The junior from Brea Olinda High School captured the course record at the 67th annual Mt. SAC Cross Country Invitational by just barely dipping under the previous record of 14:24 set by Diego Mercado in 2005 and tied by Ammar Moussa in 2010. Austin Tamagno’s 14:23 performance easily won the boy’s sweepstakes race as runner-up Phillip Rocha of Arcadia followed in 14:31. Watch Tamagno recap the performance post-record: 

Other FloRunner nominees:

Lincoln's pick: Mitch Goose
The former Iona star returned to XC and delivered a victory in the BAA Mayor’s Cup. Goose won the 8k race in 23:46, beating 2nd place finisher Bobby Mack by four seconds. The best part though? Goose was rockin’ a jersey with a hand drawn logo of an atom, representing his aptly named group, The Manhattan Project.

Gordon's pick: Mark Kiptoo
Mark Kiptoo is my FloRunner of the Week after he ran 2:06 at the Frankfurt Marathon. Kiptoo did this feat at the age of 38! Which is very impressive and also leads me to this question...What is a 'Frankfurt'?


Meg's pick: Fiona O'Keeffe
Fiona O'Keefe won the team sweepstakes race at Mt. SAC by running 16:28. She is now a member of a very small club of sub 16:30 members (Jordan Hasay and Sarah Baxter, anyone?) in Walnut. She also got revenge on Great Oak's Destiny Collins, who had been undefeated all season.

Joe’s pick: Samuel Kosgei 
Spurred on from support from wounded warriors lining the route, the U.S. Army specialist won the men’s division of the 39th Marine Corps Marathon in 2:22:11. The 30-year-old medic hopes to gain entry into the Army World Class Athlete Program to train for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

James' pick: Arne Gabius
Gruß! Arne Gabius is my FloRunner of the week because he ran a 2:09.32 debut marathon this weekend, becoming the first sub 2:10 German to do so since 1990! So since I’ve been alive, no German has ever run that fast. I think that’s pretty cool considering I’ve seen multiple world records set in the mile, 5k, 10k, marathon, etc.