Results service offered by National Senior Olympics
The biennial National Senior Olympics track meet gets under way today at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania, and event organizers are promising something interesting: customized results at one’s request. I simply wrote that I wanted all track and field results ASAP. We’ll see if they deliver.
The NSGA folks also have a photo service, with pictures organized by day. The same folks sold photos from the Eugene 2003 USATF National Masters meet.
The event Web site also is keeping track of local press/broadcast coverage.
The National Senior Games is an odd duck in the masters track movement. For one thing, they require you to qualify at state senior games. For another, they don’t offer hurdle races.
But they let you try a bunch of events by spreading the meet over many days:
Track & Field – Carnegie Mellon University
June 7: Practice only
June 8: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
June 9: 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
June 10: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
June 11: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
June 12: Practice only; Rain date (if necessary)
June 13: 8:30 a.m. to noon
June 14: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
June 15: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
June 16: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
June 17: Rain date (if necessary)
The knock on the National Senior Olympics is that it’s more interested in its “healthy lifestyles” crusade than athletic achievement — or professionalism in meet management.
A typical quote from one story on the event:
“The important thing is they’re still active and staying physically fit, and that’s helped improve their quality of life and helped improve their longevity,” Greg Moore, director of national games and athlete relations for the National Senior Games Association, said of the oldest competitors.
Still, results from previous games indicate that world-class folks show up. And since an expected 10,000 athletes 50 and over are competing — in a variety of sports — attention must be given.
Good luck to all the Senior Olympians!
