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IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS USATF MEDIA KIT Team USA roster - IAAF World Cross Country Championships Name USATF Association Team Samuel Chelanga Colorado Senior Men Trevor Dunbar Colorado Senior Men Scott Fauble Arizona Senior Men Stanley Kebenei Colorado Senior Men Shadrack Kipchirchir Oregon Senior Men Leonard Korir Colorado Senior Men Elaina Balouris New England Senior Women Stephanie Bruce Arizona Senior Women Sarah Pagano New England Senior Women Emily Pritt Oregon Senior Women Natosha Rogers New England Senior Women Aliphine Tuliamuk New Mexico Senior Women Paul Chelimo Colorado Mixed Relay Eleanor Fulton Oregon Mixed Relay Marisa Howard Snake River Mixed Relay Cory Leslie Potomac Valley Mixed Relay Team USA roster - IAAF World Cross Country Championships Name USATF Association Team Hamza Ali Minnesota U20 Men Alec Haines Ozark U20 Men Isaac Harding Michigan U20 Men Gavin Parpart Pacific Northwest U20 Men Aidan Reed Utah U20 Men Paul Roberts Colorado U20 Men Madison Fruchey Indiana U20 Women Kristen Garcia Pacific Northwest U20 Women Michelle Magnani Southern California U20 Women Logan Morris South Carolina U20 Women Megan Murray Tennessee U20 Women Aubrey Roberts Illinois U20 Women StafF Ed Eyestone Utah Senior Men’s Coach Dena Evans Pacific Senior Women’s Coach Steve Plasencia Minnesota Junior Men’s Coach Melody Fairchild Colorado Junior Women’s Coach Michael Stevens Indiana ATC/LMT Jack Ransone Nebraska ATC/LMT Team USA has podium in their sights at Kampala 2017 KAMPALA, Uganda -- Team USA rolled into Kampala with hopes of bringing back to the United States a team medal of any color at this coming Sunday’s IAAF World Cross Country Championships at the Kololo Independence Grounds. A return to the podium by either the senior men’s team or the women’s senior squad would mark the first time since the men did it at the 2013 championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland when the team earned a silver medal, and the first since 2011 for the women’s squad in Punta Umbria, Spain. Adding to the intrigue is the first mixed relay featuring teams of two men and two women who will run a two-kilometer loop, in any order. The runners will pass a wristband that serves as the baton through the 20-meter exchange zone. Team USA’s mixed relay team is led by Paul Chelimo, the reigning Olympic 5000 meter silver medalist from Rio, who recently won the USATF indoor two-mile title in Albuquerque in a time of 8:28.53. He will be joined by Ohio State grad Cory Leslie, best known as an 8:19.12 steeplechaser, along with University of Washington alum Eleanor Fulton, who was seventh in the 1000 meters at the USATF indoor championships, and Marisa Howard, who was an NCAA scorer in the steeplechase in 2015 at Boise State. Reigning USATF Cross Country champion Leonard Korir enters these world championships with an undefeated record so far this year. Korir started 2017 off with a victory at the Great Edinburgh X-Country race, defeating Great Britain’s Callum Hawkins in a thrilling finish, running the 8K course in 24:03. He then won the USATF title in Bend, Oregon last month by running the 10k course in 30:12. The 2016 Olympian at 10000 meters will be joined on the team by second place finisher Stanley Kebenei; Korir’s 2016 Olympic 10000m teammate Shadrack Kipchirchir; former NCAA cross country champion Sam Chelanga; University of Oregon alum Trevor Dunbar, who has world cross country championship experience as an Under-20 athlete; and University of Portland grad Scott Fauble. Multi-time USATF champion Aliphine Tuliamuk leads Team USA into Kampala, after her victorious romp over the snowy River’s Edge Golf Course in Bend, where she clocked 34:24 to win by 48 seconds. Joining Tuliamuk are fifth place finisher Sarah Pagano, formerly out of Syracuse University; Pagano’s Boston AA teammate Elaina Balouris, who returns to the world cross country championships after finishing 64th in this meet two years ago in Guiyang; seventh place finisher Stephanie Bruce; ninth place finisher Emily Pritt, who ran in this meet in Amman, Jordan as an under-20 athlete; and, Texas A&M alum Natasha Rogers. Paul Roberts from Division II Colorado State University/Pueblo returns to the national team after winning the men’s Under-20 title by four seconds over Isaac Harding, a freshman at the University of Michigan. Roberts is the only athlete on the Under-20 