Bottom line from the collegiate race weekend on Grand Mesa: Mitch Hollman is amazing! Representing the US Air Force Academy, Mitch outgunned everybody in Saturday’s 1K Sprint Race and then came back Sunday to very handily win the Classic 10K. He knows how to establish a gap and humble the competition! The women’s side was much tighter. Rya Berrigan, skiing for Western Colorado Univ., eked out the 10K win by just 2 seconds over CMU’s Hannah Brown. They were followed not far behind by Anna Johnson from Western who was the previous day’s Sprint winner.
All in all, it was a fun day of competition with battles going on throughout the standings as 5 collegiate teams and a great group of feisty citizens duked it out on the excellent Skyway course. The teams from Air force Academy, Western Colorado Univ., Univ. of Wyoming, Colorado College and host Colorado Mesa Univ. bring a wonderful energy to Grand Mesa! The weather was much warmer and calmer than it had been for this season’s early races. That plus hot tomato rice soup and big molasses cookies made it a fantastic day of racing.
As always, volunteers and sponsors made it all functional and rewarding. Everybody got to try Crunchsters, a new and very tasty sprouted mung bean snack, and had a chance at winning one of the great door prizes from REI, Ela Family Farms and Cimarron Coffee Roasters. Soup servers Bob Majors, Kristi Siman and Shannon Koch were kept hopping by the crowd while Kyle Stone and Ernie Langelier handled the timing duties. Thanks for your great help!

Start Location
Skyway
End Location
Skyway
Race Date: 1/27/2019
Starting Time: 11:00
Starting Temperature: 25
Place | Time | Name | Age | Gender | Hometown |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0:32:20 | Mitch Hollman | 0 | M | USAFA |
2 | 0:32:47 | Nate Maddox | 19 | M | WSCU |
3 | 0:33:40 | Trevor Willoughby | 0 | M | UWYO |
4 | 0:34:08 | Roan Hall | 20 | M | CMU |
5 | 0:34:51 | Silas Goetz | 0 | M | UWYO |
6 | 0:35:15 | Matt Williams | 0 | M | UWYO |
7 | 0:35:23 | Derek Hill | 0 | M | WSCU |
8 | 0:35:51 | Elliot Shaw | 0 | M | WSCU |
9 | 0:35:59 | Tyler Haroldson | 0 | M | WSCU |
10 | 0:36:31 | Cooper Roquet | 0 | M | WSCU |
11 | 0:36:37 | Cal Lindberg | 20 | M | CMU |
12 | 0:36:44 | Eivind Roed | 25 | M | CMU |
13 | 0:36:53 | Gordon Gianniny | 0 | M | WSCU |
14 | 0:37:02 | Benjamin Swift | 0 | M | CC |
15 | 0:37:03 | Parker Cushing | 22 | M | CMU |
16 | 0:37:17 | Duncan Koehn | 22 | M | CMU |
17 | 0:37:18 | Nigel Sarrazin | 0 | M | USAFA |
18 | 0:38:19 | Josh Jones | 0 | M | WSCU |
19 | 0:38:46 | Zane Kam | 18 | M | USAFA |
20 | 0:40:01 | Rya Berrigan | 0 | F | WSCU |
21 | 0:40:03 | Hannah Brown | 18 | F | CMU |
22 | 0:40:13 | Greg Randall | 57 | M | Collbran CO |
23 | 0:40:14 | Antonio Marxuach | 53 | M | Paonia CO |
24 | 0:40:19 | Hunter Alquist | 21 | M | USAFA |
25 | 0:40:25 | Anna Johnson | 0 | F | WSCU |
26 | 0:40:31 | Jordan Miner | 16 | F | Mesa CO |
27 | 0:40:43 | Gwynn Barrows | 31 | F | Grand Junction CO |
