GRANITE STATE FLASH
The Granite State Flash is a
Manchester, New Hampshire
based USATF Junior Olympic
Cross Country program.
The team practices in
Manchester, N.H. from late
October to early December competing in the New England,Regional and National Championship competitions.
While the focus of the program
is cross country races,
Flash runners also compete
in various competitions throughout
the year including area road
races and the USATF
Junior Olympic Track & Field competition.
There are no tryouts and
runners born in the years
1992 through 1997 are
eligible to participate.
The focus of the Flash program
is running as a life long pursuit,
team competition,
sportsmanship,and
increasing personal fitness levels.
The program has grown over
the years to include runners
from throughout New Hampshire.
In 2001 the Flash began with
just two youth level teams
and twenty one runners. By
2003, the program had grown
to more than seventy runners
from Manchester and 16
surroundingcommunities participating on one of six
Flash teams. Two of those
teams qualified for the
National Championships
in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In 2004 all six Flash
teams qualified and competed
at the Nationals held just
outside of Chicago, Illinois.
Three of those teams finished
in the top 10 in the U.S.
Most recently in 2005, seven
Flash teams qualified for
the National Championships held
in Providence Rhode Island, with
six of those teams earning top
10 finishes including two
teams winning
National Championship Titles and
another capturing a bronze.
Nine runners in 2005 earned
All-American honors
(top 25 individually in U.S.).
More importantly, Flash
runners have continued to run
and excel at the high-school
level and beyond.
Over the past three years
more than 20 former Flash
runners have finished in the top
25 of their respective high
school cross country
class championships with
two winning state high school
cross country titles and
fourteen later named to the
State Cross Country All Star
Team by the New Hampshire
Cross Country Coaches
Association.
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Flash News
1/28/07
2007 Banquet Videos
Part 1: Video Part 1
Part 2: Video Part 2
12/31/07
Millennium
Mile Results
Photos
Overall we had nearly100 Flash runners, parents, siblings, grandparents and Flash Alumni in attendance at the millennium mile. It was nice to have one final chance to run together in 2007.
Joe St. Pierre set an all time record today for Flash Youth Boys with his 15th overall place finish in a time of 4:28 and Kelsey Smith set a girls all time record running 4:51 the 5th women overall and 1st in her age group.
Flash Alumni Alex Hall now a sophomore at Dartmouth was the 6th overall with a time of 4:14.
Chris Pietrocarlo and Kristin Johnson both placed in their age groups
Mike Duchane was our fastest Flash parent
he clocked a time of 4:53.
The age group winners for the Flash were future Flash Runner Seth Facey who won the 6 year old age group
Chloe Conway the 9 year old winner Brennan Morris and Natalie Howes the 10 year old winner
Ben Platt the 11 year old winner Scott Johnson and Laurel Gagnon the 12 year old winners.
Coach Jan and Coach Cathy both placed in their age groups too!!
Congratulations to all who ran!!
Congratulations To All Our Families!
National Championship Results
Gwenyth Winship All-American 2nd overall in Bantam Girls
Bantam Boys 5th
Midget Girls 10th
Midget Boys 9th
Youth Girls 8th
Kelsey Smith All-American 15th (3rd Consecutive)
Youth Boys
3rd and 11th
Jack Collopy All-American 13th (3rd Consecutive)
More Details and Photos coming!
Link to USATF Photos
The Peck's Pictures
The Vinnenberg's Pictures
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6 Flash Teams
qualify for the National Championships
to be held
in Lawrence Kansas
on December 8, 2007
Bantam Girls
5th place
Gwenyth Winship
Individual
Silver Medalist
Bantam Boys
1st Place
Midget Girls
2nd Place
Midget Boys
1st Place
Scott Johnson
Individual
Bronze Medalist
Youth Girls
1st Place
Kelsey Smith
Individual
Silver Medalist
Youth Boys
1st and 2nd place
Jack Collopy
Region I Gold Medalist
Individual Results
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7 Flash Teams
Qualify for the Region I Championships
In Long Island, NY
Bantam Girls
3rd
Bantam Boys
1st
Eli Moskowitz
Individual
New England
Champion
Midget Girls
1st
Midget Boys
1st
Youth Girls
1st
Youth Boys
1st and 3rd
Jack Collopy
Individual
New England
Champion
Complete Results
Fall 2007 Practice Schedule
Ironrunner
Coach Jan Platt received her USATF Ironrunner jacket following the Cape Cod Marathon. There were 80 runners, of which less than 20 were women, throughout the USATF-NE membership that received the jacket, which is earned by running all 7 USATF Grand Prix events. This was her first marathon, and she qualified for the Boston Marathon with over 19 minutes to spare.
