgin (Cheverus, ME) 18:35

Girls Team winner: LaSalle Academy, RI

Boys Individual winner: John Raneri (New Fairfield, CT) 15:57

Boys Team winner:  Bishop Hendricken, RI

(Waynflete freshman Martha Veroneau won the Class C girls state title, leading her team to the state title)

As the day grew older and the sun started to set, the temperatures started to drop, but that didn’t prevent a great team race from happening. With only 5 scoring teams at the starting line, as Greenville didn’t make the trip to Twin Brook as they had a state championship soccer game the same day, the eventual winner wouldn’t be known until long after the last athlete crossed the finish line. Click on headline to read more..

(Abbey Leonardi (Kennbunk)  pictured  left and Nate Hathaway (Scarborough) pictured right were named SMAA runners of the year)

2009 SMAA Conference All-Star team have been announced

Girls All-Stars

Boys All-Stars

Where: Wickham Park, Manchester, CT

Race schedule: Girls 11:30am  Boys 12:30pm

Course Map (Click to view)

Additional Meet Info

State Meet results

Boys ME | Girls ME |Boys NH | Girls NH | Boys CT | Girls CT | Boys VT | Girls VT | Boys RI | Girls RI

Welcome to a new a feature of MaineTrackXC.com, as we have teamed with Finer Points LLC to bring our audience a monthly training article. Each month we will have an article that deals with one aspect of training. This month's topic is Interva trainin vs steady state training.

To read the article click the headline..

(Alex Moser ran to his 2nd straight Class B Boys title, outdistancing the rest of the field with his 16:14)

As with the girls race, the boys race saw the defending individual champion Alex Moser (York) trying to repeat and the Greely Rangers trying to 3-peat for the team title. If last week’s Western Maine regional was any indication Moser was going to have his hands full in trying to repeat, and Greely the heavy favorite, had to run without #4 Sam Humphries who was out with an illness. Click headline to read more..

(Abby Mace won her 2nd consecutive Class B girls state title, running 18:48)

With the Class A races in the books it was time for the Class B girls to showcase their talents. Heading into the race the individual champ from 2008, Abby Mace (Maranacook) was looking to repeat while the Cape Elizabeth girls team were shooting for a 3-peat. Click on headline to read more...