Cooper River Bridge Run announces interim Race Director
January 16, 2019
The Cooper River Bridge Run (CRBR) today released a statement regarding Julian Smith and the Race Director position:
It is with deep sadness that last week the Cooper River Bridge Run Board of Directors received and accepted the resignation of our Race Director, Julian Smith.
For more than 20 years, Julian has been our leader, our mentor and our friend; for this, the Board would like to express its profound sense of gratitude. Julian is a force of nature and his leadership will be missed by the entire Bridge Run family and community as he moves on to the next phase of his life and the inevitable challenges it will bring. It was unanimously agreed upon by the CRBR Board that Julian would be given the title of Race Director Emeritus. We wish Julian all the best and offer our eternal thanks for a career of unparalleled success pursued with uncommon wit, wisdom and grace.
The Board of Directors’ Vice Chairman, Mike Seekings, will immediately step in as Interim Race Director.
The 2019 Cooper River Bridge Run will take place on April 6, 2019. For more information, please email [email protected] or call 843-856-1949.
About the Cooper River Bridge Run
The Cooper River Bridge Run began in 1978 with a dream of promoting a healthy lifestyle in the Lowcountry, starting with roughly 800 people who ran across the bridges that connect Charleston. In 2006, the race made the leap of running across the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge and has since grown to accommodate more than 40,000 participants who “get over it” each April. Today, the Cooper River Bridge Run, a registered 501(c)(3) organization, provides a world-class 10k (6.2 mile) footrace promoting physical activity and a healthy lifestyle through education and opportunity. Nationally acclaimed and locally admired, the Cooper River Bridge Run serves as a model of health motivation for other communities throughout the world. The event is the only sanctioned USA Track and Field Elite Event Competition in South Carolina and has been named the third largest 10k in America by Running USA. It has also been voted ‘Best Fundraising Event’ by Charleston City Paper’s “Best Of Awards” from 2013 to 2018. For more information, please visit www.bridgerun.com.
