A Brief History of GBTC in the Mayor's Cup

Melissa Leier leading Sloan Siegrist photo by Jim Rhodes


The highest the women placed was third in 2004 and the highest the men placed was 4th in 2000.

I think that in 1996 GBTC first competed in the Mayor's Cup. The meet had started in 1990, but I don't have any record of GBTC in it. In the 1996 race GBTC men placed 17th with Jim Pawlicki leading the team in 116th place in 26:20. Only one club woman, Sarah Rankin ran placing 113th in 20:58.

The next year GBTC had a women's team led by Harvard grad, Johanna Veltri, who ran 27th in 18:03, a time that remains the club Mayor's Cup record. Her team placed 9th out of 10.

The men led by Deon Barrett in 99th place in 25:47 took 12th out of 21 teams.
(At age 47 I ran 28:10 and have degenerated since.)

Men and women placed 7th in 1998 with MIT grad Jesse Darley in 30th in 24:41 and Tracey Timmins in 46th in 19:10.

The teams improved to 6th place the next year led by Brown grad, Glen Mays, in 19th place in 24:47 and Christina Manolatou an MIT grad student from Greece placing a club record high of 14th in 18:26.

In 2000 it was Mays and Middlebury grad Jessica Blake running 12th in 24:24 and 21st in 18:22.
With teams 4th men and 5th women. Mays time and place stand as the club records for Mayor's Cup

In 2001 Tim McCusker, Colgate grad, led the team in 11th placing 45th in 24:53 and Melissa Leier 58th in 19:18 taking the women's team to 9th.

2002 saw the men in 10th led by Dennis Floyd in 40th place in 25:35 and Blake 45th in 19:15 with the women's team in 7th

Men fell to 13th in 2003 led by Tufts doctoral student Ben Nephew in 26:04 for 57th while Jess Blake again led the women's team place 41st in 19:23.

In 2004 the GBTC men place 11th led by Steve Pache placing 36th in 25:31 and Yarrow Moench in 30th led the women to the club's record high third place.

In 2005 GBTC took 11th for men led by Ryan Aschbrenner in 55th place in 26:29 and Laura Hayden led the women's team to 5th with her 19:14 for 44th.

Last year Brennan Bonner led the men to 6th placing 31st in 25:07 while Allison McCabe led the women also to 6th with an 18:20 good for 28th place.