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KENNETT RUN Event Guide Running Together Again May 7, 2022 It’s not too late to get into the race! Visit www.kennettrun.net for complete registration details

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Letter from the President, Kennett Run Charities Running Together Again: The Kennett Run returns Coach Ram: The art of giving back Course Map The Annual Joe Hector PoweRun 2022 sponsors Flashback! The 2019 Kennett Run Schedule of Events The Kennett Run and the Chester County Press: A partnership in photos Kennett Run Officers and Board of Directors

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Letter from the President of Kennett Run Charities, Inc. To the runners, walkers, residents, business owners and sponsors of the 32nd Kennett Run, and to everyone in the Kennett Square community - a very hearty ‘Welcome Back.’

istorically, the Kennett Run has focused on two goals: to provide a fun family-oriented run, and fund many of the nonprofits servicing Kennett Square and Southern Chester County. This year we added two new goals because of our experience over the last two years through the pandemic. These are to provide effective support to our local business community, and to help everyone move away from the selfimposed isolation COVID-19 has gotten us all too accustomed to. We’ll meet our traditional goals by offering 5K and 10K runs, the one mile walk and run, and the kids run around the ponds in Anson Nixon Park. We will then invest the profits of the Kennett Run in the area’s nonprofits. Expanding our support for the local business community will start to be accomplished by offering our runners discounts provided by the members of the Kennett Area Retail Merchants Association. These will be in each runner’s packet when they pick up their running bib. I know this doesn’t help businesses throughout all of Southern Chester County, but it will let us start to learn how to provide support to our retailers. The long-term goal is to expand it across all of Southern Chester County once we have the model correct in Kennett Square. The second part of better supporting our local business community is having conversations with our sponsors about how we can provide them more direct value. I hope these conversations will identify new actions we can take next year. We want and need to help our businesses grow within our communities.

Many of us have been living with some level of self-isolation throughout the pandemic. We can help break this pattern by bringing everyone together in Anson Nixon Park to enjoy a beautiful spring morning, get a little exercise, and have a lot of fun. To encourage this, we are allocating $5 of the registration fee to your high school sports booster program. All Robert Merkle high schools in the Ches-Mont League are included. Everyone associated with the school, meaning every community member, can help fund their local sports offerings by entering their school’s allocation code when registering for the run. Your school has their code. Ask them for it. This program is part of our long-term focus on supporting our teachers and schools through associated programs like After the Bell and The Garage, and investing in school programs like Walk in Knowledge, and others through school education foundations. It took the disruption of COVID-19, and hiring John Ramagano, the Kennett High School track coach, as our race director for us to recognize this opportunity to serve the community this new way. I hope everyone will go to www.kennettrun.net to register for the race. Registration is open until 8:30 a.m. on May 7th, race day. I look forward to seeing you at Anson Nixon Park. Welcome back! Robert Merkle President, Kennett Run Charities, Inc.

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Running together again: The Kennett Run returns

A virtual Kennett Run was held in 2021.

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer

t would be difficult to imagine now – with the world slowly returning to a semblance of normalcy – what the tenor of the meetings were like in the early spring of 2020, when the organizers of that year’s Kennett Run, scheduled for May, faced an uphill battle of deciding what to do as the world seemed to close itself up. “We were halfway through the process of putting the run together when the pandemic hit,” said Bob Merkle, who replaces Chris Daney as the Kennett Run President. “We had hundreds of runners already signed up and had about 80 percent of the sponsorships locked in, so it was simply communicating to everyone that we were not going to have the race that year because of the onset of COVID-19. Ultimately, the 2020 Kennett Run was cancelled, but instead of a giant cloud, the race’s organizers saw that a silver lining emerged. The business community of the Kennett Square area came through again, just as they had since the race began in 1989, when it was conceived as a fundraising event that has to date contributed more than $1.2 million to area organizations. “Knowing full well that the many sponsors were about to enter into a precarious time of their own and potentially struggle to survive, we asked them, ‘Do you want your contributions to be returned, or can we keep it and place it where needed in the community?’” Merkle said. “The vast majority of our sponsors told us, ‘Keep it and use it wisely.”

