Shaylyn Tuite finishes 7th at Nike race

Staff reports • December 5, 2010

Shaylyn Tuite ended her Section V cross country career in impressive fashion as she finished seventh on Saturday at the Nike Cross Nationals cross country championships in Portland, Or.
Tuite, a senior at Pittsford Mendon, finished the 3.1 mile course in a time of 18:52 to become Section V's all-time top finisher at nationals. Allison Sawyer (Hilton) finished eighth in the 2005 Nike Cross National race.
"I've never had a feeling like this one," Tuite said. "I was aiming for the top 10. I didn't want to have anything left, and I didn't. I was just hanging on the last thousand meters or so."