Help with Action Shots and Crop

[mikedugganphotography]

Need your thoughts on the crop and any suggestions for a better crop will be greatly appreciated. I do plan on printing the image at least as an 8x10.

Original Shot

Cropped Version

EXIF DATA

Nikon D90
Nikon 80-200mm f2.8D
Shutter: 1/4000
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 250
Metering: Spot
White Balance: Sunny
Aperture Priority

Suggestions on cropping would be greatly appreciated as would any other advise.

[Sime]

I think, personally, that I'd bring the right edge even closer to her back foot, I'd take out that distracting other persons foot up the top and maybe even pull in the right edge just a touch... make the focus pull right in on her and not have so much dead space.

Sime

[sybren]

If the girl in the background of the original shot had a more active stance and/or was more connected to the girl in the foreground I might have preferred the original. Since that's not the case, I like the cropped version better.

The crop could probably be improved by cloning out the foot and its shadow from the top. Cropping it off would probably bring the girl's head too close to the edge of the photo.