Yolanda Flamino, Advisory Board

Apr 3

Yolanda Flamino

Yolanda started competing on running teams in middle school when she joined the cross country team. She competed in cross country and track and field throughout high school and college (Trinity College), where she was an All-American. Post-collegiately, she ran on club teams, including Hansons-Brooks. She competed in the 2008 marathon Olympic Trials and was the 2010 USATF 50K National Champion. She has coached at the collegiate, high school, and middle school levels and across a wide variety of events. She believes that running provides many benefits that extend beyond the physical and that, no matter the starting point, there is a path forward.

Becka Lyons

The other co president Becka Lyons has been running since the 5th grade, joining the high school cross country team in the 7th grade to be coached by Mike Smith when the middle school team didn’t have enough participation. Under Smith, Becka learned not only the ins and outs of running and won the 2006 Division 3 XC Championship Team title, but also all of the life skills that go with it; perseverance, goal setting, determination, and grit just to name a few. It would be those life skills that carried her from Mascenic Regional High School onto Quinnipiac University to earn her Doctorate of Physical Therapy and eventually open her own PT clinic with her husband, Elevation Physical Therapy & Sports Rehab in Peterborough, NH. Combining her passions for running and therapy, Becka held the Assistant Coach position for all things running at Mascenic for the last 4 years, bringing home both a boy’s and girl’s Division 3 team titles (only other Girl’s title since 2006!). When not at Elevation PT, Becka is usually found on the trails with her husband and black lab, gardening, or curled up with a book and a cup of tea.

Yolanda Flamino, Advisory Board

Lisa Ramey

Lance Flamino, Advisory Board