March 2020

Track and Field Contents Writers of P. 1 President’s Message America P. 3 2020 TAFWA Awards (Founded June 7, 1973) P. 4 Track & Field Links P. 5 Prefontaine Classic - Tom Jordan PRESIDENT Jack Pfeifer P. 6 Dick Bank, Voice of Epic Billy Mills Olympic Upset Call, Dies at 90 2199 NW Everett St. #601 P. 7 For Luddites Only Portland, Oregon 97210 Office/home: 917-579- P. 9 News Links 5392. Email: P. 10 Coach Derek Thompson, Star Runner Ajee’ Wilson are Winning Partnership [email protected] P. 11 News Links SECRETARY- P. 14 Book of the Year TREASURER Tom Casacky P. 15 Catching Up With ... Ashton Eaton P.O. Box 4288 P. 17 News Links Napa, CA 94558 Phone: 818-321-3234 P. 18 2020 NCAA Indoor Schedule Email: [email protected] P. 18 2020 World Athletics Outdoor Schedule P. 19 2020 NCAA Outdoor Championships Schedule FAST Dave Johnson P. 20 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Standards Email: P. 21 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Schedule [email protected] Phone: 215-898-6145 P. 22 2020 Olympic Games Standards P. 23 2020 Olympic Games Track & Field Schedule WEBMASTER Michael McLaughlin P. 24 Catching Up With ... Chris Miltenberg, UNC Email: P. 29 Statistics Publications 2019 Combined Events [email protected] Phone: 815-529-8454 P. 30 2020 Fixtures List

NEWSLETTER EDITOR Shawn Price Email: President’s Message - March 2020 [email protected] Coronavirus Phone: 979-661-0731 As we write from the disease-free TAFWA HQ in NW Portland, no track meets to our knowledge have been called off indoors or out. That includes the New Jersey and New York state high school indoor championships, the various NCAA Championships, and the venerable IC4A, being held as we speak at BU. Included in that list is the hugely popular national high school indoor championships (now called the New Balance Indoor Nationals), held at the steamy, jampacked Armory in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. The sponsoring NSAF issued a lengthy, detailed explanation of the precautions being taken for the event, including the ready availability of hand sanitizers and advisories regarding personal hygiene and sanitation. This seems like a good model for such large events. Will this hold up in the outdoor season? With the sudden and dramatic cancellation of the huge South By Southwest music festival in Austin, what are the fates of the Texas Relays, scheduled for later this month, and the outdoor NCAA meet, also scheduled for Austin, in June? It appears that the mayor of Austin made the call on canceling South-By. Could the Texas Relays be his next target? Does the University of Texas have a say in this, and what is its position? We don’t intend to be alarmist here, just on top of fast-moving developments. But if the Texas Relays, one of the country’s largest and signature meets, are in jeopardy, what would be next and what effect could that have on the overall outdoor track season?

The 800-pound gorilla in the room is of course the Summer Olympics, scheduled for Tokyo in July. While the IOC, World Athletics and the host Japanese remain steadfast that the Games Will Go On – a position with which we concur – there is clearly the possibility that they could be in jeopardy if conditions in Japan or elsewhere worsen. The Summer Olympics have been called off three times, all because of the world wars – 1916, 1940 and 1944. The NCAA Championships, which began in 1921; the Penn Relays, which began in 1895, and the IC4A, which began in 1876, have never been called off. (In December, 1941, large gatherings were banned on the West Coast after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Rose Parade was canceled, but the Rose Bowl game was preserved, by playing it in Durham, N.C.) If the Summer Olympics are delayed, possibly by a year to the summer of 2021, what would happen to the upcoming Olympic Trials and the 2021 World Championships, both of which are scheduled for Eugene?

Newsletter format We have made some changes to the TAFWA Newsletter. We hope they represent an improvement. Only a few articles will now appear at full length. Those will include writing by members, a monthly “Catching Up With” feature, and those that seem especially appropriate, such as Death Notices in this issue of two stalwart members of the national track community, Dick Bank, who passed away in Los Angeles at 90, and Bill Roe, who died suddenly in Victoria, B.C., at 69. We have added a one-page list of prominent online T&F Links and other electronic sources, and have expanded the Calendar. Additions welcomed. These will appear every issue, along with schedules for prominent upcoming meets and the Olympic qualifying standards. There is also a recollection in this issue by Tom Jordan, the venerable meet director of the Prefontaine Classic and a past winner of TAFWA’s Sam Skinner Award. Note that the intro points out that Tom has decided that this will be his final year running the Pre meet, an event he has made into the best invitational meet in the world. The purpose of the changes is to streamline the newsletter – cut down on the word count while providing links – and add more user-friendly items. We hope it helps.

Dues, Awards Another reminder that it is that time of year to pay the annual dues of $30 to Treasurer Tom Casacky, by check or Paypal. Two months remain for nominating yourself or others for the 2020 TAFWA Awards. A description appears in this issue along with a list of the Leading 10 Books from 2019, as determined by our book maven, Peter Walsh.

HIGH SCHOOL TRACK 1940 Jack Shepard, boys HS editor for Track & Field News and editor/publisher of the High School Track series (since 1980), along with Bob Jarvis, FAST Award winning statistician, have spent decades gathering data to continue High School Track back into the pre-1950s. The first of this historic series covers the year 1940. The booklet contains 30-deep yearly lists, with meet/site/date, along with the then HS records and 10-deep all- time lists. [26 8½” x 11” pages]

Send a check or money order for $20, made payable to Jack Shepard, 14551 Southfield Dr., Westminster, CA 92683. Postage is included in the price for North America. Add $2 for foreign

TAFWA Membership Dues for 2020 TAFWA dues for 2020 will remain at $30, and will buy you a series of excellent newsletters, the 2020 FAST Annual, and privileged entry to special TAFWA social events at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene (our yearly breakfast with athletes and coaches). Don’t miss out! You can send a check, payable to TAFWA, to PO Box 4288, Napa, CA 94558, or use PayPal, to the ad- dress [email protected].

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - March 2020 2020 TAFWA Awards Recognizing excellence in track & field journalism, announcing, photography, film & video, websites, broadcasting, writing, and cooperation with the press.

Presentation TAFWA’s 2020 awards will be presented June 26, 2020, in Eugene, Ore., during the Olympic Trials. Self- nominations are allowed. Include the nominee’s name and contact information.

