Runners set out from Alumni Circle and turn onto Grobman Drive at the start of the sixth annual UMSL 5K Run/Walk. (Photos by Derik Holtmann)
Alumni, students, faculty and staff members and other friends turned out on a sunny and crisp autumn Saturday morning to take part at the University of Missouri–St. Louis for the sixth annual UMSL 5K Run/Walk.
Corner 17, a local Chinese restaurant owned by UMSL alum Xin Wei, sponsored the event, which attracted a field of 224 registered participants – an increase of nearly 40% over last year.
UMSL photographer Derik Holtmann was on hand to capture scenes as the participants made their way from Alumni Circle, in the shadow of the new Richter Family Welcome and Alumni Center, up, down and up again over the rolling terrain of North Campus.
UMSL 5K participants make their way down Grobman Drive with Woods Hall in the background.
Biology student Saige Grassino gives two thumbs up while running in the UMSL 5K Run/Walk. Grassino was the top female finisher, coming in second overall with a time of 21 minutes, 43 seconds.
Walkers made their way under the Millennium Student Center Bridge during the first mile of the race.
Alum Latonya Bowens and Assistant Teaching Professor Damon Walker run together past the Don Dallas Soccer Field as they begin their second mile.
Tyler Haynes, who works in the Office of Inclusive Post Secondary Education, gets high-fives from members of the UMSL women’s basketball team as he runs toward the J.C. Penney Building.
UMSL College of Nursing faculty and students stand at a wellness tent they hosted near the start of the race.
Runner John Spencer runs along the St. Vincent Greenway near the Recreation and Wellness Center. Spencer ran well clear of the rest of the field, winning by nearly two minutes with a time of 19:56. Check out the race results.
Carter Campbell, 8, gets high-fives from members of the UMSL men’s basketball team as he runs past the Millennium Student Center. Campbell was the top under-18 finisher with a time of 32:18.
Louie the Triton cheers runners on toward the finish by the Richter Family Welcome and Alumni Center.
Antoinette Sterling, a senior academic advisor in the Ed G. Smith College of Business, receives a rose to go with her race medal after crossing the finish line. Alum Chuck Knoll of Walter Knoll Florist sponsored the roses for each finisher.
Race participants representing the Ed G. Smith College of Business gathered in Alumni Circle. The college received the inaugural Golden Sneaker Award for having the largest contingent of participants.
To view more photos from the UMSL 5K Run/Walk, check out the album on UMSL Flickr page.
