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Monday, January 27, 2025

Trent Parsons and Madeline Frank triumph at the Trent

2025 Trent 5K logo"Cancelled due to ice!" is not a message you expect to see regarding a road race in Tallahassee, Florida. Nevertheless, that was the word on the 2025 Trent 10K, courtesy of Winter Storm Enzo. But the streets weren't icy enough to stop either the Trent 5K race or the Trent one-mile fun run. Those events went ahead as planned on Saturday morning, 25 January 2025. Trent Parsons won the 5K by sixty meters, running 17:27. Madeline Frank was the first woman in that 3.1-mile race, coming in sixth overall in 18:04.


Aside from sharing a name with the race, Trent Parsons has a long connection with the Trent. A sophomore-year cross-country runner at Lincoln High, Parsons has run the Trent multiple times going back to 2019, running the 5K twice and the 10K twice. 2025 was his first Trent win.


In order to get that win, Parsons had to outrun Tallahassee master runner Leonardo Canete, the 2023 Trent 10K champ. Canete finished the 2025 Trent 5K in 17:39, coming in runner-up to Parsons. A few steps behind Canete, another Lincoln High cross-country runner, frosh Stokes Bryan, edged out Kyle Olson for third, 17:43 to 17:45.


The 5K may have been Madeline Frank's first Trent win, but it wasn't her first win of the year. Just a week earlier, Frank had been the top woman in the Gulf Winds Track Club 15K, somewhat further out of Tallahassee on Centerville Road than Roberts Elementary School, the site of the Trent.


Finishing runner-up to Frank in the women's standings, Nancy Moody was the first woman master in the race, placing eleventh overall in 21:31. Master runner Kim Katzenbach was the third woman and sixteenth overall in 23:29.


156 athletes finished the 2025 Trent 5K.


Top Ten Men, 2025 Trent 5K
  1. 17:27, Trent Parsons (M, 15) Tallahassee, FL
  2. 17:39, Leonardo Canete (M, 46) Tallahassee, FL
  3. 17:43, Stokes Bryan (M, 15) Tallahassee, FL
  4. 17:45, Kyle Olson (M, 28)
  5. 17:57, Price Wheeler (M, 19)
  6. 18:09, Aneesh Rahangdale (M, 27)
  7. 18:30, Drew Johnson (M, 38)
  8. 18:35, Landon Heitmeyer (M, 11)
  9. 20:39, Corey Osgood (M, 28)
  10. 21:44, W. Katzenbach (M, 10) Tallahassee, FL

Top Ten Women, 2025 Trent 5K
  1. 18:04, Madeline Frank (F, 28) Tallahassee, FL
  2. 21:31, Nancy Moody (F, 40) Tallahassee, FL
  3. 23:29, Kim Katzenbach (F, 41)
  4. 24:05, Georgina Hernandez (F, 34)
  5. 24:47, Kim Sims (F, 45) Tallahassee, FL
  6. 25:46, Allison Fordyce (F, 33)
  7. 27:10, Cari Ross (F, 12) Tallahassee, FL
  8. 27:49, Ashley Kantor (F, 33) Tallahassee, FL
  9. 28:06, Gingy Sampson (F, 60)
  10. 28:22, Nichols Aurora (F, 21)

Trent Trot 5K winners, 2009 - 2025
DateDistanceMenWomenFinishers
17 October 20095K17:29, Tony Guillen22:22, Cora Atkinson148
29 January 20115K19:13, Cole Tessier20:48, Laura Hanlon199
28 January 20125K17:00, Trevor Touchton20:19, Laura Hanlon208
19 January 20135K16:10, Stanley Linton19:36, Micah Adriani268
25 January 20145K17:53, Peter Kaus19:16, Lisa Johnson206
24 January 20155K16:19, Chris Lake18:49, Seeley Gutierrez574
23 January 20165K17:26, Matt Nazareth19:36, Katie Sherron554
28 January 20175K16:42, Mark Zamani20:31, Caitlin Wilkey408
27 January 20185K18:51, Corey Osgood20:37, Caitlin Wilkey366
26 January 201910K37:37, Brad Busboom40:07, Lisa Johnson123
5K18:25, Zach Deveau23:09, Kate Chunka229
25 January 202010K33:58, Trevor Sununu36:03, Ann Centner165
5K17:22, Christian Minor21:16, Clifton Lewis253
29 January 202210K37:19, Kent Grayson38:58, Katie Sherron91
5K19:18, Corey Osgood24:35, Kelly Whalon145
21 January 202310K35:49, Leonardo Canete42:31, Jordan Crawford71
5K19:12, Jonathan Kiros21:54, Charlotte Sikes182
25 January 20255K17:27, Trent Parsons18:04, Madeline Frank156
From 2009 to 2014 the race was named the Red Fox Trot 5K. In 2015 the name was
changed to the Trent Trot.

In 2012 the 5K course became USATF certified (FL11132EBM).

 In 2019 the 10K race was inaugurated on USATF-certified course FL18057TY.


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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Charlotte Sikes and Emari Thomas trot to victory at the Mustang Stampede

Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region on 30 August 2023. Schools in Leon County were closed that day and the next, so that the second meet of the county's middle school cross-country season, the Fort Braden Run, had to be rescheduled for 20 September 2023. Tallahassee's middle school harriers were back in action the following week at the eleventh annual Mustang Stampede Cross-Country Meet at Montford Middle School on Tuesday evening, 5 September 2023. Swift Creek seventh-grader Charlotte Sikes won the girls' 3K at Montford for the second year in a row, but it was the Deerlake girls who took the team title, scoring a winning 28 points. Eighth-grader Emari Thomas of Fairview went 11:32 for the win in the boys' 3K, while the Raa boys were team champs at the Stampede for the first time in school history, scoring 42 points and beating Montford on a tiebreaker.