James O. Dunaway Memorial Award For excellence in track and field journalism, in print or online, during 2019 Award Chair: Jack Pfeifer ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

Sam Skinner Memorial Award For ongoing cooperation with the press Award Chair: Walt Murphy ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1 Submit name of nominee and a brief narrative

Announcing Awards For excellence in track and field announcing Scott Davis Memorial Award presented to a current announcer Pinkie Sober Award presented to a retired announcer or posthumously Award Chair: Dave Johnson ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

Photography Awards For excellence in track and field photography Rich Clarkson Award presented to a current photographer Award Chair: Kim Spir ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1 Note: Submit an electronic portfolio Manning Solon Award For a career of excellence in track and field photography Award Chair: Steve Sutton ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

Bud Greenspan Memorial Film & Video Award For excellence in track and field/running film & video production Award Chair: Nancy Beffa ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: March 1 Note: This award will recognize outstanding achievement in film or video on track and field or running during 2019 Criteria: Contact Nancy Beffa for details • Submissions will be judged on innovation, impact and content • Entries must have been released, televised or copyrighted in 2019 • Must be at least 25 minutes in length • Please submit 2 DVD copies of the film or a link to the work online

Adam Jacobs Memorial Award for Online Excellence For excellence in online personal writing on track and field, cross country or running in 2019 Award Chair: Paul Merca ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

Coogan’s Track & Field Book Award For the leading book published in 2019 on track & field, cross country or running Award Chair: Peter Walsh ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: February 1 Note: Please submit three copies of the book for review to Peter Walsh, Coogan’s Restaurant, 4015 Broadway, New York, NY 10032

Cordner Nelson Memorial Award For a body of work writing about track & field and running Award Chair: Jack Pfeifer ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

H. D. Thoreau Broadcasting Award For excellence in track & field broadcasting Award Chair: Jack Pfeifer ([email protected]) Nomination Deadline: May 1

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - March 2020 Track & Field Links Websites Athlerecords.net Michel Saint-Raymond Trackandfieldnews.com Bible of the Sport Tilastopaja.eu International results & stats Thesportsexaminer.com Olympic sports usatf.org USA Track & Field ustfccca.org Collegiate Coaches Association WorldAthletics.org IAAF/World Athletics ThePennRelays.com Penn Relays Armorytrack.com NYC Armory Nationalscholastic.org NSAF Letsrun.com Weldon & Robert Johnson Onceuponatimeinthevest.blogspot.com Trackandfieldhunter.com Writer David Hunter Trackerati.com Writer Mark Cullen Trackalerts.com Jamaican news Athletic.net Runnerspace stats Milesplit.com Flosports statistics Dyestat.com High Schools stats Olympic.org IOC Polevaultpower.com PV Vaultermagazine.com PV TFRRS.org NCAA database Runningmagazine.ca Canadian news Racingpast.ca Garycohenrunning.com Interviews Alltime-athletics.com Stats

E-letters Raceresultsweekly.com David and Jane Monti [email protected] Fast Women - Alison Wade [email protected] This Day in Track & Field - Walt Murphy

Broadcasting Usatf.tv Runnerspace Flotrack The Olympic Channel NBCSN Olympic Gold

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - March 2020 Third in a series You’ve Got a Friend by Tom Jordan Editor’s note: Tom Jordan has been the Prefontaine Meet Director for 35 successful years. OnTrack asked Tom to share his top five Prefontaine Classic memories during this, his last year as the Pre Classic Director. Tom agreed to our request, and we will publish his personal highlights in a series of five articles. This is the third article in the series. Note, these memories will not be competition highlights. A ranking by experts of Pre meet competition performances through 2014 may be found at PreClassic. Tom Jordan com, the official Prefontaine Classic website: Top 40 All-time. President Truman famously once said, “You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” For a meet director, it’s not as warm and fuzzy as a canine, but the computer is a friend indeed. It is the essential tool for keeping track of hundreds of athletes on a spreadsheet: names, countries, agents, medals won, season-best marks, lifetime best marks, world rankings, world ranking points, and more. Add in word processing, internet, and other functions, well, the computer gives a dog a run for its money. Not sure of the year, it is long-enough ago that the meets run together, but call it 2005. It is two days before the Prefontaine Classic, and Eugene is experiencing one of its rare lightning storms. The computer has a surge protector, but you can guess where this is going--lightning strikes close-by, and the hard drive is fried. Flash drives are in their infancy, so no help from a back-up. Hundreds of hours of stats and information are literally gone. Pre Classic Operations Manager Dave Henry, a jack of all trades and a master of many, seeks out a computer repair company and takes in the hard drive. This is Thursday, the meet is Saturday. He is told they can get to it on...Monday. Duh. Upon hearing the news, I give the repair manager a call, desperation edging higher. I explain the situation that this is for the Prefontaine Classic which is in two days, all our information is on that hard drive, etc. He says, “Let me tell you a story.” Uh oh. No time for this, but I say, “Sure.” “After I got back from Vietnam,” he says, “I worked in a warehouse in Glenwood. Every day, me and my buddies would take a meal break on the back loading dock, and just about every day, Pre would come running by. He would always wave. So we made sure to time our breaks to his running. And as funny as it sounds, it made all the difference to me and my friends: Pre waving to us by the back loading dock of this warehouse in Glenwood.”

“You’ll have your computer tomorrow morning.” The repair company manager was Steve as good as his word, the information was retrieved, and one more person whose Prefontaine life was touched by Steve Prefontaine paid it forward.

