Tekoa's Scaroni rolls to 5th in Boston marathon

Susannah Scaroni, a 2009 graduate of Tekoa High School, placed fifth in the women’s open wheelchair race of the Boston Marathon last week with a time of 1:50.44.

She is now a junior at the University of Illinois and made the trip to Boston as a member of the wheelchair race team.

Ten athletes from UI at Champaign made the trip to Boston.

Wheelchair racers at Boston are required to qualify under 2:20.

Susannah did that last fall with a 2:02.46 in the Chicago Marathon in October.

Susannah plans to return to eastern Washington next weekend to race in Bloomsday.

The daughter of Barbara Scaroni and the late Warren Scaroni, she is now majoring in sports nutrition at Illinois.

She was a consistent winner in high school races and added first-place points in 2009 when the TOR team took the state title.