Charlotte Sikes
Charlotte Sikes

In the future, Montford Middle School may be able to use Leon County's Northeast Park and the Welaunee Greenway for cross-country running. Neither of those existed in 2023, however, so Montford hosted the Mustang Stampede on their excellent course on the school campus. Going into the Stampede, you'd have to say that Charlotte Sikes was the favorite in the girls' 3K. The Swift Creek athlete had gone undefeated in the 2022 Leon County Schools cross-country season, winning six races, and she had extended that winning streak to seven at the ARPXC Invitational, the opening meet of the 2023 campaign. Sikes made it eight in a row at the Stampede, finishing first in 12:00 with a lead of 120 meters. Deerlake eighth-grader Chloe Molen was runner-up in 12:29. Alexis Mayfield, a Swift Creek eighth-grader, edged Deerlake seventh-grader Emma-Claire Tanenbaum for third, 12:36 to 12:37.


After the first four athletes finished, Swift Creek was up two points on Deerlake. But if Sikes had been the individual favorite in the race, Deerlake was the team favorite with a winning streak that started in 2020. After Tanenbaum took fourth for the Bucks, Deerlake eighth-grader Honesty Daniel placed fifth in 13:25, Deerlake seventh-grader Yuejong Lee was eighth in 13:42, and Deerlake eighth-grader Allie Davenport was ninth in 13:45. Deerlake had all five scorers across the line before any other team had more than two. The Bucks also had 28 points and the team title.


Sikes and Swift Creek were second with 71 points. Raa, led by seventh-grader Brixton Hernandez (6th, 13:32), placed third with 71 points.


2023 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Girls
  1. Deerlake, 28
  2. Swift Creek, 46
  3. Raa, 71
  4. Montford, 100
  5. Cobb, 160
  6. Fairview, 190
  7. Fort Braden, 214
  8. Griffin, 215
  9. Woodville, NTS
    Nims, NTS

Top 10 Girls, 2023 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 11:59.08, Charlotte Sikes (Swift Creek) 7
  2. 12:28.04, Chloe Molen (Deerlake) 8
  3. 12:35.30, Alexis Mayfield (Swift Creek) 8
  4. 12:36.26, Emma-Claire Tanenbaum (Deerlake) 7
  5. 13:24.05, Honesty Daniel (Deerlake) 8
  6. 13:31.01, Brixton Menendez (Raa) 7
  7. 13:32.08, Reagan Kingsley (Raa) 7
  8. 13:41.97, Yujeong Lee (Deerlake) 7
  9. 13:43.36, Allie Davenport (Deerlake) 8
  10. 14:02.75, Morgan Lord (Deerlake) 7

Eighth-grader Emari Thomas, Fairview's ace, had won a close race in the season opener at the ARPXC Invitational on 23 August 2023, finishing five seconds before Montford's Jack Nottingham. At the Mustang Stampede, Thomas won an even closer contest. This time he came out on top by just three seconds, beating the runner-up, Raa eighth-grader Carson Weiss, to the finish line 11:32 to 11:35. Just behind Weiss, Deerlake seventh-grader Jacob Hassell was third in 11:36, and Jack Nottingham fourth in 11:37.

Emari Thomas
Emari Thomas

Montford, racing on their home course, had three more athletes in the top ten--eighth-grader Johannes Hassell (8th, 12:16), sixth-grader Chase Sims (9th, 12:23), and sixth-grader Isaiah Renn (10th, 12:25). When Montford's eighth-grader Blake Swanson (11th, 12:29) had finished, the Mustang boys had 42 points. But Raa's scorers--Carson Weiss, seventh-grader Emerson Gandy (6th, 11:53), eighth-grader Alden Weiss (7th, 12:02), seventh-grader Connor Cherry (13th, 12:41), and sixth-grader Fife Duncan--put up and identical 42 points. The meet would be decided on a tiebreaker. In Leon County, the middle schools use the National Federation of High Schools rule for tie scores--the sixth runner determines the winner. Raa's sixth was seventh-grader Christian Acree, and Acree placed fifteenth in 12:44--just ahead of Montford's sixth, eighth-grader Jack Spicer, sixteenth in 12:53. With the faster sixth runner, Raa had won the meet.

Deerlake, led by Jacob Hassell, scored 67 points, placing third in the eight-team field.


The 2023 Mustang Stampede was timed and scored by Brian Corbin.


2023 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Boys
  1. Raa, 42
  2. Montford, 42
  3. Deerlake, 67
  4. Fairview, 117
  5. Swift Creek, 124
  6. Cobb, 171
  7. Fort Braden, 212
  8. Griffin, 230
  9. Nims, NTS
    Woodville, NTS

Top 10 Boys, 2023 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 11:31.49, Emari Thomas (Fairview) 8
  2. 11:34.44, Carson Weiss (Raa) 8
  3. 11:35.84, Jacob Hassell (Deerlake) 7
  4. 11:36.99, Jack Nottingham (Montford) 7
  5. 11:50.87, Nicholas Hassell (Deerlake) 7
  6. 11:52.09, Emerson Gandy (Raa) 7
  7. 12:01.85, Alden Weiss (Raa) 8
  8. 12:15.62, Johannes Hassell (Montford) 8
  9. 12:22.43, Chase Sims (Montford) 6
  10. 12:24.96, Isaiah Renn (Montford) 6