Members of the Kennett Run Charities Board of Directors then contacted Carrie Freeman, the CEO of the United Way of Chester County. Through Freeman’s assistance and recommendation, the Board identiﬁed which organizations needed the funding the most. As a result, Kennett Area Community Services and the Oxford Area Neighborhood Services Center shared a $30,000 contribution in 2020. “As soon as COVID-19 hit, both of these food cupboards were being overrun with demand,” Merkle said. “We literally reversed our whole decision process, due to their enormous need.” As 2020 fell into 2021, the Kennett Run Board of Directors expressed their optimism that the pandemic was going to disappear, and allow the annual race to resume in 2021. What they all thought would last six months turned into a two-year tsunami that continued to shut the doors of local businesses, event stages and activities, including the 2021 Kennett Run. Through the ingenuity of former race director JJ Simon, the Kennett Run went virtual in 2021, as more than 400 runners and walkers completed their 5-kilometer, 10-kilometer or one-mile run/walk at a time and place of their choosing over a nine-day period beginning on May 15 and ending at midnight on May 23. Each participant received a 2021 Kennett Run t-shirt, a race bib and other give-a-ways, and had the opportunity to post their ﬁnish times on the Kennett Run’s social media pages. “We realized that the only way we could sponsor the race this year was to do a socially distant event, but then it led to Continued on Page 8

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Photo by Richard L. Gaw

Current Kennett Run Charities President Bob Merkle, right, consults with his predecessor Chris Daney before the start of the 2019 Kennett Run.

Running Together Again... Continued from Page 6

the idea of tracking everyone’s times, and that would require us to have our usual course, and permits were not being handed out for events at the park,” said Simon. “So if we couldn’t have a place, then the virtual concept became the way to go, and we expanded it to give people the freedom to do this any time and anywhere, over a nine-day period.” “Running Together Again,” the theme of this year’s Kennett Run, is in many ways reﬂective of the diligence and determination of not only the Kennett Run Board of Directors but to the local running community to see beyond a worldwide pandemic. “The selection of this year’s theme was in many ways an obvious one, because that in effect is what we are all doing – running together again,” Merkle said. “We may have had a Kennett Run in 2021, but we could not run together. We could not bring people together and celebrate a traditional event. “For runners, exercise is a social activity for the majority of them. We’re hoping that we can help reinforce that it is time to get back together and get active again, and end the isolation that has been imposed upon us.” To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rgaw@ chestercounty.com.

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John Ramagano will serve as the race director for the 2022 Kennett Run

Coach Ram: The art of giving back By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer

he long journey of Kennett High School head track coach John Ramagano has been one marked by resilience, and it all began on the track at Cardinal O’Hara High School in Springfield, where he competed in the 800-meter and the mile races. After he graduated, Ramagano entered the University of Delaware, where he ran track under the tutelage of esteemed coach Jim Fischer, but after this sophomore year in 1985, he was forced to leave the university and return home to Delaware County. Ramagano’s father was diagnosed with large cell non-hodgkins lymphoma. “I needed to come home and work for the family to pay the bills,” Ramagano said recently from his office near Kennett Stadium. “It became a real struggle for my father, and we found out about six months into his diagnosis that he would have about six months to live.” After his father died at the age of 45, Ramagano, with help from his mother, joined the local pipefitter’s union and finished his degree by taking night classes at Drexel University. In 1986, a cousin of Ramagano’s was coaching the CYO track team at Saint Kevin’s Elementary School in Delaware County, and asked him if he wanted to help out. For Ramagano, coaching began as a distraction from grief, but for the last 36 years, it has become the other side of his life. Coaching has taken him to elementary schools, high schools and even a college in Delaware County, Chester County and Delaware: from Saint Kevin’s to Cardinal O’Hara to Strath Haven to Widener University to Saint Patrick’s in Kennett Square to the Salesianum School in Wilmington to Kennett High School, where he has served as the coach of the indoor and outdoor track team since 2010. ‘I need to give back’ At every stop, Ramagano has helped mold the talents of studentathletes, taken hundreds of bus rides with them to meets, counseled them and helped them to believe that even their wildest dreams were within reach. Earlier this year, he added another notch to his coaching belt by accepting an offer to serve as the race director for the 32nd Kennett Run, which will be held on May 7. He will replace JJ Simon, who served as the event’s race director from 2016 to 2019. The event is making a return this year, after having to cancel in 2020

Photos by Richard L. Gaw

John Ramagano, the head coach for the Kennett High School indoor and outdoor track team, will be serving as the race director for the Kennett Run on May 7.

and being relegated to conducting a virtual run in 2021. “At ﬁrst, I thought it would be really difficult for me to do this, because I coach full time, but after reaching out to [Kennett Run President] Bob Merkle, JJ and the Kennett Run Charities Board, I thought about what Kennett Run Charities has meant to the Kennett Square community since it began,” he said. “I thought, ‘I need to give back.’ “It’s a great opportunity for me. I have been coaching track since 1986, and I have been a part of the Kennett community for a long time, and this will allow me to help the Kennett Run Charities recover from two years of COVID-19.” For this year’s Kennett Run, Ramagano has enlisted the help of his fellow Kennett High School track coaches – Lance Frazier, Carl Lowe, Jermaine Richardson and George Walsh – and will also donate the entirety of his compensation as race director to beneﬁt the Kennett Boosters Club, specifying that the money go directly to the school’s track team, which will help defray the costs associated with student-athletes’ track equipment and track camp opportunities at the school. “Ultimately, if we can get the Kennett Run back up to as many as 500 athletes the way it was pre-COVID-19, it will help supplement the work that Kennett Run Charities already does,” Ramagano said. Continued on Page 12

