SAN DIEGO - Linn-Mar sophomore Stephanie Jenks placed ninth out of 40 runners at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships Saturday morning at Balboa Park in San Diego.

Tessa Barrett of Waverly, Pa., won the 5,000-meter race in 17 minutes, 16 seconds. Jenks finished 27 seconds later in 17:43.

Jenks finished second among all the high school sophomores that participated in the event. She was the highest finisher of the contestants from the Midwest Region.