W60 thrower Roz Katz in the Big Apple reports the new lineup of officers in the USATF Metropolitan Association (New York City and thereabouts). Roz, the association’s ex-prez, writes of Sunday’s election meeting: “Adam Sanford is the new president. I
I’ve known Joy Upshaw Margerum the Athlete for about five years. But only now am I learning about her other roles — Mom to Two Daughters, Wife to a Collegiate Football Coach and (of special interest to us) Joy the
In reply to an email inquiry tonight, Coach Mark Cleary of Orange County, California, said he is running for USATF Masters T&F chair at the Indy meeting in late November. In December 2004 at the Portland, Oregon, annual meeting of
W45 world and national champion Joy Upshaw Margerum is going for it. This morning she wrote to USATF Masters T&F honchos: “This email is my formal notice of candidacy for the office of USATF Masters Track & Field Committee chairman.
The track and field portion of the annual Huntsman World Senior Games concluded a week ago, and results from 10 track and field events are posted as PDFs. As usual, we’ve seen complaints about Utah meet’s management, including a male
We knew about Willie Banks and his M50 American Record in the triple jump at the Oct. 7 Club West Masters Meet in Santa Barbara. Now we see complete results — which reveal a bunch of other great marks, including
Bendigo, Australia, hosted the IAUM World Double Decathlon Championships over the weekend, and at least 10 masters age-groupers took part. Nine men did 20 events, and W40 Lisako Moriwaki of Japan did 14 (the double heptathlon). The M40 winner (and
On our forum today, San Seb silver medalist Tony Echeandia wrote: “I am thinking of hosting a masters meet in either Icahn Stadium in New York or Estadio Francisco Paquito Montaner in Puerto Rico in June or July. Both tracks
If England’s Winston Thomas sends you unsolicited email, consider it good news. So we learn from Houston’s Bill Collins, who said it was a note from Winston (the WMA secretary) around noon Oct. 12 that informed him of being named
Having dropped out of the Yahoo Groups masterstf mailing list a few months ago, I wasn’t aware that Coach Ross Dunton had posted the names and credits of the 25 nominees for USATF Masters T&F Hall of Fame. Candidates for
In 1980, near the dawn of masters track, Olympic legend Al Oerter threw the discus a still-incredible 69.46 meters (227-11) at age 43 (which also is Al’s all-time PR!). Nobody’s come close since. But another Olympic champion is targeting that
World Masters Athletics today announced that “from a total of 6 candidates forwarded by the WMA regions, William (Bill) Collins, USA and Melitta Czerwenka-Nagel, GER, were chosen as the WMA Best Masters for 2006. It is the third time that
