Archive for December 4, 2009

Masters nationals heading to Illinois, Indiana and New Mexico

This morning in Indy, the USATF Masters T&F Committee — delegates from around the country — awarded the 2011 indoor and 2012 indoor and outdoor masters nationals to three new sites. As previously telegraphed, Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois, won 2012 outdoors, but was “accepted tentatively pending confirmation of facility availability and dates,” according to […]

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December 4, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  10 Comments

Indy mole report: Masters may have access to extra $50,000

Our masters mole at the Indy annual meeting sent a summary of Thursday’s meetings, which includes discouraging word that the National Senior Games records won’t be submitted for ratification after all. But the happy news is that the USATF Masters T&F Committee budget could nearly double, thanks to Nike’s largesse. Mole writes: “The budget was adopted with […]

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December 4, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Revelations galore in posted minutes of Exec Committee

While poking around usatf.org, I came across the minutes of two recent conference calls — meetings of the USATF Masters T&F Executive Committee. Check them out.  Although Secretary Jeff Brower’s notes are brief, they speak volumes about what’s going on behind the scenes. One example: National Masters News publisher Randy Sturgeon on November 3 made […]

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December 4, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment