Anselm’s masters advocacy group has a name: USAMA

Anselm LeBourne, the world champion sparkplug of the Lahti meeting that led to a masters athletes group within USATF, writes today: “The name of the group will be USAMA based on the votes received. I want to personally thank all of you for contributing to this advocacy group . . . so we can move masters athletics in a positive direction. I really believe that we are now of the radar of the USATF (especially Mike McNees and Stephanie Hightower) and they are going to do their best to address our concerns that Robert Thomas is going to be discussing with them. Thanks.” USAMA stands for USA Masters Athletes, and now boasts about 75 (corrected from 765, sorry!) members. Folks interested in more information can write Anselm directly.

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September 8, 2009

5 Responses

  1. Dexter McCloud - September 8, 2009

    Just out of curiosity, has anyone asked Gary Snyder about his vision for the Masters program in 2010? It seems to me that this new advocacy group’s vision, should at least minimally, coincide with the already established goals of the Masters Association.

  2. mike walker - September 8, 2009

    Good point. What are the already established goals of the Masters Association?

  3. Ken Stone - September 8, 2009

    Gary has a platform for addressing these questions:
    http://chairreports.blogspot.com/
    Sadly, he hasn’t used it since May 17!

  4. Anonymous - September 8, 2009

    Not the most appealing acronym from an American point of view–ugghh.

  5. Sleep7 - September 8, 2009

    Usama Bin Tracksters?

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