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Updated: June 12, 2009, 11:48 am	Share    Print    Email

Former SBS dean Martin Schoonen celebrates a fine day with racers Lauren Laviola, Anna Schoonen, Seva Jouhkovitski and Drew Dillingham. Photos courtesy Stony Brook Southampton

Southampton - In training, Drew Dillingham very well might have run the very course that he took on last Sunday at Stony Brook Southampton. Dillingham, a student at the campus and 2008 graduate of Riverhead High School, outkicked Bill Gironda of Smithtown down the stretch to win the inaugural Martin Schoonen 5K Run/Walk.

Dillingham emerged from a field of about 75

Bill Gironda and Kellie Stamm grin ear to ear after sweeping the 35-plus age group.

runners to win in 17 minutes, 39 seconds. The 3.1 mile course led the pack of participants to every corner of the 82-acre campus located exclusively within the Shinnecock Hills campus.

The women's event was won by Southampton's own Lauren Laviola, who just eclipsed the 20-minute plateau by finishing in 19 minutes, 58 seconds. Anna Schoonen won the 16-to-24-year female category in a time of 25:14. Sayville's Kellie Stamm ran a 22:22 to take top honors in the 35-plus female group.

For the men, SBS mathematics professor Seva Jouhkovitski won the 24-34 male age group with a time of 21:40. Gironda was the first across in the 35-plus class, hitting the finish line in 17:45.

Proceeds benefited the Martin Schoonen Scholarship Fund, which will be awarded to a Stony Brook Southampton student. According to the university, approximately $2,000 was raised for the scholarship. Schoonen was the dean of the Southampton campus through March and is credited for much of the school's curricular diversity. He remains a geochemistry professor at the main campus and leads the Aqueous Geochemistry Lab.