Faces In The Crowd

Lisa Banta, BOONTON, N.J.
Goalball
Banta, 23, was the top scorer at the World Goalball Championships in Rio de Janeiro with 16 goals in seven games, leading the U.S. team to the title. Goalball is a soccerlike game for the visually impaired; players wear blindfolds, and the ball has bells inside.

Josh Frerichs, LODGEPOLE, NEB.
Football
Josh, a junior running back at Lodgepole High, set state records for eight-man football by scoring 10 touchdowns and 70 points (including five two-point conversions) in a 75-70 loss to Minitare High. He ran for 395 yards, a school record.

Shalane Flanagan, MARBLEHEAD, MASS.
Cross-Country
Flanagan, a junior at North Carolina, won the Great American Cross Country Festival in Charlotte. She topped a field of 173 competitors with a time of 17:48.1 in the 5K race and led the unranked Tar Heels to a fourth-place finish among 26 teams.

Joan Schriger, ALAMEDA, CALIF.
Swimming
Schriger, 37, won her age group for the fourth time at the 2.4-mile Waikiki Roughwater Swim. This year she also swam for the winning team at the Maui Channel Relay and won the 50-meter backstroke at the Masters World Championships, in New Zealand.

Stewart Whitt, ATHENS, ALA.
Golf
Whitt, 18, set a boys' record for low round in an American Junior Golf Association tournament when he shot a 62 in the final round of the Henry Griffitts Rome Jr. Classic. He hit 10 birdies and eight pars on the par-72 course and finished tied for second.

Gary Montalto, LAGRANGE, N.Y.
Soccer
Montalto, 51, won his 400th game as a coach at Arlington Senior High with a 4-1 win over John Jay. In 24 seasons Montalto is 402-72-33 and has had only one sub-.500 season. He led the Admirals to Class A state titles in 1984 and 1999.

Mary Lauren Smith, ATLANTA
Volleyball
Smith, a junior outside hitter for Missouri, had consecutive 20-kill matches as her Tigers beat then No. 20 Texas and then No. 23 Colorado. She averaged 4.44 kills per game in those matches and is averaging 3.80 for the season.