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Kenmore Junior High’s Rose qualifies for national cross country meet

Published 2:31 pm Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Kenmore Junior High's Amber Rose leads the pack at the USATF Region 13 Regionals at Woodland Park in Seattle earlier this month. She qualified for the national meet next weekend in Myrtle Beach
Kenmore Junior High's Amber Rose leads the pack at the USATF Region 13 Regionals at Woodland Park in Seattle earlier this month. She qualified for the national meet next weekend in Myrtle Beach

Kenmore Junior High ninth-grader Amber Rose took third place in the Youth Division (ages 13-14) of the USA Track and Field (USATF) Region 13 Junior Olympics Regionals on Nov. 19 at Lower Woodland Park in Seattle.

She completed the 4,000-meter (about 2.5-mile) course in a time of 15 minutes, 22 seconds, qualifying to compete at the USATF Junior Olympics Nationals on Saturday, Dec. 10 at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Myrtle Beach, S.C.