Event Description

Join us for a 5K at Victor Ashe Park! All proceeds go to the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers Knoxville Chapter and KnoxProCorps.

The Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers works to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education in Knox and surrounding counties. For several years they have sponsored STEM education events in Knox County. They also annually award over $10,000 in grants to STEM education in area high schools and college scholarships to engineering students. 

Knox ProCorps seeks to provide Knoxville professionals a means to improve the health and welfare of impoverished communities in the U.S. and abroad by utilizing their talents and professional training. They have taken numerous trips to Central America and rural Appalachia.

Awards as follows: Top 3 M & F, Top Master 40+ M & F; Top Grandmaster 50+ M & F; Age Groups in 10 year increments; Top Athena & Clydesdale

Directions from downtown Knoxville: Take Western Avenue headed west; after approximately four miles, turn right onto Pleasant Ridge Road; go approximately three miles (before Northwest Middle School) and turn left onto Bradshaw Road; park is on immediate right. 

Directions from I-40: From I-40, take the I-640 exit #385; take the Western Ave. West; head west on Western Ave; turn right onto Ballcamp Pk. at the Wendy's; turn right onto Bradshaw Rd; park will be on the left. 

Directions from I-75: From I-75, take the Merchant Drive exit #108; head west on Merchant Dr; go to Merchant Dr. end; turn left onto Pleasant Ridge Rd; turn right onto Bradshaw Rd; park will be on the immediate right.