USATF Masters T&F Chairman George Mathews — making good on a pledge he made, oh, four years ago — is looking for someone to be “Web liaison” for updating the masters track area of the USATF Web site. This solicitation
Karla Del Grande chaps my hide. She also can whip my butt. She’s more than a year older than me (I’m 50), and she runs faster. At the Decatur nationals last year, she won the 100 in 13.13 — a
Charles Allie of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, does the impossible and makes it look easy — he runs the 400 in a time lower than his age. At 57, Allie took the exhibition masters race at the USATF open indoor nationals Saturday
Olympian James Barrineau (Montreal 1976) is 49. And he’s shown his fitness for M50 with a big 1.85 (6-0 3/4) high jump Sunday, Feb. 20, at the Potomac Valley Association USATF Masters Indoor Championships at Prince George’s Sports and Learning
Four years ago, USATF Masters Chair George Mathews wrote in his monthly National Masters News column: “As you probably already heard, Kathy Jaeger’s two-year suspension has been upheld after review by WAVA. In some ways, WAVA feels the US has
I’m not planning to compete this summer in Edmonton, Alberta, at the World Masters Games. But I subscribe to the event’s email service. Today’s mail brings this hoot of a holler: “If you register before February 28, 2005, you qualify
A few days ago, I appealed to y’all to help me identify the unnamed pole vaulter pictured in a series of Geezerjock magazine photos. Ken Ellis, a champion vaulter himself, came to the rescue. The pictured jumper is Jonathan Bartos
Some folks who run masters track in the United States also go over to the “dark side” — the circuit of meets under the umbrella of the National Senior Games Association. This year is a national championship year for the
So Google sends me a link to some masters news. I click the link, and learn from the Bristol Herald Courier: “Bristol’s Glen Johnson broke the American Masters Track and Field shot put records in his age class at the
Is it me or is it them? Hy-Tek software is used everywhere, but when meets employ this record-keeping tool, they often fail to exploit its masters-friendly features. Latest example: The results I stumbled across of an all-comers indoor meet at
You’ve heard of the legendary service of Nordstrom, where sales reps do anything short of murder to please their customers. In masters track, Andy Hecker is the Nordstrom of meets directors. This morning, against all odds, he brought off a
Last fall, Geezerjock debuted. And a double-page spread of six photos from the USATF national masters championships in Decatur, Illinois, featured a single vaulter. The set by Chase Agnello-Dean was a nice study in technique. Only one problem: The jumper