Mustang Cross-Country Stampede Champions
2013 - 2022
Girls
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Swift Creek, 37 points13:42, Saige Kemeny (Montford) 7
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 3412:46, Lawton Campbell (Deerlake) 8
30 September 2015Swift Creek, 4312:25, Emily Molen (Deerlake) 8
28 September 2016Montford, 4313:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 6
28 September 2017Swift Creek, 2013:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 7
20 September 2018Montford, 4011:45, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 4013:03, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 6
14 October 2020Deerlake, 1812:50, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 7
7 September 2021Deerlake, 2211:55, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake ) 8
6 September 2022Deerlake, 2812:29, Charlotte Sikes (Swift Creek) 6
5 September 2023Deerlake, 2812:00, Charlotte Sikes (Swift Creek) 7
Boys
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Montford, 56 points11:56, Jacob Dodson (Raa) 8
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 6612:14, Tavaris King (Griffin) 8
30 September 2015Deerlake, 4311:56, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2016Swift Creek, 3911:28, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2017Deerlake, 4211:15, Ben Kirbo (Montford) 8
20 September 2018Deerlake, 349:43, Wyatt Townsend (Deerlake) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 3610:54, Patrick Koon (Fairview) 8
14 October 2020Deerlake, 4311:31, Danny Mauldin (Deerlake) 8
7 September 2021Montford, 4511:02, Asa Swope (Swift Creek ) 8
6 September 2022Deerlake, 4910:55, Caio Zacchi (Nims) 8
5 September 2023Raa, 4211:32, Emari Thomas (Fairview) 8
From 2013 to 2017, the race distance at the Mustang Stampede was two miles. In
2018 the distance was changed to three kilometers.


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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Charlotte Sikes and Caio Zacchi each pick up a third conference win at the Mustang Stampede

The middle school harriers of Leon County Schools were at Montford Middle School on Tuesday, 6 September 2022, for the tenth annual Mustang Stampede Cross-Country Meet. Deerlake swept the team titles, with the girls putting up a winning 28 points and the boys' squad scoring 49. But the individual titles went to other school--Swift Creek sixth-grader Charlotte Sikes won the girls' 3K in 12:29, and Nims eighth-grader Caio Zacchi took first in the boys' 3K with a 10:55.

Charlotte Sikes
Charlotte Sikes

The meet opened at 6:00 PM with the start of the girls' 3K. A few seconds later, Charlotte Sikes was leading the field around the grounds of Montford. Haley Heitmeyer, a Montford eighth-grader, led the pursuit for most of the race, but no one was ever close enough to challenge Sikes; the Swift Creek sixth-grader had a lead of more than 80 meters when she crossed the finish line first in 12:29. Deerlake eighth-grader Kaia Ables passed Heitmeyer on the homestretch to take second in 12:47. Heitmeyer was third in 12:49.


Including Ables, all of the Deerlake scorers were in the top ten. Sixth-grader Emma-Claire Tanenbaum was fourth in 13:19, seventh-grader Chloe Molen was fifth in 13:23, seventh-grader Katie Webb was eighth in 14:20, and sixth-grader Yujeong Lee was ninth in 14:21. That gave the Deerlake girls 28 points and first place in the eight-team field. It was the fourth year in a row that the Buck girls had won the Mustang Stampede.

Kaia Ables
Haley Heitmeyer leading Kaia Ables

Heitmeyer and the Montford girls put up 41 points to place second in the team standings. Sikes and Swift Creek edged the Raa girls for third, 92 to 95.


2022 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Girls
  1. Deerlake, 28
  2. Montford, 41
  3. Swift Creek, 92
  4. Raa, 95
  5. Cobb, 130
  6. Fairview, 166
  7. Nims, 212
  8. Griffin, 231
  9. Fort Braden, NTS
    Woodville, NTS

Top 10 Girls, 2022 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 12:28.86, Charlotte Sikes (Swift Creek) 6
  2. 12:46.90, Kaia Ables (Deerlake) 8
  3. 12:48.95, Haley Heitmeyer (Montford) 8
  4. 13:18.75, Emma-Claire Tanenbaum (Deerlake) 6
  5. 13:22.25, Chloe Molen (Deerlake) 7
  6. 13:31.22, Savannah Stanley (Montford) 8
  7. 13:34.33, Andi Vilardo (Montford) 8
  8. 14:19.69, Katie Webb (Deerlake) 7
  9. 14:20.89, Yujeong Lee (Deerlake) 6
  10. 14:21.37, Andrea Jimenez (Montford) 6

By the end of the first kilometer of the boys' 3K, Caio Zacchi, wearing Nims Middle School black, was the clear leader. A trio of eighth-graders were a few seconds back--Jack Koon of Fairview, Jonathan Kiros of Deerlake, and Gavin Poucher of Montford. During the second kilometer Koon pulled away from Kiros and Poucher, but lost a few more steps to Zacchi. Zacchi maintained his lead through the final kilometer, finishing first in 10:55. Koon was second in 11:03. Kiros dropped Poucher on the homestretch to take third, 11:07 to 11:11.

Caio Zacchi
Caio Zacchi

Ten schools had boys' teams in the Mustang Stampede, the most ever in the ten-year history of the annual meet. Montford, the host school, were defending champions; the Mustangs put Gavin Poucher and eighth-grader Trent Parsons (7th, 11:40) in the top ten. But Deerlake also had two runners in the top ten, Kiros and and sixth-grader Jack Hassell (6th, 11:37). Sixth-grader Nicholas Hassell (11th, 12:24) and eighth-graders Hagen Perdue (13th, 12:25) and Camden Williams (16th, 12:45) complete Deerlake's scoring, giving the Bucks 49 points and first place--their school's fifth Mustang Stampede boys' team title in the last six years.


