Kodiak's Levi Thomet ran to All-America honors Saturday at the 36th annual Foot Locker Cross Country Championships in San Diego.
Thomet placed 15th, one spot higher than he finished in last year's national championships.
A three-time state champion, Thomet captured seventh place at last week's West Region championships to qualify for his second consecutive national meet.
The race at Balboa Park featured wet terrain and mild weather -- sunshine and temperatures that peaked at 60 degrees.
Earning national titles were Grant Fisher of Grand Blanc, Michigan, and Anna Rohrer of Mishawaka, Indiana.
Fisher used a late charge to win the boys race in 15 minutes, 3 seconds. Thomet grabbed 15th place in 15:33.
Rohrer took the girls win in 17:13.
The Foot Locker meet is one of two national championships for high school runners. The other was last week's 11th annual Nike Cross Nationals, where Kenai's Allie Ostrander became Alaska's first national champion in the sport. That means both Ostrander and Rohrer can say they are a national champion this year.
Ostrander and Thomet had to pick between the two meets because the Foot Locker's West Region meet was the same day as Nike's national championships.
Kodiak coach Marcus Dunbar, who lamented the schedule overlap that requires runners to choose between two national championships, said Thomet chose to race the Foot Locker events, because he thought the boys competition was stronger there than at Nike.
Thomet joins an elite group of Alaskans who have posted top-15 All-America finishes at the Foot Locker national championships. The others are Kodiak's Trevor Dunbar, the runnerup at the 2008 meet, and West runners Miguel Gomez (1992) and Anne Locke (1980), who both ran to 13th place.