EDINBURGH, Scotland – Three Stanford alums and one incoming freshman will run for the United States at the Simplyhealth Great Edinburgh XCountry races on Saturday.
Chris Derrick '12 and Garrett Heath '08 will be in the men's 8-kilometer (4.97-mile) race. Rebecca Mehra '16 competes in the 4x1K mixed senior relay. And Clayton Mendez, who enters Stanford next fall, races in the junior men's 6K (3.73 miles).
Heath has had the most success in this meet. He won the men's 4K (2.48 miles) in 2014 and 2015, and held off Mo Farah to win the 8K in 2016.
Derrick is a three-time U.S. cross-country champion from 2013-15 and was a 14-time All-America at Stanford. Derrick is the greatest cross-country runner in Stanford history, finishing among the top 10 at the NCAA Championships all four years.
Mehra was sixth at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 1,500 and her personal best of 4:11.97 is No. 4 on Stanford's all-time performers' list.
Mendez, of Chicago's Whitney Young High, was ninth at the Foot Locker National High School Cross Country Championships on December 9 in San Diego and was the fifth finisher from the senior class.
The Great Edinburgh meet pits the best of Team Great Britain and Northern Ireland against Europe and the USA.
The junior races begin at 4:15 a.m. PT, with the relay at 5:23 a.m. and the main senior races at 5:55 a.m. PT.
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