2009 Event a Huge Success!!!
Nearly 230 individuals, families and runners rally to support local tot, Ava Snyder, who is in her second year of fighting Leukemia, at the 3rd Annual Team Teagan 5K Benefit Run/Walk at the Saratoga State Park.
June 20th, with the gray, low hanging clouds threatening to drench Team Teagan’s 3rd Annual 5K Run/Walk, more than 20 volunteers, many of whom had done this event for the past 2 years, cautiously set up tables, placed directional signs and shuffled the paperwork of the 93 pre-registrants… and then waited! The weather forecast was not looking great, which had event organizer Jackie Scotti fearing that potential participants would be discouraged from attending.
The wait was not long as by 8:30 many local families and serious looking runners started to stream across the Avenue of the Pines to walk the short distance to the warming hut area. The first 200 arrivals collected their race numbers and bright orange Team Teagan T-shirts. They then took time to greet fellow alumni from past events, and meet Honored Hero Ava Snyder, her parents Julie and Stephen and big sister Sydney, who looked amazed at what the Team Teagan organizers were able to assemble in their honor.
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