Overall Champions

ACLI Capital Challenge – Overall Champions 1981-2025

2025
  • Male – Jack Butler 15:45 Running Athwart History (National Review)
  • Female – Emma Kumer 17:52 It Speeds it Ledes (Washington Post)
  • Team – News That’s Fit to Sprint (New York Times)
2024
  • Male – Jack Miller 14:31 It Speeds it Ledes (Washington Post)
  • Female – Morgan Foster 16:50 The Dry Heat (Rep. Greg Stanton)
  • Team – It Speeds it Ledes (Washington Post)
2023
  • Male – Nathan Bickell 15:08 Multiple Abscondences (Judge James Crowell)
  • Female – Emma Kumer 18:50 It Speeds it Ledes (Washington Post)
  • Team – It Speeds it Ledes (Washington Post)
2022
  • Male – Peter Rindfuss 15:19 FTC — Faster than Competition (Federal Trade Commission)
  • Female – Jen Maranzano 17:51 Exercising Our Rights (Justice Department Civil Rights Division)
  • Team – FTC — Faster than Competition (Federal Trade Commission)
2021
  • Male – Nick Posada 14:24 Running Circuit (Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
  • Female – Aisha Woodward 18:58 Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast (Rep. Jared Golden)
  • Team – Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast (Rep. Jared Golden)
2019
  • Male – Nick Posada 14:52 Running Circuit (Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
  • Female – Amanda Barnett 17:49 The Jointed Five (Joint Chiefs of Staff)
  • Team – The Jointed Five (Joint Chiefs of Staff)
2018
  • Male – Martin Dieterich 16:09 Newsprinters (Washington Post)
  • Female – Amanda Hicks 18:23 Newsprinters (Washington Post)
  • Team – Newsprinters (Washington Post)
2017
  • Male – Paul Balmer 15:23 Red, White & Blumenauer (Rep. Earl Blumenauer)
  • Female – Erin Taylor 17:39 Three Letter Agency (General Services Administration)
  • Team – USCG (U.S. Coast Guard)
2016
  • Male – Brandon Cherry 15:03 FERC(ules) (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
  • Female – Erin Taylor 17:56 Getting Seriously Active (General Services Administration)
  • Team – Maintaining Maritime Superiority (U.S. Navy)
2015
  • Male – Patrick Fernandez 15:05 Team Coast Guard (U.S. Coast Guard)
  • Female – Gina Slaby 17:13 Global Force for Speed (U.S. Navy)
  • Team – Global Force for Speed (U.S. Navy)
2014
  • Male – Patrick Fernandez 14:59 Team Coast Guard (U.S. Coast Guard)
  • Female – Erin Taylor 17:43 Human “Capitol” Running Club (General Services Administration)
  • Team – Team Coast Guard (U.S. Coast Guard)
2013
  • Male – Patrick Fernandez 14:44 Coast Guard Washington … Running Soon (U.S. Coast Guard)
  • Female – Rachel Beckmann 17:59 Coast Guard Washington … Running Soon (U.S. Coast Guard)
  • Team – Full Blooded Intensity (FBI)
2012
  • Male – Brandon Cherry 14:48 We FERC Hard for the Runnin’ (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
  • Female – Amanda Rice 16:40 Navy’s Global Force for Speed (U.S. Navy)
  • Team – Navy’s Global Force for Speed (U.S. Navy)
2011
  • Male – Brandon Cherry 15:20 Runnin’ Out of Our FERC’n Minds (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
  • Female – Cdr Suzanne Himes 18:52 Team Navy (U.S. Navy)
  • Team – Fun Bunch of Investigative Runners (FBI)
2010
  • Male – Cabell Rosanelli 14:48 Army Strong I (U.S. Army)
  • Female – Becky Beachy 19:02 Fun Bunch of Investigative Runners (FBI)
  • Team – Fun Bunch of Investigative Runners (FBI)
2009
  • Male – Neal Hannan 15:58 On Your Markman (Judge William Bryson)
  • Female – Eve Newman 19:09 LamBORN to Run (Rep. Doug Lamborn)
  • Team – Dash Gordon (Rep. Bart Gordon)
2008
  • Male – Brandon Cherry 15:42 Federal Energy Running Commission (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
  • Female – Laura Turner 17:15 Dash Gordon (Rep. Bart Gordon)
  • Team – Dash Gordon (Rep. Bart Gordon)
2007
  • Male – Michael Padilla 15:11 Navy Blue & Gold (U.S. Navy)
  • Female – Laura Turner 17:09 Dash Gordon (Rep. Bart Gordon)
  • Team – Dash Gordon (Rep. Bart Gordon)
