Woodstock 5K

Jax State senior and Pell City product Lowe, Texas high schooler Barnes to finishers in RRCA’s national 5K championship.

By Joe Medley
East Alabama Sports Today

ANNISTON — The Woodstock 5K has historically drawn strong runners from Kenya when the race carries the Road Runners Club of America’s national 5K championship designation, but this year’s winners have local connections.

Pell City’s Jack Lowe, a senior cross country runner for Jacksonville State University, was the top overall finisher, and Laney Barnes, whose grandparents live in Jacksonville, the top female finisher in the 44th annual Woodstock 5K in Anniston.

Lowe finished in 15 minutes and 27 seconds, off of the course-record pace of 14:13, and edged former Munford High multi-time state champion Dakota Frank by one second. Frank just finished his freshman year running for the University of Alabama-Huntsville.

Huntsville’s Jay Day, a physical therapy students at UAB, was third in 15:32.

Barnes, granddaughter to Jacksonville’s Duane and Lori Tippets and a senior for Cypress (Texas) Wood High School, finished in 17:59, scoring a 10-second victory over Homewood resident and native Canadian Carmen Hussar. Former Samford University runner Macie Pfeuffer took third in 18:10.

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