Friday, July 26, 2024

Leonardo Canete and Averi Lewis were swift in Swamp Forest

From 2021 to 2023, Bobby York directed the Summer Trail Race Series for Tallahassee, Florida's Gulf Winds Track Club three times. In each of those three years, the Series included the Swamp Forest Trail 7K. Tallahassee master runner Leonardo Canete won two of those Swamp Forest Races. As of Saturday morning, 20 July 2024, you can add one to each of those numbers. That was the morning that Canete posted his third Swamp Forest 7K win, climbing the hills and hurdling the roots in 29:15. In that same race, Averi Lewis became a two-time Swamp Forest 7K women's champ, defending her 2023 title with a 37:17, good for thirteenth overall.

Leonardo Canete
Leonardo Canete

Leonardo Canete wasn't the only one with Trail Series wins on his resume when the athletes gathered in Tallahassee's Phipps Park for the Swamp Forest 7K, the third race in this year's series. Daniel Wurgler was also in the field, and Wurgler had outrun Canete plus over a hundred others in 2021 to win the Cadillac Trail 9K. Since then, though, Canete had finished first in nine out of thirteen Series events--and after the Swamp Forest Trail Race, ten out of fourteen. This time out, Canete took first by almost a minute, his 29:15 earning his second Series win of the 2024 season as well as his tenth all-time.


Wurgler took second in 30:10. Kyle Kraeft, making his fifteenth appearance in a Trail Series race, placed third in 31:59.

Averi Lewis
Averi Lewis

In the women's division, Averi Lewis' win was her fourth in the Summer Trail Series--Alyson Churchill and Emily Molen are the only women who have more Series race titles, with five each.


Michelle Rind placed runner-up to Lewis in the women's standings, coming in nineteenth overall in 39:44. Trail series regular Signe Ulsamer was the first woman master in the race and the third female finisher, placing 22nd overall in 40:40.

Michelle Rind
Michelle Rind

Gulf Winds Track Club's eleventh Summer Trail Race Series concludes on Saturday morning, 24 August 2024, at Maclay Gardens State Park with the Overstreet Trail 9K.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2024 Swamp Forest 7K Trail Race
  1. 29:15, Leonardo Canete (M, 45)
  2. 30:10, Daniel Wurgler (M, 24)
  3. 31:59, Kyle Kraeft (M, 35)
  4. 32:58, Daniel Korecky (M, 39)
  5. 33:14, Mickey Moore (M, 54)
  6. 34:11, Melvin Jones (M, 44)
  7. 35:50, Gerardo Prats (M, 31)
  8. 36:05, Frank Price (M, 45)
  9. 36:18, Bob Reifinger (M, 40)
  10. 36:34, John Corlazzoli (M, 23)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2024 Swamp Forest 7K Trail Race
  1. 37:17, Averi Lewis (F, 27)
  2. 39:44, Michelle Rind (F, 29)
  3. 40:40, Signe Ulsamer (F, 46)
  4. 41:56, Kendall Meikenhous (F, 36)
  5. 42:08, Olivia Willoughby (F, 27)
  6. 42:58, Nancy Proctor (F, 63)
  7. 43:35, Kelsey Mezzina (F, 29)
  8. 43:43, Filiz Aktan-Clark (F, 40)
  9. 46:04, Nicole Balmer (F, 48)
  10. 47:14, Cyndi Cooper (F, 46)

