Showing posts with label Will Scott. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Scott and Smith blast by the Beachgoers in Dothan

Westgate ParkOn standard calendars the seasons, in order, are winter, spring, summer, and fall. But in athletics, the season following summer is cross-country season. And in Dothan, Alabama when the Life Is A Beach 5K Trail Race comes to Westgate Park, you know that summer is almost over and cross-country will soon be here.


Heralding the approach of another cross-country season, the Dothan Runners Club held the seventeenth annual Life Is A Beach 5K on Saturday morning, 19 August 2017. Will Scott won the race in 20:42, while Kate Smith took the women's title, placing third overall in 23:11.


Scott is heading into his sophomore year at Headland, Alabama's Headland High, where he runs on the school's cross-country team. This was his second year racing the Life Is A Beach; in 2016 he had finished runner-up to Ashlee Romani in 22:06. Twelve months later, Scott trimmed nearly a minute and a half from that time to earn his first Life Is A Beach win, finishing close to 40 meters ahead of the next runner, Dale Thomas. Thomas, the 2005 Life Is A Beach 5K champion, was the fastest master runner in the 2017 race, running 20:52. Brooks Newell edged master runner Mark McCarra for the third spot in the men's standings, 23:15 to 23:17.


Kristi Holland was the first woman master and second female finisher, placing tenth overall in 27:21. Jennifer Wade was the third woman in the 5K and eighteenth overall in 31:59.


Top Ten Men, 2017 Life Is A Beach 5K
  1. 20:42, Will Scott (M, 15)
  2. 20:52, Dale Thomas (M, 54)
  3. 23:15, Brooks Newell (M, 31)
  4. 23:17, Mark McCarra (M, 52)
  5. 25:31, Paul Turner (M, 54)
  6. 25:42, Stan Lane (M, 60)
  7. 26:19, Roger Rocha (M, 53)
  8. 27:09, David Forrester (M, 38)
  9. 28:27, Brad Sasser (M, 36)
  10. 29:03, Paul Jernigan (M, 44)

Top Ten Women, 2017 Life Is A Beach 5K
  1. 23:11, Kate Smith (F, 29)
  2. 27:21, Kristi Holland (F, 41)
  3. 31:59, Jennifer Wade (F, 32)
  4. 32:28, Sandy Turner (F, 54)
  5. 34:19, Susan Anderson (F, 55)
  6. 35:14, Hannah Popwell (F, 17)
  7. 35:50, Rene Jordan (F, 52)
  8. 36:17, Jocelyn Richardson (F, 39)
  9. 36:55, Sarah Herrell (F, 35)
  10. 37:11, Julia Moss (F, 32)

Dothan Runners' Life is a Beach 5K Trail Run Champions, 2001 - 2017
DateMenWomenFinishers
11 August 200118:18, Matt Parker24:09, Piper Stockman68
18 August 200218:55, Shawn Latshaw22:05, Teresa Lafleur75
16 August 200318:04, Myles Gibson21:09, Sandy Ebanks71
14 August 200417:24, Nicholas Ireland23:18, Ali Keith74
13 August 200520:42, Dale Thomas24:40, Nancy Hein60
12 August 200618:15, Gabe Mitchell25:45, Cassie Logan72
11 August 200718:39, Myles Gibson24:18, Amelia Carter86
16 August 200817:54, Ryan Overstreet23:20, Lou Ellen Jayroe71
15 August 200920:37, Brian Hickey23:00, Kristina Bennett62
21 August 201017:52, Nicholas Ireland21:50, Katrina Bokenfohr113
27 August 201118:57, Sean Kent17:55, Casey McDermott82
25 August 201218:26, Sean Kent24:23, Val Lichner119
24 August 201320:26, Cliff Rogers22:29, Brooke Hoopert81
23 August 201418:46, Myles Gibson24:38, Val Lichner46
22 August 201518:40, Myles Gibson23:49, Kimberly Floyd54
13 August 201622:06, Will Scott20:44, Ashlee Romani44
19 August 201720:42, Will Scott23:11, Kate Smith39


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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Ashlee Romani takes the whole pile of sand at the Life Is A Beach 5K

Westgate ParkIn August the sultry climate of South Alabama might lead you to believe that life is a beach. At least that was the conclusion of Dothan, Alabama's Dothan Runners Club back in 2001 when they named their August cross-country race through Westgate Park the Life Is A Beach 5K.


