Jacob Tew won the 2024 Kollas Cranmer 4th of July Run, besting a field of more than 200 runners, and the top female finisher, Sarah Reiter, set the course record for women for the second year in a row.
The 25-year-old Tew, a former Utah State University distance runner who prepped at Sunset High in Beaverton, won the 7.4-mile race in 39 minutes, 7 seconds. Ben Davidson, 26, who competed collegiately at Santa Clara University, was second in 39:40. Davidson also was second in 2023 (39:55) to Kai Wiggins. Finishing third overall in both 2024 and 2023 was RJ Kennedy, who this year finished in 39:47.
Reiter, the top female finisher, is a two-time US Olympic Trials marathon qualifier and was sixth overall in 41:49. Reiter, who lives in Hood River, has a 2:31.58 marathon to her credit. She twice qualified for the NCAA cross country championships running for Eastern Washington University. She was the top female in 2023 in 42:05.
The overall course record is 37:18, set in 2002 by Ahrlin Bauman, who won the race in 2022.
Second in the women’s race was Hood River Valley graduate Brinna Weiseth, who just completed a successful track and field season at Lane Community College in Eugene. Weiseth ran the Kollas Cranmer race in 46:07 and was 14th overall. She earned All-American Honors this past season by winning the 10,000 meters and 5,000 at the NWAC track and field championship in May for Lane.
HRV distance runners Logan King, Kai Wagner and Victor Coffman finished seventh, 10th and 12th. King was the top teenage runner in 42:28. Horizon Christian’s Noelle Stasak was 45th (54:27) and the top finishing teen-age female.
The annual race begins at the Odell Fire Station and ends at Hood River’s Jackson Park.
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