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Sunday December 30, 2007
Londonderry,
NH
Parents, Coaches, Athletes
Alumni Flash Runners in the Team Category
please put
Granite State Flash
We will have a group picture taken at this race
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National Championship
Results
Congratulations
to all of our runners and their families:
Bantam Girls
9th
Bantam Boys
5th
Midget Girls
12th
Midget Boys
National Champions
3 All- Americans
Jack Collopy 7th
JR Winn 19th
Jonathan Vinnenberg
24th
Youth Girls
9th
Kelsey Smith
All- American
13th
Youth Boys
13th
Elise Luers
75th
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Region I Results
6 Flash Teams
and 1 Individual
Qualify for the National Championships
in Spokane
Bantam Girls
3rd Place
Bantam Boys
2nd Place
Midget Girls
2nd Place
Midget Boys
1st Place
JR. Winn
Region I Champion
Youth Girls
2nd Place
Kelsey Smith
Region I
2nd Place
Youth Boys
2nd Place
Elise Luers
Intermediate Girls
11th
New England
Championship Results
Congratulations
Bantam Girls
3rd Place
Bantam Boys
2nd Place
Midget Girls
1st Place
Midget Boys
1st Place
New England Champion
Jr. Winn
New England Runner up
Jack Collopy
Youth Girls
1st place
New England Champion
Kelsey Smith
Youth Boys
2nd Place
Elise Luers
Intermediate Girls
New England Champion
Nick Muller
Intermediate Boys
Congratulations to all our Flash Runners for
running so well
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PICTURES
from Flash Summer
Track Program
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Congratulations to all
of our Flash runners
and families
(past and present) who
participated in the 7th Annual
Millennium Mile in Londonderry on December 31, 2005! We had 86 runners & walkers compete this year with Julianne Donohue setting a new course record for 7
year olds (7:18),
Ben Platt
setting a new record
for 9 year old boys (5:52),
Jake Kittredge
setting a new record for 10 year old boys
(5:32) and
Jack Collopy
tying the 11 year old record in 5:18. Other winners included Matthew Robinson (age 8) and
Alexandra Conway (age 12).
Mark McCue
retained the title of
fastest Flash parent with a 5:08 closely
followed by
Jim Velino Sr. in 5:14. Sam Wood was the overall fastest Flash alumnus (Sam is now a freshman Quinnipiac University) running 4:21 and finishing 24th
overall out of a field of nearly 700. Here is a link to our
Flash Results
as well as the overall results
Cool Running Results There are also many great pictures of our runners here
Great Photos!
More Photos
Millennium Mile
12/11/05
FLASH RUNNERS
WIN TWO
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
CAPTURE ONE
BRONZE
NINE
ALL-AMERICANS CROWNED
Congratulations to all of the families and runners
in the
Granite State Flash program.
At the National Junior Olympic Championships held December 10 at Bryant University in Smithfield Rhode Island two teams captured National Championships and another finished third.
Nine of our runners
were crowned All-Americans (top 25).
The Bantam Girls team
took 6th overall in the country with
Kaleigh Kennedy
becoming our first ever
All-American finishing 14th.
The Bantam Boys team took 3rd place overall. Jacob Kittredge finished 10th becoming our
first ever boy
All-American.
The Midget Girls and Midget Boys teams
each captured National Championships.
The Midget Girls team took
the National title by defeating Team Idaho based in Boise
and the Landsharks
Running club from
Colorado Springs,
Colorado. Congratulations also goes to our three
newly crowned Midget Girl All-Americans:
Kaitlyn Osborne
(12th place),
Alexandra Conway
(17th place)
and Kelsey Smith (21st).
The Midget Boys team defeated three strong
west coast teams:
San Diego's
Southern California Road Runners, the favored Buffalo Chips
(from Sacramento/
Northern California)
and the Equalizers (from Tustin California,
based just out side of
Los Angeles).
Congratulations
also goes to our three newly crowned
Midget Boy
All-Americans: Michael Robinson (19th), Jack Collopy (21st) and Mitchell McLeod (22nd). Brandon Spera (28th)
and Dillon Guay (29th)
ran strong races and were each less than 3 seconds out of 25th place.
Our Boys B team finished in 14th place in the country just behind an all star team from Medford Oregon and
the Waltowa track club from the Pueblo of\ Jemez which is a federally recognized
tribe located in north-central New Mexico, northwest of Albuquerque.
The Youth Girls team
was outstanding
finishing tied for
7th with the
Alex Van Dyke
Track Club, an All-Star team based out of Sacramento California.
The Youth Boys team finished
7th overall,
the best finish ever for
our Youth Boys team. The team was led by Dylan Fisher, who earned All-American status by finishing 11th overall in
the U.S.
Lastly we had four Intermediate runners participate including
Holly Banaian (27th)
Jacquelyn Dussault (59th), Rebecca Vincent (88th) and Chris Merra (140th)
Complete
National Results
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On Saturday November 19 at the New England Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships at Bryant University we qualified seven teams and five individuals (61 total runners) for the Nationals on December 10 at Bryant University.
Flash teams won three New England team championships (Bantam Boys, Midget Girls and Midget Boys)
We had two 2nd place finishes (Bantam Girls and Youth girls)
and two 3rd place finishes (Youth boys and Midget Boys B team)
We also had our first two individual New England champions with Kaitlyn Osborne winning the Midget Girls division and Mitchell McLeod taking the Midget Boys title
Congratulations to all of our Flash runners for your great effort
Results
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