Deadline looms for San Diego Senior Olympics, lone ’09 meet
Point Loma Nazarene University — with its beautiful track overlooking the blue Pacific — is again the venue for the San Diego Senior Games. But the registration deadline is fast approaching. It’s August 31 for the September 12 meet You can download the entry forms and stuff at this site. Unlike the National Senior Games, this meet offers hurdle races (short and long), and the guy in charge is no slouch. He’s Dixon Farmer, an Occidental College legend and former national hurdles champion. He’s also been the on-field interviewer at the Mt. SAC Relays and other high-profile meets. USATF’s event calendar notes that this is a USATF-sanctioned event, so any records set should pass muster with the powers-that-be. It’s also the only masters meet this season in San Diego County, since the Chuck McMahon Memorial Meet, traditionally hosted by the San Diego Track Club, bit the dust this year. No McMahon meet. And no San Diego-Imperial USATF Association Masters Championships either. Great job, SDI!
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I guess this is why several Masters athletes from San Diego Imperial Association want to tranfer to clubs outside. Makes you say hummmm!
Meets being dropped is als an issue in the South. In the last several years, Masters meets that have been dropped in this region include three in Tennessee [Nashville, Murfersboro & Knoxville]and one in Huntingdon West Virginia. There were also several all comers meets in Arkansas and in Memphis that welcomed Masters competitors. About all that is left in this area is a few Senior Games plus one meet in Birmingham and one in Atlanta [which was on a weekday this year so many of us had to miss it].
Part of the problem is that support from the USATF is limited and the current expectations for meets is much higher which makes the meets more complicated to put on and in our area, most clubs are distance oriented and few members are interested in track so putting on a meet is low priority. Any suggestions?
Did someone say “suggestions?” Ditch USATF who seem to give no priority and little attention to masters track and field. Seems to me our own organisation, simlar to the NSGA may be the answer. How about “USMTFA”? united states masters track & field association.
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