Poucher and Montford tallied 58 points to take second. Koon and Fairview placed third with 89 points.

Jack Koon
Jack Koon, Gavin Poucher, Jonathan Kiros

With the Mustang Stampede in the books, the fourth meet on the schedule of Leon County Schools' 202s middle school cross-country season is the Everhart Invitational at Gretchen Everhart School on Wednesday morning, 14 September 2022. The season coninues with the Falcon Invitational at the North Florida Fairgrounds on 22 September 2025, the Mabry Invitational at the FSU Rec Sportsplex on 30 September 2022, and the LCS League Championship Meet at Apalachee Regional Park on 5 October 2025.


2022 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Boys
  1. Deerlake, 49
  2. Montford, 58
  3. Fairview, 89
  4. Raa, 116
  5. Swift Creek, 124
  6. Cobb, 152
  7. Nims, 214
  8. Fort Braden, 215
  9. Griffin, 232
  10. Woodville, 293

Top 10 Boys, 2022 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 10:54.82, Caio Zacchi (Nims) 8
  2. 11:02.28, Jack Koon (Fairview) 8
  3. 11:06.99, Jonathan Kiros (Deerlake) 8
  4. 11:10.48, Gavin Poucher (Montford) 8
  5. 11:35.90, Emari Thomas (Fairview) 7
  6. 11:36.45, Jacob Hassell (Deerlake) 6
  7. 11:39.63, Trent Parsons (Montford) 8
  8. 11:40.44, Antonio Clements (Cobb) 7
  9. 11:48.44, Cooper Rideout (Swift Creek) 8
  10. 12:13.06, Ethan Nicholson (Fairview) 8

Mustang Cross-Country Stampede Champions
2013 - 2022
Girls
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Swift Creek, 37 points13:42, Saige Kemeny (Montford) 7
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 3412:46, Lawton Campbell (Deerlake) 8
30 September 2015Swift Creek, 4312:25, Emily Molen (Deerlake) 8
28 September 2016Montford, 4313:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 6
28 September 2017Swift Creek, 2013:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 7
20 September 2018Montford, 4011:45, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 4013:03, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 6
14 October 2020Deerlake, 1812:50, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 7
7 September 2021Deerlake, 2211:55, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake ) 8
6 September 2022Deerlake, 2812:29, Charlotte Sikes (Swift Creek) 6
Boys
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Montford, 56 points11:56, Jacob Dodson (Raa) 8
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 6612:14, Tavaris King (Griffin) 8
30 September 2015Deerlake, 4311:56, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2016Swift Creek, 3911:28, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2017Deerlake, 4211:15, Ben Kirbo (Montford) 8
20 September 2018Deerlake, 349:43, Wyatt Townsend (Deerlake) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 3610:54, Patrick Koon (Fairview) 8
14 October 2020Deerlake, 4311:31, Danny Mauldin (Deerlake) 8
7 September 2021Montford, 4511:02, Asa Swope (Swift Creek ) 8
6 September 2022Deerlake, 4910:55, Caio Zacchi (Nims) 8
From 2013 to 2017, the race distance at the Mustang Stampede was two miles. In
2018 the distance was changed to three kilometers.


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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Abbey Griffin and Asa Swope race like thoroughbreds at the Mustang Stampede

Abbey Griffin placed second in the girls' 3K at the 2020 Mustang Stampede Middle School Cross-Country Meet. Asa Swope finished fourth in the boys' 3K at the same meet. Both Griffin and Swope were back at Montford Middle School on Tuesday, 7 September 2021 for the ninth annual Mustand Stampede, the third meet of Leon County Schools' middle school cross-country season. Griffin, now an eighth-grader at Deerlake, won the girls' race this time around, running 11:55. Swope ran 11:02 to take first in the boys' event. The Deerlake girls successfully defended their team title, scoring a mathematically unbeatable 22 points. Racing on their home course, the Montford boys captured their first team win of 2021, putting up 45 points.

Abbey Griffin
Abbey Griffin

The humidity was high but cloudy skies had kept the temperature down when the girls' 3K started at 6:00 PM. After a kilometer of racing, London Mellen had the lead, closely followed by Kyra Swart, both Deerlake eighth-graders. Five days earlier, Mellen had won the girls' 3K at the Fort Braden Run, the second meet of the season. Swart had won the Mustang Stampede in 2021. Abbey Griffin was a few steps behind the two leaders when the race turned into the woods.


Coming out of the woods a kilometer later, Mellen was still leading and Griffin had moved into second. Swart had fallen back, replaced by two Montford seventh-graders--Annabelle Wiktorski and Andi Vilardo.


Griffin broke away on the homestretch. She looked back over her shoulder as she charged for the finish line, then looked again, but she made it there first in 11:55. Behind Griffin, Wiktorski was challenging Mellen for the runner-up spot. Wiktorski had the better kick that day and finished second in 11:56, while Mellen was third in 11:57. Vilardo finished fourth in 12:04.

Deerlake Girls
Deerlake Girls

The next three finishers were all Deerlake Bucks--sixth-grader Chloe Molen was fifth in 12:31, seventh-grader Kaia Ables was sixth in 12:35, and sixth-grader Honesty Daniel was seventh in 12:37. Once Daniel was safely home, the Bucks had 22 points and the first place in the eight-team field.


Led by Wiktorski, Montford was second with 40 points. Swift Creek placed third with 102 points; their top runner was eighth-grader Emily Bullough, fourteenth in 14:02.


