Stefan Waltermann’s inspiring story about gaining U.S. citizenship has a final exclamation point: Official approval from USATF Masters Track and Field. On January 12, USA Team Manager Phil Greenwald wrote Stefan: “Given that you have the release from the German
Anthony Treacher, a record-holding British M65 sprinter living in Stockholm, will be banned for life from British and international masters competition on January 15 if he doesn’t apologize to the British Masters Athletic Federation. His offense? Being relentless in pursuit
From one of my masters moles: “I don’t know if anyone has let you know yet about more great performances from the amazing Kathy Martin. This was a New York Road Runners meet at the Armory in New York last
Marjorie Milligan Jackson, a W40 national champion in the sprints, has been assistant principal at Foss High School south of Seattle since August 2004. On Jan. 3, tragedy visited her Tacoma school: One student fatally shot another. “My husband,” she
The Southern California Striders, a masters club whose annual awards dinner was featured here recently, has yet another claim to fame — its own in-house travel agent. W50 sprinter Jeanne Bowman is putting her skills to work for teammates (and
On the world athletics scene, statman Peter Matthews is considered a god. His annual compilation of results, records and seasonal lists — Athletics: The International Track and Field Annual — is the Bible for track statisticians. So every year, I
Stefan Waltermann is an American! Only four months after taking fourth in the M55 pentathlon as a German guest at the Charlotte masters nationals, he took the oath as a U.S. citizen — at the Charlotte federal courthouse. But the
Contrary to rumors, Pete Taylor will indeed be a meet announcer at the USATF Masters Indoor Championships in Boston in late March. His selection became official this week after a meeting of event organizers. But for reasons not yet made
Val Parsons of Great Britain on Sunday broke American Kathy Jager’s W60 listed world indoor record for 60 meters, clocking 8.83 to pip Kathy’s 8.91 set almost three years ago. So reports correspondent Tom Phillips across the Pond. “Val (pictured
Alisa Harvey out on the East Cost, again allowed back on the George Mason track, reports that she lowered her own world indoor W40 mile record Saturday. “I ran 4:47.2,” she writes. “I finished second behind Keira Carlstrom (4:46.1). It
I’ve been wringing my hands for 10 years about Pete Mundle’s fraudulent “Masters Age Records.” Now it’s time to take matters into our own hands. Today I created a site on Wikispaces.com devoted to recording and updating masters single-age records.
Remember Randy Matson? Threw 71-5, set world records, etc.? Now I learn he did something even more impressive: He raised $1.4 billion for his alma mater, Texas A&M! Now he’s retiring at the young age of 61. So why doesn’t
