The New Balance Maple Leaf Half Marathon was held on Sunday under sunny and hot conditions in Manchester VT. This was the 20th running of the Maple Leaf and the 2nd time the event has been contested over the certified course. Over 230 runners competed in the half marathon or relay. In a change of events, the first runner to finish was a member of the Free Radicals relay team from Northfield, Mass. They finished in a time of 1:19. The first male finisher was Alberto Tapia from Williamstown, MA in 1:21. Susan Hackney was the top woman finisher.

2002 Maple Leaf Half Marathon Results:

1	Alberto Tapia	M33	1:21:22
2	Tom Geisler	M28	1:23:07
3	Norm Larson	M46	1:23:23
4	Brian Killkelley	M38	1:24:47
5	Jim Armenia	M37	1:24:53
6	Pascal Cravedi-Cheng	M48	1:26:20
7	Mike Mooradian	M29	1:27:14
8	Scott Suba	M38	1:27:18
9	Frank Steciuk	M38	1:27:21
10	Richard Foote	M44	1:27:24
11	Todd Heyman	M31	1:27:45
12	Jorge Concha	M35	1:28:04
13	Ali Mansouri	M33	1:28:23
14	Tim Dumas	M34	1:28:40
15	Susan Hackney	F45	1:28:46
16	Matt Miller	M24	1:28:46
17	John Hackney	M57	1:29:07
18	Megan Leitzinger	F35	1:29:07
19	Stuart Barlow	M38	1:29:47
20	Nicole Walkerson	F31	1:29:55
21	John Haley	M47	1:29:58
22	Joslin Knut-Eric	M18	1:30:44
23	Ed Buckley	M44	1:30:54
24	Todd Jones	M29	1:31:46
25	Margery Bolton	F22	1:33:00
26	Russ Hoyer	M42	1:33:01
27	Virginie Poritzky	F34	1:33:16
28	Jim Burnett	M52	1:33:20
29	Ken Klemp	M44	1:33:26
30	Kyle Mcewen	M44	1:33:42
31	Timothy Vile	M31	1:33:48
32	Kevin Quinn	M47	1:33:48
33	Jennifer Ward	F31	1:33:54
34	Rich Homenick	M38	1:34:40
35	Jonathan Fitt	M50	1:34:48
36	Robert Kingsbury	M47	1:35:08
37	Ray Willard	M52	1:35:31
38	Sarah Conboy	F32	1:35:51
39	John Stalcup	M35	1:35:52
40	Heidi Lynn	F42	1:35:56
41	Tom Mcguire	M50	1:35:56
42	Matt Beatrice	M45	1:36:00
43	Francis Lennon	M21	1:36:09
44	Karin Koehn	F33	1:36:11
45	Martha Degrazia	F51	1:36:20
46	Eric Lewis	M36	1:36:47
47	Peter Malinowski	M48	1:36:56
48	John Hepner	M33	1:37:02
49	Paul Forbes	M52	1:37:05
50	Michael Jenzen	M50	1:37:46
51	Pete Lipka	M51	1:37:51
52	Charles Rickey	M32	1:38:33
53	Craig Wood	M40	1:38:37
54	Michael Burdeau	M37	1:39:44
55	Andre Stadnyk	M47	1:39:54
56	Chester Tumidajewicz	M48	1:41:12
57	Timothy Drolette	M41	1:41:22
58	Kristine Gewin	F29	1:41:41
59	Bob Stahl	M37	1:41:50
60	Ted Ridout	M60	1:42:03
61	Carolyn Wrobel	F25	1:42:22
62	David Cote	M38	1:43:00
63	Ralf Thiele	M38	1:43:18
64	Dave Chioffi	M59	1:43:19
65	Edward Leydon	M58	1:43:22
66	Missy Foote	F49	1:43:25
67	Bill Peters	M43	1:43:37
68	Mark Libby	M43	1:43:40
69	Joseph Hoppock	M42	1:43:44
70	John Henry	M34	1:43:53
71	Mana Mattrick	F37	1:44:08
72	Frank Paone	M45	1:44:48
73	Thomas Kollar	M56	1:44:49
74	Amy Sherman	F38	1:44:52
75	Chuck Burton	M45	1:44:54
76	Neal Saxe	M34	1:45:29
77	Elizbeth Peacock	F19	1:45:50
78	Enrique Peacock	M51	1:46:06
79	Ihor Stadnyk	M46	1:46:14
80	Steve Aikenhead	M61	1:46:16
81	Jeannie Lapierre	F46	1:46:30
82	Scott Bouranis	M47	1:46:32
83	Laurie Johnson	F49	1:46:38
84	Erin Fournier	F27	1:46:56
85	Philip Halliday	M42	1:47:08
86	Mark Devenpeck	M41	1:47:09
87	Candice Poiss	F32	1:47:13
88	Dan Luteran	M44	1:47:58
89	Bill Kelly Jr	M46	1:48:39
90	Paul Ippolito	M61	1:48:54
91	Peter Rowlands	M57	1:49:00
92	William Dixon	M43	1:49:50
93	Charles Babcock	M47	1:49:57
94	Debbie Beatrice	F44	1:50:08
95	Lawrence Regan	M36	1:50:14
96	Peter Newkirk	M56	1:50:32
97	Janet Herrero	F44	1:50:41
98	Dave Minehan	M46	1:50:46
99	Bill Garrison	M49	1:51:00
100	Anne Houser	F43	1:51:12
101	Caroline Mckenzie	F34	1:51:19
102	Rich Mills	M36	1:51:28
103	Meg Kerr	F47	1:51:29