2021 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Girls
  1. Deerlake, 22
  2. Montford, 40
  3. Swift Creek, 102
  4. Raa, 112
  5. Cobb, 136
  6. Fairview, 137
  7. Nims, 202
  8. Griffin, 238
  9. Woodville, NTS
    Fort Braden, NTS

Top 10 Girls, 2021 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 11:54.02, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake ) 8
  2. 11:55.64, Annabelle Wiktorski (Montford ) 7
  3. 11:56.76, London Mellen (Deerlake ) 8
  4. 12:03.05, Andi Vilardo (Montford ) 7
  5. 12:30.98, Chloe Molen (Deerlake ) 6
  6. 12:34.85, Kaia Ables (Deerlake ) 7
  7. 12:36.44, Honesty Daniel (Deerlake ) 6
  8. 12:38.91, Savannah Stanley (Montford ) 7
  9. 12:42.57, Madeline Morris (Deerlake ) 8
  10. 12:53.96, Haley Heitmeyer (Montford ) 7



Gavin Poucher, a Montford seventh-grader, was leading the boys' 3K at the end of the first kilometer. During the second kilometer, though, Asa Swope and Jonathan Kiros took over. Swope, a Swift Creek eighth-grader, and Kiros, a Deerlake seventh-grader, had tangled in the two earlier meets of the season, the ARPXC Invitational and the Fort Braden Run. Kiros had won their first match and Swope the second. At the Mustang Stampede, Swope made it two out of three, running away from Kiros late in the third kilometer to take first in 11:02. Kiros finished runner-up in 11:10. In a battle to the finish line, Nims seventh-grader Celestine Rwamptie edged Fairview seventh-grader Jack Koon for third, 11:12 to 11:13.

Jonathan Kiros, Asa Swope
Jonathan Kiros and Asa Swope

Montford's Poucher placed fifth in 11:20. He was only the first Mustang in the top ten--seventh-grader Trent Parsons was sixth in 11:35 and eighth-grader Edward Bass was tenth in 11:55, both wearing Montford maroon. Montford's remaining scorers were seventh-grader Parker Smith (11th, 12:03) and eighth-grader Matthew Hauser (13th, 12:07), giving the Mustangs 45 points and the boys' team title.


Swope and Swift Creek placed second with 69 points. Deerlake, led by Kiros, took third with 69 points. The Deerlake boys had won the first meet of the season and Swift Creek the second, but the third meet belonged to the Mustangs.

Montford Boys
Montford Boys

The fourth meet on the schedule of Leon County Schools' 2021 middle school cross-country season is the Everhart Invitational at Gretchen Everhart School on Wednesday morning, 15 September 2021. The season coninues with the Falcon Invitational at the North Florida Fairgrounds on 23 September 2021, the Mabry Invitational at the FSU Rec Sportsplex on 1 October 2021, and the LCS League Championship Meet at Apalachee Regional Park on 7 October 2021.


2021 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Boys
  1. Montford, 45
  2. Swift Creek, 64
  3. Deerlake, 69
  4. Fairview, 77
  5. Cobb, 162
  6. Raa, 186
  7. Nims, 196
  8. Fort Braden, 206
  9. Woodville, 232
  10. Griffin, NTS

Top 10 Boys, 2021 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 11:01.06, Asa Swope (Swift Creek ) 8
  2. 11:09.12, Jonathan Kiros (Deerlake ) 7
  3. 11:11.30, Celestine Rwamptie (Nims ) 7
  4. 11:12.21, Jack Koon (Fairview ) 7
  5. 11:19.31, Gavin Poucher (Montford ) 7
  6. 11:34.06, Trent Parsons (Montford ) 7
  7. 11:34.28, Thoren Knispel (Swift Creek ) 8
  8. 11:41.73, Kingsley Knispel (Swift Creek ) 8
  9. 11:48.83, Emari Thomas (Fairview ) 6
  10. 11:54.24, Edward Bass (Montford ) 8

Mustang Cross-Country Stampede Champions
2013 - 2021
Girls
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Swift Creek, 37 points13:42, Saige Kemeny (Montford) 7
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 3412:46, Lawton Campbell (Deerlake) 8
30 September 2015Swift Creek, 4312:25, Emily Molen (Deerlake) 8
28 September 2016Montford, 4313:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 6
28 September 2017Swift Creek, 2013:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 7
20 September 2018Montford, 4011:45, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 4013:03, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 6
14 October 2020Deerlake, 1812:50, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 7
7 September 2021Deerlake, 2211:55, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake ) 8
Boys
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Montford, 56 points11:56, Jacob Dodson (Raa) 8
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 6612:14, Tavaris King (Griffin) 8
30 September 2015Deerlake, 4311:56, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2016Swift Creek, 3911:28, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2017Deerlake, 4211:15, Ben Kirbo (Montford) 8
20 September 2018Deerlake, 349:43, Wyatt Townsend (Deerlake) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 3610:54, Patrick Koon (Fairview) 8
14 October 2020Deerlake, 4311:31, Danny Mauldin (Deerlake) 8
7 September 2021Montford, 4511:02, Asa Swope (Swift Creek ) 8
From 2013 to 2017, the race distance at the Mustang Stampede was two miles. In
2018 the distance was changed to three kilometers.