Reprinted from the Oregon Track Club Newsletter TAFWA Newsletter - Page 5 - March 2020 Dick Bank, voice of epic Billy Mills Olympic upset call, dies at 90 By SCOTT REID | [email protected] | Orange County Register | https://www.dailybulletin.com/2020/02/24/dick-bank-voice-of-epic-billy-mills-olympic-upset-call-dies-at-90/ In the days leading up to the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history, storming out of there was a long line of track athletes waiting to get into the nowhere down the chaotic homestretch of the 10,000 meter small shoe stand adidas set up in the Olympic Village. final, perhaps distance running’s most unlikely gold medalist The whole world, it seemed, wanted a pair of Adi Dassler’s ever, Bank providing the soundtrack that carried him across the soon to be famous blue suede shoes. finish line. Dassler, the founder and genius behind the three-stripe Broadcaster Bud Palmer convinced his bosses at NBC to hire brand, had created ground breaking track spikes before both Bank as an analyst for the network’s track coverage in Tokyo. the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games, each edition named after Bank was at Palmer’s side when the bell rang out signaling the the host city. And adidas’ practice of giving those shoes away final lap of the 10,000. free to the world’s top athletes in Melbourne and Rome raised “And here we go into the final lap of the Olympic gold medal the global profile of what would become the world’s dominant in the 10,000,” Palmer announced. athletic shoe brand. Australia’s Ron Clarke, the pre-Olympic favorite, bumped His latest creation was just as revolutionary. Dassler’s Mills staggering into lane 3 as they passed a lap runner. At the “Tokyo” was much lighter than anything Puma, Dassler’s top backstretch Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia charged into brother Rudolph’s brand, had to offer. the lead. Clarke took off after him, also opening a gap on Mills. And it “fit like a glove,” Dick Bank recalled more than a half Around the turn it looked like Gammoudi might run away with century later. the gold medal. But coming off the final turn, Clarke pulled up Bank died at the age of 90 Sunday night at his Brentwood alongside the Tunisian as they sprinted through track full of home. Bank was a broadcaster, world renown track and field lapped runners on either side of them. statistician, jazz producer and a constant on the Los Angeles “As the final two hundred meters of the race unfolded, Bud, sports scene for decades. As adidas rep he found himself at the for whatever reason, lost sight of Billy Mills,” Bank recalled. “I center of the so called “shamateurism” controversy in the late could see that he was going to win the race and there was not 1960s on into the 70s when adidas and Puma were accused of going to be any mention of him until he had crossed the finish paying track athletes under the table when the sport was still line. He was focusing on Clarke and Gammoudi.” amateur. So like Paul Revere, Bank shouted out a warning. But Bank would be most famous for call of an Olympic “Look at Mills!” miracle he saw coming before anyone else. Bank’s description “Look at Mills!” of the finish of the 10,000-meter final at the Tokyo Games, Clarke and Gammoudi had no response as Mills flew by them, controversial at the time, would grow in stature and Bank unleashing a celebratory whoop that chased his final appreciation over the decades, embraced, thanks to YouTube, by steps. a new generation for its joy and disbelief. “It has been written that I was giggling with glee,” Bank In 1964, Bank said his job for adidas was “making sure the wrote to me in 2015 not long after his close friend Clarke’s best American athleteswere in the shoe with the three stripes. death. “It was more like unrestrained euphoria that quickly Not difficult: there was only Puma, no Nike yet. became tears.” “Puma made an inferior shoe, and could get some of the top The suits at NBC, however, did not share Bank’s joy. athletes to wear it at the Olympics only by paying them. At that “They said I was very unprofessional,” Bank recalled. time, that sort of thing really did not exist. It came four years The network turned off his mike for two days. On the third later at Mexico City.” day he received a message to call NBC producer Dick Auerbach Bank was busy handing out free pairs of Tokyos to other at his Tokyo hotel. athletes when an unknown American distance runner named “I have some bad news,” Auerbach said. Billy Mills showed up at the adidas shoe stand in the Olympic Bank immediately thought something had happened to his Village. father back in Los Angeles. The elder Bank had suffered a heart Unknown to most but not Bank. attack three years earlier. In the 1950s, 60s and early 70s, few were more plugged in “From today on, you are no longer working for NBC,” to the track and field than Bank. While preparing to broadcast Auerbach said. the historic U.S.-Soviet Union meet at Stanford in 1962, Soviet “So what’s the bad news,” Bank said without missing a beat. coach Gavriil Korobkov told Bank “you know more about my In the following decades many in the sport would come to athletes than I do.” view “Look at Mills! Look at Mills!” as track’s equivalent of Al In the spring of 1964, Mills, who grew up on the Pine Ridge Michael’s exclamation point on another Olympic miracle. Dick Reservation in South Dakota and was then a U.S. Marine Lt. Bank didn’t suffer fools—or sometimes even friends. I think stationed at Camp Pendleton, caught Bank’s attention. Keep whoever coined the phrase “brutally honest” did so with Dick in your eye on the Marine, Bank told friends. mind. I was on the receiving end of both his sharp critiques and But another adidas rep, the company’s U.S. distributor, had his kindness, sometimes in the same day. no idea who Mills was and turned him away shoeless. Hearing To the end he was unapologetic about that golden day in of the incident an enraged Bank shouted “where’s Billy” and ran Tokyo and on the rare occasions when he let his guard down you out of the stand in search of Mills. Bank found him, apologized could sense his pride that his Tokyo call was popular with kids, for his co-worker’s ignorance and rudeness and made sure that many of whose parents weren’t born in 1964. More than once Mills would be wearing adidas when he stepped to the starting he told me how much it tickled him that my sons found the line for the Olympic 10,000 meter final. “Look at Mills! Look at Mills” t-shirts they bought online as hip. “Of course he got his shoes size 12, if memory serve me He could even laugh at the incident at the Olympic Village correctly,” Bank wrote to me in 2015, one of the letters he faxed shoe stand. to me on an almost daily basis for several years. “I would have been absolutely mortified had he won in A few days after the shoe stand incident, Mills pulled off Puma.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 6 - February 2020 For Luddites Only “LOOK AT MILLS! LOOK AT MILLS!” THE TRUE STORY OF DICK BANK’S VERY BRIEF BUT NOTABLE TELEVISION PARTICIPATION AT THE TOKYO OLYMPICS IN 1964 by Dick Bank as told to Arthur Head, Esq. unprofessional.” Dick Auerbach, the producer (he had no It has come to my attention that there are some postings knowledge of track and field), told me they would be turning off about me on the Internet. I don’t own a computer… nor do I my microphone during the final events. want or need one. Mine is between my ears. I still type on an IBM Wheelwriter 1000, drive a 1989 Volvo 240GL with 299,000 miles, My response: “Then why bother to turn it on?” and do not have nor do I need a cellular telephone; or one that can take photographs. We did not have an enclosed announce position. I continued to sit there for the next few days, offering easily heard comments So you can well understand why I didn’t know there was under my breath. Bill Henry was the third person. He was a grand, something about me on the Internet. old gentleman, stadium announcer at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, but was no longer informed on the sport. I did know that the last lap was on YouTube, but not the personal comments. Billy has had a DVD made of it that he sells, After the third day, I found a message when I returned to the and I have it. Also, a red T-shirt that says, “Look at Mills! Look at Okura Hotel: call Dick Auerbach at the New Otani. Mills!” He was having dinner on the top floor. I would like to make known the correct facts relative to my participation on NBC’s telecast of the Tokyo Olympics. I said it was Dick Bank, returning his call.

I was hired by Jim Kitchell, the executive producer, who was “I have some bad news for you.” from NBC News. He had done presidential assassinations, space shots, etc., but he knew nothing about sports. My father had had a heart attack in April 1961, and was confined to our home. He was my first thought. Of course, there I think my good friend, the late Bud Palmer, might have had a would have been a call from my mother. hand in it. “From today on, you are no longer working for NBC.” I had worked for ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” in 1962, did the US-USSR meet from Stanford that year, from Moscow the My response: “So what’s the bad news?” next year . . . and from Kiev in 1965. I was hired as an expert commentator. I wasn’t an itinerant, as stated. He was an oily guy who didn’t have the guts to tell it to my face.

