This is posted on the USATF website. Hope it doesn’t hamper the folks at nationals: “TRAFFIC ALERT: Athletes competing in the USA Masters Championships in Berea, OH should be aware of potential traffic issues on Sunday. The NFL’s Cleveland Browns
Carol Young of Raschkerville, Georgia (aka Marietta) raised her own W70 American record in the hammer today as masters nationals started, heaving the sucker 29.66 meters (97-3 1/2). See details. Sprint icon Stephen Robbins, who moved to Cleveland Heights some
Stan Perkins was misled. In his WMA president’s report to the Sacramento General Assembly, Stan said: “In India a problem that had been ongoing for some years was resolved after meetings conducted during the Asian Regional Championships in Kuala Lumpur.
Trent Lane would have owned the M100 age group at Sacramento worlds. He was the only one in it — entered in the shot and discus at age 101. But he never came. Finally, we learn why. His daughter Ruth
I didn’t get up at 5 a.m. July 17 to cover the marathon at Sacramento worlds. Fortunately, first-person accounts are popping up in hometown papers like Terry McCluskey’s in Vienna, Ohio. Terry won M65 gold in the 26.2-miler at worlds.
Joplin wasn’t forgotten. The tornado-ravaged town in southwest Missouri — which hosted masters deca/hep nationals in 2010 — has benefited from masters trackfolk. The Rev. Tom Thorne writes: “A thank-you note … for putting our information out concerning the tornado
Track fans love the sport because the local high school star could be the Olympian of the future. In masters, that same kid could be a world champion in four decades. Meet Mark Davis. He’s my pick for Sacramento’s Coming
You might see yourself. You might not. But I guarantee you’ll be impressed with the effort shown in the faces and sometimes wrinkly sinews of Sacramento entrants in our latest photo albums. Check out the distances (including steeple), the 200/400
Greg Foster, the masters jumper (not the Olympic hurdler), is a world champion. He also has a world-class story to tell from Sacramento worlds. He wrote me recently, and I’ll let him share it in his own words. It’s a
Berea masters nationals start in a week, and athletes are already planning their parties. One features a band of musician vaulters. One writes: “M65 vaulter Bob Banghagel, M55 vaulter Mike Soule, M60 vaulter John Large and a couple more masters
Johnnye Valien has been around forever, it seems. I first met her in the mid-1990s, and later profiled her for The San Diego Union-Tribune. (She lives in Los Angeles but came down for a Senior Olympics meet.) Every five years,
Bill Bangert, a pioneer of masters track profiled in Len Olson’s book, died July 12 after battling Parkinson’s disease, according to several online obituaries, including this one in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Inducted into the USATF Masters Track Hall of