Rob Copeland is president of U.S. Masters Swimming, a stand-alone group that runs masters swimming without being part of USA Swimming. In reply to an email query, Rob tells me that USATF Masters Track & Field, if it split off
I’ve been having an interesting online debate with IAAF and USATF racewalk poobah Bob Bowman over whether the Amateur Sports Act in the United States permits a group like USATF Masters Track & Field to leave the parent organization and
Lesley Chaplin-Swann, bless her super-efficient heart, good-naturedly replied to my cheeky request for details of her W45 American Record in the 1500 over the weekend in Nashville, Tennessee. She took the time to type and send a report despite it
Yesterday’s Oxy Invitational at Occidental College in the Los Angeles area saw other fine masters performances besides Pete Magill’s 1500. Ageless (but actually 45) Willie Gault ran the 100 in 10.79 (no wind reading given) — shattering the listed M45
Linz world champion Lesley Chaplin-Swann, 48, a Georgia resident who competes for the SoCal/Fleet Feet TC, set another American record today at a Vanderbilt University meet, going 4:47.36 in Nashville to lower the ancient W45 outdoor record in the 1500.
Things are getting clearer. One of the reasons Masters is thinking of seceding from USA Track & Field is a potential downsizing of the USATF Board of Directors, which would give more clout to the “professional” (elite, Olympic-class) arm of
Becca Gillespy says she used her handy digital camera to capture a nice sequence of photos of Gary Hunter setting the M50 world record in the vault last weekend in Bloomington, Indiana. She reports that the collegiate vaulters competing against
I subscribe to the Yahoo Groups mailing list for USATF Associations, and I posted a note about the possible exodus of Masters T&F (and mebbe LDR) from USATF. The USATF Association folks reacted, all right. Most think the idea is
The masters exhibition events for the Indy open nationals are officially set — the men’s 100 and the women’s 400. Men have to be 40-plus with a 100 mark under 11.50. For the women, you have to be 40-plus and
It’s possible. George Mathews, USATF Masters T&F chairman, has seen efforts to grow masters (and the movement’s income) go for naught. Now he says he giving serious thought to a radical solution — playing Moses and leading masters out of
Every so often, I dog-paddle my way over to U.S. Masters Swimming to see what’s up with the geezerfish. The other day, I came across something interesting — the swimmers’ version of the Age-Graded Tables. (This means trackfolk aren’t the
Results are now posted from Saturday’s Southeastern Masters meet in Durham, North Carolina. Besides confirmation of Bruce McBarnette’s world-record-tying M45 high jump of 2.0 meters, the results show many remarkable marks in all events. Bruce also sent me a shot
