34th Annual Shawsville 5K

July 4th, 2015

The temperature at race time was about 68 degrees with high humidity. About a half-hour before the start of the race, the sun threatened to come out and heat things up, but by the 0800 start, clouds had moved in again and the race proceeded under overcast skies with a slight breeze. Overall, these were comfortable conditions for running.

Precisely 200 entrants participated in the races, eleven of whom were family teams. This year’s unusual features were the greatly increased number of runners in the youngest boy’s age-group, and in the women’s 40-44 age-group as well.

There were no problems with clocks and scoring this year, with one exception. Apologies to Ignacio Moore, whose first-place age-group time of 17:01 (taking the category by more than four minutes!) was inexplicably recorded in 10th place on the results form and therefore not properly recognized at the awards ceremony. Others in the 40-44 group, however, exercised good sportsmanship to ensure Ignacio received the proper medal, even though he was not called to the stage. Thanks, guys.

Finally, I think it is important to recognize that because of changes in the way that we both recorded and reported times and medals this year, the entire post-race program was fully one hour shorter than it was last year. All trophies and medals had been awarded long before the largest raffle prizes had been drawn, to the benefit of many of those who chose to stay to the end. I encourage all participants to email us (shawsville5k@gmail.com) with your opinion as to whether our race should continue to maintain its low entry fee or switch to a chip-timing system that would require a higher one.

Overall Winners

Special recognition goes to men’s winner, Patrick Woodford, who moved up from second overall in last year’s race by running nearly a full minute faster than he did in 2014. Also, Mina DeMarco took the champion’s trophy for the second year in a row.

Men

Time

Women

Time

1. Patrick Woodford (22)

15:22

1. Mina DeMarco (31)

18:32

2. Matt Howard

16:19

2. Kirsten Beaudry

18:55

3. Trevor Dominy (FF)

16:35

3. Hayley Billingsley

19:26

Women’s Results

(Names in bold also won this age category last year.)

11 & under

1. Danielle Dodson

28:21

4. Aija McHone

40:56

2. Ella Semtner

35:13

5. Tyler Roope

41:01

3. Kelly Semtner

35:57



12 - 15

1. Ailene Edwards

20:39



2. Caitlin Dominy

22:30



3. Annalyse McHone

31:38



16 – 19

1. Katie Fortner

19:54

4. Dimple Mozhi

23:41

2. Megan Broyles

21:50

5. Hayley Hillison

35:13

3. Rachel Altizer

22:57



20 - 24

1. Ruth Trochim

24:50

5. Rose Kohinke

27:55

2. Jessi Fortner

26:09

6. Michaela Johnson

36:38

3. Megan Roland

27:30



4. Briana McCall

27:48



25 - 29

1. Virginia Adams

20:53

4. Hannah Burnette

22:27

2. Hannah Tiffany

21:06

5. Cameron Varano

26:32

3. Allison Rahtes

21:46

6. Krista Pattison

28:54

30 - 34

1. Chelsea Wilson

24:52

5. Lindsay Miller

33:59

2. Cindy Akers

24:55

6. Shannon Patsel

37:14

3. Kate Stewart

25:36



4. Adrienne Smith

32:18



35 - 39

1. Kelley Sutphin

28:08

4. Miranda Lucia

32:06

2. Stephanie Bell

29:21



3. Sarah Milton

30:23



40 - 44

1. Carolyn Thompson

22:26

8. Tamara Harless

29:30

2. Kim Kitts

24:42

9. Maggie Bump

30:49

3. Amy Pruden

24:53

10. Suzanne Charles

32:22

4. Jill Farar

25:19

11. Melinda Edwards

33:46

5. Lisa St. Clair

26:19

12. Mona Semtner

35:57

6. Wendy Grider

28:12

13. Cherie Jones-McHone

41:41

7. Danielle Waters

28:18

14. Deborah Lowe

42:26

45 - 49

1. Cortney Martin

21:06

5. Lisa Garcia


2. Monika Gibson

25:43

6. Andrea Blanton


3. Sheri Edwards

26:46

7. Rachel Collins


4. Kim Dominy

28:40



50 - 54

1. Shawn Fortner

24:11

6. Sara King

30:56

2. Rosa Bowles

25:13

7. Julie Jeavons

31:24

3. Molly Prater

30:18

8. Anne Cash

36:49

4. Sharon Cline

30:54

9. Telina Hiser

40:57

5. Karen Hicks

30:55

10. Tracey Brockenbrough

44:46

55 - 59

1. Debbie Snellings

33:13



2. Penny Price

33:25



3. Gwen Million

36:52



60 - 64

1. Yuriko Renardy

26:23

4. Linda Slusher

41:452

2. Trina Nicholson

26:33



3. Anne Cepeda

28:31



65 - 69

1. Joy Cecil

43:42



2. Ruth Keeling

46:42



70-74

1. Rebecca Sears

35:48



2. Maxine Drewry

46:06



3. Sharon Hillison

48:16




Men’s Results

(Names in bold also won this age category last year.)

