Track returns to San Diego Senior Olympics (for 50-plus)
Last year, I noted how the San Diego Senior Olympics wouldn’t have a track meet for the first time. A meet was promised in 2008, and it’s a go for Saturday, September 13, at scenic Point Loma Nazarene University (not San Diego State as some sites suggest). However, I learned today that the meet will be limited to athletes 50 and over (as of Dec. 31, 2008). This is a disappointment, but beggars can’t be choosers. In the late 1990s and early this decade, 40-plus athletes competed in the San Diego Senior Olympics because it was held in conjunction with the annual Chuck McMahon Memorial Meet. But not this year. And I was told that the San Diego organizers got in trouble with state Senior Games officials for letting sub-50s compete. So there it is. The deadline for entering this year’s S.D. Senior Games is August 29 — Friday. Click here for the entry booklet.
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Thanks Ken, I guess my season is down to two meets now.
Hey Mr. Berry, Great job at the nationals, Sully
Point Loma Nazarene trivia: the campus used to be California Western University, successor to Balboa College, and before that the estate and onion-domed late-19th century buildings were the HQ of Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society. It would be pointed out to sailors, who would smile in anticipation. From a mile out at sea, Madame’s looked like a very classy sporting house indeed. (A well-worn story, and I may well have heard it from Neil Morgan.)
Actually it was Madame Tingley’s.
Q. Is there going to be a track and field meet this Sept 2009. If so please send me an application form.Thanks
Horace
I need a form.
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