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January 2015 Track and Field Writers of America In this issue: (Founded June 7, 1973) PRESIDENT Jack Pfeifer, 6129 N. Lovely St., Portland, OR 97203. Office/home: 917- 579-5392. Email: P. 2 President’s Message [email protected] P. 3 TAFWA/Armory Foundation Book Award Finalists VICE PRESIDENT Doug Binder. Email: P.4 TAFWA/Bud Greenspan Documentary Award Finalists [email protected]. P. 5 Cheryl Treworgy Update @ garycohenrunning.com Phone: 503-913-4191. P. 8 Qatar Fills the Stands with Paid Fans TREASURER Tom Casacky, P.O. Box P. 10 Kristi Anderson, Masters Runner, Bewildered Over 4288, Napa, CA 94558. Phone: 818-321-3234. Drug Suspension Email: [email protected] P. 12 Update on Liz McColgan-Nuttall SECRETARY/ P. 14 USC Crowd Funds for Zamperini Scholarship AWARDS CHAIR Don Kopriva, 5327 New- P. 15 Catching Up With Amy Yoder Begley port Drive, Lisle IL 60532. Home: 630-960-3049. P. 20 Jeff Mason, Boulder Marathon Director, Sued Cell: 630-712-2710. P. 21 Drummond Gets 8 Year Doping Suspension Email: donkopriva777@ aol.com P. 23 Bob Gourley Receives the National Throws Coach Award NEWSLETTER EDITOR P. 24 FAST Compilation by Rey O’Neal: NCAA Division I Kim Spir, University of Portland, 5000 N. Finalists Top Eight - Organization of Eastern Willamette Blvd., Caribbean States Portland, OR 97203. Work: 503-943-7314. P. 26 Elfriede Prefontaine Dies at Age 88 Email: kim.spir@gmail. com P. 29 Guor Marial Suspended by South Sudan P. 30 Coach Brooks Johnson Speaks Out FAST Dave Johnson. Email: P. 33 Excerpt from “A Ride for Robert” by Mark Cullen [email protected] Phone: 215-898-6145. P. 37 Partial Fixtures List WEBMASTER Michael McLaughlin. Email: supamac@comcast. net. Phone: 815-529- 8454. President’s Message Welcome to a new year and a new track season. This is a year for an Outdoor World Championships (Beijing) but no Indoor, and the beginning of the buildup to the next Olympics, now a year and a half away in Rio, the first Games ever held in South America. This year’s NCAA Indoor Championships will be in Fayetteville, Ark., while the USA Indoor Nationals have ended their run in Albuquerque and return to the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. Outdoors, the NCAA meet continues in Eugene, and the Nationals will be there as well, two weeks later. Hayward Field will have the Prefontaine meet in late June followed by the NCAA and the USATF all in a four-week period. A year later, it will be Pre, NCAA and Eugene’s third consecutive Olympic Tri- als. Dues Your TAFWA annual dues of $30 are now due for the 2015 calendar year. These are payable to TAFWA c/o our treasurer, Tom Casacky, by Paypal or by mailing Tom a check. We have discussed having a multiyear deal on dues and will get a plan along these lines ready for 2016. NYC Event We still plan to have a TAFWA Dinner at Coogan’s Restaurant, around the corner from the Armory in Upper Manhattan, on Thursday evening, Feb. 12, from 6 to 8 PM, two days prior to the 108th Millrose Games. We plan to present four awards at this get-together: our two Book awards, presented by Peter Walsh, the proprietor of Coogan’s; our first Broadcasting Award, named for the pioneering broadcaster H.D. Thoreau, and our award for documentary film, the Bud Greenspan Award, presented by Nancy Beffa, Bud’s longtime collaborator. A fifth award, to be given for online video work, will be delayed until Spring as we continue to search for appropriate nominees. Such nominations should be sent to Saudia Mitchell, an experienced sports videographer based in New York. An invitation will be sent out soon by email to New York-area members. Based on the response, we will have either a buffet dinner for the entire back room of Coogan’s or, if the response is modest, a more private event in that same room. Either way, we plan to go forward on that day and time. In its 40-plus years, TAFWA has never held an event in New York City -- a city that has never hosted the NCAA Championships, indoors or out, and has not hosted an Olympic Trials in 50 years. FAST TAFWA is also home to FAST – the Federation of American Statisticians of Track – and with this in mind, we are happy to print occasional statistical projects in the Newsletter. One such project is print- ed here this month, from our good friend Rey O’Neal, a longtime ATFS member and Caribbean expert from the British Virgin Islands who was on hand last summer at Hayward Field for the World Juniors. Feel free to send in your FAST submissions for consideration. