Eliot Soderholm, Morgan Cheney and Mat Matis lead the Bobcat Snowshoe Runners as the Cock a Doodle Shoe 5 & 10K distances

2026 Cock A Doodle Shoe 5 and 10K Snowshoe Race

The New Land Trust, Saranac, NY

Results — The Cock-A-Doodle-Shoe January 19th, 2025

18 January 2026

Morgan Cheney, Matt Matis and Eliot Soderholm pace the Paul Smith's College Snowshoe Team with solid performances in the Cock A Doodle Shoe Snowshoe Races – Saranac, NY

Eliot Soderholm (JR: Reston, VA) won the 10K at the 2026 Cock A Doodle Shoe Snowshoe race held at the New Land Trust in Saranac, NY with a time of 49:56.  Matt Westerlund placed second in 58:48, while Caitrin Herdic placed third overall and won the women's 10K in 1:02:41.  Both Soderholm and Herdic are defending champions of the Cock A Doodle Shoe 10K. A total of 13 athletes took part in the 10K, with five women finishing the event. 

Matt Matis (FY: Susquehanna, PA) placed second in the 5K with a time of 28:32, followed by fellow Paul Smith's College students Cazimir Couble (JR: Spofford, NH) in 31:34 in third and Aidan Minihan (JR: Newark, DE) in fourth with a time of 31:42.  

Morgan Cheney (JR: Prattsburg, NY) placed 4^th overall for the women in the 5K with a time of 41:03, followed by Chloe Freund (SO: Clinton, NY) in 50:45. A total of ten students from Paul Smith's College took part in the Cock A Doodle Shoe yesterday, with nine taking part in the 5K distance. 

The students had only returned to the campus three days before competing in the Cock A Doodle Shoe, while hiking St. Regis Mountain in chilly temperatures on snowshoes on their second day back to the campus and competing in the Ignite the Night 5 and 10K Snowshoe Races at Upper Canada Village the evening prior to the Cock A Doodle Shoe. 

The Cock A Doodle Shoe is a fine local snowshoe race to help give these students a racing opportunity to get back into the groove of racing on snowshoes on a variety of terrain and conditions.  Next on the schedule is the Stonewall Snowshoe Races in Mannsville, NY within the Winona State Forest, where the athletes will likely be dealing with plenty of Lake Effect snow coming off Lake Ontario.  The location already received five feet of snow a couple weeks ago from a single storm, and they are projected to receive another two to four feet of snow in the next 48 hours.  The storm will be followed by a large cold front coming out of Canada, and the temperature on race day is currently expected to remain below zero.

 Paul Smith's College - Race Results

2026 Cock a Doodle Shoe Snowshoe Races

Finishers: 13 in the 10K: 5 women and 8 men;

44 in the 5K: 23 women and 21 men.

Women's 10K Winner: Caitrin Herdic – 1:02:41. 

Men's 10K Winner: Eliot Soderholm – 49:56

Women's 5K Winner: Olivia Drowne – 32:03

Men's 5K Winner: Jeremy Drowne – 24:54