(Sept. 22, 2016) Kicking off Pocomoke High School homecoming week is the second annual Susan Pusey memorial color run, honoring the field hockey coach that led the Warriors to 16 state championships.
Pusey died from a complication of knee surgery. She underwent the procedure on July 17, 2015 and passed away two days later. Her team would win another state championship that year in her honor.
“We’ve got a neat little 5K course using all three Pocomoke schools,” Dr. Annette Wallace, principal of Pocomoke High School said. “It’s a really nice community event to honor a special person that affected a lot of people.”
Registration begins Saturday morning at 8 a.m., with the start scheduled for 9 a.m. at the high school. Wallace said the first 100 registrants are guaranteed a T-shirt. Children 10 and under can participate for free, otherwise the fee is $25.
Participants should probably be aware that at certain intervals, they will become targets for race volunteers armed with a mixture of cornstarch and colored dye, in a variety of colors.
“We tried blue and gold, but the mixture ended up making a pretty ugly color,” Wallace said.
The mixture, which creates a full body tie-dye effect, doesn’t improve performance — it just kind of looks cool.
“The cleanup is really easy. It mostly just wipes off. Every school has different colors — most people bring a change of clothes but it’s not as messy as it sounds,” Wallace said.
Following the race and a bit of cleanup, the high school is offering an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at a cost of $7, but race participants get a $2 discount, she said.
The funds, Wallace said, would go towards school projects, but also help finance the scholarship named for Pusey, as well as working toward the $10,000 goal for an endowment, which would secure the scholarship in perpetuity.
“I think one of my commitments as principal is to honor Susan’s legacy — and not just by winning, because it’s easy to get caught up in the success and numbers of state titles,” Wallace said. “For her it was about something more — being a great person and a great example — and always looking out for others.”
Pusey died from a complication of knee surgery. She underwent the procedure on July 17, 2015 and passed away two days later. Her team would win another state championship that year in her honor.
“We’ve got a neat little 5K course using all three Pocomoke schools,” Dr. Annette Wallace, principal of Pocomoke High School said. “It’s a really nice community event to honor a special person that affected a lot of people.”
Registration begins Saturday morning at 8 a.m., with the start scheduled for 9 a.m. at the high school. Wallace said the first 100 registrants are guaranteed a T-shirt. Children 10 and under can participate for free, otherwise the fee is $25.
Participants should probably be aware that at certain intervals, they will become targets for race volunteers armed with a mixture of cornstarch and colored dye, in a variety of colors.
“We tried blue and gold, but the mixture ended up making a pretty ugly color,” Wallace said.
The mixture, which creates a full body tie-dye effect, doesn’t improve performance — it just kind of looks cool.
“The cleanup is really easy. It mostly just wipes off. Every school has different colors — most people bring a change of clothes but it’s not as messy as it sounds,” Wallace said.
Following the race and a bit of cleanup, the high school is offering an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at a cost of $7, but race participants get a $2 discount, she said.
The funds, Wallace said, would go towards school projects, but also help finance the scholarship named for Pusey, as well as working toward the $10,000 goal for an endowment, which would secure the scholarship in perpetuity.
“I think one of my commitments as principal is to honor Susan’s legacy — and not just by winning, because it’s easy to get caught up in the success and numbers of state titles,” Wallace said. “For her it was about something more — being a great person and a great example — and always looking out for others.”