Blazers Brishen House and Angie Cipriani ran blazing times at the Blazin' Love 5K

After Valdosta State University's 2021 cross-country season, Brishen House was awarded as Most Valuable Athlete on the men's team, and Angie Cipriani as the same on the women's squad. A few months later, on 12 February 2022, the duo led a VSU sweep of the sixth annual Blazin' Love 5K. House took first overall, running 15:50 for 3.1 miles on the streets of Valdosta, Georgia. Cipriani topped the women's field with an 18:11.


VSU's Charlie Eaton, recipient of his team's 2021 Blazer Award, took second in the race with a 16:30. A few steps back, Dalton Pender, a Blazer hailing from Brunswick, Georgia, placed third in 16:34.


On the women's side, Angie Cipriani's 18:11 was not only good for sixth overall, it was also the fastest time ever run by a woman at the Blazin' Love 5K. Blazer harriers Leah Johnson and Samantha Murray ended their run in a close race for the women's runner-up spot. The advantage went to Johnson, recipient of the 2021 Blazer Award, 19:48 to 19:50. Johnson and Murray were eighth and ninth overall.


The Blazers swept overall honors, but the Kellys of Lake Park, Georgia swept the master runner honors. Ryan Kelly, the Valdosta High cross-country coach, was the fastest master in the race, coming in seventh overall in 19:45. Heather Kelly was the first master runner in the women's standings, running 32:34 to finish as the tenth woman and 28th overall.


42 athletes finished the 2022 Blazin' Love 5K. A Course/Line, LLC, of Valdosta timed the race and provided finish line services. Proceeds of the race benefit the Valdosta State University Blazer cross-country teams.


Top Ten Men, 2022 Blazin' Love 5K

1. 15:49.6, Brishen House (M, 21) Valdosta, GA
2. 16:29.4, Charlie Eaton (M, 21) Valdosta, GA
3. 16:33.9, Dalton Pender (M, 21) Valdosta, GA
4. 16:48.1, Braedon Bensley (M, 21) Valdosta, GA
5. 17:02.4, Chris Flores (M, 19) Valdosta, GA
6. 19:44.2, Ryan Kelly (M, 43) Lake Park, GA
7. 20:41.6, Scott Murray (M, 51) Kennesaw, GA
8. 21:13.1, Luis Fernandez (M, 19) Moultrie, GA
9. 24:40.5, Zachary Gregory (M, 25) Gainesville, FL
10. 25:03.9, Steve Jones (M, 51) Valdosta, GA

Top Ten Women, 2022 Blazin' Love 5K

1. 18:10.6, Angie Cipriani (F, 22) Valdosta, GA
2. 19:47.5, Leah Johnson (F, 22) Valdosta, GA
3. 19:49.2, Samantha Murray (F, 22) Valdosta, GA
4. 20:58.4, Kyleigh Rice (F, 20) Valdosta, GA
5. 21:15.5, Caitlyn Koske (F, 19) Valdosta, GA
6. 22:33.4, Jaycie Anderson (F, 20) Valdosta, GA
7. 22:34.7, Olivia Gregory (F, 22) Gainesville, FL
8. 27:21.5, Ashley Wellman (F, 26) Valdosta, GA
9. 32:05.7, Ana Paula Freitas (F, 30) Valdosta, GA
10. 32:33.6, Heather Kelly (F, 43) Valdosta, GA

Blazin' Love 5K winners, 2016 - 2022
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
13 February 2016	15:39, Connor Dalrymple	19:36, Tyra Holloway	123
11 February 2017	15:53, Jaison Morning	18:47, Tyra Holloway	134
10 February 2018	15:47, Jaison Morning	23:23, Kelly Lunceford	48
16 February 2019	17:16, Cameron Watson	23:39, Tracey Cole	82
15 February 2020	15:53, Brishen House	19:32, Angie Cipriani	81
12 February 2022	15:50, Brishen House	18:10.6, Angie Cipriani	42

