Warriors sign former Timberlake High standout runner Lagrimanta

1-3-08

Frank Lagrimanta, a 2007 graduate of Timberlake High School out of Spirit Lake, Idaho has signed a national letter of intent to run for the Lewis-Clark State College men's cross country team next season.

Lagrimanta was highly recruited last year and initially committed to run at Montana State University in Bozeman. However, circumstances changed and he wound up not competing this fall.

"Frank was one of the top kids in the 2007 recruiting class in Idaho," LCSC coach Mike Collins says.  "I had ranked what I thought to be the top 10 runners that year in Idaho and Frank was one of those guys.

"Once I found out he wasn’t running I contacted him to see if he might be interested in LCSC and we hit it off quite well.  I think the smaller school atmosphere, the team environment and a philosophy that takes into account the importance of other things besides running that we have in our program here is going to help Frank flourish into one of the best runners in the region, if not the nation.  I haven’t seen a runner with his type of potential come out of the state of Idaho in 5-10 years and we feel very fortunate that he will be running in Warrior colors this fall."

Lagrimanta, who will enroll at LCSC in the 2008 Fall semester, will be a freshman eligibility-wise in the fall.

He won both the Idaho state Class 3A titles in the 1,600 and 3,200 runs during his junior and senior seasons. He also won the Idaho State 3A Cross Country titles his final two years at Timberlake.

Lagrimanta is the second runner in as many days to sign with the Warrior men’s team. On Wednesday, Collins signed Grant Eldridge, a senior from Clackamas High School in Oregon.