Sandy at USATF annual meeting in Anaheim.
reign as USATF masters records czar is over. She’s handing the baton to longtime masters official and webmaster
Jeff Brower. Sandy announced her exit Tuesday morning to 20 people attending the Masters Regional Coordinators meeting at the USATF annual meeting in Anaheim. “I won’t be doing records after this year,” Sandy said. But she’ll continue as records chair for World Masters Athletics. She didn’t mention why her decades-long tenure as a controversial Committee of One is ending. But a top masters official told me that national masters chairman
Gary Snyder removed her as records chair after she quit the Masters Games Committee. [Later, Gary said the decision was by “mutual agreement.”] At the Anaheim meeting, Sandy answered questions on potential masters ARs not being submitted to the overall Records Committee, saying: “Pick my brains while you have a chance.” She showed a folder of records apps with deficiencies, such as missing age verification. Even records set at USATF masters nationals will be rejected if a birth certificate isn’t on record. She said some athletes submit age proof not eligible for records ratification. She also said would-be world records have to be submitted to WMA (via their national affiliates) within 30 days after the performance. News to me.
Seven regional coordinators and others met at the Hilton Hotel near Disneyland.
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When did the WMA requirement of “within 30 days” become effective?
good question – the process for approval of records, both US and World has for too long been opaque.
Bob, I asked Sandy Pashkin about the 30-day requirement — unknown by me until today. She says WMA follows IAAF rules on WR record ratification, and since WMA doesn’t specify a time limit, it follows IAAF policy. This is easy to fix. Just amend WMA rules to allow for a longer time frame.
All I can say is congratulations Jeff. A good man with common sense. He’ll do a fantastic job.
I contacted Jeff about a month ago asking that he do his best to complete the All-American USATF T&F of Excellence standards for men in the 90-94 age-group.
It seems odd that only the 55, 60 and 3000 meter distances have these standards. Why not the others? Jeff told me he hopes to include the missing standards before the National Masters meet in Winston-Salem next month
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