Weitzel Remains Second in South Carolina Road Race Rankings

ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Jason Weitzel is ranked second in the South Carolina Road Race Rankings for the third consecutive month. The rankings were published this week by South Carolina's USATF record keeper Bill Marable. In December Weitzel was ranked for the first time since joining the post-collegiate, Olympic-development program. The top ranked SC road racer is Greenville's James Quattlebaum, who was the 2019 and 2021 South Carolina Long Distance Runner of the year and has led the recent SC rankings. 

Weitzel's ranking comes from his runner-up (to Quattlebaum) placing at September's United Community Bank Reedy River Run 10K in Greenville, his 1:04:45 performance in December at the 2021 USATF Half Marathon Championships in Hardeeville, SC and his January victory in The Greenville News Run Downtown 5K (14:37).  Also of note, Jason set new State resident records at 15K, 10-Miles and 20K in route during his Half Marathon performance.  

South Carolina Road Race Rankings
​as of February 5, 2022

Also in the men's rankings, former ASICS GTC-ELITE runners Ricky Flynn is ranked third, Frank DeVar 7th, and Roland Hakes tenth.

ASICS GTC-ELITE's Mackenzie Lowe is ranked ninth among women, but has not raced in South Carolina since September. .

ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles, one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru, three qualifiers/two participants for the 2020 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Atlanta, GA and one qualifier for and participant in the 2021 USATF Olympic Track & Field Trials in the 3000m Steeplechase. The program's runners set four South Carolina State road race records in 2020 (5K, 15K and Half Marathon--twice) and three (15K, 10-Mile and 20K) in 2021. ASICS GTC-ELITE also produced the South Carolina Men's 2020 Long Distance Runner of the Year. 

​The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 50-year-old Greenville Track Club, Joy Real Estate (Adopt an Athlete partner), The Borch Foundation, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, the DorsiFlex (stretching device), the MOBO board (balance & mobility), On Pace Wellness (nutrition coaching) and LEVER Movement (treadmill body weight support).  The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and  USATF.​