On Saturday morning, 13 August 2016, Ashlee Romani was not only the top woman at the Life Is A Beach 5K, she was the overall winner of the 16th annual race. Finishing more than 300 meters ahead of the next runner, Romani covered the 5K loop around Westgate Park in 20:44, the second fastest time posted by a female athlete in the sixteen-year history of the Life Is A Beach race. The only woman to run faster at the Life Is A Beach 5K was Casey McDermott, who won the race with a 17:55 in 2011.


Will Scott, just weeks away from starting his frosh year cross-country season at Headland High, was the first male runner in the race, placing second overall in 22:06. Tony Spicer was the fastest master runner in the race and second in the men's standings, fourth overall in 22:57. Master runner Mark McCarra was the third male finisher and fourth overall in 23:18.


Ella Richards, a seventh-grader on the Headland High cross-country team, was second in the women's standings and fifth overall in 24:15. At 25:59 Kimberly Floyd was the third woman and eleventh overall. Southwest Georgia Academy eighth-grade cross-country runner Katie Sheppard took the fourth woman's spot, finishing sixteenth overall in 27:56. Cassie Logan was the top woman master and fifth female finisher, running 28:03 for seventeenth overall.


44 athletes finished the Dothan Runners Club's 2016 Life Is A Beach 5K cross-country race.


Top Ten Women, 2016 Life Is A Beach 5K
  1. 20:44, Ashlee Romani (F, 29)
  2. 24:15, Ella Richards (F, 12)
  3. 25:59, Kimberly Floyd (F, 38)
  4. 27:56, Katie Sheppard (F, 13)
  5. 28:03, Casssie Logan (F, 53)
  6. 28:27, Chris Fox-Flowers (F, 58)
  7. 28:51, Michele Chesnut (F, 37)
  8. 30:08, Kristi Holland (F, 40)
  9. 32:07, Emma Richards (F, 13)
  10. 32:43, Amanda Robinson (F, 35)

Top Ten Men, 2016 Life Is A Beach 5K
  1. 22:06, Will Scott (M, 14)
  2. 22:57, Tony Spicer (M, 49)
  3. 23:18, Mark McCarra (M, 51)
  4. 24:28, Dave Durbin (M, 56)
  5. 25:27, Sonny Chesnut (M, 14)
  6. 25:37, David Butler (M, 51)
  7. 25:42, Sean Costello (M, 36)
  8. 25:58, Xavier Clayton (M, 25)
  9. 26:03, David Forrester (M, 37)
  10. 26:30, Bruce Hall (M, 48)

Dothan Runners' Life is a Beach 5K Trail Run Champions, 2001 - 2016
DateMenWomenFinishers
11 August 200118:18, Matt Parker24:09, Piper Stockman68
18 August 200218:55, Shawn Latshaw22:05, Teresa Lafleur75
16 August 200318:04, Myles Gibson21:09, Sandy Ebanks71
14 August 200417:24, Nicholas Ireland23:18, Ali Keith74
13 August 200520:42, Dale Thomas24:40, Nancy Hein60
12 August 200618:15, Gabe Mitchell25:45, Cassie Logan72
11 August 200718:39, Myles Gibson24:18, Amelia Carter86
16 August 200817:54, Ryan Overstreet23:20, Lou Ellen Jayroe71
15 August 200920:37, Brian Hickey23:00, Kristina Bennett62
21 August 201017:52, Nicholas Ireland21:50, Katrina Bokenfohr113
27 August 201118:57, Sean Kent17:55, Casey McDermott82
25 August 201218:26, Sean Kent24:23, Val Lichner119
24 August 201320:26, Cliff Rogers22:29, Brooke Hoopert81
23 August 201418:46, Myles Gibson24:38, Val Lichner46
22 August 201518:40, Myles Gibson23:49, Kimberly Floyd54
13 August 201622:06, Will Scott20:44, Ashlee Romani44


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