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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Kyra Swart and Danny Mauldin win while Deerlake sweeps the Mustang Stampede

Leon County Schools' middle school cross-country season returned to familiar ground on Wednesday evening, 14 October 2020. After two weeks of racing on new courses, first at the Alford Greenway and next at the Golf and Country Club, the LCS harriers headed to Montford Middle School on the north side of Tallahassee for the eighth annual Mustang Stampede. The venue was especially familiar to Deerlake seventh-grader Kyra Swart, who had won the girls' 3K at Montford in 2019. Swart successfully defended her title in the 2020 race, running the three kilometers in 12:50 and leading her team to a winning score of 18 points. The Deerlake boys team won team honors for the fourth year in a row and fifth time in six years, edging Swift Creek 43 to 48. Danny Mauldin, a Deerlake eighth-grader, earned his second win of the season, running 11:31.

Kyra Swart
Kyra Swart

The 2019 Mustang Stampede girls' 3K was Kyra Swart's first LCS cross-country win. She hasn't lost a Leon County Schools race since, a winning streak that stands at six races. Swart led most of the way at the 2020 Mustang Stampede, never more than a few steps ahead, but nevertheless always ahead--especially at the finish line, where she was first in 12:50. Just behind Swart, Deerlake seventh-grader Abbey Griffin took second in 13:07. Sophia Youngberg, a Montford eighth-grader, interrupted the parade of Deerlake green by grabbing third with a 13:07.

Abbey Griffin
Abbey Griffin

But after Youngberg the Deerlake procession resumed. Buck sixth-graders Myra Holman and Kaia Ables were fourth in 13:14 and fifth in 13:16. London Mellen, a Deerlake seventh-grader, followed them across the line, sixth in 31:21. The Deerlake girls had a mathematically unbeatable 18 points, successfully defending their 2019 Stampede title.


Led by Youngberg, the girls from Montford, the host school, placed second with 40 points. Raa stood third among the six girls' teams, scoring 83 points behind Ram seventh-grader Cecilia Veliz (8th, 13:45).


2020 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Girls
  1. Deerlake, 18
  2. Montford, 40
  3. Raa, 83
  4. Cobb, 125
  5. Swift Creek, 136
  6. Nims, 150
  7. Fort Braden, NTS
    Fairview, NTS
    Woodville, NTS

Top 10 Girls, 2020 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 12:49.63, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 7
  2. 12:54.73, Abbey Griffin (Deerlake) 7
  3. 13:06.65, Sophia Youngberg (Montford) 8
  4. 13:13.86, Myra Holman (Deerlake) 6
  5. 13:15.81, Kaia Ables (Deerlake) 6
  6. 13:20.72, London Mellen (Deerlake) 7
  7. 13:39.41, Adriena Vilardo (Montford) 6
  8. 13:44.89, Cecilia Veliz (Raa) 7
  9. 13:56.32, Haley Heitmeyer (Montford) 6
  10. 13:57.65, Ava Hill (Montford) 8

Raa eighth-grader Cadden Maxwell led for most of the first kilometer of the boys' 3K, but he fell back during the second half of the race, ultimately finishing seventh in 12:24. The fading Maxwell was overtaken by a pack of four athletes--Danny Mauldin of Deerlake, Asher Robertson of Swift Creek, Neal Porter of Montford, and Asa Swope of Swift Creek. The lead group strung out as Robertson, an eighth-grader, charged ahead. With less than 400 meters left in the race, Robertson was still in front, ten meters ahead of Mauldin. Then Mauldin made his move.

Asa Swope, Neal Porter, Asher Robertson, Danny Mauldin
Boys' 3K

On the way to the finish line Mauldin passed Robertson, going on to win 11:31 to 11:36. Eighth-grader Porter was third in 11:45, and seventh-grader Swope placed fourth in 11:45.


Swift Creek had three athletes in the top ten--Robertson, Swope, and eighth-grader Connor Aarons (10th, 12:42). Deerlake also put three in the top ten--winner Mauldin, plus eighth-graders Logan Peltier (5th, 12:10) and Petyon Allen (9th, 12:35). But Deerlake put eighth-grader Mathew Miralles (12th, 12:43) across the finish line ahead of Swift Creek's fourth runner, and Deerlake sixth-graders Sawyer McNeely (16th, 12:51) and Jonathan Kiros (17th, 12:52) were in before Swift Creek's fifth scorer. That was enough to put the Deerlake boys first in the nine-team field with 45 points, keeping the Bucks undefeated in 2020 league competition.

Danny Mauldin
Danny Mauldin

Swift Creek was a close second with 48 points. Montford took third with a score of 81.


2020 Mustang Stampede Team Standings, Boys
  1. Deerlake, 43
  2. Swift Creek, 48
  3. Montford, 81
  4. Fairview, 109
  5. Raa, 133
  6. Cobb, 161
  7. Nims, 173
  8. Fort Braden, 238
  9. Woodville, 276
  10. Griffin, NTS

Top 10 Boys, 2020 Montford Mustang Stampede 3K
  1. 11:30.94, Danny Mauldin (Deerlake) 8
  2. 11:35.57, Asher Robertson (Swift Creek) 8
  3. 11:44.81, Neal Porter (Montford) 8
  4. 11:56.57, Asa Swope (Swift Creek) 7
  5. 12:09.45, Logan Peltier (Deerlake) 8
  6. 12:09.97, Xalimon Akbar (Fairview) 8
  7. 12:23.54, Cadden Maxwell (Raa) 8
  8. 12:26.49, Julian Thompson (Raa) 8
  9. 12:34.55, Peyton Allen (Deerlake) 8
  10. 12:41.17, Connor Aarons (Swift Creek) 8

