With more than 50 runners, walkers, students and staff participating in the 2015 Turkey Trot, this years can drive and run/walk around campus was huge success.

The event kicked off at 1:05 pm with the sound of a horn after each registrant turned in a canned good to be deivered to a local food pantry.  The runners shot out of the gate, while the walkers leisurly strolled around campus and took a mid day break from the hustle and bustle of their daily lives.

For the second time in as many Turkey Trot's, male student Jabari Parker finished the race at the front of the pack with a time of 16:41.  Parker, a member of the Mount Ida cross country team was challenged by Derek Polish for the first lap around campus, but Polish couldn't keep pace and Parker easily cruised to the victory.

Alee Bonola crossed first on the women's student side with a time of 18:17.  Bonola, a sophomore on the women's soccer team, pushed past staff member Christina Pickering on the last lap to finish just ahead of the top faculty/staff member to complete the race.  Pickering, who finished with a time of 18:20, beat the top male faculty/staff runner, Brian Binari, by over four minutes as Binari finished in 22:22.

The field also had a number of walkers participate in the three lap trek around campus.  Student Fiona Burke-Scovill came in first for the walkers with a time of 48:44, a short time ahead of Grace Beltrame and Nylana Thome, the only two official staff members to join the walkers.  

The course also saw members of the women's basketball team show up an do an unofficial two lap walk around the course in preperation for their evening game against Brown University.  Plus, members of the Connect CC101 course came to donate cans and walked part of a lap.  

Overall, the chance for students and staff to mingle and come together for a good cause and donate some canned goods for a local food pantry, was a great success and plans for next year are already under way.