July 2017

Track and Field Contents Writers of P. 1 President’s Message America P. 5 UCLA Mourns Passing of Jim Bush (Founded June 7, 1973) P. 6 IAAF Job Vacancy - Social Media Editor

PRESIDENT P. 8 IAAF Warn Tokyo 2020 Quota Cuts Poses Problems Despite Addition of Mixed Relay Jack Pfeifer P. 9 Olympic High Jumper Paralyzed by Freak Injury Now Hopes to Walk Down Aisle at 216 Ft. Washington Ave., NY, NY 10032 Wedding Office/home: 917-579- P. 12 Oregon Track Coaches Restrict Student-Athletes’ Access to the Press 5392. Email: P. 15 Poland Marks 77 Years Since Olympic Runner, WWII Hero Shot by Germans [email protected] P. 16 NBCUniversal Sets Olympic Channel Launch Date VICE PRESIDENT P. 17 Plans Afoot for Refurbishing of Jamaican National Stadium Doug Binder Email: P. 18 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field Awarded to Mt. SAC and L.A. Area [email protected]. P. 19 (2013) Mt. SAC Announces $62 Million Stadium Upgrade, Applying for Olympic Trials Phone: 503-913-4191 P. 20 Leon Patterson and the First High School 60 Foot Shot Put TREASURER P. 24 How Can Save Itself Tom Casacky P.O. Box 4288 P. 26 Sara Vaughn, Now a Mother of 3, Savoring Her Uncommon Feat Napa, CA 94558 P. 27 Then & Now: Two-Time Olympic Qualifier Ian Waltz Loving Post-Competition Life Phone: 818-321-3234 Email: [email protected] P. 29 Pictures from TAFWA & Fast Awards in Eugene and Sacramento P. 41 Partial Fixtures List SECRETARY Jon Hendershott Email: [email protected] President’s Message - July 2017 Phone: 503-967-6553 2020 Olympic Trials FAST The 2020 Trials will be held in Los Angeles, returning to LA for the first time since Dave Johnson they were held in the Coliseum as a preview to the 1984 Games. This time they will be Email: at Mt. San Antonio College, in Walnut, not far from I-10 east of Downtown LA. [email protected] The meet will be held at Hilmer Lodge Stadium, the site for half a century of the Phone: 215-898-6145 venerable Mt. SAC Relays, run for many years by our dear friend and former TAFWA WEBMASTER president, the late Scott Davis. Scott would have been thrilled to see this development. Michael McLaughlin The school is spending $62 million to completely overhaul the facility – new sta- Email: dium, new track, new press box. (See accompanying article in this month’s Newsletter [email protected] Phone: 815-529-8454 on the school’s plan.) The stadium was initially built in 1949. It is a two-year school, a community college, which opened in late 1945, as World War II was ending. The NEWSLETTER EDITOR women’s-only Trials were held there in 1968, the year the men’s were held at altitude Shawn Price at South Lake Tahoe. Email: [email protected] This keeps the Olympic Trials on the West Coast, where they have been the previ- Phone: 979-661-0731 ous five editions – two in Sacramento, three in Eugene. Those two sites were the other finalists in this year’s bidding. It also ends Hayward Field’s run of three Trials in succession. Eugene also held three in a row from 1972 to 1980. It is believed that the continuing uncertainty of the schedule for the planned overhaul of Hayward Field may have contributed to this decision. The vote was reportedly 11-2. Eugene continues to be the home of the NCAA championships and, in 2021, the World Championships. While Eugene has a passionate fan base, a welcoming climate and an unrivaled aura, it does have some short- comings – limited housing, few direct flights, a shortage of parking. Those will not be problems in Los Angeles. Seating capacity will be comparable. Mt. SAC plans to have 11,000 permanent seats and the same number of temporary seats, similar to Eugene. There is plenty of parking, half a dozen airports in the region, nearly unlim- ited housing and restaurants so long as you have a car. We do not yet have the details of the new press box or other press arrangements but will keep you posted. Drake University, in Des Moines, Iowa, again bid to host the Trials but did not make the cut for