Links

• Complete results of the 2022 Blazin' Love 5K courtesy of A Course/Line, LLC
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS9QQ92DV743QpZ_tAub5gagMbb_lgzpBzgNV9Jz534gvsmLhXCNoiL4i81jQ2YVM7VrgR5tMnTzVNu/pubhtml
  
  
• 2019 story, “Not burnin' love, but Blazin' Love for Cameron Watson and Tracey Cole in Valdosta”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2019/02/vsu-xc-5k-2019.html
  
  
• 2018 story, “You gotta love Jaison Morning's blazin' 15:47 at the Blazin' Love 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/02/vsu-xc-5k-2018.html
  
  
• 2017 story, “Morning's 15:53 and Holloway's 18:47 heat up the roads at the Blazin' Love 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/02/vsu-xc-5k-2017.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “Dalrymple goes 15:39 in Valdosta”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/02/vsu-xc-5k-2016.html
  
  
• USATF course certification map GA18010WC for the 2019 Blazin' Love 5K
  http://www.usatf.org/events/courses/maps/showMap.asp?courseID=GA18010WC
  
  
• Find an upcoming race that supports running on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#2809

Funderburk blazes a valedictory 17:44.50 at the Yellow Jacket Invitational

Among humans, where a lifetime is traditionally regarded as threescore-and-ten years, twenty-five years is about a generation. In high school sports, though, history moves a little faster. You may compete before and after high school, but your high school athletic career is no more than four years. A team photo taken four years ago includes no faces on today's team. In twenty-five years, that four-year changeover happens six times. In high school sports, twenty-five years is a very, very long time. No athlete is going to remember that far back. Few of the coaches will.


Not much lasts twenty-five years in high school sports. But Thomas County Central High School's Yellow Jacket Cross-Country Invitational has. Maybe no one can tell you who won the first Yellow Jacket Invitational in 1993, but it's nevertheless certain that the 25th annual Invitational was run in Thomasville, Georgia at Thomas County Middle School on Saturday morning, 14 October 2017. And among the athletes on hand to celebrate the twenty-fifth year of the Yellow Jacket Invitational, Colquitt County senior Elizabeth Funderburk ran a stunning 17:45 to win the high school girls' 5K, and Lowndes senior Brishen House won the high school boys' 5K in 17:04.


It was the third trip to the Yellow Jacket Invitational for Funderburk. As a sophomore, the Colquitt County Packer had won the girls' 5K at the 2015 Invitational in a respectable 20:07. In 2016 Funderburk returned to tear up the course in a winning 17:50. In 2017 she ran even faster, going 17:45. Veterans High sophomore Mackenzie Walls, a fourth-place finisher in the 2016 race, took second behind Funderburk, running 19:46. Kaylee Valenzia, a Lowndes senior, was third in 20:54.


It was the girls from Valwood School who took the team title, though. Led by the 21:27 of of sixth-place finisher Riley O'Linn, Valwood edged Veterans for the top spot in the high school girls' team standings, 80 to 82. Lee County was third in the eleven-team field with 98 points, led by junior Caroline Taylor (15th, 23:30).


2017 Yellow Jacket XC Invitational Team Standings, High School Girls

1. Valwood, 80
2. Veterans, 82
3. Lee County, 98
4. Berrien County, 121
5. Lowndes, 154
6. Thomas County Central, 157
7. Colquitt County, 169
8. Bainbridge, 176
9. Aucilla Christian, 184
10. Seminole County, 194
11. Furlow Charter, 253

