The world’s largest and most-famous 10k, the Peachtree Road Race is set for the 50th running on Thursday, July 4, 2019. Georgia State’s roots are as deep and wide as any organization in the city to the Peachtree’s founding in 1970. Check out how serious and inclusive that event was to Georgia State faculty, staff and students in that first race and that first decade. And, GSU has had a men's winner of it. In 2015, two GSU runners finished among the top 15 women.
The “Peachtree’s Papa,” as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution called him, is former Georgia State cross country coach and Dean of Men, the late Tim Singleton.