WALTON, Ky. -- A northern Kentucky cross country team makes one final run to honor their late coach. Tuesday, December 27, 2011. (via WLWT.com)

Oakton girls and South Lakes boys look to rock the house on Tuesday in Landover!

This is your source for the best athletes in DC, Maryland, and Virginia high school sports. (via The Washington Post)

This is your source for the best athletes in DC, Maryland, and Virginia high school sports. (via The Washington Post)

Many people don't realize all of the cool features we've got on MileSplit. So I want to start to highlight some of them. One of those is compare athletes, which we recently made much easier to pull up right from the rankings page.

  TRANSITION GAME | High school athletes can learn a lot from Tim Tebow and his compassionate leadership style. (via Washington Post)

Cheserek held off a late charge by Zeinasellassie after a back and forth battle nearly the whole way.  Seidel was able to make a break with 300 to go after Finn led the race for close to 2.5 miles.  Great races all around from all the athletes!  (Photo by Don Rich)

The girls race at Foot Locker Nationals is a little more wide open than the boys race, but there are still a handful of girls at the top who will be difficult to beat.  The top 3 returners from last year have all had great seasons and have proven they can race well under the pressure at Balboa Park. 

Bib chips, such as the one shown here, have a lot of advantages. But do those advantages outweigh their liabilities?

Athletes competing in the Nike Cross Nationals Championship were given the royal treatment at Nike headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Most athletes flew in Wednesday night or Thursday morning, and have since been ushered into a life centered around cross country. The athletes were first picked up at the airport by their own private Nike van. They were taken to the Nike Campus, home of numerous professional athletes sponsored by Nike. The lavish campus pays tribute to past Nike running greats such as Michael Johnson and Steve Prefontaine.

The Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) brings together the best teams in the country and pits them against each other on the most unique course available.  Portland Meadows will once again play host to the championship battle and the manufactured course that traverses the interior of a horse racing track will have all the traditional features of European style cross country racing; including plenty of mud.

Twenty-two of the nations' top teams and forty-five of the best individuals will make the trek to Portland, Oregon for Nike Cross Nationals. The teams are comprised of two winners from nine different regions and four “At-Large” berths, decided on by a team of Nike consultants.