Top 15 High School Girls, 25th annual Yellow Jacket XC Invitational

1. 17:44.50, Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 12
2. 19:46.00, Mackenzie Walls (Veterans) 10
3. 20:53.28, Kaylee Valenzia (Lowndes) 12
4. 21:15.40, Cara Eaton (Thomas County Central) 12
5. 21:24.36, Macy Williams (Seminole County) 10
6. 21:26.94, Riley O'Linn (Valwood) 12
7. 21:33.47, Rebecca Chandler (Berrien County) 10
8. 21:44.41, Brynn Wilson (Veterans) 12
9. 22:00.14, Maya Wynn (Furlow Charter) 9
10. 22:22.60, Hannah Dodd (Berrien County) 9
11. 22:47.23, Katelyn Lancaster (Valdosta) 10
12. 22:56.35, Anna James (Thomas County Central) 9
13. 22:58.59, Brenna Clark (Valwood) 9
14. 23:08.15, Masey Tabb (Seminole County) 10
15. 23:29.79, Caroline Taylor (Lee County) 11

Unlike Funderburk, Brishen House didn't have any history at the Yellow Jacket Invitational. Neverthless, the Lowndes senior made some history in the 2017 high school boys' 5K, winning the race by 140 meters in 17:04. Valdosta senior Noah Richards took second in 17:34, and Lowndes frosh Alec Munger was third in 17:48.


Then came the Veterans High wave. Veterans Warhawks took the next four places, with junior Aamiri Ducksworth fourth in 18:02, senior Robbie Griffith fifth in 18:12, senior Brett Horton sixth in 18:23, and junior Griffin Hodges seventh in 18:25. The Warhawks got a fifth top-ten finish from junior Andrew Bos (10th, 18:38), giving the boys from Kathleen, Georgia a winning 32 points and their second straight Yellow Jacket Invitational team title. Lowndes was second with 64 points, and Valdosta third out of twelve teams with 72.


2017 Yellow Jacket XC Invitational Team Standings, High School Boys

1. Veterans, 32
2. Lowndes, 64
3. Valdosta, 72
4. Colquitt County, 144
5. Thomas County Central, 147
6. Bainbridge, 155
7. Lee County, 175
8. Seminole County, 199
9. Berrien County, 244
10. Aucilla Christian, 319
11. Thomasville, 324
12. Furlow Charter, 332

Top 15 High School Boys, 25th annual Yellow Jacket XC Invitational

1. 17:03.69, Brishen House (Lowndes) 12
2. 17:33.23, Noah Richards (Valdosta) 12
3. 17:47.38, Alec Munger (Lowndes) 9
4. 18:01.94, Aamiri Ducksworth (Veterans) 11
5. 18:11.34, Robbie Griffin (Veterans) 12
6. 18:22.30, Brett Horton (Veterans) 12
7. 18:24.56, Griffin Hodges (Veterans) 11
8. 18:29.51, Jake Merritt (Colquitt County) 12
9. 18:32.53, Deshon Taylor (Valdosta) 12
10. 18:37.33, Andrew Bos (Veterans) 11
11. 18:42.23, Morgan Bolmer (Berrien County) 10
12. 18:47.31, Benjamin Phillips (Lee County) 10
13. 18:48.09, Efrain Diaz (Bainbridge) 12
14. 18:51.64, William Krispin (Valdosta) 12
15. 18:53.62, Rio Espinoza (Veterans) 11

MacIntyre Park sixth-grader Anika Imhoff won the middle school girls' two mile at the Yellow Jacket Invitational with a 17:35. However, MacIntryre Park didn't have a full team so when Thomas County took the next four places plus seventh place with Makaina Griffin (2nd, 17:42), Gracie McNichols (3rd, 17:47), Samantha Jennings (4th, 17:49), Elizabeth Rinehart (5th, 18:45), and MiKayla Voyles (7th, 19:22). Those five runners gave their team the win with a perfect score of 15. Whigam, led by fifth-grader Sada Bostick (14th, 21:08), was second with 50 points.


