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Derrick, Conley highlight Team USA for World Cross Country Championships - USA Track and Field

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Derrick, Conley highlight Team USA for World Cross Country Championships

2/21/2013
 
INDIANAPOLIS - Following his first USA Cross Country title in early February in St. Louis, Chris Derrick will lead the men’s team and Olympian Kim Conley, runner-up in St. Louis, will lead the women’s squad into the World Cross Country Championships scheduled for March 24 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
 
Men’s and women’s teams for both junior and senior races will travel to Poland for the 40th World Cross Country Championships. More information on the event can be found here.
 
Derrick bested one of the deepest fields the USA Cross Country Championships had seen, which included 2012 Olympian and two-mile American record holder Matt Tegenkamp, who will also be a member of Team USA in Poland.
 
A 2012 Olympian in the 5,000m, Conley placed second at the USA Cross Country Championships ahead of two-time World Cross Country silver medalist Deena Kastor, who will also be a part of another international team. The 40-year-old Kastor is an eight-time USA Cross Country champion and the 2004 Olympic marathon bronze medalist.
 
Fresh off USA Cross Country junior titles, Oklahoma State’s Craig Nowak and Emily Stites will lead the men’s and women’s junior teams in Poland.
 
Team USA men’s senior roster: Chris Derrick (Portland, Ore.), Matt Tegenkamp (Portland, Ore.), Elliot Heath (Portland, Ore.), Ben True (Hanover, N.H.), Ryan Vail (Portland, Ore.), Bobby Mack (Raleigh, N.C.).
 
Team USA women’s senior roster: Kim Conley (Sacramento, Calif.), Deena Kastor (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Emily Infeld (Portland, Ore.), Neely Spence (Lake Orion, Mich.), Delilah Dicrescenzo (New York, N.Y.), Mattie Suver (Colorado Springs, Colo.).
 
Team USA men’s junior roster: Craig Nowak (Stillwater, Okla.), Malachy Schrobilgen (Oak Park, Ill.), Matt McClintock (West Lafayette, Ind.), Darren Fahy (Washington, D.C.), Thomas Graham (Stanford, Calif.), Andrew Gardner (Spokane, Wash.).
 
Team USA women’s junior roster: Emily Stites (Williamsburg, Va.), Erin Finn (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Carrie Verdon (Boulder, Colo.), Kathryn Knight (Spokane, Wash.), Samantha Nadel (Washington, D.C.), Sydney Scott (Morgantown, W.V.).
 
Team USA coaching staff includes: Pat Ley (senior women’s coach), Robert Gary (senior men’s coach), Magdalena Boulet (junior women’s coach), Darren De Reuck (junior men’s coach).
 
Team USA women placed third overall at the 2011 World Cross Country Championships and the men’s senior team placed 10th.

 

Jared Slinde
Communications Manager
USA Track & Field
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2 comment(s)
Kevin
Those are SOLID teams! I'm PUMPED!!!
Chris Nickinson
Count me as surprised that Teg is running at worlds.
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