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XTERRA Releases 2011 Regional Champs List

The XTERRA America Tour’s 70-race regular season that stretched across the continental United States and into Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Saipan came to a close on Sunday, and as such it’s time to recognize the regional champs.

Click here to view the 11x17 PDF listing all 173 athletes that won their region. Winners were invited to race in the XTERRA USA Championship (along with other top age group finishers), and will be honored at the Night of Champions dinner at Union Station on Historic 25th Street in downtown Ogden on Sept. 23.

Toping the list yet again is Steve Cole, a pilot from Olive Branch, Mississippi.  Cole is now in his second decade of dominating his division.  He was the best age group racer in the South Central’s 45-49 division from 2001 to 2005, won the SC 50-54 division from 2006-2010, and is now working on the 55-59 titles.  He’s the only racer in XTERRA history to win all 11 regional championships.

While Cole is the only 11-time regional champ, Beverly Enslow of Metamora, Illinois - the reigning and 5x XTERRA USA and World Champion - is the most prolific female age grouper with 10 regional titles in the Midwest 50-54 division.

Reigning Mr. XTERRA Casey Fannin from Birmingham, Alabama also has 10 titles and is in elite company with Cole and Enslow as the only racers to reach double-digits in regional titles.

Of the 173 champions, nearly half (84) have won multiple crowns. Here's a look at 46 amateur stars who have won at least five XTERRA regional titles through the years:

Eleven: Steve Cole - Olive Branch, MS (South Central 55-59)

Ten: Beverly Enslow - Metamora, IL (Midwest, 50-54)
Casey Fannin - Birmingham, AL (Southeast 50-54)

Nine: Hans Dieben – Chula Vista, CA (West 70+)
Kathy Frank – Santa Cruz, CA (West 60-64)
Cindi Toepel – Littleton, CO (Mountain 60-64)
Kyle Grieser – Marble Falls, TX (South Central 25-29)
Barbara Peterson – Berkeley, CA (West 55-59)
Tom Lyons – Reno, NV (West 45-49)

Eight: Jim James – Ann Arbor, MI (Midwest 45-49)
Mike Carter – Austin, TX (South Central 45-49)
Ken Robins – Cutchogue, NY (Northeast 45-49)
Russell Clark – Scotia, NY (Northeast 60-64)
Linda Usher – Upton, MA (Northeast 60-64)

Seven: GL Brown – Ada, MI (Midwest 65-59)
Marc Hawley – Mount Vernon, IN (Midwest 60-64)
Errol Lassiter – Woodstock, GA (Southeast 70+)
Teodoro Ramos – Berwyn, IL (Midwest 30-34)
Kent Robison – Reno, NV (West 60-64)
Joe Amato –Ellicott City, MD (Atlantic 60-64)

Six: Libby Harrow – Vero Beach, FL (Southeast 60-64)
Brandyn Roark – Silverdale, WA (Northwest 30-34)
Daniel Rose – Fairfield, CT (Northeast 60-64)
Julia Peck – Culpeper, VA (Atlantic 50-54)
Tom Monica – Walnut Creek, CA (West 50-54).
Annette MacNiven – Wainscott, NY (Northeast 50-54)
Karen Robertson – Grapevine, TX (South Central 50-54)
Ian Sullivan – Jericho, VT (Northeast 20-24)

Five: Lucia Colbert – Cordova, TN (Southeast 50-54)
Ellen Sauter – Powell, OH (Midwest 45-49)
Kathleen Coutinho – Fairfax Station, VA (Atlantic 40-44)
John Stover – Jackson, MI (Midwest 70+)
Ron Hill – Hayden, ID (Northwest 70+)
Peter Lilley – Charlotte, NC (Southeast 65-69)
Audie Smith – Knoxville, TN (Southeast 55-59)
Charlotte Mahan – Lenoir City, TN (Southeast 60+)
Lorenn Walker – Wailua, HI (West 55-59)
Kevin Shelden – Breckenridge, CO (Mountain 45-49)
Peter Hanson – Incline Village, NV (West 45-49)
Ross McMahan – Incline Village, NV (West 40-44)
David Cloninger – Bend, OR (Northwest 40-44).
Suzie Snyder – Wallingford, CT (Northeast 25-29)
Wilburn Powell – Mt. Ida, AR (South Central 60-64)
Jeremy Chandler – Knoxville, TN (Northeast 30-34)
Matt Boobar – Plymouth, MA (Northeast 30-34)
Richard Suggs – Nacogdoches, TX (South Central 65-69)