Belmont Public Schools: Thank You For Making Belmont's Very First AAPI 5K A Success!

Belmont MA

06 May, 2022

7:25 AM

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Press release from Belmont Public Schools: May 5, 2022 To everyone who participated in or contributed to the 2022 AAPI 5K Run 'n' Walk, the Belmont Chinese American Association (BCAA) is extremely grateful. This inaugural event attracted close to 350 participants, 250+ pre-registered and 80+ day-of registrations. This was truly a community-wide event: people with an amazing diversity in age, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, etc., came together to show their support to the AAPI community in Belmont and the Belmont Celebrates AAPI Heritage Fund. We would like to thank these state and town officials who spent a beautiful morning with us: Massachusetts State Senator Mr. Will Brownsberger; Chair of the Select Board Mr. Mark Paolillo; Superintendent of the Belmont Public Schools Dr. John Phelan. Special thanks to the new acting CEO of the Boston Athletic Association Mr. Jack Fleming for running the 5K with us. We thank the following individuals for offering their help and support: Triogo owner Donna Ognibene; current and former FBE Apple Run race directors Scot DeDeo, Doug Hall, and Paul Roberts; the Becca Pizzi 5K organizer Becca Pizzi. Event sponsors - Dreamage Intl. Realty, Belmont Orthodontics/Belmont Pediatric Dentistry Bib sponsor - Alina Wang/Coldwell Banker Realty Water table sponsor - Russian School of Mathematics T- shirt sponsors - AoPS Academy Lexington, EA Education Consulting & Services LLC, JW Insurance & Financial Services, Leader Bank, and Power Plus Gas, Tire & Auto Service. We would also like to thank Belmont Public Schools, Belmont Police Department, Belmont Department of Public Works, Belmont Recreation Department, Office of the Select Board, Belmont Youth Lacrosse, for their tremendous support. This event, of course, would not have been possible without the support of our wonderful volunteers and our volunteer-run organizing committee. Thank you! Female overall top 3 Yanting Ma Becca Pizzi Elissa Furutani 20:22 21:24 23:19 Male overall top 3 Leino Russell Xiao Chen Scot DeDeo 16:22 17:16 18:13 Female 12&under Veronica Wang 28:56 Female 13-19 Caroline Espinosa 23:38 Female 20-29 Natalie Karlsson 27:05 Female 30-39 Melissa Whitehead 29:25 Female 40-49 Michelle Kelley 23:52 Female 50-59 Lili Zhang 23:58 Female 60-69 Yuanxin Xu 43:38 Female 70+ Guoying Wang 46:51 Male 12&under Will Olmsted 20:41 Male 13-19 Elias Campisano 21:13 Male 20-29 Dakota Wyne 22:47 Male 30-39 Zhou Dai 20:49 Male 40-49 Lixin Qin 19:16 Male 50-59 Jack Fleming 20:28 Male 60-69 Jack Fahey 22:55 Male 70+ Peter Hoffmann 27:41 Largest team Team WB The BCAA has every intention of making the AAPI 5K an annual event in May. Your feedback and suggestions are important and will help us do better next year. Please send them our way at [email protected]. In addition to the successful AAPI 5K Run 'n' Walk organized by the BCAA, there are other wonderful activities and programs organized or sponsored by a variety of organizations, groups, and individual volunteers in Belmont for celebrating the AAPI Heritage Month throughout May. Please visit https://www.BelmontCelebratesAAPIHeritage.org for more information. Congratulations again, and Happy AAPI Heritage Month! Best regards, Yi Zhang & Wenhong Liu Race Co-Directors 2022 AAPI 5K Run 'n' Walk This press release was produced by Belmont Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author's own.