{"id":19706,"date":"2013-12-02T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19706"},"modified":"2013-12-02T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:43:59","slug":"uhs-girls-cross-country-heads-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19706","title":{"rendered":"UHS girls cross country heads to nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indians will go to Portland to seek National Championship<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Unionville’s Courtney Smith breaks the tape to win the individual championship at the Nike NXN Cross Northeast Championships, Saturday. Smith and her teammates also won the team championship and will head to Portland to compete for the national title, Saturday.<\/p><\/div>\n

The top-ranked Unionville High School girls cross country team proved itself best in the state two weeks ago, and then outran teams from the entire northeast, winning the Nike Cross Nationals at Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Now, they’ll be heading to Portland to compete for the title of top cross country team in the entire nation, Saturday.<\/p>\n

Led by senior Courtney Smith \u2014 the overall winner of last Saturday’s race, which featured the top runners and teams from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island \u2014 the top ranked Indians won the overall team title. And while Smith’s win was impressive, Unionville placed five runners in the top 60 \u2014 out of 231 \u2014 including Olivia Young taking home fifth place, Kacie Breeding ninth place, Gretchen Mills 20th and Emily Fisher 60th \u2014 showing why many observers think Unionville is the top team in the nation.<\/p>\n

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The Unionville High School girls cross country team and coaches enjoy their northeast title \u2014 and now will go to Portland to attempt to win the national girls cross country title.<\/p><\/div>\n

Smith and her teammates \u2014 ranked by a number of top running publications and Web sites as the No. 1 team in the nation \u2014 will race for the national championship, starting just after 1 p.m. The race will be broadcast via Web, and you can sign up via Facebook here<\/a> to watch the live stream. The stream can also be viewed on nikecrossnationals.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The race will be run on the Portland Meadows Course \u2014 on the infield of the horse racing track there \u2014 which features a 3,000-seat grandstand for spectators.<\/p>\n

The Nike Cross Nationals is made up of eight regional qualifying meets and the national finals in Portland. Following in the tradition of European cross country meets, the nationals event will again feature a multiple loop race course with man-made obstacles built on the inside of the horse race track at Portland Meadows in Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indians will go to Portland to seek National Championship The top-ranked Unionville High School girls cross country team proved itself best in the state two weeks ago, and then outran teams from the entire northeast, winning the Nike Cross Nationals at Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Now, they’ll be heading to Portland to compete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[2479,60,4581,7427],"class_list":["post-19706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-courtney-smith","tag-cross-country","tag-nike-cross-nationals","tag-unionville-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}