Many thanks to those who participated and assisted with the 2018 Flax to Vax Race + BBQ on Saturday April 28th! The overall winner was student Tim Curtin with a time of 26:13. The faculty winner was Chris Gobler with a time of 26:24. The faculty “won” the race by 3 seconds with a top 5 averaged time of 29:07, the student top 5 averaged time was 29:10.
With the help of the SoMAS community, the Graduate Student Club accepted donations for the Flax to Vax Fund Race which go towards replenishing the Okubo Scholar fund. Mary Scranton, representing Challenger Hall, beat out Mike Frisk by a slim margin of $4 to become the winner of the fund race! Thanks to Jackie Collier, Mark Lang, Michael French, Mary Scranton, Brad Peterson and Mike Frisk for agreeing to participate in the fund race and to everyone who made donations!
| Name | Team | Time |
| Tim Curtin | Student | 26:13 |
| Chris Gobler | Faculty | 26:24 |
| Heather Lynch | Faculty | 26:37 |
| Ben Kramer | Student | 29:17 |
| Kurt Bretsch | Faculty | 29:25 |
| Mark Wiggins | Faculty | 29:57 |
| Wenda Zhang | Student | 29:57 |
| Steven Tomasett | Student | 30:28 |
| Molly Graffam | Student | 31:29 |
| Justin Bopp | Student | 31:50 |
| Melanie Wolfe Pitt | Outside | 32:03 |
| Mark Maa | Student | 33:02 |
| Matt Fuirst | Student | 33:36 |
| Joe Warren | Faculty | 34:14 |
| Ollie Shipley | Student | 34:45 |
| Karin Schweitzer | Student | 36:00 |
| Hang Yin | Student | 27:21 |
| Leah Reidenbach | Student | 37:17 |
| Bob Aller | Faculty | 37:32 |
| Jiwen Zhu | Student | 38:48 |
| Julia Stepanuk | Student | 39:26 |
| Abby Tyrell | Student | 40:34 |
| Xiao Hui Liu | Faculty | 40:53 |
| Alyssa Stansfield | Student | 42:21 |
| Liz Najman | Student | 42:24 |
| Lequan Chi | Student | 44:32 |
| Yicheng Huang | Student | 45:07 |
| Tara Dolan | Student | 49:27 |
| Ari Vanudo-Clarke | Student | 58:25 |
| Ben Adkins | Student | 58:27 |
| Student Time | 29.17 | |
| Faculty Time | 29.12 |
Pictures by Kurt Bretsch, Teresa Schwemmer and Mark Lang
