Indoor Championships Set for March 25
The Mid-Atlantic Indoor Open and Masters Championships will be held on Sunday, March 25, at the Delaware Field House at the University of Delaware. The meet is hosted by the Philadelphia Masters Track & Field Association. For more information and the application form, click here.
Read the January Newsletter
The new issue of the Mid-Atlantic Quarterly may be viewed by clicking here. Highlights include:
- The individual and club winners of the Grand Prix Circuit, the Off-Road Series and the Cross-Country Series.
- An extensive report from the USATF national meeting – including new certification levels for officials and a compromise on the “citizenship rule” controversy.
- An introduction to Mid-Atlantic’s new leaders of High Performance Track & Field and Youth Athletics.
- The second part of Penn Relays director David Johnson’s fascinating profile of Philadelphia track pioneer John Baxter Taylor.
Delegates Report from National Meeting
The USATF National Meeting in December in St. Louis covered a multitude of track & field topics, and 14 Mid-Atlantic delegates were there to take it all in. Full reports from the delegates are posted here.
Level 1 Coaching School
Gill Athletics will present a Level 1 Coaching School on March 16-18, 2012 at Villanova University in Villanova, PA. For more information, click here.
Award Luncheon Sold Out
The Mid-Atlantic Association’s annual Award Luncheon is sold out, and no further reservations will be accepted. The luncheon will be held on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, at noon in the Central Baptist Church at 106 West Lancaster Avenue in Wayne, PA.
Awards will be given to the Athletes of the Year; the top performers in the 2011 Grand Prix Circuit, Off-Road Series and Cross Country Series; and in youth athletics. For more information, please click here.
Youth Indoor Championship on March 11
The 2012 Mid-Atlantic Association Youth Indoor Track & Field Championships will be held on Sunday, March 11, at Widener University. For more information, click here. For directions to the venue, click here. To register and pay entry fees, click here.
Changes in Officials Certification
USATF has announced that the system of officials certification will change for the 2013-2016 Olympiad. For example, new officials will now start at the Apprentice level, and certain discliplines will have separate grades. A brief explanation of the changes is posted here. For now, instructions and forms for new and renewed certifications are under the Officials tab above.
Indoor Developmental Meet Update
The Philadelphia Masters Track & Field Association has added another date to its schedule of developmental meets for 2011-12. The meet for athletes 15 and older will be held Feb. 26 at Widener University. For more information, click here.
Philadelphia Masters previously announced three 15-and-older meets at Glen Mills School. The first was conducted earlier in December. The next two are scheduled for Jan. 15 and Jan. 29. More information on the Glen Mills meets is posted here.
The association also plans an all-ages meet on Feb. 12 at Albright College in Reading, PA. For more information on that meet, click here.
Junior Olympics Cross Country Results
The results of the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Junior Olympics Cross-Country Championships are posted here. The championships were held on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia. For information about the Region 2 championships, which will be on Nov. 20 at Deer Path Park in Flemington, NJ, please click here.
McCoubrie Wins National XC Championship
Doreen McCoubrie, a Philadelphia-area runner affiliated with the Athena Running Club, won the women's 2011 USATF Masters 5K Cross Country Championship in October.
The Athena team of McCoubrie, Lorraine Jasper and Julie Hankin also won the W40 team title at the championships, which were on Oct. 22 at Center Park in Fairmont, NY.
The Greater Philadelphia Track Club team of Kevin Forde, Gene Tung, Andy Shearer, Chris Carroll and Dave Brown took third place in the M40 division. For more on that race, click here.
McCoubrie, who is membership and sanctions chair of the Mid-Atlantic Association, won the overall women's title with a time of 19 minutes and 44 seconds -- 37 seconds ahead of the next finisher.
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GPTC M40 Team Places 2nd in National 5K
The team, led by Nick Berra and Kevin Forde, was one of three men's squads representing Greater Philadelphia Track Club that competed in the Syracuse Festival of Races, which also acted as the 2011 USATF Masters 5K Road National Championship. Read more.
Venue for 2012 Regional Junior Olympic Championships
The USATF Mid-Atlantic Association will host the Region 2 Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships on July 5-8, 2012. The Youth Committee is awaiting a commitment from a potential venue and is trying to identify alternative sites for the meet. If you might know of a potential venue, please see more information here.
President Appoints Committee Members
Monique White, president of the Mid-Atlantic Association, has appointed additional members to the sports committees, as required by the by-laws. Ted Hardies, Bill Kampf and Jerry Nolan were appointed to the Long Distance Running Committee, and Ed Richardson and Kyle Mecklenborg were named to the High Performance Committee. She also named Paul Spencer as the association communications coordinator, a position recently required by the national association.
Sports Committee Members Elected
Members of the three sports committees for 2012 were elected at the association's annual meeting on Sept. 21. Full minutes of the meeting, plus reports from each officer and committee, are posted here.
The elected sports committee members for 2012 are:
Youth Committee: Nelson Berrios, Michael Flannagan, Sharnette Handy-Hall, Marcus Holman, Daryl Nelson, Annette White, Darren White, Christopher Wyatt and Cynthia Young
High Performance Committee: Robert Beale, Roger Glispy, Delores Grandison, Carl Grossman, John Hadrick, Peter Hischmann, Gina Lanier, Kyle Lanier and James Williams
Long Distance Running Committee: Carl Grossman, Diane Hardies, Robin Jefferis, Ed Maher,Jim Marino, Mary Matthews, Mike McCloskey, Charles Shields and Dave Thomas
Canada Hosting Masters Champs
The North, Central American & Caribbean Masters Championships (NCCWMA) will be held in Saint John, New Brunswick, in Canada on August 9-12, 2012. The championships will include track events from 100 meters to 5 kilometers, hurdles and steeplechase; an 8k cross country race and a 10k road race; road and track race walks; and throws and jumps. There are no qualification standards for the meet, and all competitors are welcome. The web site for the event is here.
Outdoor Championship Results
The complete results of the 2011 USATF Mid-Atlantic Association Outdoor Track and Field Championships are posted here. The championships were held June 11-12 at Widener University in Chester, Pa.
New Mid-Atlantic Officials Shirts Available
The Mid-Atlantic Officials Committee announces that the officials shirt debuted at their annual meeting is now available for purchase. Thanks to the efforts of the committee's vice chair, Earl Edwards, the shirts are reasonably priced and well embroidered. The shirts are not required but will give you something distinctive to wear when a meet does not require the national shirt or meet-specific clothing. Order form.
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