11 & under


1. Riley Geddes

21:05

8. Jackson Swanson

27:39

2. Brady Semtner

23:35

9. John Grider

28:14

3. Spencer Thompson

24:36

10. Louis Semtner

31:47

4. Lance Elkins

24:44

11. Carder Miller

34:32

5. Brennan Lucia

24:46

12. Josh Patsel

34:35

6. Alec Elkins

25:24

13. Lance Patsel

37:26

7. Tyler Thompson

27:24



12 – 15


1. Nathan Morton

17:57

5. Rob Cleland

24:34

2. Henry Quesenberry

19:13

6. Vincent Keeling

30:24

3. Ethan Mills

19:43

7. Arthur Lucia

34:12

4. Adam Downs

23:01



16 – 19


1. Nate Dominy

16:59

4. Cameron Dominy

27:03

2. Ethan Edwards

18:31



3. Jack Dunkenberger

24:13



20 - 24

1. Frank Locascio

17:28

6. Julian Stewart

25:10

2. Brian Seitz

17:31

7. Cody Harless

29:56

3. Michael Powell

21:18



4. Stephen D’Angelo

23:44



5. Daniel Altizer

24:22



25 - 29

1. Brandon Bear

17:36

4. Zach Milton

25:20

2. Jordan Chang

17:46

5. Jordan Stewart

31:54

3. Matt Hall

21:19



30 - 34

1. Sean Miller

20:55

4. Brennan Stewart

31:51

2. Charles Funderburgh

22:43

5. Billy Moss

48:31

3. Brooks Tiffany

24:45



35 - 39

1. Matthew Wright

18:54

4. Oscar Solis

24:24

2. Matt Tolbert

21:44

5. Damien Wilson

24:32

3. Chad Coleman

22:37

6. Brad Sutphin

28:08

40 - 44

1. Ignacio Moore

17:01

6. Tim Fuhrer

27:50

2. Rob Semtner

21:26

7. John Grider

28:12

3. John Shumate

22:07

8. Scott Geddes

30:14

4. Chris Williams

23:16

9. David Lowe

37:37

5. Brian Waters

27:26

10. Richard McHone

41:36

45 - 49

1. Brian Walter

16:46

9. Tracey Towney

25:26

2. Colin Munsey

18:01

10. Neil Swanson

26:59

3. Michael Stowe

20:27

11. Mark Thompson

27:25

4. Erik Olsen

20:35

12. Thomas Moomaw

27:43

5. Tom Ewing

22:12

13. Jeff Hillison

28:14

6. Eric Martin

22:28

14. Danny Dodson

28:21

7. Ed Gotta

25:09

15. James Bishop

33:29

8. Michael Klemba

25:13



50 - 54

1. Marc Edwards

18:48

4. Doug Falls

22:04

2. Larry Meadors

21:08

5. Mike Fortner

22:05

3. Eugene Kaiser

21:15

6. Karl Brockenbrough

29:44

55-59

1. Brent Lynch

20:35

5. Stephen Sottosanti

29:59

2. Randy Burrier

22:44

6. Tim Thornton

31:57

3. Martin Piedl

26:46

7. Jack Steehler

34:16

4. Greg Stick

28:24



60-64

1. Tom Inzana

22:02

5. George Morgan

26:17

2. Felix Lopez

22:47

6. Joe LaRocco

27:33

3. Mark Whisler

24:10

7. Marion Childress

27:51

4. Tom Gardner

24:31



65-69

1. John Gregory

23:06



2. Tom Roth

27:30







70-74

1. Harold Ingram

24:02

4. Steve Huppert

35:54

2. Walt Eanes

30:30



3. John Hillison

33:57



75 & Over

1. Jim Gregory

45:37








Fastest Family Results

There were a total of eleven families who registered for and completed this year’s race.

And there was again an intense competition for the coveted photo-plaque. Two families registered low scores of five, with their tie being resolved by summing the total elapsed time for members of their team. This year the Dominy family from Christiansburg, who finished third last year, won the title by edging out the two-time former champions, the Edwards family. Perennial contenders, the Fortner family, once again ran well as a team to take home bronze medals.

For the purposes of the report, I shall include the Top Five families, even though only the first three received a set of medals for their efforts.


Family

Name

Age

Score

Time






1. Dominy

Trevor

19

1

16:35


Nate

17

2

16:59


Caitlin

13

2

22:30




Total 5







2. Edwards

Ethan

16

3

18:31


Marc

51

1

18:48


Ailene

14

1

20:39




Total 5







3. Fortner

Katie

19

1

19:54


Shawn

51

1

24:11


Jessi

22

4

26:09




Total 6







4. Thompson

Carolyn

44

1

22:26


Spencer

8

3

24:36


Tyler

10

7

27:24




Total 11


5. Hillison

John

71

3

33:57


Hayley

17

5

35:13


Sharon

71

3

48:16




Total 11