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Coach Ram... Continued from Page 10

For anyone who has competed in or attended the Kennett Run, the words “giving back” seem woven into the cloth of the race, which has donated more than $1.2 million to local charities and non-proﬁt organizations in the Kennett Square community since its founding in 1989. Serving as the race director for this year’s event will have even more meaning for Ramagano; he was diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer last March, which was followed by an operation that removed his prostate and led to a round of radiation therapy and a current round of hormone suppression therapy. While he acknowledges that the prognosis for his longterm health is good and he has returned In his role as race director, Ramagano to full-time coaching, replaces JJ Simon, who replaced Ramagano said that Nadine Ringler-Friedrich in 2016. his work as a coach –

particularly now – has taken on an even more special significance. Whether they are the nearly 250 student-athletes he coaches on the crimson Kennett High School track or weekend runners who will brave the 10-mile Kennett Run course on May 7, being in the company of the local running community has become an essential medicine dose of inspiration for Ramagano as he battles through his illness. “I am ‘Coach Ram’” “It is what helps me to survive,” he said. “I have a lot of friendships with other coaches all over the country, and we all have social media accounts, and one of the followers from Ohio once asked me, ‘How do you want to be referred as? By your first name? By your last name? “I told him that I am ‘Coach Ram,’ and to me, the name ‘Coach Ram’ makes me feel so good about what I have been able to do for the community. When my athletes, my athletic director, my coaches and the extended families of our track team call me ‘Coach Ram,’ it means so much to me, because I know that I am giving back as a coach. “That’s what I want to do for the Kennett Run -- to give back. I am a father. My wife Pam and I are soon to become grandparents for the first time. I am a husband and a friend, but I also define myself as a coach, because it has remained for me a big part of being alive.” To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rgaw@chestercounty. com.

The Annual Joe Hector PoweRun Those competing in The Annual Joe Hector PoweRun complete the strength exercise they have chosen prior to running their choice of the 5K or 10K race. The strength exercise is either bench presses or pull-ups. For each repetition completed, your run time is reduced by 30 seconds for 5K runners, and 1 minute for 10K runners. For women the required weight for bench presses is 60 percent of your body weight. For men the weight required varies with your age: • Less than age 19 – 60 percent of body weight • 19 through age 59 – 100 percent of body weight • Over age 59 – 60 percent of body weight

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Flashback! The 2019 Kennett Run, as appeared in the Chester County Press

Beneath sunny skies, 30th annual Kennett Run draws 900 competitors Celebratory theme attracts 80s fashions By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer

s the early-morning sun shone through the trees and pathways of Anson B. Nixon Park last Saturday, the welcome relief that the 30th annual Kennett Run would get underway in great weather was quickly upstaged by dozens of runners who took the theme of “Run Like It’s 1989” and, well, ran with it. One year removed from the 2018 Kennett Run – which was held in a consistent rain shower -- a field of more than 900 competitors joined hundreds of community members on May 11 that featured an overabundance of big hair, spandex, knee-high socks, short shorts, all of which was magnified by the continuous blare of period pop music. While the pre- and post-race gathIn keeping with the erings served as the stage to rock the “Run Like It’s 1989” look, the 2019 Kennett Run also field- theme, runners Aby ed a serious cadre of competitors, Diorio and John Kates who ran in the 10K, 5K and the Joe dressed for the moment. Hector PoweRun. The top finishers in the 10K were Daryl Brown of Exton, with a time of 33:50; and Leah Anne Wirfel of Fredonia, Pa., who took the top women’s position with a time of 36:33.4. Chris Mullin on Norristown took first place in the 5K with a time of 16:10.9, while Jen Fiorillo of West Chester finished first