Gulf Winds Track Club's Summer Trail Series race winners, 2013 - 2024
YearDateRaceTop MaleTop FemaleFinishers
2013June 22Cadillac Trail 5½M37:38, Kevin Sullivan45:07, Stephanie Liles-Weyant121
July 13Swamp Forest Trail 4½M30:19, Kevin Sullivan34:12, Micah Adriani124
July 27Magnolia Trail 3½M21:44, Kevin Sullivan24:45, Stephanie Liles-Weyant114
August 3Red Bug Trail 4½M33:31, Bryce Van Dam43:46, Stephanie Liles-Weyant92
2014June 21Red Bug Trail 4½M38:30, Charn McAllister42:02, Brook Pace114
July 12Swamp Forest Trail 4½M29:06, Charn McAllister33:13, Brook Pace109
July 26Magnolia Trail 3½M26:03, Charn McAllister30:16, Emily Molen108
August 2Cadillac Trail 5½M41:38, Brian Molen48:25, Emily Molen88
2015May 30Cadillac Trail 5½M39:15, Zach Deveau42:51, Alyson Churchill158
June 13Oak Hammock Trail 5M32:59, Zach Deveau35:10, Alyson Churchill129
July 18Coon Bottom Trail 4M28:42, Zach Deveau29:14, Alyson Churchill112
August 1Red Bug Trail 4½M35:14, Greg Bargo35:24, Alyson Churchill112
2016May 21Magnolia Trail 3½M25:18, Dan Baur27:05, Katie Gorman133
June 4Oak Hammock Trail 5½M42:53, Eric Godin45:24, Katie Gorman123
July 9Red Bug Trail 4½M33:14, Dan Baur35:04, Katie Gorman130
July 30Cadillac Trail 5½M43:06, Paul Guyas42:29, Alyson Churchill95
2017June 10Munson Hills 6M36:45, Chris O'Kelley46:34, Emily Molen87
July 1Red Bug Trail 4½M37:34, Chris O'Kelley48:24, Emily Molen90
July 15Oak Hammock/Swamp Forest 5M33:35, Charles Biberg39:36, Kat Sack89
August 5Tom Brown Park 4½M32:40, Chris O'Kelley36:36, Jennifer Bayliss71
2018June 23Munson Hills 6M38:02, Vince Molosky45:10, Emily Molen124
July 7Phipps Park 4M30:49, Jim Schafer33:39, Kat Sack127
July 21Maclay Gardens 5M38:26, Brad Busboom44:39, Kat Sack110
August 4Tom Brown Park 4½M28:39, Brad Busboom32:29, Kat Sack109
2019June 22Red Bug Trail 4½M35:27, Zach DeVeau38:53, Rachel Durbin125
July 6Munson Hills 6M38:24, Zach DeVeau43:56, Rachel Durbin86
July 27Tom Brown Park 5M37:13, Bryan Gensits44:47, Rachel Durbin108
August 24Maclay Gardens 4½M39:00, Zach DeVeau43:00, Rachel Durbin91
2021June 12Cadillac Trail 5½M40:26, Daniel Wurgler46:21, Clifton Lewis107
July 10Swamp Forest Trail 5M29:07, Leonardo Canete34:24, Amelia Bryant104
July 24Maclay Gardens 5M37:48, Jonathan Stern44:06, Clifton Lewis111
August 28Red Bug Trail 4½M34:23, Leonardo Canete38:10, Clifton Lewis72
2022May 28Swamp Forest Trail 4½M28:08, Jonathan Stern38:29, Andi Vilardo141
June 19Red Bug Trail 4½M32:19, Jonathan Stern44:01, Andi Vilardo111
July 16Maclay Gardens 5½M38:28, Leonardo Canete52:14, Andi Vilardo120
August 20Cadillac Trail 5½M37:18, Leonardo Canete48:39, Alyssa Terry98
2023May 20Red Bug Trail 4½M33:26, Leonardo Canete40:05, Averi Lewis124
June 19Maclay Gardens 5½M38:39, Leonardo Canete47:18, Averi Lewis126
July 16Swamp Forest Trail 4½M29:39, Leonardo Canete36:27, Averi Lewis106
August 19Cadillac Trail 5½M38:27, Leonardo Canete48:20, Acadia Hassell108
2024May 25Cadillac Trail 5½M37:39, Leonardo Canete44:18, Megan Noonan117
June 29Red Bug Trail 4½M32:44, Jonathan Stern38:32, Megan Noonan128
July 20Swamp Forest Trail 4½M29:15, Leonardo Canete37:17, Averi Lewis89
August 24Maclay Gardens 5½M
Multiple wins by men: Leonardo Canete (10), Zach DeVeau (6), Jonathan Stern (4), Kevin Sullivan (3),
      Charn McAllister (3), Chris O'Kelley (3), Dan Baur (2), Brad Busboom (2)
Multiple wins by women: Alyson Churchill (5), Emily Molen (5), Kat Sack (4), Rachel Durbin (4), Averi Lewis (4),
      Stephanie Liles-Weyant (3), Katie Gorman (3), Clifton Lewis (3), Andi Vilardo (3), Brook Pace (2),
      Megan Noonan (2)


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