Archive for December, 2006

Harvey clears hurdle on way to IAAF masters post

Rex Harvey apparently had no competition in Indy, so he’ll be the U.S. nominee for membership on the IAAF Masters Committee — a decision to be made at the IAAF world meet in Osaka this coming summer. Also, masters delegates at the USATF annual meeting chose Bob Fine and Bill Collins to represent the United […]

December 5, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

USATF in Indy playing Scrooge with masters track?

Remember the hoo-hah about the USATF membership fee increase and how masters would benefit? Well, yeah, we’re getting more money. But we had to beg for it (again), and we have to jump through hoops to guarantee the loot. Three masters delegates to this past weekend’s USATF convention report that Indy will cough up $20,000 […]

December 4, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Charlotte nationals survey: Nearly half are retired

I envy my retired friends. The kids are gone, and career is over. So they have all this extra time to train for track and field. But I’ve always wondered how many masters are retired. Finally, a clue has arrived — in the form of Dr. Eric Zemper’s annual demographic survey of national masters participants. […]

December 4, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Time has come for online masters track museum

Although books have been written on the history of masters track, the raw stuff of this history — results, articles, movies — is available to only a few. Enter Andy Hecker of Ventura County, north of L.A. He suggests the obvious: Let’s get this material online for all to access! In the wake of an […]

December 3, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Nadine O’Connor repeats as USATF masters AOY

Our vaultin-hurdlin-sprintin’ friend Nadine O’Connor of Del Mar, California, snagged female Masters Athlete of the Year honors at the USATF annual meeting today in Indy. She was one of a couple dozen masters athletes honored at the awards breakfast (although many winners don’t attend). That makes it back-to-back awards for W60 Nadine, who won the […]

December 2, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Masters Hall of Fame includes Gray, Springer, Gordon

About a dozen kick-butt athletes were named to the USATF Masters T&F Hall of Fame today. My source may have missed a star or two, but here is the bulk of the Class of 2006: Miriam Gordon, Courtland Gray, Jim Mathis, Max Springer, Jack Starr, Sumi Onodera-Leonard, Mary Storey and, among the old-timers, Avery Bryant, […]

December 1, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

2009 masters outdoor nationals to Clermont, Florida

USATF masters delegates today chose Clermont, Florida, to host the 2009 masters national outdoor championships, beating a bid from Mt. SAC east of Los Angeles, reports a delegate at the Indianapolis USATF annual meeting. The national indoor meet in 2009 returns to Boston — because nobody else entered a bid. (Correction: Nope, Boston won’t do […]

December 1, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  13 Comments

Least surprising honor at Indy: Bill Collins as AOY

Indy made it official today, announcing that Bill Collins has been named USATF Male Masters Athlete of the Year. Of course, it would have looked a little funny to name someone else after WMA brought Bill to Monaco last month as the IAAF Best Master of the Year. The real mystery is: Who will be […]

December 1, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

National championship patches get vote of support

Patches should stay. The mile record should stay. But overhaul masters hurdle specs and spacings? Not this year. These are among the recommendations of masters delegates at a long meeting yesterday in Indy, where USATF delegates got to say yea or nay to a slew of rules-change proposals that the wider USATF Rules Committee will […]

December 1, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment