PSC Snowshoe Runners Host Day 2 of the Adirondack Snowshoe Festival at the Paul Smith's College VIC

2022 Striders ~ Results

Adirondack Snowshoe Festival 5K & 10K Snowshoe Races

Paul Smith's College Visitor's Interpretive Center

Paul Smiths, NY  12970

Held: 27 February 2022

Race Summary:  Eight members of the Paul Smith's College Snowshoe Team headed to the Paul Smith's College VIC for the Adirondack Snowshoe Festival on February 27th to take part in the second day of the Adirondack Snowshoe Festival 5 and 15K snowshoe races.  Trail groomer, Tyler Dezago laid out a 5K course that circumnavigated Heron Marsh.  Given the additional six inches of fluffy snow that fell overnight and continued to fall through the races, he did a great job of packing down this fluffy snow on top of the previous dumping we received through the day on Friday. 

Zack Sprott – Scribner and Sam Finger ran valiantly over the 15K distance (9.3 miles) but were again no match for event winner, Matt Medeiros of Saranac, NY.  Medeiros won the 15K event in 1:15:57, while Sprott – Scribner place second in 1:25:14, and Finger placed third in 1:36:06.  For Zack, this was six minutes better than his 15K time from a couple weeks ago at Moreau Lake State Park, just north of Saratoga, NY. 

Carson Wohlers won the men's 5K in 28:48, followed closely by teammate Alex Cameron to placed second in 29:14.  Nate Shader ran a very strong race to place third for the Bobcats in 30:11.  Issoufou Garba – Hama placed fourth for Paul Smith's in 34:51 in his best 5K performance of the season. 

Ellen Haas continues to blaze her way through the 5K distance, with a 5^th consecutive win, sweeping the distance in the two days of snowshoe racing in the Adirondack Snowshoe Festival in 33:01.  Coach Jim Tucker said afterwards, The team is poised to represent the college well at US Snowshoe Nationals coming up in Cable, WI during the college's Spring Break.  Snowshoe races were shelved last winter due to COVID, and it has been awesome to get the students back onto the trails this winter and see their rapid improvement in snowshoe running and racing over the past six weeks."

Paul Smith's College Snowshoe Team results - Adirondack Snowshoe Fest at the VIC