The 2025 Dustin Doyon Road Race held on May 24 had yet another successful year. The weather was spectacular for the runners and spectators.
The Doyon Family would personally like to thank all Suffield High School volunteers, along with Eric Hamylak in his efforts to orchestrate these wonderful students; thank you for all your hard work! We are also grateful to Lisa Walters for volunteering her time to provide the public address system and to the Town who provided use of the Suffield Middle School and its property. To the Emergency Response Agencies, thank you for your continued support. Thank you, Bev DeGeorge, for donating your time to make beautiful, vibrant, handmade quilts in honor of Dustin for our Silent Auction each year. This year’s quilt was won by the highest bidder at $750 by Lisa Shelanskas. To our volunteers at the registration table, thank you for another successful year. To our photographers—thank you. Kicking off the race, Father Joe Keough of Sacred Heard Parish gave a blessing to all the runners and offered prayers in memory of all the lives sacrificed for our freedom.
As we persevere in honoring and remembering Dustin each year during Memorial Day weekend, we continue to keep his memory alive. We want to thank everyone who graciously donated to our cause and who participated; it gives us strength and courage to be surrounded by a loving, giving community.
The Dustin Doyon Road Race brought in just over $25,000 from both participators and donations. The Dustin Doyon Scholarship awarded four scholarships to running athletes: one male and one female from Pope Francis Prep School, Massachusetts, and one male and one female from Suffield High School. The recipients received $1,000 during this year’s award banquet. The Scholarship Foundation made changes last year to increase the award to $4,000 to each student (furthering their education in a military, trade school, or college) at $1,000 per year for a total of four years. We are extremely excited to offer more to those students who have worked so hard.
Congratulations to the following Suffield running athletes who received this year’s award:
Miss Natalie Ho will attend Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, to major in Engineering, and Mr. Christian Flanagan will attend the University of Connecticut to major in Sports Management.
Thank you to all who submitted their applications this year…. keep working and keep running the race.
As Principal Anthony Hibbert looks on, Karen Doyon presents Natalie Ho with this year’s Dustin Doyon scholarship.
As Principal Anthony Hibbert looks on, Karen Doyon presents Christian Flanagan with this year’s Dustin Doyon scholarship.