Monday, August 14, 2023

Andrew McGinnis scores a 15:55 win in the Lakebottom 5K

Lakebottom 5K logoNCAA cross-country season doesn't get started till September, but at least two collegiate harriers couldn't wait. On Saturday morning, 12 August 2023, three weeks before the season opened, Samford University Bulldog Andrew McGinnis raced Georgia College Wildcat Evan Rehrauer on the streets of Columbus, Georgia in the Lakebottom Park 5K. McGinnis won the tenth annual race by over 200 meters, running 15:55. Atlanta master runner Jill Braley-Boyd was the first woman in the Lakebottom 5K for the third year in a row, this time placing fourth overall in 18:26.


Rehrauer was runner-up in 16:39. Before running for Georgia College, Rehrbauer had run cross-country at Harris County High. Another Harris County alum and the 2022 Lakebottom 5K champion, Cavan Klein, took third overall in 17:53. Jonathan Williams of Phenix City, Alabama was the first male master runner and fifth in the men's standings, seventh overall in 18:52.


Elizabeth Cowley, a senior on the Brookstone High cross-country team, was the second woman in the race, placing fifth overall in 18:44. Cowley had also been the women's runner-up in the 2022 Lakebottom 5K. Effie Ward, a Harris County High sophomore, placed third in the women's division and eighth overall in 18:54.


203 athletes finished the 2023 Lakebottom 5K. Lightning Sports Racing of Columbus, Georgia timed and scored the race.


Top Ten Men, 2023 Lakebottom Park 5K
  1. 15:54.59, Andrew McGinnis (M, 19) Columbus, GA
  2. 16:38.87, Evan Rehrauer (M, 19) Milledgeville, GA
  3. 17:52.03, Cavan Klein (M, 18) Hamilton, GA
  4. 18:50.77, Zack Adams (M, 15) Columbus, GA
  5. 18:51.90, Jonathan Williams (M, 45) Phenix City, AL
  6. 19:03.88, Bradley Brooks (M, 15)
  7. 19:48.85, Matt Lage (M, 38)
  8. 20:22.84, Benjamin Dennis (M, 41) Columbus, GA
  9. 20:33.04, Jose Espinosa (M, 45)
  10. 20:52.44, Owen Underwood (M, 14) Salem, AL

Top Ten Women, 2023 Lakebottom Park 5K
  1. 18:25.35, Jill Braley-Boyd (F, 44) Atlanta, GA
  2. 18:43.66, Elizabeth Cowley (F, 17)
  3. 18:53.35, Effie Rose Ward (F, 15) Cataula, GA
  4. 20:57.43, Amaris Martinez (F, 28)
  5. 21:30.49, Lilly Huwe (F, 14)
  6. 21:56.41, Layla Williams (F, 13) Phenix City, AL
  7. 22:36.83, Addison Garner (F, 31)
  8. 22:37.66, Janelle Wells (F, 15)
  9. 24:07.44, Lila Klein (F, 13)
  10. 24:09.01, M. Parks (F, 12)

Lakebottom Park 5K winners, 2014 - 2023
DateMenWomenFinishers
16 August 201418:02, Bo Bridges22:21, Chaille Sullivan206
8 August 201516:47, Aaron Totten-Lancaster20:42, Morgan Ryffe239
20 August 201617:36, Nicholas Heller22:03, Kaitlyn Schultz190
19 August 201718:32, Alexander Wood20:15, Celina Kortuem270
18 August 201817:38, Nickolas Causey20:48, Adley Burkes286
17 August 201918:08, Vladimir Volodin21:32, Kelly Pendleton320
22 August 202016:49, Kaleb Ellis17:33, Chantalle Schultz-Rathbun275
21 August 202115:43, Kaleb Ellis20:29, Jill Braley214
13 August 202217:05, Cavan Klein18:46, Jill Braley-Boyd204
12 August 202315:55, Andrew McGinnis18:26, Jill Braley-Boyd203


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