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"A brother-sister combination out of Roseville brought the heat in Maui this past weekend.Neilson and Shayna Powless won first and second place, respectively, at the 2012 XTERRA World Championships in Maui, Hawaii.The XTERRA World Championship is the world's premier off-road triathlon, combining a one-mile swim, a 19-mile mountain bike ride and a six-mile trail run through pineapple fields and forests.Neilson Powless is a sophomore at Roseville High School who became the youngest overall amateur finisher in the 18-year history of the XTERRA competition.Finishing 23rd overall in what was dubbed this year's most competitive field ever assembled, Neilson was competing against 800 athletes around the world, including 70 professional triathletes.At age 15, Neilson was the youngest competitor in all the races he won that \u00A0led to his qualifying for World's, including XTERRA Tahoe City, XTERRA Portland, Ore., XTERRA Incline Village, and finally the XTERRA National Championship in Ogden, Utah.Neilson's older sister, Shayna Powless, is a recent graduate of Roseville High who now attends UCLA and rides for Team BMC.Shayna was recently selected to represent the USA Olympic Development Team for the 2013 upcoming season as the only under-23 female rider.Finishing second in her 15-19 age group, Shayna was unsure if she would be able to even race in the World Championships this year due to tsunami warnings caused by the earthquake off the coast of Canada.She had to try to sleep on the concrete floor of a market because she was evacuated from her hotel the night before, but even so, Shayna finished the race in 3 hours, 18 minutes and 15 seconds."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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