2017 Yellow Jacket XC Invitational Team Standings, Middle School Girls

1. Thomas County, 15
2. Whigham, 50

Top 15 Middle School Girls, 25th annual Yellow Jacket XC Invitational

1. 17:34.23, Anika Imhoff (MacIntyre Park) 6
2. 17:41.66, Makaina Griffin (Thomas County) 7
3. 17:46.15, Gracie McNichols (Thomas County) 7
4. 17:48.91, Samantha Jennings (Thomas County) 7
5. 18:44.94, Elizabeth Rinehart (Thomas County) 7
6. 19:19.43, Aly Morabito (MacIntyre Park) 6
7. 19:21.07, MiKayla Voyles (Thomas County) 6
8. 19:34.13, Bailey Maroney (Thomas County) 7
9. 19:35.91, Maggie Palmer (Seminole County) 7
10. 19:42.43, Riley Fisher (Thomas County) 7
11. 19:47.95, Jordyn Tillman (Thomas County) 7
12. 19:55.87, Jo Beth Kelly (Seminole County) 7
13. 20:20.57, Madison Harper (Thomas County) 6
14. 21:07.53, Sada Bostick (Whigham) 5
15. 21:14.15, Sarah Byram (Whigham) 7

Valdosta took the top two places in the middle school boys' two mile, with eighth-grader Parker Jackson winning in 12:32 and seventh-grader Hunter Griffin second in 14:08. Nolan Barnes of MacIntyre Park placed third in 14:30.


But the Cats from Valdosta put two more runners in the top ten, sixth-grader Gabriel Sears (4th, 14:32) and seventh-grader William Gutierrez-Ramirez (7th, 14:55). When sixth-grader Emory Hogan placed twelfth in 15:18 for Valdosta, the Cats had a mathematically unbeatable 26 points and first place out of seven teams in the middle school boys' race. MacIntyre Park was second with 49 points. Lee County placed third with 78 points, led by eighth-grader Landon Jones (5th, 14:32).


2017 Yellow Jacket XC Invitational Team Standings, Middle School Boys

1. Valdosta, 26
2. MacIntyre Park, 49
3. Lee County, 78
4. Thomas County, 92
5. Seminole County, 127
6. Colquitt County, 171
7. Whigham, 208

Top 15 Middle School Boys, 25th annual Yellow Jacket XC Invitational

1. 12:31.28, Parker Jackson (Valdosta) 8
2. 14:07.84, Hunter Griffin (Valdosta) 7
3. 14:29.52, Nolan Barnes (MacIntyre Park) 8
4. 14:31.58, Gabriel Sears (Valdosta) 6
5. 14:31.83, Landon Jones (Lee County) 8
6. 14:47.61, Cole Sullivan (MacIntyre Park) 8
7. 14:54.28, William Gutierrez Ramirez (Valdosta) 7
8. 14:56.45, Zac McNichols (Thomas County) 8
9. 15:07.61, Reagen Anglin (Thomas County) 7
10. 15:12.03, Lane Whiddon (MacIntyre Park) 8
11. 15:17.14, Baylor Williams (Seminole County) 8
12. 15:17.96, Emory Hogan (Valdosta) 6
13. 15:19.98, Josh May (MacIntyre Park) 7
14. 15:20.54, Antonio Sultul Zapeto (Valdosta) 7
15. 15:21.00, Chase Reeves (Lee County) 8

Yellow Jacket Cross Country Invitational winners, 2008 - 2017
High School Boys
Date	Team Champ	Individual Champ
18 October 2008	Tift County, 32 points	16:59, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County)
17 October 2009
16 October 2010
15 October 2011
20 October 2012
19 October 2013	Maclay, 41	16:13, Chase Harris (Bainbridge) 11
25 October 2014	Thomas County Central, 74	16:25, Wil Luca (Leon) 12
17 October 2015	Leon, 36	15:47, Poncherella Leonard (Bainbridge) 11
15 October 2016	Veterans, 54	17:13, Colby Jones (Lee County) 11
14 October 2017	Veterans, 32	17:04, Brishen House (Lowndes) 12
High School Girls
Date	Team Champ	Individual Champ
18 October 2008	Valdosta, 30 points	21:12, JaCourtney Alexander (Cairo)
17 October 2009
16 October 2010
15 October 2011
20 October 2012
19 October 2013	Maclay, 30	19:44, Paige Braswell (Bainbridge) 12
25 October 2014	Berrien County, 47	20:58, Rebekah Smith (Thomasville) 11
17 October 2015	Leon, 44	20:07, Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 10
15 October 2016	Lee County, 83	17:50, Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 11
14 October 2017	Valwood, 80	17:45, Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 12
Do you have results from the missing years? Please let me know!

