If you age up in early 2017, you’re in luck. The World Masters Games will be held that year in Auckland, New Zealand. If you’re counting coins, you may have to make a choice. The WMA world outdoor meet is
Gwen Wentland-Mikinski competed for Kansas State University in the 1990s and was a two-time USATF national indoor champion. So Olathe nationals was a perfect venue for going high. (She even got a profile on USATF.) The result? A national record
This is odd. WMA reports two months after the fact: “Following a protest made on the W55 relay result in Porto Alegre, that was not dealt with by the officials at the time. The matter was registered but not sent/given
Three masters track stars and five roadies make up the 17th class of the USATF Masters Hall of Fame, which has topped 200 after being founded in 1996. Committees led by Mary Trotto (T&F) and Tom Bernhard (LDR) elected these
Ross Dunton, who coached masters athletes via email and published a daily T&F newsletter for years, died Friday morning at home after a long battle with Parkinson’s, reports his son, Ross Dunton II. He was 81. “I know he loved
The USATF Masters T&F Committee has been winning budget increases in recent years, and in 2014 expects to spend $132,400, according to a budget document approved at the annual meeting and shared by national masters T&F Treasurer Carroll DeWeese. As
Myrle Mensey of Missouri, who recently was named USATF Masters T&F Female Athlete of the Year, says she started sprinting at age 50. But three years later, she ruptured an Achilles’ tendon and pivoted to throws. But she hasn’t given
USATF reports that it is “helping to negotiate a Team USA hotel for the 2014 World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships in Budapest. All Masters athletes who would like to be considered for the block should fill out the survey found
The Guardian — home to Ed Snowden’s revelations — is normally a first-class news outlet. But Ian Williams’ blog on the British site makes a mash of the Age-Graded Tables, saying: “Let’s concentrate on that 60-year-old man, and imagine him
In her latest Merry Christmas photo greeting, W60 multi-eventer Kay Glynn poses with her pole-shortening tool. She writes: “We’ve barely had any snow this year in our part of Iowa, but just having a little on the ground made it
Orville Rogers, likely the oldest Athlete of the Year in USATF history, is a model for overcoming adversity. He suffered a stroke in 2011 but mowed down world records in 2013. He had a heart full of blocked arteries and
M50 sprinter Mike Travers graciously provides details on the 2014 USATF East Region Masters Indoor Championships set Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, at Providence Career and Technical High School in Rhode Island. USATF has online entry form here. Print entry and meet