Bud Palmer was one of the finest people I have ever met—not I was never identified over the air. My dear, late friend Harley too many of his kind in that business—and the last thing I would Tinkham, did identify me in the Los Angeles Mirror-News. Brutus have done was to embarrass or show him up. That summer, the Hamilton, the longtime coach at California and head coach at the first of two Olympic Trials were held on Randall’s Island in New Helsinki Olympics in 1952, said to his wife: “That could only be York City (the Olympic Trials had been held there in 1936, but it one person . . . it has to be Dick Bank.” had deteriorated badly over the years). I was confined in that announce position. Now I could hob-nob Bud asked where I was planning to stay when in New York. I with the European press . . . and I knew a lot of them, and speak told him I had no plans. He said he and his wife Daisy were going out as I wished. to be away at that time, and I was welcome to use their rather large apartment on Park Avenue. Which I did! When I returned home, NBC refused to pay me.

As the final two hundred meters of the race unfolded, Bud, for My then brother-in-law was an attorney, associated with the whatever reason, lost sight of Billy Mills. I could see that he was infamous Marvin Mitchelson. Marv had been a close friend since going to win the race and there was not going to be any mention of our days at Los Angeles High School. him until he had crossed the finish line. He was focusing on Clarke and Gammoudi. A call was made to NBC in Burbank, advising them that if a check was not in their office by five that afternoon, an action I didn’t grab Bud’s microphone. I had my own. would be taken. It was.

What went out over the air was not an attempt to fill in I later worked for CBS, doing thirty-five meets in 1969-70, commentary. It was a natural reaction, as if I were a spectator. It calling the races and working alone. just so happened there was dead air, so I was easily heard. Ron Clarke, who passed away recently, was a dear friend. I had It has been written that I was giggling with glee. corresponded with him in 1956 when I was the high school editor of Track & Field News and he had broken the world junior one mile It was more like unrestrained euphoria that quickly became record. tears. You can imagine my thrill—we had not yet met—when he came My good friend Neil Allen of the London Times came up from into the stadium carrying the torch at the Opening Ceremonies in his seat in the press section to offer congratulations. I could barely Melbourne. speak. The sport was my passion in those years and I was privileged to The next day, Kitchell said what I had done was “very know just about everybody who was anybody. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 7 - February 2020 I came along at just the right time. There isn’t a lot to like about It was very close quarters, narrow, and not much room for the sport today. I do enjoy watching the major competitions, anything but the shoes. especially the Diamond League telecasts. The commentary is abso- lutely first rate, putting to shame that band of misfits NBC has the I was working there, so all of the Americans were sent over to audacity to unleash on its viewers. I am a big fan of the women just me. like I love the UConn basketball team and the U.S. soccer team. They give it their very best, every time. Also, there was the original adidas distributor, Cliff Severn, who was based in North Hollywood. He was as well-informed I think my greatest compliment came from Gavriil Korobkov, as Kitchell and Auerbach, very much in the way, and of no help the chief coach of the Soviet track and field team. whatsoever.

“You know more about my athletes than I do.” When Billy came in, I was busy and asked him to wait.

As a postscript, I should mention I also worked for adidas at After I was finished, I said, “Where’s Billy?” that time, making sure the best American athletes were in the shoe with the three stripes. Not difficult: there was only Puma, no Nike I was told he had left . . . without shoes. yet. Severn had interceded, didn’t know who he was, and told him Puma made an inferior shoe, and could get some of the top there were no shoes for him. athletes to wear it at the Olympics only by paying them. At that time, that sort of thing really did not exist. It came four years later I charged out of there and saw Billy storming away. When I at Mexico City. caught up to him, he was more than angry; he was furious!

Adi Dassler, the shoe genius, developed a new model for both Of course, he got his shoes . . . size 12, if memory serves me Melbourne and Rome; so, of course, he would have one for Tokyo. correctly. The shoe for Rome was the first with removable spikes. He had been wearing Puma. I would have been absolutely To make the shoes as light as possible, the leather was tanned mortified had he won in Puma. on the reverse (hide) side so that the upper could be glued. Eliminating the nails made them much lighter. They were a blue Well, it wouldn’t have happened. His feet would have been so suede and fit like a glove. badly blistered that he might not have even finished the race!

Adidas had a stand in the Olympic Village where the athletes August 14, 2015 came to get their “Tokyo.”

Of Bank’s countless achievements in the sport, one was editing the inaugural edition of Track & Field News’s famous High School Track, in 1956.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 8 - March 2020 Mission Valley Athlete Wins Armenian Citizenship — on Track to Olympic Dream

