STORRS — Hundreds of runners and walkers took part in the Husky Run & Ruck at UConn on Sunday, November 8, raising money for students with military ties and a scholarship honoring a former UConn track athlete, NBC Connecticut reported.
The event began and ended near the Student Recreation Center on Hillside Road. The Hartford Marathon Foundation says the 10K followed the hilly Bonemill loop, a favorite training route of Kyle Milliken, a UConn alumnus and Navy SEAL killed in action in 2017. Participants could also choose a 5K or an untimed one-mile walk. All three routes passed the campus’s Ultimate Sacrifice Memorial.
UConn uses its veterans support fund to help students facing emergencies such as food or housing insecurity, veterans and military programs director Alyssa Kelleher told NBC Connecticut. The event also supports the Milliken scholarship, which the station reported goes to two UConn track athletes.
UConn’s next public Veterans Day event is at 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 11, on Founders Green. If it rains, the ceremony moves to the Wilbur Cross Building’s North Reading Room, according to the university’s Office of Veterans and Military Programs.