Links

• Complete results of Thomas County Central's 2016 Yellow Jacket Cross-Country Invitational
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s0057vImPW1vYc1n84FVwDjXxGN_-1MMT5a_E-2GQF4/pubhtml
  
  
• 2016 story, “Elizabeth Funderburk goes 17:50 in Thomasville at the Yellow Jacket Invitational”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/10/yellowjacket-xc-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Poncherella Leonard and Elizabeth Funderburk have wings at Yellow Jacket Invite”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/10/yellowjacket-xc-2015.html
  
  
• 2014 story, “Wil Luca, Rebekah Smith finish the season right at Yellow Jacket Cross Country Meet”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/10/yellowjacket-xc-2014.html
  
  
• Can't get an invitation? Find an open race on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#2110

House and Spry were the athletic upper crust of the Bun Run

On 22 July 2017, Brishen House was a few weeks away from beginning his senior year at Lowndes High, where he's a standout on the school's cross-country team. However, House isn't waiting till cross-country season to race. Instead, that Saturday morning House was on the streets of Valdosta, Georgia, winning the eighth annual Break Bread Bun Run 5K in 18:55. Vanessa Spry of Valdosta was the first woman in the race, placing fourteenth overall in 22:58.


Placing second to House was another high school cross-country runner, Berrien County sophomore Morgan Bolmer. Seventh in the 2016 Bun Run, in the 2017 race Bolmer ran 19:05 to finish just over 40 meters behind the winner. Another 40 meters back, Valdosta High cross-country coach Ryan Kelly, the Bun Run champion in 2013 and 2014, was third overall in 19:16. Rick Mazurkiewicz of Valdosta was the fastest master runner in the 5K, placing eleventh overall in 21:46.


Valdosta athlete Kelly Davis was second in the women's standings and seventeenth overall in 23:33. Pollyanna Bass of Pavo, Georgia was the top woman master and third female finisher, 28th overall in 25:11.


87 athletes finished the 2017 Break Bread Bun Run 5K, the most in the eight-year history of the race. A Course/Line, LLC, of Valdosta, Georgia timed the race and provided finish line management services.


Top Ten Men, 2017 Break Bread Bun Run 5K

1. 18:54.5, Brishen House (M, 17) Valdosta, GA
2. 19:04.7, Morgan Bolmer (M, 15) Nashville, GA
3. 19:15.2, Ryan Kelly (M, 38) Lake Park, GA
4. 19:33.5, Yotzen Bruno (M, 25) Norman Park, GA
5. 19:54.8, Kevius Shaw (M, 18) Valdosta, GA
6. 20:01.1, Daniel Swilley (M, 18) Valdosta, GA
7. 20:01.8, Dan Butzin (M, 32) Valdosta, GA
8. 20:36.3, Alec Munger (M, 14) Valdosta, GA
9. 21:16.0, Andrew Caruana (M, 14) Valdosta, GA
10. 21:30.9, Andrew Elam (M, 19) Valdosta, GA

Top Ten Women, 2017 Break Bread Bun Run 5K

1. 22:57.9, Vanessa Spry (F, 32) Valdosta, GA
2. 23:32.6, Kelly Davis (F, 27) Valdosta, GA
3. 25:10.1, Pollyanna Bass (F, 45) Pavo, GA
4. 25:20.2, Alexandra Sayre (F, 15) Valdosta, GA
5. 27:11.0, Lauren Bewley (F, 35) Valdosta, GA
6. 28:58.2, Traci Ferris (F, 34) Valdosta, GA
7. 29:33.3, Jennifer Caruana (F, 39) Valdosta, GA
8. 29:55.4, Lisa Graves (F, 49) Valdosta, GA
9. 30:17.6, Meghan Brown (F, 25) Valdosta, GA
10. 30:17.9, Madison Wagenaar (F, 13) Valdosta, GA

