Seventeen run in Foxcroft Academy’s Pony Pride 3.8K
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy graduates, community members and visitors to the region kicked off the Saturday of Foxcroft Academy Alumni Weekend on Aug. 2 by running in the 2025 edition of the Pony Pride road race. For the fourth year in a row the course was 3.8 kilometers (nearly 2.4 miles in length) with the runners staying in town on the Saturday morning.
2024 Foxcroft Academy graduate Zachary Peirce won this year’s Pony Pride, running a time of 15 minutes, 58.4 seconds for the top performance among the field of 17 entrants. Peirce also won the race for the second straight year.
2023 Foxcroft Academy graduate Leah (Hill) Conner ran a time of 19:23.4 to earn the 2025 Pony Pride women’s title. She repeated as the women’s winner and was fourth overall in 2025.
PONY PRIDE 3.8K — Seventeen runners took part in this year’s Pony Pride 3.8K to kick off Foxcroft Academy Alumni Weekend events on Saturday, Aug. 2.
The full 2025 Pony Pride results are as follows: 1. Zachary Peirce 15:58.4; 2. Angus Mailhot 17:42.1; 3. Brian Mailhot 18:50.4; 4. Leah Conner 19:23.4; 5. Justin Hogan 19:40.5; 6. Kaydiense Nelson 21:54.0; 7. Bret Hanson 21:54.9; 8. Shyla Coburn 22:16.7; 9. Whitney Edwards 22:24.7; 10. David Wheaton 22:37.3;
11. Susan Hanson, 24:24.9; 12. Isabelle Connor 24:37.2; 13. Chris Connor 24:38.0; 14. Raul Siren 24:53.9; 15. Kennedy McKenney 25:54.6; 16. Randi McKenney, 32:26.8; 17. Saylor McKenney 32:27.4.
Previous years’ Pony Pride 5K winners (year, men’s winner and time, women’s winner and time): 1997 Tim Wakeland 16:20 Jana Crocker 21:26; 1998 John Chase 17:05 Sunshine Weinrich 20:30; 1999 Justin Bates 17:06 Amanda Thompson 22:14; 2000 Wakeland 17:00 Dana Frasz 20:39; 2001 Dave Nelson 16:16 Frasz 20:31; 2002 Mike Chilly 17:21 Katherine Carroll 21:35; 2003 Bates 16:24 Cassie Hintz 18:40; 2004 Wakeland 16:24 Hintz 17:15; 2005 Eric Rudolph 17:02 Hintz 17:13; 2006 Greg Hammett 16:50 Hintz 18:07 (due to bridge construction on Essex Street course was 3.19 miles in length); 2007 Hammett 16:16 Elizabeth Brunton 19:11; 2008 Rudolph 16:17 Brunton 19:36; 2009 Rudolph 16:25 Katie Herbine 19:37; 2010 Shawn Keenan 17:20 Brunton 18:24; 2011 Jerod Hayes 16:55 Hintz 19:22; 2012 Graham Pearsall 16:42 Meghan Keane 21:53; 2013 Pearsall 17:11 Diane Keenan 20:13; 2014 Pearsall 16:47 Heather Mailhot 24:31; 2015 Pearsall 16:41 Jenny Clawson 23:41; 2016 Cooper Nelson 17:20 Keenan 20:21 (new course); 2017 Nelson 18:22 Angelina Teachout 23:01; 2018 Nelson 18:11 Keenan 19:22; 2019 Keenan 17:40 and Keenan 19:20; 2021 Eli Olson 20:01 and Sabrina Sharrow 23:57.3; 2022 (switch made to 3.8 kilometers) Esau Olson 15:00.9 and Kaylee Durgin 17:17; 2023 Eddy Mead 14:20.8 Kristine Guaraldo 18:03.4; 2024 Zachary Peirce 15:21.7 Leah Conner 18:47.6.
PONY PRIDE WINNERS — Leah (Hill) Conner ’23 and Zachary Peirce ’24 are the women’s and men’s winners of Foxcroft Academy’s 2025 Pony Pride 3.8K on Aug. 2. Hill came in fourth overall at 19:23.4 and Peirce was first among 17 runners with his time of 15:58.4.