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VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 # DECEMBER 6, 2009 # , INDIANA Galaxy of Stars appear at Awards & Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony ; E N G U A R M I O T INDIANAPOLIS — USA Track & Field stars of today, G O N I H T P / yesterday and tomorrow were all on hand Saturday R R O E P L S night at the 2009 Jesse Owens Awards and Hall of I A E S H T H Fame Induction Ceremony. / A N T O C I S

The proceedings began with the evening’s emcee, V R E D

NBC and ESPN Sports commenter Lewis Johnson , N A L

who introduced 2004 Olympic men’s bronze O R R medalist and 2009 ING marathon win - E ner . Meb welcomed everyone to the event and introduced the annual year in review video. USATF National Youth Chair Lionel Leach and Sanya Richards Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder in the Dan O’Brien presented the Youth Athlete of the Year Award to Carolina Elite Track Club sprint will fund programs to create a better life for youth living in sensation Bryce Love . He is the first midget boy to set na - poverty in the and abroad. The foundation aims tional records in three events in one year. to use running’s lessons to encourage people to take “small Next on the stage was Don Lein , USATF’s Masters steps” toward the goal of tackling issues like clean water, sex Long Distance Running Chair, who introduced the 2009 trafficking and leadership development. Domestically, the USATF Masters Athlete of the Year, four-time Olympian foundation plans to create mentoring programs for at-risk . youth to train for a race with an adult runner. De Reuck (45) is the oldest woman ever to win a major Presenting the 2009 Robert Giegengack Award, which U.S. championship, having won the 2009 U.S. 20 km Cham - is presented annually to an individual who has made an out - pionships by a margin of 17 seconds. Another highlight for standing contribution to the development and success of USA De Reuck this year came at the , where she Track & Field and the larger community of the sport, was was crowned the masters winner and finished an astounding USATF Chairman and President . The eighth overall, covering the course award was presented to longtime track & field, cross country in 2:37:57. and long distance running coach Bob Larsen , who is one of On hand to announce the 2009 the founding members of the Team USA Running Group in Visa Humanitarian Athletes of the Mammoth, Calif., which is now known as The Mammoth Year Award winners were Ivan Track Club. Hightower was joined on the stage by Larsen’s Cropper , USATF Senior Director of star pupil, Meb Keflezighi . Marketing and Communications, and On hand to present the USA Track & Field Nike Coach two-time Visa Championship Series of the Year Award to National Track & Field Hall of Famer S G G

I winner and 2008 Visa Humanitarian Alberto Salazar was Rob Lotwiss , Federations Manager for D K

R Athlete of the Year, . Nike. Salazar, who led , and A L

C In September of this year, Visa to career best performances this past season. A T T

E Humanitarian Athletes of the Year In recent years, he has led The Oregon Project, sponsored by O J and launched Nike, which is dedicated to providing the means for U.S. the Hall Steps Foundation, which distance runners to be successful. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 # 1 # Dozens Honored at Awards Breakfast

INDIANAPOLIS — At the Annual Masters Awards Marja Bakker Contributor of the Year – Awards Breakfast Saturday morning at David Pain Distinguished Service Elizabeth Phillips the 2009 USA Track & Field Annual Award – John Seto Meeting, award winners were an - Race Walk Athletes of the Year – Athletics for the Disabled Awards nounced for their achievements on and Female: Darlene Backling Distinguished Service Awards – off the track. Winners are listed below: Male: Chris Schmidt Lionel Leach and Dorothy Dawson

Youth Athletics Awards Associations Awards Officials Awards Frank Savigne Award – Horace Crow Jr. Award – Paul Morency Andy Bakjian Award – Henry McCullough Most Improved Award – Southern Ginger Mullineaux Bill Hargrove Award – Association Horace Crow Jr. Award – Win Eggers Nebraska Association Charles M. Ruter Award – Karen Krsak Cross Country John R. Davis Memorial Award – Masters Long Distance Male Athlete of the Year – Finn Hanson Running Awards German Fernandez Jim Grey Humanitarian Award – Otto Essig Award – David Katz Female Athlete – Nealy Spence Val Foss and David Oja Cross Country Council Award – Paul Spangler Award – Evelyn Tripp Peter Glavin U.S. Track Meet Directors Association and Henry Sefnewsky Masters Harriers of the Year – Awards Outstanding Athletes – Simon Gutierrez and Howard Schmertz Lifetime Male: Paul Uftenberg Carmen Ayela-Troncoso Achievement Award – Ray Lumpp Female: Colleen De Reuck and Meet Director of the Year Award – Samuelson Mountain/Ultra/Trail Running Awards Brian Brown Mountain Runners of the Year – Male: Joseph Gray Sports Medicine and Science Awards Female: Brandy Erholtz Dr. C. Harmon Brown Award – Masters Male – Dave Dunham Jack Ranson, Rick McGuire and Masters Female – Laura Haefeli Ralph Vernacchia Contributor of the Year – Paul Kirsch Ultrarunners of the Year – Women’s Track and Field Awards Male: Michael Wardian Joseph Robichaux Award – Female: Kami Semick Gary Winkler Masters Male – Roy Pirrung C.C. Jackson Awards – Masters Female – Anita Ortiz and Sanya Richards

