Olympic Development events at Penn include masters
I doubt they have Olympic aspirations, but several world-class masters tracksters are entered in the Olympic Development 400-meter hurdles at this weekend’s Penn Relays. According to the schedule, the OD long-hurdles race goes off at 9:05 a.m. Saturday. Not sure how they’ll squeeze 17 entrants into one race. (Maybe run timed finals?) The ones I spotted are M35 Don Drummond, M40 Tony Echeandia and M45 Darnell Gatling. All are strong reps of our sport. Go kick kiddie butt, guys!
This is the lineup, as listed today (with masters I know about in boldface):
ODM 400m Hurdles
1 Oneil Wright Exousia
2 Adrian Findlay Executives Track Club
3 Laurias Eugene Executives Track Club
4 Louis Sales Jr unattached
5 Reyhan Gordan unattached
6 lynn steward D.C. Capitol
7 Marqueth Tard Executives Track Club
8 Billy Treets Shore AC/National
9 Cyril Bradford Philadelphia Panthers
10 Desmond Brown unattached
11 John Fudge RI Sports
12 Shomari Taylor unattached
13 Matt Collins Philadelphia Runner Track Club/Puma
14 Don Drummond ITS
15 Tony Echeandia Puerto Rico Masters
16 Antoine Pugh U.S. Elite
17 Darnell Gatling Nike Central Park TC
