February 2016 Track and Field Writers of Contents America (Founded June 7, 1973) P. 2 President’s Message P. 4 TAFWA Winter Awards, Coogan’s NYC PRESIDENT Jack Pfeifer P. 11 TAFWA Awards Nominations Reminder 216 Ft. Washington Ave., P. 12 Dues Renewal Reminder NY, NY 10032 Office/home: 917-579- P. 13 Re-allocating Medals 5392. Email: P. 16 Symmonds’ Run Gum Files Anti-Trust Lawsuit [email protected] P. 19 Meet Two Marathon Couples VICE PRESIDENT P. 23 Remembrances on Pre’s 65th Birthday Doug Binder Email: P. 25 IAAF Loses Its Biggest Sponsor [email protected]. P. 28 Coaches Protest Reggie Lewis Track Funding Cut Phone: 503-913-4191 P. 30 University of Iowa Pays Nearly $200K to a Male TREASURER Coach over Gender Discrimination - They Wanted A Woman Tom Casacky P.O. Box 4288 P. 31 Dopers Banned from Holding Scottish Records Napa, CA 94558 P. 33 Meet Brianne Theisen-Eaton Phone: 818-321-3234 Email: [email protected] P. 34 Feel the Bern - Bernie Sanders as High School Track Star P. 39 Oregonian Editorial Board In Favor of Raising the State SECRETARY Jon Hendershott Lodging Tax to Help The 2021 World Track Championships Email: P. 41 Ryan Hall [email protected] Phone: 669-231-4177 P. 44 Cyrus Hostetler Blogs about San Diego’s Javelin Mecca P. 46 Former TAFWA President Kerry Eggers: Looking Back on NEWSLETTER EDITOR Kim Spir Indoor Track in Portland University of Portland, P. 48 Mary and Zola Together Again 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, OR 97203 P. 49 New Athletics Book Work: 503-943-7314 P. 50 China’s State-Sponsored Doping Regime Email: kim.spir@gmail. com P. 52 Coach Brad Hudson P. 55 The Idiocy of Eliminating a Photo Staff FAST Dave Johnson P. 58 Opposition to a New Lodging Tax in Oregon to Help the 2021 Email: World Track and Field Championships [email protected] Phone: 215-898-6145 P. 60 LA’s Olympic Piggyback Yard Plan P. 65 Partial Fixtures List WEBMASTER Michael McLaughlin Email: [email protected]. Phone: 815-529-8454 Drew Hunter’s First High School Mile Record at the Armory. Photo Steve Sutton President’s Message Awards, and a Boisterous Crowd, at NYC Get-Together After complaints that too many of our events took place in just one city – Eugene, Ore. – TAFWA spread its wings a year ago and tried a new event, a Winter Awards Banquet, and tied it to the annual Millrose Games, always attended by a lot of press and other TF glitterati anyway. We also had the perfect location – the back room of Coogan’s Restaurant, one block from the Armory, the new home of Millrose. The room oozes track his- tory. On the back wall are the framed covers of every Sports Illustrated cover devoted to the subject, thanks to Coogan’s owner, Peter Walsh. For Year No. 2, held on Thursday evening, Feb. 18, two nights before Millrose, there was an added attraction. Longtime TAFWA member Marc Bloom wanted to have a 50th reunion of the legendary two-mile-relay race held in June 1966 between Andrew Jackson High School, of Queens, N.Y., and Boys High, of Brooklyn. The reunion turned out to be almost as good as the race. The awards – four, based on geography -- were presented to an SRO crowd of about 100 people – in a room whose “capacity” is 72 – many of whom were there for the rowdy reunion and had never heard of TAFWA. No matter. If you don’t believe me, for another first, it was also videotaped, thanks to the Armory’s film crew. It will be available on armorytrack.com next week. We will post the link to the video in the March newsletter. The awards were given out for broadcasting and film as well as our two book awards. In each instance, someone was on hand to accept in person, even though the winners were as far-flung as Germany, Los Angeles, Michigan and New Jersey. It is part of our effort now to have our awards have more resonance, more impact. We have broadened our mission to include more kinds of media, and we are international now as well. Bud Greenspan Memorial Award for film and video Presented by Nancy Beffa to “Doping – Top Secret: The Shadowy World of Athletics,” produced and directed by Hajo Seppelt for the German television network ARD. Markus Schmidt of ARD in New York accepted for Sep- pelt, who was on assignment in Australia. H. D. Thoreau Broadcasting Award Presented to Dwight Stones, the highjumper and broadcaster from Los Angeles. Stones was already headed to New York to see Millrose, though he barely made it to the event on time when his flight was delayed. (He did not know in advance that he was being honored.) The “setup” of the award was a 2-minute clip from the 1984 Games in LA, showing Joni Huntley’s high jump final. Huntley also happened to be