Thirteen masters track greats — 11 men and two women — have been named to the USATF Masters Hall of Fame. USATF hasn’t posted the names, but HoF Committee chair Norm Green announced the names yesterday, and a mole has
I hope this is a false alarm, but a pot of money is being dangled in front of U.S. masters track — and some of our leaders are reported to be thinking: Let’s look good to WMA and commence drug-testing at USATF
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
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
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
Dieter Massin Dieter Massin, the German president of the Eurovets, is openly defying newly approved rules in World Masters Athletics while sitting on the WMA Council. Not good. Conflicts of interest have always been banned by WMA, but previous presidents
Our masters mole in Indy, having read my entry about records at the National Senior Games being ignored, writes: “USATF did issue an ex post facto sanction for NSG. There are 9 ‘records’ set there that would be up for
News flash! World Masters Athletics reports that “Rita Hamscom” received world’s best masters athlete honors at the IAAF Gala in Monte Carlo. (See the account here.) No matter. At least the WMA site has a nice photo of Rita and
Millikin University in southern Illinois hosted the 2004 USATF masters outdoor nationals. Now it appears Benedictine University in northern Illinois will host our meet in 2012. A masters mole at the Indy annual meeting of USA Track & Field tells
No complaints this year. USATF honchos were smart in naming W45 roadie Colleen De Reuck as Masters Athlete of the Year, announced today at the annual meeting in Indianapolis. Unlike 2007’s debacle, when Phil Raschker was named world’s best masters
In recent days, I’ve been trolling for who is bidding for the 2012 USATF masters nationals (indoors and outdoors) — to be selected at this week’s USATF annual meeting in Indianapolis. I’ve written to Gary Snyder, our national chair, plus
Folks familiar with Carmel Papworth-Barnum’s groundbreaking Women Running Together site and blog won’t be surprised that her work is celebrated in a newspaper article. My only comment: What took ’em so long? Check out this great little article (with photos)