This year’s Rotary Club of Kaua‘i Old Koloa Sugar Mill Run featured a record 391runners and walkers, a news release says. Runners and county associates started showing up long before the sun rose over the Anne Knudsen Koloa Park. By
This year’s Rotary Club of Kaua‘i Old Koloa Sugar Mill Run featured a record 391runners and walkers, a news release says.
Runners and county associates started showing up long before the sun rose over the Anne Knudsen Koloa Park. By 7 a.m. Saturday, the 5K walk and 10-mile run was off, followed at 7:30 a.m. by the 5K and 10K runs.
All children under 10 and all adults over 70 made it to the finish line, the release says.
Winners for the running events are:
5K women:first, Sunday Dillberg; second, Dakota Grossman; third, Leigh Catherine Hicks.
5K men: first, Daniel Skousen; second, Mason Vegas; third, Tyler Armijo.
10K women: first, Dawn McDaniel; second, Hildegarde Miyashiro; third, Katy Jenkins.
10K men: first, Douglas Naversen; second, Ken Mizialko; third, Marshall MacCready.
10 mile women: first, Brooke Sugahara; second, Janet Snyder; third, Tracy Capman.
10 mile men: first, Nicholas Clark; second, Scott Olson; third, Gregory Meyers.
Some 97 percent of all runners who started their race finished, the release says.
All proceeds from the event will be used to support the Rotary Club of Kaua‘i’s annual scholarship donations to the students in the Nursing and Technology departments at Kaua‘i Community College.
Last year’s $1,000 scholarship winners included: Christina Hanson, Travis Tsuda, Donica Abalos, Alton Shimatsu and Chauncey Banasihan.
