Here are the winners of the
Fourth Annual BIG Little River Paddle Race held Saturday May 21, 2016 at Reed Bingham State Park.
Including four time winner… see below.
On a fine Saturday morning, 34 people paddled, 18 male and 16 female, 19 in kayaks and 15 in canoes.
At this event to benefit Friends of Reed Bingham Park (FORB) and WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS), WWALS board member Bret Wagenhorst officiated as usual, this time assisted in handing out prizes by WWALS PR Committee member Amy Wiegenstein. Other board members of FORB and WWALS were present
Overall winner:
Dwight Griner from Lenox finished in 40 minutes, coming in first for the fourth year straight.
Dwight got $100 from Bret Wagenhorst and a trophy designed and made by Phil Hubbard.
Category winners:
Solo kayak:
Male: Tom Potter, Valdosta
Female: Gretchen Quarterman, Valdosta
Tandem kayak:
Male: no entry
Female: Caitlyn & Margi Sargent, Summerville, SC
Mixed: no entry
Solo canoe:
Male: Ray Cummings, Moultrie
Female: no entry
Two person canoe:
Male: Ben Davis & Rob McGhin, Valdosta
Picture by Bret Wagenhorst.
Female: no entry
Male/Female: Chris & Deanna Mericle, Japser, FL (also second place overall)
Three person canoe:
Catherine Lord (Mobile, AL) & Susie and Ross Peters (Tifton)
Youngest solo paddler:
Preston Peters (Tifton)
Oldest solo paddler:
Betty Marini, Lanier County, who also got the coveted brocolli award for coming in last.
WWALS Faller Award
Nobody fell in at this Paddle Race, but Beatrice Potter fell into the Alapaha River on the previous WWALS Outing, so we took this occasion to give her a WWALS Outings Faller Award, designed and made by Phil Hubbard.
Event Statistics
Paddler numbers by town:
Georgia:
Tifton: 11 paddlers
Valdosta: 9 paddlers
Sycamore: 2 paddlers
Lakeland: 2 paddlers
Lenox: 1 paddler
Albany: 1 paddler
Nashville: 1 paddler
Moultrie: 1 paddler
Beyond GA:
Jasper, FL: 2
Summerville, SC: 2
Mt Pleasant SC: 1
Mobile, AL: 1
Paddlers by age:
9-19 yrs.: 4
20-29 yrs: 4
30-39 yrs: 2
40-49 yrs.: 2
50-59 yrs.: 17
60-69 yrs.: 3
70-79 yrs.: 2
More Pictures
All the pictures above are by John S. Quarterman except where noted. Several people posted pictures on facebook:
Next outing coming up:
Saturday June 4th 2016, Florida Campsites Ramp to Suwannee River State Park on the Withlacoochee River. Will the chair still be there?
More outings are scheduled, with more being added each month; watch the WWALS calendar.
-jsq
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