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Chase Sutton photo from the Boston Indoor Games.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 9 - March 2020 Coach Derek Thompson, Star Runner Ajee’ Wilson are Winning Partnership By ELLIOTT DENMAN Anonymity serves him perfectly, The Armory was rocking and rolling. His small group of athletes train outdoors all winter long - “you Jam-packed to its sold-out capacity, decibel levels inside know,” as Wilson puts it, “neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet is going the venerable edifice were soaring to the record heights totally to stop us.” appropriate to the virtually non-stop series of record performances Altitude training? The small squad of Thompson runners - being churned out by the brilliant cast of international athletes whose headliners now are Raevyn Rogers and Wilson - nixes the assembled for the 113th edition of the classic NYRR Millrose idea. Games. “Running outdoors all year (and warmly dressed for the Millrose director Ray Flynn had outdone himself gathering the occasion), that’s the altitude training we do,” says Wilson. talent for this Hollywood-quality extravaganza. “We toughen up our own way.” Which title would have fit best? Wilson needed to be totally toughened as the Millrose gun was Try this one: “The Fast and Furious” generating “Saturday fired. Arrayed against her were several potential Tokyo rivals - Night Fever” “In The Heights.” Natoya Goule of Jamaca, who’d run for three American colleges; Millrose-goers craned necks for advantageous viewing positions Cynthia Anais of France, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke of Britain, and from all corners of the Armory. fellow Americans Olivia Baker and Ce’Aira Brown. The Southwest corner, for instance. This was the preserve of The race did not go as many Millrose-goers expected. It did the media delegation, Millrose special guests in the “Hall of Fame” not see Wilson take out the pace from the start - and pepared to section, and an assorted group of coaches, athletes (hanging stay there until the end.. She still won it in more than dramatic around after their own events were completed) and enthusiasts of fashion. all categories, all crowded into the vicinity. Once designated pacestter LaTavia Thomas stepped away, it And that’s where you spotted Mr. Derek Thompson. was Anais and Goule up front. Not until the final backstretch did While some worked their lungs to the limits, while others Wilson put pedal to the metal.A 29.87 concluding 200 meters screamed total encouragement to the racers duking it out in one brought her home in 1:58.29 for - once again - an American record. big race after another, while many more revelaled their emotions She’d blown it wide open with that concluding blast. to the world, Mr. Derek Thompson was an obvious exception. Goule was left more than a second behind in 1:59.35, Baker The strongest emotion he emitted was a knowing look of took third in 2:02.86 Anais fourth in 2:04.51, Oskan-Clarke fifth approval as event number 63 of the 64-event program began in 2:06.22. Brown DNFed. revving up. The pressure had been heaping on Wilson for days. From the The Millrose card had been underway, step by step, race by race, Friday mornikng Millrose press confefrence, at least, when she was since St. Peter’s University, coached by 1984 800-meter Olympian revealed as the cover girl to the Millrose program, which showed John Marshall, had nosed out NJ Institute of Technology, by all of her in full flight at three previous Millrose events. One she 1/100th of a second in the first section of the 4x400 relay at 11:30 clutched that program, she’d told herself “I’ve got to deliver now.” in the morning. Thirty-six hours later, she did just that, “slingshotting” off all It was now early evening at the Armory. The audience had her rivals to win in sensational style. already been treated to a sensational Jane and David Monti Yes, it was an American record - topping the 1:58.60 she’d run Invitational 300 meters (won in a blazing 32.35 by Rai Benjamin, at Millrose a year ago. But no, it wasn’t her fastest Millrose four- the pride of Mount Vernon, N.Y. and a very strong candidate lapper. to run off Tokyo Olympic gold in the the 400-meter hurdles); Now how’s that?, you ask. the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Invitational men’s 800 (as Only because she’d “won” the 2017 Millrose title in 1:58.27, Donavan Brazier lowered the American record to 1:44.22), and the only to have it expunged from the records - post-meet - when NYRR Women’s Wanamaker Mile (where Elinor Purrier staged her she’d tested positive for ingesting a banned susbstance. It turned own New Hampshire primary on the Tokyo 1500 meters with an out that it was some tainted meat that brought on the positive American-record 4:16.85.) test result - and the ban later erased when it was clear that it all The knowing crowd thus realized that this penultimate Millrose occurred “without fault or negligence.” event, the Jack and Lewis Rudin Women’s 800 meters, would have Thus, to this day, Wilson swears off eating all beef. A repetition to be pretty sensational if it was to outdo the earlier action in any of that horrendous scare is the last thing in the world she’d ever vote on the eventual “thrill of all thrills” this night. want. And yes, that’s exactly as it would unfold. The “come from behind” Millrose 2020 win, though, was the And as that knowing figure in the Southwest corner could best kind of news to Wilson and her loyal band of enthusiasts. confidently predict. One and all, they were dismayed to see her run down - by Time keeps flying in all directions and sometimes it is hard to Halimah Nakaaiyi of Uganda, as well USA teammate/training realize that Mr. Derek Thompson has now been coaching Ms. Ajee’ partner Rogers - through the homestretch of the World Wilson for over 10 years. Championships 800 at Doha last fall. But it’s the truth and he does it masterfully. His star pupil It’s a strategy that carried her to the Diamond Legue crown - checked in for the Rudin 800 as the winner of 15 straight Armory but also a strategy that Coach Thompson realizes wouldn’t work in races, as a 10-time USA national champion, indoors and outdoors, every racing situation. as the American 800 record-holder, indoors and outdoors, as the Thus, be it known that the 2020 Millrose win may have signaled 2019 Diamond League champion, and as an Armory fans’ favorite the arrival of a “new” Ajee’ Wilson - ready to handle any strategic racer. situation, ready for whatever it took. Thompson, formerly of Jamaica, a retired Philadelphia mailman, As the capacity crowd roared its approval, Derek Thompson only is as knowedgeable about the intricacies of middle distance racing flashed a knowing, modest smile. as anyone you’d ever meet. He did it all - the mail, the coaching He’d guided his star pupil to yet another major triumph. - for a long simultaneous stretch. Once he retired from the U.S. He’d shown there can always be more than one pathway to Postal Service, he’s not only continued his parallel coaching life, success over the 800-meter distance, with young athletes of the Juventus Track Club as well as small And he was still an anonymous soul to those gathered, elbow- group of elites, but has done it better than ever.. to-elbow with him, in the Southwest corner of the Armory. Few, however, realize it. Those big-name coaches you read about and hear about? He’s definitely not one of them. Elliott Denman is a longtime TAFWA member. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 10 - March 2020 Long-time USATF official and leader Bill Roe passes away https://www.usatf.org/news/2020/long-time-usatf-official-and-leader-bill-roe-passe Long-time USATF official and leader Bill Roe passed away Saturday, February 29 at age 69. Roe served as President of USA Track & Field (USATF) for two terms from 2000-2008. The founder in 1972 of Seattle’s Club Northwest and in 1973 of the Pacific Northwest Association of USATF, Roe’s resume includes work in nearly all capacities of the sport: as a coach, meet director, clinician, official, administrator, and executive.

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TAFWA Newsletter - Page 11 - March 2020 Fresh questions over Mo Farah’s relationship with Alberto Salazar https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/51591701

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Anna Korakaki and the history of women carrying the Olympic Flame https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1090526/philip-barker-women-olympic-flame-past

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 13 - March 2020 BOOK OF THE YEAR

This has been a good year for the TAFWA Book Award. Here are our Top Ten nominees. This will be narrowed down to five finalists in May, following by our winning selection as BOOK OF THE YEAR, to be awarded Friday, June 26, at the Olympic Trials in Eugene. –Peter Walsh, Book Chair

In their own words, our writers have chosen varied, eclectic subjects and stories that lead us down and up a trail of history, philosophy, physiology, psychiatry, excitement, challenge, triumph and failure. Russ Ebbets’s A Runner’s Guide to 30 Years of Off the Road is filled with gems of experience for the body and mind. Doug Schneider offers an off-beat memoir of work and relationships in Ten Marathons. An Olympian’s Guide to Professional Track & Field might seem obvious, but Lauryn Williams answers questions young athletes always have in The Oval Office. Running to the Edge is brilliant in its telling tale of a band of misfits revolutionizing the sport under the guidance of innovative coaching and scientific investigation. Where were called the Great Bunion Derbies of the early 20th century are interesting in themselves, but Race Across America gives the perspective of a black man, Eddie Gardner, running across America and offering the reader pause and reflection on the stain of slavery. Running is a special kind of freedom that permits us to experiment and take chances, and Marc Bloom offers Amazing Racers, the story of America’s greatest high school running team and its inspirational coach. Running to Glory is just that, the inspiring and glorious story of young kids, undernourished, challenged by a transplanted Irishman. Ryan Hall has found God in Every Step. His belief in Jesus is more than a running strategy. Hurt Me If You Can is Matthew Baxter’s tale of a talented runner and his high school days in New Zealand. James Dill takes us through the light and the dark of his new running novel Racing Shadows.