Men’s Long Distance Running Awards Men’s Track and Field Awards H. Merit Award – Award – Tyson Gay Jack Daniels Glenn Cunningham Award – Allan Steinfeld Award – Carey Pinkowski Jim Thorpe Award – Scott Hamilton Memorial Award – Al Oerter Award – Jack Leydig Award – S I

B Robert E. DeCelle Jr. Award – Roy Griak Distinguished A F E

D Meb Keflezighi Service Award – Ed Gorman E O J Ed Gorman receives the Roy Griak Women’s Long Distance For more information on USA Track & Distinguished Service Award from Running Awards Field and the 2008 USATF Annual . Runner of the Year – Meeting, visit: www.usatf.org. Magdalena Lewy Boulet # 2 # Galaxy of Stars appear at Jesse Owens Awards & Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (CONTINUED) OWENS AWARD WINNERS RECEIVE Outdoor Championships team and a U.S. World Cross THEIR ACCOLADES Country Team. Next on stage was Olympic gold medalist and former world During his career as one of the world’s elite athletes, new record holder Maurice Greene , who introduced the 2009 Hall of Famer Willie Steele won an Olympic gold medal and women’s Jesse Owens Award winner, Sanya Richards . Estab - was ranked as the world’s finest men’s long jumper on four lished in 1981, the Jesse Owens Award is USA Track & Field’s occasions. A two-time USA Outdoor champion, Steele was highest accolade, presented annually to the outstanding U.S. the 1948 Olympic Trials champion, a two-time NCAA long male and female track and field performers. Richards, the #1 jump champion, was considered the world’s best long jumper world ranked women’s 400m runner by Track & Field News in 1942 and 1946, and was world ranked #1 by Track & Field over the last four years, won the first individual world outdoor News in 1947 and 1948. He died on September 19, 1989. championships gold medal of her career this past summer. was elected to the Hall of Fame in his Next to appear was three-time women’s World Outdoor first year for consideration in the Veteran Athlete category. 200m champion , who introduced the men’s Williams was a two-time Olympic medalist in the , Jesse Owens Award winner, Tyson Gay , who last summer and he won numerous national titles during his career includ - equaled or improved upon his American 100-meter record ing the USA Outdoor crown in 1973. He was USA Indoor a remarkable three times within a three-month time frame. champion in 1973, the NCAA Outdoor champion in 1972 and In capturing the silver medal at the the NCAA Indoor champion in 1973. Williams was world Championships in , Gay lowered his AR to 9.71 ranked four times by Track & Field News , and was ranked #1 seconds before lowering it again to 9.69 seconds with his in the world following the 1972 season. commanding win in Shanghai. In 2009, Gay posted the Class of 2009 inductee did his part in second, third and fourth-fastest 100m times in the world that adding to the amazing legacy of U.S. men’s 400m hurdles season, and he is currently tied with Jamaica’s Usain Bolt greats by winning gold at the 1988 and end - for the second-fastest time ever recorded in the men’s 100. ing his career with nine top ten world rankings by Track & His 200m time of 19.58 from the 2009 Reebok Grand Prix Field News . Phillips, who won the 1985 World Cup, the 1985 ranks as the fifth-fastest in history. USA Outdoor title and was the 1981 NCAA 400m hurdles champion, was ranked #1 globally in 1985, 1986 and 1988. HALL OF FAMERS TAKE CENTER STAGE He was world ranked #3 in the 110m hurdles in 1985. The first of the Class of 2009 National Track & Field Hall of During an amazing career that lasted nearly 25 years, Hall Fame inductees to be welcomed into the Hall was Dr. Ken of Famer Joetta Clark Diggs was recognized for being one of Foreman , who founded and coached the Falcon Track Club, the greatest and most consistent women’s 800m runners in served three stints as the head coach at Seattle Pacific Univer - U.S. history. A seven-time winner of the women's 800 meters sity and was the head coach for a U.S. Olympic Team, World at the , Clark Diggs won numerous individual national championships and is a four-time Olympian.

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