104	Edward Laird	M50	1:52:08
105	Ramona Janowetch	F41	1:52:11
106	Wendy Bergren	F46	1:52:52
107	Frank Bergren	M50	1:52:52
108	John Keenan	M40	1:52:53
109	Nancy Heydinger	F41	1:53:16
110	Ted Zerucha	M34	1:53:32
111	Newell Tolman	M60	1:53:36
112	Jason Heffner	M35	1:53:45
113	Jim Moore	M62	1:53:52
114	Gary Nash	M40	1:54:03
115	Sara Kruk	F29	1:54:21
116	Jason Morse	M28	1:54:28
117	Angela Rickey	F33	1:54:37
118	John Laboda, Jr	M57	1:55:06
119	Peter Skinner	M55	1:55:06
120	Ann Marie Miller	F36	1:55:08
121	Sam Serrill	M57	1:55:11
122	Alan Leake	M50	1:55:28
123	Ken Swiatek	M54	1:55:38
124	Greg Farnham	M49	1:55:51
125	Rebecca Morse	F26	1:56:34
126	Dave Bacca	M63	1:56:50
127	Doug Janeczko	M34	1:56:53
128	Brian Nolan	M37	1:57:06
129	Daniel Mcspirit	M32	1:57:18
130	Donald Walker III	M34	1:57:20
131	Laurel Shortell	F36	1:57:53
132	Ed Doucette	M72	1:58:10
133	Jennifer Wrobel	F29	1:58:28
134	Ellie Bouffard	F41	1:58:58
135	Mary Gosling	F40	1:59:30
136	Robert Molleur	M35	1:59:33
137	Bill Learn	M34	1:59:39
138	Eric Leskovec	M46	1:59:40
139	Jennifer Weiss	F21	1:59:40
140	Justine Orzel	F21	1:59:41
141	Rosemary Rusin	F59	1:59:53
142	Nadia Stadnyk	F41	1:59:59
143	Ellen Laird	F50	2:00:37
144	John Ballard	M48	2:01:44
145	Diane Harty	F47	2:02:04
146	Kathy Janeczko	F34	2:02:21
147	Michelle Costa	F35	2:03:17
148	Bernadete Kennedy	F44	2:03:50
149	Richard Hart	M50	2:03:55
150	Lora Miele	F35	2:03:56
151	Andrew Powell	M56	2:04:07
152	Ray Lee	M60	2:04:14
153	Charles Brown	M29	2:05:11
154	Sherisa Sterlin	F49	2:05:28
155	Edward Nicosia	M43	2:05:40
156	Rebecca Marzotto	F40	2:06:06
157	Maura Scanlan	F32	2:06:15
158	Mary Jo Saviski	F43	2:06:43
159	Gretchen Fay	F30	2:06:59
160	Mark Demasi	M48	2:07:04
161	Dana Rogers	M37	2:07:24
162	Kenneth Skinner, Jr	M62	2:08:17
163	Dagny St John	F59	2:08:23
164	Kristianna Dinicola	F36	2:08:43
165	Richard Winters	M61	2:08:50
166	Ray Walker	M62	2:08:52
167	Cathleen Kinne	F36	2:10:10
168	Katherine Erwinski	F26	2:11:03
169	Dianna Lemieux	F23	2:11:06
170	Martha Stanley	F53	2:11:06
171	Chip Winner	M53	2:11:06
172	Fran Pilato	F43	2:11:12
173	Kathy Prairie	F39	2:11:22
174	Tom Achtyl	M56	2:11:22
175	Jim Gilmer	M52	2:11:24
176	Carol Mcmanus	F59	2:12:26
177	Jill Mehan	F47	2:12:39
178	Susan Murphy	F37	2:12:55
179	Ginger Hunt	F60	2:13:33
180	Greta Feinberg	F27	2:13:51
181	John Frechette	M50	2:14:01
182	Lisa Pearsall	F32	2:14:57
183	Kenna Mills	F26	2:15:16
184	Jim Cochran	M54	2:15:50
185	Laura Nagy	F53	2:15:54
186	Carol Malinowski	F49	2:18:03
187	Greg Boubineau	M49	2:18:49
188	Chet Wotkowicz	M52	2:19:18
189	Ben Weiss	M46	2:19:30
190	Maurie Hill	F42	2:19:30
191	Jason Wilkie	M29	2:20:25
192	Loretta Ebert	F55	2:21:43
193	Ken Ebert	M51	2:21:43
194	Erin Harty	F20	2:23:55
195	Steven Skulnik	M43	2:24:04
196	Jackie Skarupski	F33	2:25:41
197	Pat Barber	F51	2:25:58
198	Kurt Wagenbach	M30	2:27:04
199	Andrew Mckeever	M51	2:28:50
200	Bob Ronner	M70	2:28:55
201	Susan Mullen	F28	2:30:13
202	Elaine Buckley	F55	2:31:50
203	Bill Carey Sr	M70	2:32:28
204	Harry Rowland	M53	2:32:37
205	Barbara Rogers	F45	2:35:52
206	Anthony Izzo	M69	2:37:19
207	Michael Fitzgerald	M40	2:38:31
208	Paul Feinberg	M58	2:39:27
209	Edward Dart	M50	2:47:42
210	Regina Tumidajewicz	F75	2:56:48
211	Jane Goodman	F66	3:28:23

Relay Results:

1	The Free Radicals	Male	1:19:18
2	M.I.K.'S	Mixed	1:31:23
3	LCVET	Male	1:32:11
4	Hopefuls	Mixed	1:42:46
5	Wild Women of Windham	Female	1:48:51
6	Blaylor	Female	1:50:10
7	Newburyport Yankees	Mixed	1:52:33
8	Too Early	Mixed	1:53:08
9	Hobbs	Mixed	2:00:52
10	The Adams Family	Mixed	2:02:21
11	Hidden Valley Hustlers	Feamle	2:22:49