2006
  • Male – Sean Montgomery 15:58 Team Navy (U.S. Navy)
  • Female – Vicki Lang 18:43 Putting Veterans First (Veterans Affairs)
  • Team – Mercenary Highlanders (Rep. Bart Gordon)
2005
  • Male – Jim Ansberry 15:18 Team Ryun (Rep. Jim Ryun)
  • Female – Laura Turner 16:35 Clerk’s Cruisers (U.S. House Clerk’s Office)
  • Team – Team Navy (U.S. Navy)
2004
  • Male – Philip Hudspeth 15:28 Rogue Runners (Rep. Peter DeFazio)
  • Female – Sharon Donovan 17:40 Mineta’s Mashers (Dept. of Transportation)
  • Team – Navy (U.S. Navy)
2003
  • Male – Jim Hage 15:27 The Rogue Fonts (Washington Post)
  • Female – Janel Kiley 17:50 Yellow Border Guards (National Geographic)
  • Team – U.S. Navy
2002
  • Male – Richard Cochran 14:46 U.S. Navy
  • Female – Janel Kiley 18:21 Running for Covers (National Geographic)
  • Team – U.S. Navy
2000
  • Male – Michael Ryan 14:57 Navy (U.S. Navy)
  • Female – Vicki Lang 18:00 Gorber’s Grunts (Veterans Affairs)
  • Team – Navy (U.S. Navy)
1999
  • Male – Michael Ryan 14:55 Navy #1 (U.S. Navy)
  • Female – Bridget Niland-Gwitt 17:36 House of Quinn (Rep. Jack Quinn)
  • Team – Fed’s Blasting Inner Harbor (FBI)
1998
  • Male – Jim Hage 15:11 BNA Fleet Streeters (Bureau of National Affairs)
  • Female – Kelly Keene 17:14 Lugar’s Non-Sanctioned Runners (Sen. Richard Lugar)
  • Team – Firm Believer’s Making a Difference (FBI)
1997
  • Male – Mark Gilmore 14:46 U.S. Navy
  • Female – Barbara Kannewurf 16:47 U.S. Navy
  • Team – Fast, Brazen and In-Stride (FBI)
1996
  • Male – Ron Harris 14:34 Navy (U.S. Navy)
  • Female – Martha Shue 16:47 Navy (U.S. Navy)
1995
  • Male – Jim Hage 14:47 Fleet Streeters (Bureau of National Affairs)
  • Female – Nora Collas 17:26 FBI’s Safe Street Striders (FBI)
1994
  • Male – Ron Harris 14:06 Team Navy (U.S. Navy)
  • Female – Donna Moore 16:53 Club Fed (Internal Revenue Service)
1993
  • Male – Jim Hage 14:21 BNA’s Fleet Streeters (Bureau of National Affairs)
  • Female – Laura Scofea 17:29 Labor’s Last Legs (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
1992
  • Male – Scott Celley 14:43 “Air Gorton” (Sen. Slade Gorton)
  • Female – Carol (Rose) Schultze 16:37 No Pain No Capital Gain (Internal Revenue Service)
1991
  • Male – Scott Celley 14:40 Slade’s Striders (Sen. Slade Gorton)
  • Female – Carol Rose 17:11 Taxation Without Representation (Internal Revenue Service)
1990
  • Male – Scott Celley 14:48 Slade’s Striders (Sen. Slade Gorton)
  • Female – Megan Othersen 17:13 Do The Write Thing (Runner’s World)
1989
  • Male – Scott Celley 14:51 Lugar’s Lost Souls (Sen. Richard Lugar)
  • Female – Donna Elliot 16:53 Taxation Without Hesitation (Internal Revenue Service)
1988
  • Male – David White 14:21 Hoosier Senator? (Sen. Richard Lugar)
  • Female – Patty McGovern 16:16 Byron’s Bollweevils (Rep. Beverly Byron)
  • Team – Labor’s Lightening Legs (Department of Labor)
1987
  • Male – John Wessels 14:07 OMB #2 (Office of Management and Budget)
  • Female – Heidi Gerken 16:45 Bowen Arrows (Health and Human Services)
1986
  • Male – Scott Celley 14:06 Slade’s Striders (Sen. Slade Gorton)
  • Female – Patty McGovern 15:57 Slade’s Striders (Sen. Slade Gorton)
1985
  • Male – Scott Celley 14:30 Slade’s Striders (Sen. Slade Gorton)
  • Female – Patty McGovern 16:00 Slade’s Striders (Sen. Slade Gorton)
1984
  • Male – Scott Celley 14:25 Slade’s Striders (Sen. Slade Gorton)
  • Female – Patty McGovern 16:46 Idaho Transpotatoes (Sen. Steve Symms)
1983
  • Male – Scott Celley 14:30 Slade’s Sliders (Sen. Slade Gorton)
  • Female – Catherine H. Coleman 17:56 Speedy Solicitors (U.S. Solicitor General)
1982
  • Male – Bill Kamenjar 14:52 Journal Jets
  • Female – Valerie Nye 19:11 BNA Scriveners (Bureau of National Affairs)
1981
  • Male – Alex Pincus 15:03 Fleet Seven (Rep. Ed Markey)
  • Female – Valerie Nye 19:12 BNA Scriveners (Bureau of National Affairs)
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