Archive for December, 2016
Follow us! Boost masters track by expanding social media reach
Two years after throwing a snit over USATF masters ignoring social media, I’m delighted to see strong gains on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms. Bob Weiner’s annual report [see it here] on masters media still focuses on TV and newspaper coverage, but a section by social media maven Sandy Triolo, a W50 sprinter, is the […]
December 8, 2016
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Rex Harvey, beating cancer, gets Yahoo Sports love on USATF job
Wednesday was a great day for Rex Harvey, our new masters national chair. Yahoo Sports ran a press release on his USATF job. Bigger yet, Rex wrote on Facebook: “Good News. Just finished status checkup yesterday with CAT scan and blood work. Tumors remaining from my appendix cancer are unchanged and the tumor protein indicators […]
December 7, 2016
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Alisa Harvey ZCT-missing 800 mark OK’d by Records Committee
In Orlando, Masters T&F Records chair Jeff Brower submitted a list of 129 “approved” marks for USATF American age-group records. The wider USATF Records Committee signed off on 130. The extra mark? It’s No. 166 — Alisa Harvey’s W50 indoor 800 record of 2:18.14 on February 20, 2016. Jeff listed it as “In Waiting” because […]
December 6, 2016
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Veteris through 1979 searchable, but hunt is on for missing issues
While updating mastershistory.org, I uploaded newly scanned issues of Veteris magazine from 1977 through 1979. When first created in 2008, the site had issues only through 1976. But when I reviewed the old archive I was shocked to realize I hadn’t made them searchable PDFs. In other words, they were invisible to Google as far […]
December 5, 2016
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Rex Harvey wins national masters T&F chair; Spokane nationals
Rex Harvey lost the WMA presidency by one vote in 2009 but handily won the chairmanship of the USATF Masters T&F Committee over the weekend in Orlando. He had 76 votes to 46 for Robert Thomas. He took over from termed-out Gary Snyder. Jerry Bookin-Weiner won the vice chair job (edging Mark Cleary 69-54), and […]
December 4, 2016
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Germany’s Alfred Hermes hits IAAF for not honoring masters, vow
Our German masters blogger friend Alfred Hermes is angry about IAAF’s failure to fly in masters for its renamed gala. He wrote me: “IAAF is obviously no longer willing to honor Masters during the Athletics Gala in Monaco. This decision was announced by the WMA in the run-up to the 2016 [WMA] elections. For this […]
December 3, 2016
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Bill Collins wins 4th Athlete of the Year Award; Hall of Famers told
For the fourth time in his Hall of Fame career, Bill Collins has been named USATF Masters Male Athlete of the Year. (Other years were 1997, 2003 and 2006.) He outpointed 5XWR distance man Sean Wade and 400-meter WR crusher Allen Woodard. Bill’s three indoor WRs and Perth exploits — going from hospital bed to […]
December 2, 2016
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Jeff Davison wins David Pain Award as shuttle hurdles relay maven
Jeff Davison isn’t a stellar hurdler — although he claims an age-57 record for the 110-meter highs set at 42 inches (22.74). But he’s famed in a bigger way — as founder of the shuttle hurdle relay in masters track. Before him, it never happened. Because of him, it did. And to honor that effort […]
December 1, 2016
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