present, having flown in that morn- ing from Portland, Ore. The expert commentator, off-screen for the 1984 telecast, was Stones, who had com- peted in the men’s qualifying round earlier that day. Armory Book Award Presented by Peter Walsh to Jeff Hollobaugh, of Dexter, Mich., for his 2015 book “How to Race the Mile: Learn- ing Effective Tactics from Great Runners and Races.” Hollobaugh flew in that morning from Detroit to receive the award in person. Cordner Nelson Writing Award Presented by Walsh to Chris Lear, primarily for his book about the 1998 Colorado men’s cross country team, “Running with the Buffaloes.” Lear was also present, along with several of his college buddies, including Robert Johnson, of Letsrun.com, and Scott Anderson. There was also an eloquent remembrance of that 1966 two-mile relay given to the assembled by Marc Bloom, TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - February 2016 the conclusion of which was contending chants by alumni of the two great New York City schools. (Both schools have since changed their names. Jackson is now Campus Magnet, while Boys has, logically, become Boys & Girls.) TAFWA doesn’t deserve “credit” for the evening’s enthusiasm and spirit, but we were the benefactors. If we keep having evenings as good as this one, we can start selling tickets. TAFWA.org TAFWA’s webmaster, Michael McLaughlin – an Aussie transplant who lives in the Chicago area – has been work- ing hard this winter to upgrade our website. He passes on the following comments: 1. All paid-up TAFWA members should have received an email by now confirming their logon ID but with a new password that can be changed when you first log on. A number of members have taken this step. 2. All members’ IDs are now part of a ‘social sharing’ option, which only logged-in members can see (invisible to the general public) and where they can update their profile, upload an image of themselves and insert their so- cial media links (website, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) as well as having a background image to themselves. Members can check out my profile as an example. The latest Member contact details have been added. 3. The members-only content now has a two-authentication process, meaning that the members-only menu items are hidden from the public and only viewable when a member logs into the website and, secondly, if a member shares a URL to a non-member or non-logged-in member then that link is not accessible and redirects back to the login screen. 4. All 2016 and 2015 Newsletters have been uploaded and are available for viewing and downloading by mem- bers. We may include earlier Newsletters in the future. What other content do you want added to the website? A website is only as relevant as its content. Options include: a. Links to members’ own websites, blogs, etc. b. An image gallery of recent events, meets, etc. Members need to provide such content. c. If you want to send me a news item, I can include it on the site, either for the general public or members only. Reminders With four of our 2016 awards now in the books, the deadline is May 1 to make nominations for the remaining half dozen awards. They are listed elsewhere in the Newsletter. Those will be presented during the NCAA out- door championships on Friday morning, June 10, at Gerlinger Hall on the Oregon campus. Remember that no formal TAFWA get-together is planned during the World Indoor next month in Portland. It is time to pay your Dues for 2016. They remain $30. Our treasurer, Tom Casacky, has a reminder in the cur- rent Newsletter with details on how to pay. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - February 2016 TAFWA Awards Dinner, Coogan’s NYC Clockwise top left: Coogan’s Track Wall. Peter Walsh. Dwight Stones. Special guests of Andrew Jackson and Boys High. Nancy Beffa, Frank Litsky, Sonja Robinson - Mikey Brannigan’s coach. Special guests of Andrew Jack- son and Boys High. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - February 2016 Clockwise top left: Kevin Saylors and Tim Hutchings. Jeff Hollobaugh, Bill Morris, Errol Anderson. Special guests of Andrew Jackson and Boys High, including Vince Matthews. Tim Hutchings, Joni Huntley, Bob Hersh. Joni Huntley and Chase Sut- ton. Paul Schwartz, TAFWA President Jack Pfeifer, Dave Johnson. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 5 - February 2016 Clockwise top left: Dwight Stones and Joni Huntley. Chris Lear. Nancy Beffa. A scene from the winning documentary Dop- ing – Top Secret: The Shadowy World of Athletics. Julio Meade’s family. Jeff Hollobaugh and his award. Chris Lear and Robert Johnson.