28 | 0:40:45 | Patrick Joosten | 0 | M | USAFA |
29 | 0:41:00 | Russel Bollig | 55 | M | Glenwood Springs CO |
30 | 0:41:31 | Bryan Overcast | 0 | M | UWYO |
31 | 0:42:08 | Becki Bryant | 0 | F | USAFA |
32 | 0:42:10 | Rudy Bolona | 50 | M | Carbondale CO |
33 | 0:42:21 | Martin Wiesiolek | 53 | M | Grand Junction CO |
34 | 0:42:23 | Kat Gruner | 20 | F | UWYO |
35 | 0:42:24 | Ben Romanjenko | 0 | M | UWYO |
36 | 0:42:25 | Ella DeWolf | 0 | F | UWYO |
37 | 0:43:10 | Sydney Wiswell | 0 | F | UWYO |
38 | 0:44:28 | Dafne Izquierdo | 21 | F | CMU |
39 | 0:44:45 | Megan Bamford | 0 | F | WSCU |
40 | 0:44:47 | Lexie Abric | 0 | F | WSCU |
41 | 0:45:05 | Kellie Arthur | 18 | F | CMU |
42 | 0:45:20 | Ryan Cramer | 19 | M | USAFA |
43 | 0:45:43 | Zoe Noble | 18 | F | UWYO |
44 | 0:46:03 | Ines Siepmann | 0 | F | CC |
45 | 0:46:04 | Matt Deeths | 48 | M | Grand Junction CO |
46 | 0:46:06 | Maddy Tinker | 0 | F | UWYO |
47 | 0:46:23 | Kadin Mangalik | 0 | M | CC |
48 | 0:46:31 | Zack Thomas | 0 | M | USAFA |
49 | 0:46:32 | Morgan Robins | 0 | F | UWYO |
50 | 0:47:11 | Annie Ahlquist | 0 | F | USAFA |
51 | 0:47:33 | Sloan Dworian | 18 | F | UWYO |
52 | 0:47:40 | Lindsey Kastelle | 0 | F | WSCU |
53 | 0:47:46 | Duncan Callahan | 36 | M | Gunnison CO |
54 | 0:49:06 | Heidi Kloser | 26 | F | CMU |
55 | 0:49:58 | Kailee Behunin | 18 | F | UWYO |
56 | 0:50:18 | Helen Carlsen | 58 | F | Basalt CO |
57 | 0:50:30 | Ken Pill | 57 | M | Grand Junction CO |
58 | 0:50:43 | Dan Schultz-Ela | 62 | M | Hotchkiss CO |
59 | 0:50:44 | Dusty Dodson | 50 | M | Grand Junction CO |
60 | 0:50:53 | Derek Larsen | 18 | M | UWYO |
61 | 0:50:58 | Patrick Hummel | 34 | M | Fruita CO |
62 | 0:51:41 | Kevin Donoher | 39 | M | Grand Junction CO |
63 | 0:52:08 | Brad Burritt | 57 | M | Hotchkiss CO |
64 | 0:53:05 | Caryl Brown | 54 | F | Montrose CO |
65 | 0:54:33 | Steve Ela | 55 | M | Hotchkiss CO |
66 | 0:55:39 | John Thrasher | 68 | M | Delta CO |
67 | 0:55:57 | Tim Carter | 83 | M | Grand Junction CO |
68 | 0:56:06 | Scott Vig | 44 | M | Fruita CO |
69 | 0:57:45 | Chuck Bodie | 65 | M | Grand Junction CO |
70 | 0:57:51 | Tina Wilson | 62 | F | Grand Junction CO |
71 | 0:57:52 | Mark Spoon | 56 | M | Palisade CO |
72 | 0:58:56 | David Batten | 68 | M | Montrose CO |
73 | 0:59:12 | Dave Knutson | 69 | M | Paonia CO |
74 | 1:02:58 | Dan Tille | 39 | M | Grand Junction CO |
75 | 1:03:04 | Kate Odom | 0 | F | USAFA |
76 | 1:05:17 | Sarah Packard | 0 | F | CC |
77 | 1:05:17 | Laurel Sullivan | 0 | F | CC |
78 | 1:06:31 | Tom Clark | 66 | M | Montrose CO |
79 | 1:09:08 | David Maas | 44 | M | Fruita CO |
80 | 1:09:33 | Rakesh DaSilva | 18 | M | CC |
81 | 1:12:50 | Don Metzler | 64 | M | Palisade CO |
82 | 1:13:11 | Lori Stone | 55 | F | Fruita CO |
83 | 1:13:15 | Diane Clark | 52 | F | Montrose |
84 | 1:19:16 | Corey Hinman | 43 | F | Fruita CO |
85 | 1:19:57 | Lily Patrick | 19 | F | CMU |
86 | 1:35:21 | Chris Tobin | 0 | M | CC |
87 | 1:39:15 | Bill Lintott | 75 | M | Grand Junction CO |
DNF | 0 | Donnie Tietsema | 33 | M | Fruita CO |