Gray & Kanuho Set To Compete for Team USA at Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country

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January 04, 2014




Gray & Kanuho Set To Compete for Team USA at Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country


(Colorado Springs, CO) - Joe Gray (Scott Sports) and Rochelle Kanuho (adidas/BRC) will both be competing for Team USA at Saturday's Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country race in Scotland. Gray, who earned his spot by winning the 2013 USA National Club Cross Country Championships in December, will be joined on Team USA by 2013 Bupa champion Bobby Curtis and 2013 IAAF World Cross Country 10-th placer Chris Derrick in competing against Team Europe and Great Britain & Northern Ireland.


Kanuho, who will be competing on her first U.S. national team and in her first international race, was selected based upon her 12th-place finish at the 2013 USA National Club Cross Country Championships. The senior men will be competing over 8,000-meters while the women will race 6,000-meters on a challenging muddy typical European 2k-loop cross country course.


USA Track & Field will provide free online streaming of the races starting at 8:15am Eastern time at Usatf.tv.
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Hillary Bor & Robert Willett Join ADP


(Colorado Springs, CO) - Hillary Bor and Robert Willet are both recent additions to the American Distance Project's roster.


Bor, a former All-American steeplechaser at Iowa State University, is a Kenyan native who recently became a naturalized U.S. citizen through the U.S. Army. Bor, who is stationed at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs, was the 2009 NCAA runner-up in the steeplechase and was 3rd in 2008 and 2010. He holds PB's of 4:03.43 for the Mile, 8:10.77 for 3,000-meters, 14:03.45 for 5,000-meters and 8:32.41 for the 3k steeplechase, the same event in which he posted a time of 8:36.84 as an 18-year-old. Bor hopes to get accepted into the U.S. Army's World Class Athlete Program and is less than a half of a second from that standard in his main event, the steeplechase.


Robert Willett is a 2013 graduate of Birmingham Southern College where he was the 2013 NCAA Division III outdoor track 800-meter champion. Willett, a native of Mobile, Alabama, has a personal best of 1:49.95 for the 800-meters.
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Foster Named Colorado Runner Magazine Runner of the Year


(Colorado Springs, CO) - Christie Foster (adidas/BRC) has been named the 2013 Colorado Runner Magazine's Female Runner of the Year. Foster accumulated 320 points in the magazine's year long series.
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ABOUT AMERICAN DISTANCE PROJECT
The American Distance Project is a non-profit organization whose primary goal is the development of American distance runners to be internationally competitive. The ADP is located on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, taking advantage of incredible training resources in and around Colorado Springs and Woodland Park. The ADP thanks its sponsors and donors including Action Potential Physical Therapy, New York City Road Runners, and USATF Foundation. For more information, visit www.AmericanDistanceProject.com


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