among women runners with a time of 18:58. In the Joe Hector 10K PoweRun, Michael Perna of Kennett Square won the men’s division with a time of 40:42.5 and Kelly McConnell-Cox took ﬁrst place in the women’s division with a time of 46:51.7; while in the Joe Hectore 5K PoweRun, Tucker Opdahl of West Chester won in the men’s division with a time of 23:34.2, and Rachael Odorisio of West Chester took top honors in the women’s division with a time of 27:46.6. “The Kennett Run has a history of bringing some out-of-town runners who really like to take on a challenging course,” said Kennett Charities, Inc. President B. Christoper Daney. “This year, we had a lot of runners from Philadelphia, Ardmore, some whom have run in the Boston Marathon, and the winner of last year’s Mushroom Cap 13. 1 Half Marathon It was not uncom- last fall. They tell us that they enjoy mon to see run- the race because it gives them the ners dressed in pe- opportunity to compete against some riod clothing on the very strong runners. “When putting on this race every course. year, we’re always concerned about safety, you’re always concerned about safety for the runners and walkers. We spent more than $20,000 on renovations to improve the asphalt on our roads and trails, as well as major trail repair in the last few weeks, so that there wouldn’t be any issues.”

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Photos by Richard L. Gaw

Members of the Walk in Knowledge Team, led by coordinator Loretta Perna, served as valuable volunteers at the race.

The odd and the unusual In what has become a Kennett Run tradition, the competition brought out competitive runners and weekend warriors, as well as a colorful blend of locals and out-of-towners. Wearing a wig that was reminiscent of the hair bands of the early days of MTV, Juan Pablo Galvez Fuentes was a first-time competitor, having just arrived from Chile at the invitation of his sister, who lives in Chester County. “She told me about the race and said, ‘a lot of people there running will run will look a lot like you, Juan,’” said Fuentes, who also sported a mutton chop mustache, retro sunglasses and short red shorts. “I thought the eighties were done years ago, but it was really nice to see people get into the spirit and fun of what the Kennett Run also stands for,” Daney said. For 10K PoweRun competitor Christopher Williams and his wife Ella – who ran the 5K – the Kennett Run holds a special significance. “We were married on May 19, 2001, so this has become our anniversary race, and we run it together,” said Christoper, who trained on his own for the last eight weeks to prepare for the event. He then pointed to his wife, who wore a shirt that read, “I hate running.” “I’m a fitness guy and I enjoy running, but Ella does the Kennett Run for love,” Christopher said. Since it began in 1989, Kennett Charities, Inc. has contributed more than $1 million to local charities. To learn more about the Kennett Run and for official race results of the 2019 5K, 10K and PoweRun competition, visit www.kennettrun.net. To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rgaw@chestercounty.com.

A total of 40 competitors entered into the annual Joe Hector PoweRun, held in conjunction with the Kennett Area YMCA, that features a biathlon involving strength and endurance.

The start of the 10K race kicked off the 30th annual Kennett Run on May 11, which drew 900 competitors and hundreds of spectators to Anson B. Nixon Park in Kennett Square.

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The Kennett Run

the Chester County Press: A PARTNERSHIP IN PHOTOS For the past several years, the Chester County Press has been proud to serve as a sponsor for the Kennett Run and serve in partnership with Kennett Run Charities to help tell the story of its more than 30year mission to give back to agencies throughout Kennett Square and southern Chester County. The Chester County Press presents these photographs of past events as a document to the fact that while the story of the Kennett Run has been a great one, it is still a story being told, and the Chester County Press will continue to be there for every run and every step.

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Kennett Run Charities, Inc. The Kennett Run Charities Board of Directors is made up of volunteers from various Kennett Square service organizations, including the Rotary Club of Kennett Square, the Rotary Club of Longwood, the Lions Club, the Kennett Area YMCA and various Kennett area citizens who make the Kennett Run a successful, fun event for serious runners and families. 2021-2022 Officers Bob Merkle, President Al Schmitt, Vice President Becky Devestine, Secretary Michele Cyron, Treasurer John Ramagano, Race Director

2021-2022 Board of Directors Ryan Borchik David Chopko Michele Cyron Becky Devestine Greg Lambert Steven McManus Bob Merkle Thomas P. Neale Dr. Albert J. Schmitt Debra Swayne

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Race Directors Emeritus Michael R. Perna, Esq. James P. Schulz Aaron J. Martin Gregory Scott R. David Harrison Ray Cornell Robert A. Blackhall Christopher J. Bailey, Esq James Frezzo, Jr. Jenny Armitage

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Kennett Run Charities, Inc.

Race Directors Emeritus (Continued) Patti Walker-Wein Thomas P. Neale Leonard C. Bieberbach Al Iacocca, Esq. Nadiene Friedrich Jean-Jacques Simon

Past Presidents Michael R. Perna, Esq. Donna L. Hood Dominic F. Perigo Steve J. Evans Edward C. Lick Christopher J. Bailey, Esq. Matthew J. Grieco Daniel R. Kohler Dr. Albert Schmitt Lenonard Bieberbach Matthew Genereux B. Christopher Daney

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(610) 484-5115 Located in the New Garden Town Square

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