On 3 August 2013 SSG David Seymour, captain of the Fort Rucker Flyers Army Ten Miler team, announced the squad of eight athletes that will be competing for the Flyers in Washington, DC on 20 October 2013. Joining SSG Seymour on the roster are CW4 Bill Staniewicz, 2LT Brian Morenus, 2LT Matt Udermann, 2LT Mark Freeman, SFC Robbie Hickox, 2LT Jennifer MacGibbon, and CW4 Stephanie Rose.SSG David Seymour is the only member of the team that also ran for the Flyers at last year's Army Ten Miler. A top finisher in area races from 5K to the half marathon during the past two years, earlier this summer Seymour won the 35th annual Hot Trot 5K in Chipley on 29 June 2013, running 16:36. Master runner Bill Staniewicz, the team's assistant captain, is an experienced marathoner who ran 3:12:38 at the Houston Marathon this year. This past spring Brian Morenus was a senior at West Point, competing on the Academy's track team and recording a 30:49.29 for 10,000-meters on the track. Since then, Morenus graduated, received his commission, and moved on to Fort Rucker. He has continued his athletic endeavors in the Wiregrass country, recently winning Dothan's Tasty Tiger Trot 5K Trail Run on 27 July 2013. Matt Udermann brings previous Army Ten Miler experience to the team. In 2011, Udermann ran 66:29 at the race, competing for the University of Minnesota ROTC team. He'll be wearing Fort Rucker colors at his second Army Ten Miler this October. Texan Mark Freeman brings another West Point ring (c/o 2012) to the Flyers.
The Fort Rucker will be competing in the Active Duty Open Mixed category of the team competition, which requires one of the team's scorers to be female. The Flyers have two women on the roster, Jennifer MacGibbon and Stephanie Rose, who ran 76:11 and 76:16 at Fort Rucker's Ten Mile Run Off this past May. Since then MacGibbon, who was on the varsity track team while at the United State Military Academy (c/o 2012), ran a 20:20 5K on trails to win the women's competition at the Tasty Tiger Trot on July 27. Rose clocked a 21:23 5K on the roads at the Hot Trot on June 29.
The Army Ten Miler is the largest ten-mile road race on the continent, if not in the world. Team competition in each category is fierce, but the Fort Rucker Flyers have a proud history of success at the race. Last year's squad placed second in the Active Duty Open Mixed division. In the five races before that, the Flyers won the division three times. Fort Rucker teams have even more titles from earlier years. The Flyers can be proud of that record, but it's also a burden--the athletes of the 2013 team will be measured against their predecessors as well as their competitors.
These eight Flyers seem up to the task.
| Fort Rucker Flyers teams at the Army Ten-Miler, 2002 - 2012 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Division | Place | Score | Scoring Athletes |
| 20 OCT 2002 | Military Open Mixed | 1 | 3:59:29 | Jesse Blanton, Kevin Anderson, Matthew Thomas, Estee Pinchasin |
| Civilian Open Mixed | 1 | 4:12:22 | Shane Gingrich, Jonathan Guinn, Brian Batchelder, Kathryn Kennedy | |
| 5 OCT 2003 | Military Open Mixed | 5 | 4:08:58 | David Robinson, Bobby Satazahn, Kevin Anderson, Kathryn Kennedy |
| Civilian Open Mixed | 1 | 4:25:47 | Brent Simon, Keelan McNulty, Jeffrey Hoogheem, Marina Cobbs | |
| 24 OCT 2004 | Military Open Mixed | 6 | 4:13:03 | Michael McDaniel, Sean O'Donnell, David Robinson, Jennifer Phelps |
| Civilian Open Mixed | 3 | 4:20:52 | Joshua Joseph, Michael Darden, Brent Simon, Marina Cobbs | |
| 2 OCT 2005 | The 2005 Army Ten Miler was not scored. | |||
| 8 OCT 2006 | Military Open Mixed | 4 | 4:40:51 | Lucas Harris, Bob Parrotte, Scott Bean, Jane Wei |
| 7 OCT 2007 | Military Open Mixed | 1 | 4:17:46 | Sean O'Donnell, Jesse Blanton, Jason Kowrach, Jennie Hattman |
| 5 OCT 2008 | Military Open Mixed | 1 | 4:15:26 | Jesse Blanton, Jacob Rykken, Su Yi, Lisa Becker |
| 4 OCT 2009 | Military Open Mixed | 3 | 4:04:04 | Nicholas Dason, Cyrus Bernard, Jesse Blanton, Jennifer Woods |
| 24 OCT 2010 | Military Open Mixed | 1 | 4:25:07 | Matthew Kinney, Niko Temple, Steven Abernathy, Maia Paris |
| 9 OCT 2011 | Military Open Mixed | 3 | 4:16:09 | Michael Spears, Matthew Wright, Terry Specyal, Megan Howell |
| 21 OCT 2012 | Military Open Mixed | 2 | 4:02:31 | Nicholas Dason, Cory Wroblewski, Sean Keefe, Emily King |
| The Fort Rucker Flyers also won the Military Open Mixed Team division in 1999. | ||||
Links
- The Army Ten-Miler
https://www.armytenmiler.com/
- "Argyle, Haltom take the Ten at Fort Rucker"
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/05/rucker-ten-2013.html
- "Run like the wind: Fort Rucker team prepares for Army Ten Miler"
http://www.dvidshub.net/news/109977/run-like-wind-fort-rucker-team-prepares-army-ten-miler
- Ten miles, five kilometers, marathons--races in the region on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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