Kayla was 11th at regionals last week; she needed to be in the top 10 to qualify for nationals. She did run a PR of 17:22. (I ran a 5k faster than that only once, a 17:13 on the track as a college freshman.)
http://m.journalnow.com/sports/high_school/other/article_f6bb5eac-5bbb-11e3-843e-0019bb30f31a.html?mode=jqm