The Top 10 Books of 2019

A Runner’s Guide to 30 Years of Off the Road, by Russ Ebbets, pub. BookCrafters, Parker

Ten Marathons – Searching for the Sort Ground in a Hard World, by Doug Schneider, pub. Saybrook

The Oval Office – A Four-Time Olympian’s Guide to Professional Track and Field, by Lauryn Williams, Amazon

Running to the Edge – A Band of Misfits and the Guru Who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed, by Matthew Futterman, pub. Doubleday

Race Across America: Eddie Gardner and the Great Bunion Derbies, by Charles B. Kastner, Syracuse University Press

Amazing Racers – The Story of America’s Greatest Running Team and its Revolutionary Coach, by Marc Bloom, pub. Pegasus

Running to Glory – An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, and Chasing the American Dream, by Sam McManis, Lyons Press

Run the Mile You’re In – Finding God in Every Step, by Ryan Hall, pub. Zondervan

Hurt Me If You Can – Tales of a High School Runner, by Mathew Baxter, Kindle

Racing Shadows – a Novel, by James K. Dill, pub. Apprenctice House Press

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 14 - March 2020 Catching Up With ... Ashton Eaton dives into fatherhood while pondering a return to Oregon Olympic gold medalist and wife Brianne welcome a baby boy, and may return to Oregon to pursue an engineering degree By Mark Morical | The Bulletin | https://www.bendbulletin.com/sports/bend-s-ashton-eaton-dives-into- fatherhood-while-pondering-a/article_6d9572d8-4a08-11ea-8e85-db1d9eb63399.html

During their competitive track and field days, it was hard school and, of course, being new parents. Returning to not to wonder what kind of athletic children Ashton Eaton Oregon is on their minds as well. and his wife, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, might produce. “I think I’m excited about his potential for anything,” With the arrival of Ander Eaton on Jan. 21, which is Eaton said last week, reached by phone at the young also his father’s birthday, some of that question has been family’s apartment in San Francisco. “That’s the beauty of answered. Their child is a fighter. Born in respiratory kids — you just don’t know. They’re constantly learning and distress, Ander didn’t breathe on his own for several hours. exploring. I do think we are keen on protecting him from the ‘you’re going to be the best athlete in the world’ kind It’s too soon, of course, to know if the son of the two- of talk. I think there can only be bad outcomes from that, time Olympic decathlon gold medalist from Central Oregon when those expectations are super high. I know that when and the 2016 Olympic heptathlon bronze medalist from you have expectations like that, it’s likely you’ll never meet Canada will have athletic expectations, since baby Ander is them and you’ll be super disappointed. We don’t want that.” not yet even 1 month old. Eaton’s mental approach during his storied career — Eaton, 32, and Theisen-Eaton, 31, retired from track which also included two world titles in the decathlon and field three years ago and moved from Eugene to San and three indoor world titles in the heptathlon — was Francisco a few months later. to not have any expectations. The one time he did have expectations, he said, was in 2011, when he settled for the They have been busy pursuing new careers, attending silver medal in the decathlon world championships. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 15 - March 2020 “I screwed myself mentally,” Eaton said. “That was a big Eaton worked at a software startup for a year before lesson there.” leaving last summer, while Theisen-Eaton helped to start a health and science company. Eaton said he will let Ander pursue whatever activities he wants, athletic or otherwise. “The reason I left was because what I learned was I really love science and technology, and I’d really love to be “They (kids) do what they want to do. Sometimes they do on a design and engineering team that builds whatever go into sports; sometimes they don’t. I want to expose him technologies there are to solve some of the world’s hardest to as many things as possible, so he can choose.” problems,” Eaton said. “From that I determined I want to go back to school to get an engineering degree.” Ander’s birth was anything but routine. At one point, Eaton “didn’t know if he was even going to make it,” he said. At Intel, Eaton works with the Olympic technology group, which creates technology that can track and analyze After Brianne spent 30-plus hours in labor, Ander was human motion with cameras and deliver results in 3D. ready for the world. But there was a problem. The baby was in the posterior position, often called “sunny-side up” — “In a nutshell, we’re using computer vision and artificial head-down but face up toward the mother’s abdomen. intelligence to watch the way athletes move, and then we can show them exactly what they’re doing every 20th of a “Long story short, his shoulder was stuck,” Eaton second,” Eaton explains. “The benefit is figuring out how recalled. they felt during different results.”

Only 4% to 10% of babies are posterior at birth, Busy finding new career paths over the past three according to babycenter.com. years, the couple has been far removed from the world of track and field, although recently they have become more Doctors were able to deliver Ander without the use of involved. Last fall, they served as ambassadors for the 2019 forceps, but he was in respiratory distress. World Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Doha, Qatar. “They had to take him almost right away,” Eaton said. “He was totally limp and really not breathing well. The baby was Earlier this month UO announced that Eaton, a five- basically shocked. He had to go on a breathing machine.” time NCAA champion, will be one of five track and field icons depicted on the 10-story tower at the new Hayward But after three hours in the neonatal intensive care unit, Field in Eugene, currently under construction. The other Eaton recalls, Ander was breathing on his own and was 2-foot-by-8-foot panels will depict legendary Oregon moved to a recovery room. coach Bill Bowerman, as well as iconic Ducks runners Steve Prefontaine, Raevyn Rogers and Otis Davis. “Everything was completely normal after that,” he said. “It’s extremely, extremely special,” Eaton said of the Eaton said his wife’s training from her former profession honor. “I don’t know how they decide those things … but I helped her fight through the long labor. try to let my performances speak for themselves, if you will. If people want to honor that in a certain way, then that’s “She was super strong,” he said. “She said it’s the hardest great. Pre and others … that’s an honor.” thing she ever did, and she was proud of herself.” The Eaton family plans to attend the Tokyo Olympics this Eaton and Theisen-Eaton met while competing in track summer, where Ashton will be working there for Intel. and field at the University of Oregon. Eaton grew up in La Pine and Bend and graduated from Bend’s Mountain “We’ll just go as a family to our first Olympics we won’t View High School. Theisen-Eaton is from Humboldt, be competing in,” he said with a laugh. Saskatchewan. Eaton said he was moved to get involved in track and As Eaton navigates changing diapers, burping the baby field again after watching the women’s World Cup soccer and a new father’s expected lack of sleep, he is also working tournament last summer. for Intel and taking classes at City College of San Francisco as prerequisites for an engineering degree. The couple is “That was two years after we retired, and we hadn’t done considering a move back to Oregon for Eaton to earn that anything in track and field,” he explained. “It was almost degree at either Oregon, Oregon State or Portland State. like we weren’t athletes. It’s not like we had forgotten what (Eaton earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from we had done, it just felt like we were different people. When Oregon before turning professional in track and field.) that event came on, we were seeing the power of sports and all these countries coming together. It reminded us of “We do want to move back to Oregon for a few reasons,” the Olympic Games and what we were a part of, and how Eaton said. “One is for the lifestyle and for raising kids. It’s important sport is. very expensive here. And there’s just more space in Oregon. We’re in an apartment in the city. … And for schooling as “That’s what we’re moving toward now, using our well.” experience to have an impact.”

