A celebrity filled field brought year 2001 to a close on the 5 kilometer course, under sunny skies and cold temperatures. Whirlaway Racing Teams's Jon Corso, the overall course record holder at 15:10, came home for the holidays and the ex-Agawam High, UMass, and GSH star was the Las Vegas oddsmaker's choice despite a talent rich men's field. A quintuplet of young Harriers were ready for the challege including Carlos Rivera and Steve Byrne and college speedsters Tom Bousquet, Erich Fiedler, and Jason Reed. Toss in Southwick High's junior running sensation Andrew Pitts, fresh off a cross country season which included numerous course records, a Western Mass and a State title, and you've got yourself an old fashioned foot race.
     It has been over a decade since Jon Corso made Snowstorm Classic history so a few of the betting public were touting the competition, but those Vegas guys aren't often wrong. At the sound of the gun Mr. Corso bolted off the starting line, raced up the hill, and by the first kilometer held a comfortable lead on route to a wire to wire victory
in 16:11. The race for silver was closer as Andrew Pitts (16:35) not only held off Carlos Rivera (16:43) and Tom Bousquet (16:51) but established the course record for sixteen year old boys, erasing the 16:40 standard set by another Dick Atkinson coached Southwick High standout, Tom Walsh, in 1989.
     Division winners included senior Steve O'Neil (18:24) who also topped masters Tim Brown (18:29) and Joe Klejna (18:34) and veteran Charlie Towse (21:24) who out ran fellow Harrier Jim O'Toole (22:40).
     Among the women it was master runners Sue Haryasz (19:32) and Carolyn Webber (20:17) showing the way with some quick times while Dawn Roberts was third (20:59). Mary Ryczek captured another senior blue ribbon in 23:02. By the way Sue is no stranger to fast times, she is co-holder of the 17:36 overall course record for women.

 1  16:11  Jon        Corso        32M  WRT
 2  16:35  Andrew     Pitts        16M  ---
 3  16:43  Carlos     Rivera       27M  GSH
 4  16:51  Tom        Bousquet     20M  GSH
 5  17:56  Steve      Byrne        34M  GSH
 6  18:00  Erich      Fiedler      18M  GSH
 7  18:11  Jason      Reed         22M  GSH
 8  18:14  Alan       Bohdiewicz   16M  ---
 9  18:24  Steve      O'Neil       50M  CMS
10  18:29  Tim        Brown        49M  ---
11  18:34  Joe        Klejna       40M  GSH
12  18:54  Justin     Jablonowski  21M  ---
13  18:57  John       Bigos        48M  GSH
14  19:19  Sam        Itirrino     28M  ---
15  19:25  Ramon      Alicea       50M  GSH
16  19:26  Ted        Adams        41M  ---
17  19:32  Sue        Haryasz      40F  ---
18  19:34  Guy        Batchelder   21M  ---
19  19:36  Jim        Sullivan     36M  GSH
20  19:51  Jim        Wright       34M  ---
21  20:04  Jim        Lyons        36M  ---
22  20:07  Paul       Dreyer       16M  ---
23  20:09  Rich       Clark        47M  SMAC
24  20:17  Carolyn    Webber       41F  ---
25  20:34  Neil       James        33M  ---
26  20:37  Keith      Benoit       19M  ---
27  20:47  Dan        Laprade      38M  GSH
28  20:59  Dawn       Roberts      30F  GSH
29  20:59  Art        Roberts      57M  GSH
30  21:00  Jim        Halton       54M  GSH
31  21:08  Jim        Snyder       49M  ---
32  21:12  Mike       LaPlante     41M  ---
33  21:19  Betsy      Duquette     47F  GSH
34  21:23  Mary       Misiaszek    35F  GSH
35  21:26  Michael    Adams        39M  ---
36  21:29  Neal       Lamberton    53M  GSH
37  21:37  Dan        Clark        49M  EORC
38  21:42  Mike       Gula         16M  GSH
39  21:42  Charlie    Towse        64M  GSH
40  22:01  Mark       Lynch        43M  ---
41  22:05  Scott      Colwell      44M  GSH
42  22:07  Jordan     Roby         12F  NBDP
43  22:19  Zachery    Denver       16M  ---
44  22:22  Brenda     Barrera      39F  ---
45  22:29  Clive      Woakes       54M  GSH
46  22:33  Dan        Sexton       42M  ---
47  22:38  Kevin      Young        49M  GSH
48  22:40  Jim        O'Toole      66M  GSH
49  22:42  Dave       Martula      56M  SMAC
50  22:45  Ed         LeBlanc      47M  EORC
51  22:50  Kathy      Colwell      38F  GSH
52  22:51  Debbie     Girouard     38F  EORC
53  23:00  Sandra     Guarrera     37F  EORC
54  23:02  Mary       Ryczek       55F  CMS
55  23:04  Kathy      Lynch        39F  ---
56  23:30  Bill       Collins      48M  ---
57  23:39  Don        Grant        59M  SMAC
58  23:43  Sharon     Mikaelian    38F  GSH
59  23:45  Bob        Massaro      58M  EORC
60  23:45  Erv        Landry       62M  GSH
61  23:59  Dan        Haryasz      12M  ---
62  23:59  Sean       Henry        15M  ---
63  24:10  Russell    Denver       45M  ---
64  24:12  Brian      Fitzgerald   31M  ---
65  24:14  Charles    Cangemi      31M  ---
66  24:16  Hugh       Moriarty     50M  GSH
67  24:21  Marjorie   Kos          56F  MAA
68  24:24  Doug       Bielefeld    42M  GSH
69  24:37  Peter      Stasz        54M  GSH
70  24:56  Jeff       Burgess      55M  ---
71  24:59  Doug       Blanchard    76M  GSH
72  25:20  Stephen    Penna        46M  EORC
73  25:28  Ellen      Bellicchi    51F  GSH
74  25:33  David      Kos          58M  NYF
75  25:39  Sue        Grant        57F  SMAC
76  26:09  Michelle   Salva        30F  ---
77  26:17  Andrea     Dufresne     32F  ---
78  26:18  Stephanie  Sullivan     25F  ---
79  26:24  Kelly      Sullivan     35F  GSH
80  26:35  Andy       Ducomb       13M  ---
81  26:38  Bill       Thibault     44M  ---
82  26:39  Ed         Dwyer        35M  GSH
83  26:45  Nick       Thibault     13M  ---
84  26:50  Peter      Vangsness    50M  GSH
85  26:58  Kate       Carlson      35F  ---
86  27:20  Bill       Milkiewicz   47M  GSH
87  27:50  Richard    Gibbons      41M  GSH
88  28:28  Dick       Osgood       64M  GSH
89  29:28  Kris       Kozuch       44F  EORC
90  30:16  Cheryl     Pooler       37F  EORC
91  30:26  Roxanna    Myhrum       18F  ---
92  31:07  Lauren     Stocker      12F  ---
93  31:14  Wayne      Stocker      47M  GSH
94  31:31  Kevin      Maloney      10M  ---
95  31:33  Tom        Maloney      49M  ---
96  31:58  Bruce      Kurtz        65M  SMAC
97  31:59  Anne       Barrera      37F  ---