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January 10, 2008
Makaretz named state's top runner

Yarmouth's Anna Makaretz has been named the state's Gatorade Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year, and is part of the inaugural Gatorade State Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year class.

Makaretz is a finalist for the Gatorade National Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year award, which will be announced later this month. Makaretz was the Class B champion and was named to the Maine Sunday Telegram's All-State girls cross country team.

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Athletes from Maine will compete in the 39th annual Dartmouth Relays, which begin Friday at Dartmouth's Leverone Field House in Hanover, N.H., including Brunswick's Kristin Slotnick (girls 300) and David Slovenski (boys pole vault), Greely's Becky O'Brien (girls shot put) and Liza LePage (girls mile) and Messalonskee's Jesse Labreck (girls 55 hurdles, girls triple jump, girls long jump).

Wednesday in Gorham, Labreck won the girls triple jump (36-8), long jump (16-5.5) and high jump (5-2) at the USM Jump Meet.

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Rachel is in her fourth year as a sports reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A Maryland native and a former college soccer and softball player, she covered high school and college sports at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado before joining the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram staff in June of 2004.

She grew up watching the NHL, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Georgetown basketball and the Baltimore Orioles and is a confessed sports nut. Her interests include reading and movies, going to the gym, Motown and '70s R&B music and following the New York City tabloids.

Married in July, she and her husband Tommy are avid Steelers and Kansas Jayhawks fans. Their toughest decision as newlyweds has been "NESN or ESPN?"



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