squad with world cross country championship experience, as he placed 59th two years ago in Guiyang. Also on this all-college freshman team are third place finisher Hamza Ali from the University of Minnesota; fourth place finisher Gavin Parpart from the University of Washington; fifth place finisher Aidan Reed from Southern Utah University; and seventh placer Alec Haines from Oklahoma State University. The Under-20 women’s team is led by Oklahoma State freshman Michelle Magnani, who earned a hard fought five-second victory in Bend over Northwestern freshman Aubrey Roberts. Fourth-place finisher Logan Morris from Clemson; fifth-place finisher Megan Murray from Tennessee; sixth-place finisher Kristen Garcia, the lone high school athlete from Sedro Wooley, Washington; and, seventh-placer Madison Fruchey from Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, round out the Team USA squad. The coaching staff for Team USA is: Ed Eyestone (senior men’s coach); Dena Evans (senior women’s coach); Steve Placencia (Under-20 men’s coach); and Melody Fairchild (Under- 20 women’s coach). At the last world cross country championships two years ago in Guiyang, China, the senior women finished fifth, while the senior men were seventh. Team USA’s Under-20 men were sixth, and the Under-20 women were eighth. The IAAF World Cross Country Championships will be aired on a delayed basis on Universal HD online from 11:30am to 12:30pm, and broadcast from 9pm to 10pm, also on Universal HD. Follow along with #USATF on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook using #Kampala2017. Contributed by Paul Merca, Team USA press officer at Kampala 2017 Samuel Chelanga Team: Senior Men Current Residence: Colorado Springs, Colorado University: Liberty University Stats: Personal Bests Season's Bests Event Result Venue Date Event Result Venue Date 1500m 3:46.72 Eugene 05.05.2012 10 km 28:19 San Juan 26.02.2017 Mile 4:02.90 Falmouth 16.08.2014 Road Mile ind. 4:03.84 Blacksburg 21.01.2011 15 km 43:28 Jacksonville 11.03.2017 Road 3000m 7:45.21 Boston 08.02.2014 ind. 5000m 13:09.67 Eugene 02.06.2012 5000m 13:04.35 Boston 16.01.2014 ind. 10,000m 27:08.39 Palo Alto 01.05.2010 5 km 13:43 Boston 15.04.2012 Road 4 Miles 18:24 Eugene 29.07.2016 Road 8 km 22:45 Kingsport 12.07.2014 Road 10 km 28:11 Boston 22.06.2014 Road 12 km 34:35 Alexandria 15.11.2015 Road 15 km 43:28 Jacksonville 11.03.2017 Road 10 Miles 46:47 St. Paul 04.10.2015 Road 20 km 59:16 New Haven 05.09.2016 Road Half 1:01:04 Boston 13.10.2013 Marathon Trevor Dunbar Team: Senior Men Current Residence: Boulder, Colorado University: University of Oregon Stats: Personal Bests Season's Bests Event Result Venue Date Event Result Venue Date 800m 1:53.09 Eugene 19.03.2011 15 km 45:11 Jacksonville 11.03.2017 Road 1500m 3:38.38 Victoria 05.07.2013 1500m 3:40.77 Portland 22.01.2016 ind. Mile 3:57.19 Cork 08.07.2014 College Mile ind. 4:06.75 28.01.2012 Station 3000m 7:45.09 Dublin 11.07.2014 3000m 7:43.33 Portland 05.02.2016 ind. 2 Miles 8:49.79 Greensboro 19.06.2009 5000m 13:26.90 Eugene 13.06.2014 10,000m 28:30.13 Palo Alto 03.04.2015 Mile 4:03.0h Pittsburgh 01.08.2014 Road 5 km 14:01 Providence 21.09.2014 Road 12 km 34:49 Alexandria 15.11.2015 Road 15 km 45:11 Jacksonville 11.03.2017 Road DMR 9:43.11 Philadelphia 27.04.2012 DMR College 9:36.88 27.01.2012 ind. Station 4xMile 16:22.40 Philadelphia 28.04.2012 Scott Fauble Team: Senior Men Current Residence: Flagstaff, Arizona University: University of Portland Stats: Personal Bests Season's Bests Event Result Venue Date Event Result Venue Date 1500m 3:45.94 Salem 12.05.2012 Half 1:03:40 Houston 15.01.2017 Marathon Mile ind. 4:17.60 Portland 06.02.2011 3000m 8:05.62 Portland 17.05.2015 5000m 14:00.35 Palo Alto 06.04.2012 10,000m 28:00.43 Palo Alto 01.04.2016 5 km Road 14:21 New York 05.11.2016 4 Miles 18:39 Eugene 29.07.2016 Road 10 km 29:55 Boulder 30.05.2016 Road 15 km 46:22 Lake Nona 22.11.2015 Road Half 1:03:06 Columbus 30.04.2016 Marathon Stanley Kebenei Team: Senior Men Current Residence: Colorado Springs, Colorado University: University of Arkansas Stats: Personal Bests Season's Bests Event Result Venue Date Event Result Venue Date 800m 15 km 1:53.67 Cedar Falls 18.02.2011 43:29 Jacksonville 11.03.2017 ind. Road 1000m 2:26.47 Fayetteville 10.01.2014 ind. 1500m 3:42.88 Waverly 02.04.2011 Mile 4:05.79 Berkeley 23.04.2016 Mile ind. 4:04.37 New York 02.02.2013 3000m 8:42.07 Eugene 10.06.2015 3000m 7:58.58 Fayetteville 23.02.2013 ind.