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - January 2015 All-Time World Indoor List Member Ed Gordon’s annual World All-Time Indoor Lists publication has now been added to the TAFWA website. The 2015 edition can be accessed under the TAFWA menu item that will only be view- able once a member has accessed the website. Facebook Our intrepid webmaster Michael McLaughlin has created a Facebook page: Track and Field Writers of America - where members can “Like” the page and interact with other members. Finalists for the Armory Foundation Book Award and the Bud Greenspan Documentary Award Announced Peter Walsh, proprietor of Coogan’s has announed the five finalists for theArmory Foundation Book Award to be presented at Coogan’s in New York City on Thursday, February 12, 2015: FROM BROOKLYN TO THE OLYMPICS The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn Track Coach Al Rosen By Craig Darch New South Books Montgomery AL www.newsouthbooks.com WHAT MAKES OLGA RUN? The mystery of the 90-something Track Star and what she can teach about living longer, happier lives. By Bruce Grierson Henry Holt&Co. New York www.henryholt.com A SPECTACULAR LEAP Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America By Jennifer H. Lansbury The University of Arkansas Press Fayetteville www.uapress.com RUNNING AFTER PREFONTAINE A Memoir By Scott F. Parker Inside The Curtain Press scottfparker.BlogSpot.com TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - January 2015 WHEN RUNNING WAS YOUNG AND SO WERE WE Collected Works of a Sportswriter from the Golden Age of American Running By Jack D. Welch D&B Publishing Nancy Beffa, Cappy Productions, has announed the five finalists for theBud Greenspan Documentary Award to be presented at Coogan’s in New York City on Thursday, February 12, 2015: Run Free The True Story of Caballo Blanco Director: Sterling Noren Producers: Maria Walton, Sterling Noren, Leslie Gaines, Neather Nicholson 10 Gold Medals Director & Producer: James Guardina Transcend Directors: Michael Del Monte, Tad Munnings Producers: Michael Del Monte, Scott Kerry, Tad Munnings 100 Seconds to Beat the World: The David Rudisha Story Directors & Producers: Edward Sunderland and Jim De Zoete 4-Minute Mile Director: Charles-Olivier Michaud Produced by Howard Burd, Micah Sparks, Deborah Moore, Mark DiSalle and Jennifer Reibman. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - January 2015 http://www.garycohen- running.com/Interviews/ Bridges.aspx Cheryl Bridges Treworgy — December, 2014 Cheryl Bridges Treworgy is best known for winning the 1971 Culver City Marathon in a World Record time of 2:49:40. She is the first woman to break 2:50:00. Cheryl represented the United States five times at the World Cross Country Championships with a best finish of fourth place in 1969. Truly one of the pioneers of women’s distance running, she received possibly the first women’s athletic scholarship from any university to Indiana State in 1966, though it was technically classified as a ‘Talented Student Scholarship.’ At the inaugural women’s collegiate D.G.W.S. (Division for Girls and Women’s Sports) Championships held in Texas in 1969, Cheryl won the mile and half mile and anchored the winning medley relay team in leading Indiana State’s team of only four women to a second place team finish. She raced at a time when young women had little opportunity to run and race in high school and college. Cheryl started running for fitness in high school and was prevented by her local school board from training or racing with the boys. The legendary Bill Dellinger, who was Steve Prefontaine’s coach, guided her to her World Record marathon. Cheryl was inducted into the Indiana State University Sports Hall of Fame in 1984, before her more celebrated ISU alumnus, Larry Bird. She is a professional photographer for her own company, Pretty Sporty, and was recognized in 2010 as Track and Field Writers of America Photographer of the year. Cheryl is the mother of Shalane Flanagan, one of America’s top distance runners, who has a best marathon time of 2:21:14. She resides in Graham, North Carolina with her husband, John. Cheryl was gracious to spend two hours on the telephone for this interview. GCR: You had your running heyday back in the 1960s and 1970s. For anyone under the age of 40 or 45, it is difficult to fathom the lack of opportunities that girls and women had to compete in sports until sometime in the mid-1970s. What it was like for you as a teenager starting to run in the 1960s and how decide to start running? CT What has to be realized with me is that it wasn’t so much that I wanted to be a runner as it was that I wanted to transform my body. That was the whole idea and running happened to be the activity that was accessible. Back in the sixties acceptable sports for girls were being on a swim team, playing tennis, doing gymnastics or ice skating.