Monday, May 12, 2025

Nick Rosatti and Laura Solomon were top of the podium at the Daylily 5K

Daylily 5KAdel, Georgia hosts an annual Daylily Festival. It's a paradox of geography that the annual Daylily 5K has, more than a few times, been run in nearby Sparks, Georgia. One of those times was Saturday morning, 10 May 2025, when Nick Rosatti won the fifteenth annual Daylily 5K, going 17:50 on the streets of Sparks. Nashville, Georgia master runner Laura Solomon was the first woman in the race, running 23:58 for sixteenth overall.


You might have picked Rosatti as the favorite in the 2025 race. After all, he had won the Daylily 5K in 2021 with a 17:13--the fastest winning time ever posted at the event. But Rosatti shared the starting line with Adel's own Canaan Ponce, who owned the 2022 and 2023 Daylily titles. At the finish line, Ponce was only twenty meters behind the winner, taking second in 17:54. Another Adel athlete, Gary Rowan, was third in 19:01. Jason Shehand of Suwannee, Georgia was the first master runner in the 5K, comming in fourth in 19:27.


The 2024 women's winner, Julie Grace Taylor of Adel, placed second in the women's division, coming in eighteenth overall in 25:01. Adel master runner Shonna O'Quinn, a two-time women's champ of the Daylily 5K, was the first woman master and third female finisher, 23rd overall in 27:19.


62 athletes finished the 2025 Daylily City 5K. A Course/Line, LLC, of Valdosta, Georgia timed the race and provided finish line services.


Top Ten Men, 2025 Daylily City 5K
  1. 17:49.3, Nicholas Rosatti (M, 28) Hahira, GA
  2. 17:53.5, Canaan Ponce (M, 19) Adel, GA
  3. 19:00.7, Gary Rowan (M, 37) Adel, GA
  4. 19:26.5, Jason Shehand (M, 45) Suwannee, GA
  5. 19:47.2, Alexander Ayala (M, 20) Adel, GA
  6. 20:12.5, Will O'Quinn (M, 21) Adel, GA
  7. 20:30.5, Jayden Hauser (M, 15) Adel, GA
  8. 20:51.8, Jim O'Connor (M, 61) Hahira, GA
  9. 20:58.6, Gabriel Ponce (M, 25) Adel, GA
  10. 21:06.8, Leonard Canary (M, 37) Lenox, GA

Top Ten Women, 2025 Daylily City 5K
  1. 23:57.9, Laura Solomon (F, 43) Nashville, GA
  2. 25:00.9, Julie Grace Taylor (F, 21) Adel, GA
  3. 27:19.0, Shonna O'Quinn (F, 50) Adel, GA
  4. 27:23.4, Tia Oleary (F, 37) Adel, GA
  5. 27:38.1, Carys Thompson (F, 25) Atlanta, GA
  6. 28:01.2, Kylei Cutts (F, 20) Chula, GA
  7. 28:07.4, Allison Tolman (F, 30) Hahira, GA
  8. 28:15.0, Cynthia Wheeler (F, 47) Nashville, GA
  9. 29:03.5, Brittany Rowan (F, 35) Adel, GA
  10. 29:24.6, Kate Shehane (F, 17) Suwannee, GA

Adel Daylily Festival 5K champions, 2010 - 2025
DateMenWomenFinishers
5 June 201018:58, John Seppala25:34, Becky Thompson38
4 June 201118:18, Masked Avenger21:28, Alice Smoot
2 June 201218:33, Masked Avenger21:54, Jacki Pinkerton74
17 May 201318:19, Ryan Kelly26:03, Heather Kelly32
17 May 201417:58, Ryan Kelly24:04, Shonna O'Quinn
16 May 201517:50, Ryan Kelly21:29, Amber Elam50
21 May 201618:06, Dan Butzin22:27, Riley O'Linn66
20 May 201718:41, Ryan Kelly21:59, Annie Price70
19 May 201818:17, Myles Gibson24:31, Char Davidson47
18 May 201917:54, Ryan Kelly23:34, Shonna O'Quinn77
15 May 202117:13, Nick Rosatti23:00, Kylie Downs83
14 May 202218:08, Canaan Poncé24:16, Kylie Downs57
13 May 202317:20, Canaan Poncé24:47, Melissa Lutey82
11 May 202417:10, Parker Jackson25:50, Julie Grace Taylor62
10 May 202517:50, Nicholas Rosatti23:58, Laura Solomon62
Prior to the first 5K race in 2010, there was a 10K Blossom Trot in 2009.


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