Former three-time Fort Calhoun High School cross-country champ and Nebraska Cornhusker Taya Skelton was the first female to finish the Lincoln Marathon on Sunday.
She clocked in at 2 hours, 54 minutes and 9 seconds, earning 42nd overall.
The FCHS graduate recently closed out her Huskers career during the indoor track and field season.
Other Washington County runners to complete the marathon were Landen Oppliger, Joshua Whyrick, Logan Sampson and Abi Nelson. Oppliger and Whyrick are from Blair, finishing 135th in 3:13:22 and 225th in 3:28:11, respectively.
Sampson, meanwhile, is from Arlington. He ran the race in 4:06:41 for 566th, while Nelson — a Fort Calhoun runner — stopped the clock in 4:57:59 for 899th.
Even more county runners completed the day's half-marathon in Lincoln. The Blair contingent included Austin Roach, Tim Peitzmeier, Dustin Oppliger, Jessica Sharp, Carley Damme, Maria Bledsoe, Aimee Peitzmeier, Kylie Jaspersen, Kevin Sisk, Azelia Sisk, Michael Dermody, Jeff Bledsoe, Cassandra Willis and Robert Hayduk.
Fort Calhoun half-marathon runners were Camden Dowling, Teresa Dowling, Kyla DeLuca and Sophia Irvine. Arlington's Erica Hueser, Samantha Miller and AHS golf coach Landon Walkenhorst participated in the half-marathon, too, according to race results online at lincolngmarathon.org.