Break Bread Bun Run 5K champions, 2010 - 2017
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
24 July 2010	18:28, Scott Gardner	24:16, Nicole Kump	49
23 July 2011	18:47, Masked Avenger	23:07, Minerva Arreguin	78
21 July 2012	18:21, Mark McLeod	21:11, Alice Smoot	56
20 July 2013	18:54, Ryan Kelly	22:30, Alison Peters	71
12 July 2014	18:19, Ryan Kelly	21:20, Makenzee Page	49
11 July 2015	17:49, Matthew Baun	21:10, Erica Schloemer	38
23 July 2016	18:58, Jackson Green	23:10, Debbie Green	65
22 July 2017	18:55, Brishen House	22:58, Vanessa Spry	87

Links:

• Complete results of the 2017 Break Bread Bun Run 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS-oxySBe35n_OovnzDcQP4wq3ydCzQZlwrcYc520rFZkDAHrFBaX_QWfEYs5AduNR2wdsC1j-qttMP/pubhtml
  
  
• 2016 story, “Green and Green pour on some flour power at Bun Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/07/bun-run-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Baun and Schloemer bake some fresh records in the Bun Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/07/bun-run-2015.html
  
  
• 2014 story, “Kelly and Page rise to the occasion at Bun Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/07/bun-run-2014.html
  
  
• 2013 story, “Kelly and Peters break away at Break Bread Bun Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/bun-run-2013-.html
  
  
• 2012 story, “McLeod and Smoot kick some buns in Valdosta's Wood Valley”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2012/07/bun-run-2012.html
  
  
• 2011 story, “Avenger and Arreguin emerge from the Wood Valley Hills as Bun Run Champs”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/07/bun-run-2011.html
  
  
• 2010 story, “Gardner conquers Valdosta's Wood Valley hills to win the Bun Run 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/break-bread-2010.html
  
  
• Find another baked good race on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#2035

In Valdosta, House and Prinsloo lead the Independence Day 5K fireworks

Tuesday, 4 July 2016, was the 240th anniversary of the United States as an independent nation, the ninth annual running of Valdosta, Georgia's Independence Day 5K, and the second year in a row that a Lowndes High cross-country runner had won that 5K road race. Rising senior Brishen House took the title for the Vikings, running 17:49. Brianna Prinsloo of Hahira, Georgia won the women's title for the second year in a row, placing sixteenth overall in 21:46. 126 athletes finished the race.


Lowndes standout Kaleb Wolfenden had won the Valdosta 5K in 2016. With Wolfenden graduated and moving on to Columbus State, it was up to the Vikings' Brishen House to keep the title at Lowndes. Ladarius Dumas didn't make it easy for House, though. A rising sophomore at cross-town rival Valdosta High, Dumas finished just a few strides behind House, second in 17:53. Right behind the battle for first, 2014 Independence Day 5K champion Chance Roe was third in 18:00.


Competition in the women's division was even tighter, with the top three athletes finishing within six seconds. Brianna Prinsloo's 21:46 was just good enough to edge Valdosta master runner Sandra Griffin's 21:49. Seventeenth overall, Griffin was not only the women's runner-up but the first master runner in the race. A few steps further back, Gracie Woods was third in the women's standings and eighteenth overall in 21:52. From Broxton, Georgia, Woods is a rising frosh on the Coffee High cross-country team.


Ryan Coyne of Belleville, Georgia was the first male master and eighteenth in the men's standings, 22nd overall in 22:41.


Valdosta's 2017 Independence Day 5K was produced, timed, and scored by A Course / Line, LLC, of Valdosta, Georgia.