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TAFWA Newsletter - Page 17 - March 2020 All times listed are Mountain Schedule is subject to change FRIDAY, MARCH 13 SATURDAY, MARCH 14

TRACK EVENTS TRACK EVENTS TIME EVENT DIVISION ROUND TIME EVENT DIVISION ROUND 5:15 PM 800 Meters Women Pentathlon 4:00 PM 1000 Meters Men Heptathlon 5:20 PM Mile Men Semifinal 4:10 PM Mile Men Final 5:35 PM Mile Women Semifinal 4:20 PM Mile Women Final 5:50 PM 60 Meters Men Semifinal 4:30 PM 60 Meters Men Final 6:00 PM 60 Meters Women Semifinal 4:40 PM 60 Meters Women Final 6:10 PM 400 Meters Men Semifinal 4:50 PM 400 Meters Men Final 6:25 PM 400 Meters Women Semifinal 5:00 PM 400 Meters Women Final 6:40 PM 60 Hurdles Men Semifinal 5:10 PM 60 Hurdles Men Final 6:50 PM 60 Hurdles Women Semifinal 5:20 PM 60 Hurdles Women Final 7:00 PM 800 Meters Men Semifinal 5:30 PM 800 Meters Men Final 7:10 PM 800 Meters Women Semifinal 5:40 PM 800 Meters Women Final 7:20 PM 5000 Meters Men Final 5:50 PM 200 Meters Men Final 7:40 PM 200 Meters Men Semifinal 6:00 PM 200 Meters Women Final 7:55 PM 5000 Meters Women Final 6:10 PM 3000 Meters Men Final 8:15 PM 200 Meters Women Semifinal 6:25 PM 3000 Meters Women Final 8:30 PM Distance Medley Relay Men Final 6:40 PM 4x400 Relay Men Final 8:45 PM Distance Medley Relay Women Final 6:55 PM 4x400 Relay Women Final

FIELD EVENTS FIELD EVENTS TIME EVENT DIVISION ROUND TIME EVENT DIVISION ROUND 5:00 PM Shot Put Women Prelims & Final 1:15 PM High Jump Men Final 5:15 PM Long Jump Men Prelims & Final 1:15 PM High Jump Women Final 5:15 PM Pole Vault Men Final 2:00 PM Weight Throw Men Prelims & Final 6:55 PM Long Jump Women Prelims & Final 3:30 PM Triple Jump Women Prelims & Final 7:05 PM Shot Put Men Prelims & Final 4:00 PM Pole Vault Women Final 4:30 PM Weight Throw Women Prelims & Final 5:00 PM Triple Jump Men Prelims & Final

HEPTATHLON EVENTS HEPTATHLON EVENTS TIME EVENT DIVISION ROUND TIME EVENT DIVISION ROUND 11:00 AM 60 Meters Men Heptathlon 10:00 AM 60 Hurdles Men Heptathlon 11:40 AM Long Jump Men Heptathlon (2 runways) 11:00 AM Pole Vault Men Heptathlon (1 runway) 12:50 PM Shot Put Men Heptathlon (1 ring) 4:00 PM 1000 Meters Men Heptathlon 2:30 PM High Jump Men Heptathlon (2 pits)

PENTATHLON EVENTS TIME EVENT DIVISION ROUND 11:15 AM 60 Hurdles Women Pentathlon 12:10 PM High Jump Women Pentathlon (2 pits) 2:15 PM Shot Put Women Pentathlon (1 ring) 3:45 PM Long Jump Women Pentathlon (2 runways) 5:15 PM 800 Meters Women Pentathlon 2020 World Athletics Schedules DIAMOND LEAGUE CONTINENTAL TOUR GOLD CONTINENTAL TOUR SILVER Meeting Country Date Meeting Country Date Meeting Country Date Doha QAT 17 April Nairobi KEN 2 May Brisbane AUS 20 March China (tba) CHN [tentative] 9 May Tokyo JPN 10 May St. George GRN 4 April Shanghai CHN [tentative] 16 May Nanjing CHN [tentative] 13 May Kingston JAM 2 May Stockholm SWE 24 May Ostrava CZE 22 May Sao Paolo BRA 17 May Rome ITA 28 May Hengelo NED 1 June Chorzow POL 24 May Rabat MAR 31 May Eugene USA 7 June Turku FIN 9 June Samorin SVK 11 June Oslo NOR 11 June Kingston JAM 13 June Madrid ESP 19 June Paris FRA 13 June Szekesfehervar HUN 7 July Luzern SUI 1 July London GBR 4 July Silesia POL 6 September Rovereto ITA 8 September Monaco MON 10 July Zagreb CRO 15 September Berlin GER 13 September Gateshead GBR 16 August Lausanne SUI 20 August Brussels BEL 4 September FINAL Zurich SUI 11 September

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 18 - March 2020 2020 NCAA Outdoor Championships Schedule Mike A. Myers Stadium - Austin, Texas WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 FRIDAY, JUNE 12 TRACK EVENTS TRACK EVENTS 7:32 p.m. 4x100 Relay Semifinal Men 7:32 p.m. 4x100 Relay Final Men 7:46 p.m. 1500 Meters Semifinal Men 7:41 p.m. 1500 Meters Final Men 8:02 p.m. 3000 Steeplechase Semifinal Men 7:54 p.m. 3000 Steeplechase Final Men 8:32 p.m. 110 Hurdles Semifinal Men 8:12 p.m. 110 Hurdles Final Men 8:46 p.m. 100 Meters Semifinal Men 8:22 p.m. 100 Meters Final Men 9:00 p.m. 400 Meters Semifinal Men 8:32 p.m. 400 Meters Final Men 9:14 p.m. 800 Meters Semifinal Men 8:44 p.m. 800 Meters Final Men 9:30 p.m. 400 Hurdles Semifinal Men 8:57 p.m. 400 Hurdles Final Men 9:44 p.m. 200 Meters Semifinal Men 9:07 p.m. 200 Meters Final Men 9:56 p.m. 400 Meters Decathlon Men 9:13 p.m. 200 Meters Heptathlon Women 10:08 p.m. 10,000 Meters Final Men 9:25 p.m. 5000 Meters Final Men 10:48 p.m. 4x400 Relay Semifinal Men 9:51 p.m. 4x400 Relay Final Men

