California and Foot Locker Northeast Winners Earn Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards

Track and field fans voiced their choices in this week's DyeStat's Performance of the Week poll, while DyeStat's editors made their own selection.

Readers’ Choice: Riley Chamberlain

With 41.3 percent of the vote, Riley Chamberlain won our Readers’ Choice vote, beating Sydney Masciarelli with her second-place tally of 31.77 percent.

Riley Chamberlain of Del Oro CA became the first freshman girl since Sarah Baxter in 2010 to run the fastest time of all five divisions at the California State Meet. She is the third female to earn that distinction. Jordan Hasay was the first in 2005.

Chamberlain's time of 17:18.6 in winning the Division 3 race bettered Tori Gaitan's 17:19.4 from the Division 1 race. Chamberlain won her race by 18 seconds to become the first freshman to win the Division 3 title since 2000.

California runners always have to choose between NXN and Foot Locker West. Chamberlain will compete Saturday in Portland at NXN, looking to become the first California freshman since 2007, when the meet was still Nike Team Nationals, to earn All-America honors.

Editors’ Choice: Sydney Masciarelli

Sydney Masciarelli, only a sophomore at Marianapolis Prep CT, won Saturday's Foot Locker Northeast Regional in the fourth-fastest time run at the event in Van Cortlandt Park in New York City.

She ran 17:12, still more than 20 seconds off the 34-year-old meet record, but she was only four seconds behind the third-fastest time ever at the Foot Locker Northeast Regional. She won by five seconds.

Hailing from Northbridge, Mass. and attending a small prep school in Connecticut has limited Masciarelli's national presence. However, that will change now that she has qualified for her first Foot Locker Championships, scheduled for Dec. 8 in San Diego. She also received an at-large invitation to compete at Nike Cross Nationals, but declined the opportunity.

Note: A previous version of this story had Masciarelli's time as the third-fastest time ever at Foot Locker Northeast.