Top Ten Men, 2017 Valdosta Independence Day 5K

1. 17:48.8, Brishen House (M, 17) Valdosta, GA
2. 17:52.2, Ladarius Dumas (M, 16) Valdosta, GA
3. 17:59.8, Chance Roe (M, 19) Valdosta, GA
4. 18:34.8, Colin Prinsloo (M, 31) Hahira, GA
5. 18:51.9, Morgan Bolmer (M, 15) Nashville, GA
6. 18:56.1, Ryan Kelly (M, 38) Lake Park, GA
7. 18:57.3, Daniel Swilley (M, 18) Valdosta, GA
8. 19:15.3, Nick Rosatti (M, 20) Hahira, GA
9. 19:15.7, Yotzen Bruna (M, 25) Norman Park, GA
10. 19:49.2, Dan Butzin (M, 32) Valdosta, GA

Top Ten Females, 2017 Valdosta Independence Day 5K

1. 21:45.3, Brianna Prinsloo (F, 30) Hahira, GA
2. 21:48.4, Sandra Griffin (F, 50) Valdosta, GA
3. 21:51.6, Gracie Woods (F, 14) Broxton, GA
4. 22:22.2, Vanessa Spry (F, 32) Valdosta, GA
5. 23:00.7, Kelly Davis (F, 27) Valdosta, GA
6. 23:07.6, Susan Breeding (F, 62) Marietta, GA
7. 23:45.1, Chevy Newham (F, 35) Valdosta, GA
8. 24:35.2, Kristine Lutton (F, 37) Valdosta, GA
9. 24:55.5, Martha Mazurkiewicz (F, 49) Valdosta, GA
10. 25:17.7, Stacey Duvall (F, 37) Valdosta, GA

Champions of the Valdosta Independence Day 5K, 2009 - 2017
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
4 July 2006*	32:33, Dave Bernacki	35:28, Susan Fischer	144
4 July 2007*	28:16, John Seppala	37:47, Beth DeLoach	181
4 July 2008*	28:42, John Seppala	33:15, Kelly Fleming	193
4 July 2009	16:38, Alan McGough	20:32, Ashley McGee	228
4 July 2010	16:32, Chris Rice	20:26, Angelina Horne	215
4 July 2011	16:15, Jeff Powers	20:16, Jordanne Helton	123
4 July 2012	16:57, Chris Rice	20:18, Christine Shattles	192
4 July 2013	17:28, Wright Calhoun	20:13, Mary Alice Smoot	163
4 July 2014	17:38, Chance Roe	21:04, Makenzee Page	124
4 July 2015	16:36, Roberto Bonilla, Jr	22:26, Debbie Green	128
4 July 2016	16:28, Kaleb Wolfenden	22:37, Brianna Prinsloo	119
4 July 2017	17:49, Brishen House	21:46, Brianna Prinsloo	126
* The predecessor of the Valdosta Independence Day 5K was the Baytree 8K, run in the streets of Valdosta on Independence Day from 2006 to 2008.

Links

• Complete results of Valdosta's 2017 Independence Day 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vG8H6F6yKZ5dFUyBKykOL42XLqi1J9sVd_brflbLwkY/pubhtml
  
  
• Independence Day 2017 racing coverage on Trouble Afoot!
  • Gainesville FL: https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/07/ftc-melon-2017.html
  • Jay FL: https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/07/jay-freedom-2017.html
  • Tallahassee FL: https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/07/firecracker-2017.html
  • Valdosta GA: https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/07/valdosta-independence-2017.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Bonilla and Green keep 'em flying in Valdosta”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/07/valdosta-independence-2015.html
  
  
• 2013 story, “Calhoun wins and Smoot sets record on Independence Day in Valdosta”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/valdosta-independence-2013.html
  
  
• 2012 story, “Rice and Shattles celebrate America's birthday with Valdosta 5K wins”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2012/07/valdosta-independence-2012.html
  
  
• 2011 story, “Powers and Helton make the records fall in Valdosta”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/07/valdosta-independence-2011.html
  
  
• 2010 story, “2010 story, "Rice and Horne rock the Fourth in Valdosta”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/2010-valdosta-independence-day-5k.html
  
  
• Find a race to run on the next patriotic holiday using the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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