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| Ana Wallace |
Wallace opened her senior year at Tallahassee, Florida's Chiles High by winning six races during the regular season, including the class 3A high school girls’ state championship. Since the girls’ state championship was first established in 1974, only six other Leon County athletes have won a girls’ title--Rosemary Desloge (1979) of Leon, Jessica Scafidi (1988, 1989, 1990) of Leon, Kathi Ward (1991, 1992) of Lincoln, Carly Thomas (2009) of Chiles, Rachel Givens (2012) of Chiles, and Alyson Churchill (2016) of Lincoln. Wallace’s win led the Chiles girls to the team title--the fifth by a Chiles girls’ team in the school’s history.
Wallace’s cross-country season didn’t end with the State Championship. Two weeks later she raced at the Foot Locker South Regional at McAlpine Creek Greenway Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. Running 17:28, Wallace qualified for the 39th annual Foot Locker National Cross-Country Championships at Balboa Park in San Diego, California. In qualifying, Wallace joins an elite group of Tallahassee girls who were Foot Locker finalists before her--Leon's Jessica Scafidi (1990), Lincoln's Kathi Ward (1991, 1992), and Chiles’ Lily Williams (2011).
A 4.0-GPA student at Chiles High, Wallace is the eighth different athlete named Gatorade Florida Girls Cross-Country Runner of the Year since the award was instituted in 2007.
| Gatorade Florida Girls Cross-Country Runners of the Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Athlete | School |
| 2007-2008 | Ashley Brasovan | Wellington |
| 2008-2009 | Ashley Brasovan | Wellington |
| 2009-2010 | Kathryn Fluehr | Naples Community |
| 2010-2011 | Kathryn Fluehr | Naples Community |
| 2011-2012 | Olivia Ortiz | Lakewood Ranch |
| 2012-2013 | Bridget Blake | Doctor Phillips |
| 2013-2014 | Emily Edwards | Fort Myers |
| 2014-2015 | Rafaella Gibbons | Winter Park |
| 2015-2016 | Bailey Hertenstein | Riverview |
| 2016-2017 | Bailey Hertenstein | Riverview |
| 2017-2018 | Ana Wallace | Chiles |
Links
- “Chiles High School Student-Athlete Named Gatorade Florida Girls Cross-Country Runner of the Year”
https://app.box.com/s/klrp3o9427tuwxhypbabx4uhmbvp65jj
- “Ana Wallace and Michael Phillips were Florida's finest finishers at Foot Locker”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/12/foot-locker-nationals-2017.html
- “Wallace and Newland lead the Chiles charge at the Red Hills Cross-Country Invitational”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/10/red-hills-xc-2017.html
- “Phillips, Wallace, and Chiles win everything at the Big Bend Invitational”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/09/big-bend-xc-2017.html
- Build your runner-of-the-year resume at races on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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