Mustang Cross-Country Stampede Champions
2013 - 2020
Girls
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Swift Creek, 37 points13:42, Saige Kemeny (Montford) 7
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 3412:46, Lawton Campbell (Deerlake) 8
30 September 2015Swift Creek, 4312:25, Emily Molen (Deerlake) 8
28 September 2016Montford, 4313:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 6
28 September 2017Swift Creek, 2013:12, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 7
20 September 2018Montford, 4011:45, Paige Churchill (Swift Creek) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 4013:03, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 6
14 October 2020Deerlake, 1812:50, Kyra Swart (Deerlake) 7
Boys
DateTeam ChampIndividual Champ
27 September 2013Montford, 56 points11:56, Jacob Dodson (Raa) 8
10 September 2014Swift Creek, 6612:14, Tavaris King (Griffin) 8
30 September 2015Deerlake, 4311:56, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2016Swift Creek, 3911:28, Weston Blake (Swift Creek) 7
28 September 2017Deerlake, 4211:15, Ben Kirbo (Montford) 8
20 September 2018Deerlake, 349:43, Wyatt Townsend (Deerlake) 8
19 September 2019Deerlake, 3610:54, Patrick Koon (Fairview) 8
14 October 2020Deerlake, 4311:31, Danny Mauldin (Deerlake) 8
From 2013 to 2017, the race distance at the Mustang Stampede was two miles. In
2018 the distance was changed to three kilometers.


Brian Corbin timed and scored Montford Middle School's eighth annual Mustang Stampede. There are two more events left in Leon County Schools' 2020 middle school cross-country season, starting with the third annual Falcon Invitational at the Florida State University SportsPlex on 23 October 2020. The season concludes with the LCS League Championship Meet on 28 October 2020 at Apalachee Regional Park.


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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Spencer Amsellem and L. A. Hanlon pick up 5K wins in Centerville

North of Tallahassee, Florida on the streets of the Centerville Conservation Community, Spencer Amsellem won the fourth annual Run The Race 5K on Saturday, morning, 16 November 2019. Running a winning time of 17:38, Amsellem finished more than 180 meters ahead of his nearest challenger. Tallahassee master runner L. A. Hanlon was the first woman in the 5K, placing tenth overall in 20:47.



Earlier in the month, Amsellem had finished his senior year season on the Chiles High cross-country team. He wasn't the only Chiles harrier in the race. Hawthorne Hay, another senior on the team, finished runner-up to Amsellem in 18:18. Jackson Rowe was third in 18:59. An eighth-grader on the Montford Middle School cross-country squad, Rowe is looking forward to racing for Chiles during the 2020 cross-country season. Noah Deem, a seventh-grader on Community Leadership Academy's cross-country team, took fourth in 19:24.


More than three minutes after Moody, the women's champ, crossed the finish line, Nancy Moody came home in 24:00, placing second in the women's standings and 23rd overall in 24:00. Sophie Smith was the third female finisher and 27th overall in 24:42.


127 athletes finished the 2019 Run The Race 5K, the most in the four-year history of the race. Miles & Minutes, LLC, of Tallahassee timed the race.


Top Ten Men, 2019 Run The Race 5K
  1. 17:37.40, Spencer Amsellem (M, 18)
  2. 18:17.30, Hawthorne Hay (M, 17)
  3. 18:58.40, Jackson Rowe (M, 13)
  4. 19:23.20, Noah Deem (M, 12)
  5. 19:31.60, Finn Tucker (M, 17)
  6. 19:45.20, Paul Guyas (M, 42)
  7. 20:16.50, Brent Moody (M, 34)
  8. 20:28.30, C Massa (M, 17)
  9. 20:38.40, Will Winsor (M, 13)
  10. 21:00.90, Peter Boulware Jr. (M, 13)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Run The Race 5K
  1. 20:46.80, L.A. Hanlon (F, 41)
  2. 24:00.00, Nancy Moody (F, 35)
  3. 24:41.40, Sophie Smith (F, 35)
  4. 25:13.80, Camryn Deem (F, 16)
  5. 27:07.40, Lethia Wainwright (F, 21)
  6. 27:07.60, Jade Finch (F, 22)
  7. 27:24.40, Mitzi Woods (F, 43)
  8. 28:00.20, Brice Barnes (F, 38)
  9. 28:14.60, A Pragle (F, 40)
  10. 29:16.10, Cheryl Tomlinson (F, 35)

Run The Race 5K winners, 2016 - 2019
DateMenWomenFinishers
5 November 201621:06, Logan Venclauskas22:02, Shannon Colavecchio111
7 November 201520:07, Logan Venclauskas25:27, Kara Brodley88
4 November 201722:09, Brent Moody23:30, L.A. Hanlon95
16 November 201917:38, Spencer Amsellem20:47, L.A. Hanlon127


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Monday, March 11, 2019

Wyatt Townsend and Katie Sherron race to Habitat 5K wins

As far as I know, during the 1890s there was no school in the farming community of Centerville, Florida. There was, however, a one-room schoolhouse in the neighboring village of Bradfordville. Depending on where you lived in Centerville, it would have been a three- or four-mile walk, but people of that era didn't fear walking. Some child, like a young Kip Keino, might have run the whole way. Putting in several miles running to school and back each day, he or she might have even become pretty good. Did an Olympic-caliber athlete live unnoticed in Centerville a century ago?


The Centerville of 2019 has both Roberts Elementary School and Montford Middle School, as well as cars and buses to take students to more distant high schools. The Bradfordville area has Killearn Lakes Elementary School, Deerlake Middle School, Chiles High School, and its own fleet of automobiles. One of those brought Deerlake eighth-grader Wyatt Townsend to the Centerville Conservation Community on Saturday morning, 9 March 2019, where Townsend won the fifth annual Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K, running 18:17. Florida State University economics professor Dr. Katie Sherron was the first woman in the race, placing fifth overall in 21:21.


