Healdsburg High Grad wins Sonoma Human Race

 In a stunning triumph, Sarah Sumpter, a former state championship track and field star, won top honors in Saturday's Sonoma Human Race.

Thousands ran in the annual event in Santa Rosa, a major fundraiser for area nonprofits now in its 30th year. Details of the winners' times were not immediately available.

Sumpter, a UC Davis junior who graduated in 2008 from HHS, is a cancer survivor, according to those who knew her when she attended Healdsburg High.

Sumpter is the daughter of Brian and Shawn Sumpter of Cloverdale. Neither they nor Sarah Sumpter could be reached for comment Sunday.

Sarah Sumpter's uncle, David Sumpter of Healdsburg, said his niece won a state championship in track and field while she was at Healdsburg High.

According to the UC Davis website,  Sarah Sumpter "won the Division IV state championship at Stanford as a senior [at HHS) with a meet-record time of 17:26.

"[She] won Sonoma County League and North Coast Section titles with meet-record times en route to the state title," the website says. "Earned All-America status with a top 25 finish at the Foot Locker Nationals"

Sumpter also was voted cross-country team MVP the past two years, according to the website.

In a 2008 article in the Press Democrat, Sumpter said she was coping with anorexia. She told a reporter she wanted to tell her story publicly to reassure people who may have been concerned that she "didn't die."

Sumpter's brother Joshua Sumpter also attends UC Davis, the website says.