Unlike the Centerville athlete I imagined, Townsend is no undiscovered country runner. He was undefeated during the 2018 middle school cross-country season, winning the FLYRA middle school state championship in the sport. Twenty seconds behind Townsend in the Habitat 5K, Jason McClung was second in 18:37. Zach DeVeau, fourth in the 2018 Habitat 5K, finished third in the 2019 race with a 19:13. Dan Manausa was the first master runner and fifth male finisher, sixth overall in 21:40.


Just a few steps behind Manausa, Jennifer Kilinski was seventh overall in 21:43, the first woman master and second female finisher. Master runner Monica Judd the 2016 Habitat 5K women's champ, was the third woman in the 2019 race, coming in ninth overall in 21:55.


65 athletes finished the 2019 Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K. Gulf Winds Track Club of Tallahassee, Florida chip-timed the race.


Top Ten Men, 2019 Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K
  1. 18:17, Wyatt Townsend (M, 14)
  2. 18:37, Jason McClung (M, 33)
  3. 19:13, Zach Deveau (M, 31)
  4. 20:25, Jason Graham (M, 39)
  5. 21:40, Dan Manausa (M, 49)
  6. 21:48, Joe Dorn (M, 38)
  7. 22:17, Angelo Cicatello (M, 32)
  8. 22:36, Chris Kuhn (M, 48)
  9. 22:51, Ben Betts (M, 49)
  10. 23:47, Mark Tombrink (M, 31)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K
  1. 21:21, Kate Sherron (F, 37)
  2. 21:43, Jennifer Kilinski (F, 40)
  3. 21:55, Monica Judd (F, 44)
  4. 23:56, Nancy Stedman (F, 57)
  5. 24:57, Belinda Wharton (F, 58)
  6. 26:55, Jensen Reinert (F, 30)
  7. 29:48, Chrissy Lee (F, 30)
  8. 30:20, Mollie Palme Palmer (F, 64)
  9. 31:57, Lindsey Thompson (F, 39)
  10. 34:06, Susan Cornwell (F, 69)

Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K winners, 2014 - 2019
DateMenWomenFinishers
15 November 201418:58, Michael Martinez21:16, Kate Harrison100
14 November 201517:59, Grady Smith23:12, Nancy Moody93
12 November 201617:58, Geb Kiros23:07, Monica Judd80
10 March 201818:44, Kurt Dietrich18:47, Sheryl Rosen77
9 March 201918:17, Wyatt Townsend21:21, Kate Sherron65


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Saturday, March 10, 2018

Dietrich wins and Rosen runs a record 18:47 at the Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K

Like much of Leon County, during the 1800s the country around Centerville, Florida was given over to cotton production. Before the cotton came, though, the land had been covered in wiregrass and longleaf pines. And as the cotton fields disappeared during the twentieth century, the Centerville area returned to wiregrass and longleaf pine. More recently, the Centerville Conservation Community was established, guaranteeing that a portion of the Centerville district will remain wiregrass-and-pine, punctuated with the occasional house. Oh, and some paved streets, too, because to get to their home in an exclusive conservation community, no one wants to drive on a dirt road.

Kurt Dietrich, Sheryl Rosen

On those Centerville streets, Kurt Dietrich held off Sheryl Rosen, 18:44 to 18:47, to win the fourth annual Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K on Saturday morning, 10 March 2018. Rosen's time was a new women's record for the event, eclipsing the old mark of 21:16 set by Kate Harrison in 2014 at the inaugural Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K.


Gary Droze was the first master runner in the race and the second male finisher, placing third overall in 19:48. Master runner Geb Kiros was third in the men's standings and fourth overall in 19:48. Kiros had won the race in 2016, setting the Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K record of 17:58.


Nancy Moody was the second woman in the 5K and ninth overall in 22:46. Monica Judd, the 2016 women's champ, was the top woman master in the 2018 race and the third female finisher, tenth overall in 22:55.


77 athletes finished the 2018 Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K. Gulf Winds Track Club timed the race.


Top Ten Men, 2018 Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K
  1. 18:44, Kurt Dietrich (M, 26)
  2. 19:03, Gary Droze (M, 56)
  3. 19:48, Geb Kiros (M, 51)
  4. 20:26, Zach DeVeau (M, 30)
  5. 22:07, Dan Manausa (M, 48)
  6. 22:44, Micah Grossman (M, 11)
  7. 22:45, Zachary Grossman (M, 40)
  8. 22:58, Jon Roddenberry (M, 44)
  9. 24:13, Michael Labossiere (M, 51)
  10. 24:18, Stephen Genstis (M, 62)

    Top Ten Women, 2018 Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K
    1. 18:47, Sheryl Rosen (F, 33)
    2. 22:46, Nancy Moody (F, 33)
    3. 22:55, Monica Judd (F, 43)
    4. 23:48, Maya Tang (F, 12)
    5. 25:47, Nancy Stedman (F, 56)
    6. 25:58, Elise Ferguson (F, 47)
    7. 26:37, Stephanie Hurt (F, 66)
    8. 26:46, Francee Laywell (F, 56)
    9. 27:31, Debbie Peters (F, 57)
    10. 27:47, Cheryl Moore (F, 50)

    Big Bend Habitat For Humanity 5K winners, 2014 - 2018
    DateMenWomenFinishers
    15 November 201418:58, Michael Martinez21:16, Kate Harrison100
    14 November 201517:59, Grady Smith23:12, Nancy Moody93
    12 November 201617:58, Geb Kiros23:07, Monica Judd80
    10 March 201818:44, Kurt Dietrich18:47, Sheryl Rosen77


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