FIELD EVENTS FIELD EVENTS 4:30 p.m. Hammer* Final Men 7:00 p.m. High Jump Final Men 7:30 p.m. Pole Vault Final Men 7:05 p.m. Discus Final Men 7:45 p.m. Javelin Final Men 7:40 p.m. Triple Jump Final Men 9:00 p.m. Long Jump Final Men 9:40 p.m. Shot Put Final Men COMBINED EVENTS 2:30 p.m. 100 Hurdles Heptathlon Women COMBINED EVENTS 3:30 p.m. High Jump Heptathlon Women 3:30 p.m. 100 Meters Decathlon Men 5:30 p.m. Shot Put Heptathlon Women 4:10 p.m. Long Jump Decathlon Men 9:13 p.m. 200 Meters Heptathlon Women 5:25 p.m. Shot Put Decathlon Men 6:40 p.m. High Jump Decathlon Men SATURDAY, JUNE 13 9:56 p.m. 400 Meters Decathlon Men TRACK EVENTS 6:32 p.m. 4x100 Relay Final Women THURSDAY, JUNE 11 6:41 p.m. 1500 Meters Final Women TRACK EVENTS 6:54 p.m. 3000 Steeplechase Final Women 7:32 p.m. 4x100 Relay Semifinal Women 7:12 p.m. 100 Hurdles Final Women 7:46 p.m. 1500 Meters Semifinal Women 7:12 p.m. 100 Meters Final Women 8:02 p.m. 3000 Steeplechase Semifinal Women 7:22 p.m. 400 Meters Final Women 8:32 p.m. 100 Hurdles Semifinal Women 7:44 p.m. 800 Meters Final Women 8:46 p.m. 100 Meters Semifinal Women 7:57 p.m. 400 Hurdles Final Women 9:00 p.m. 400 Meters Semifinal Women 8:07 p.m. 200 Meters Final Women 9:14 p.m. 800 Meters Semifinal Women 8:13 p.m. 800 Meters Heptathlon Women 9:30 p.m. 400 Hurdles Semifinal Women 8:25 p.m. 5000 Meters Final Women 9:44 p.m. 200 Meters Semifinal Women 8:51 p.m. 4x400 Relay Final Women 9:56 p.m. 1500 Meters Decathlon Men 10:08 p.m. 10,000 Meters Final Women FIELD EVENTS 10:48 p.m. 4x400 Relay Semifinal Women 6:00 p.m. High Jump Final Women 6:05 p.m. Discus Final Women FIELD EVENTS 6:40 p.m. Triple Jump Final Women 4:30 p.m. Hammer * Final Women 8:00 p.m. Pole Vault Final Women COMBINED EVENTS 8:45 p.m. Javelin Final Women 2:30 p.m. Long Jump Heptathlon Women 9:00 p.m. Long Jump Final Women 3:45 p.m. Javelin Heptathlon Women 9:40 p.m. Shot Put Final Women 8:13 p.m. 800 Meters Heptathlon Women

COMBINED EVENTS * Hammer for men and women will be conducted outside the stadium. 1:30 p.m. 110 Hurdles Decathlon Men 2:20 p.m. Discus Decathlon Men 3:30 p.m. Pole Vault Decathlon Men 6:00 p.m. Javelin Decathlon Men 9:56 p.m. 1500 Meters Decathlon Men

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 19 - March 2020 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Schedule Friday, June 19 3:00 p.m. Hammer Throw Men Final 11:00 a.m. Shot Put Men Qualifying 4:30 p.m. Hammer Throw Women Qualifying 2:50 p.m. National Anthem Hammer Throw Women Qualifying 3:00 p.m. Discus Throw Women Qualifying 6:30 p.m. Hammer Throw Women Final 3:02 p.m. 400m Women 1st Round 3:30 p.m. 400m Men 1st Round Thursday, June 25 3:45 p.m. High Jump Women Qualifying 1:30 p.m. Shot Put Women Qualifying 3:58 p.m. 1500m Women 1st Round 5:00 p.m. Pole Vault Women Qualifying 4:26 p.m. 800m Men 1st Round 5:45 p.m. Long Jump Women Qualifying 4:54 p.m. 5000m Men 1st Round 5:50 p.m. National Anthem 5:15 p.m. Triple Jump Women Qualifying 6:04 p.m. 1500m Men 1st Round 5:25 p.m. Shot Put Men Final 6:31 p.m. 200m Women 1st Round 5:32 p.m. 100m Women 1st Round 7:00 p.m. 5000m Women 1st Round 6:22 p.m. 10,000m Women Final 7:20 p.m. Discus Throw Men Qualifying 7:44 p.m. 800m Women 1st Round Saturday, June 20 8:00 p.m. Shot Put Women Final 12:00 p.m. 100m Men Decathlon 8:16 p.m. 400m Hurdles Men 1st Round 12:50 p.m. Long Jump Men Decathlon 8:48 p.m. 3000m Steeple Women Final 1:15 p.m. Javelin Throw Men Qualifying 1:50 p.m. Shot Put Men Decathlon Friday, June 26 3:00 p.m. High Jump Men Decathlon 1:00 p.m. Javelin Throw Women Qualifying 3:20 p.m. National Anthem 1:50 p.m. National Anthem 3:30 p.m. Pole Vault Men Qualifying 2:04 p.m. 200m Men 1st Round 4:04 p.m. 100m Hurdles Women 1st Round 2:10 p.m. Long Jump Men Qualifying 4:15 p.m. Triple Jump Men Qualifying 2:33 p.m. 110m Hurdles Men 1st Round 4:34 p.m. 100m Men 1st Round 3:00 p.m. High Jump Men Qualifying 5:03 p.m. 100m Women Semi-Finals 3:02 p.m. 800m Women Semi-Finals 5:18 p.m. 400m Men Decathlon 3:18 p.m. 400m Hurdles Men Semi-Finals 5:40 p.m. 1500m Women Semi-Finals 3:30 p.m. Discus Throw Men Final 5:42 p.m. Discus Throw Women Final 3:35 p.m. 400m Hurdles Women 1st Round 6:04 p.m. 800m Men Semi-Finals 4:05 p.m. 1500m Men Semi-Finals 6:20 p.m. 400m Women Semi-Finals 4:25 p.m. 200m Women Semi-Finals 6:35 p.m. 400m Men Semi-Finals 4:42 p.m. 3000m Steeple Men Final 6:51 p.m 100m Women Final Saturday, June 27 Sunday, June 21 9:00 a.m. 20km Race Walk Men Final 12:15 p.m. 110m Hurdles Men Decathlon 9:01 a.m. 20km Race Walk Women Final 1:20 p.m. Discus Throw Men Decathlon 1:15 p.m. 100m Hurdles Women Heptathlon 3:45 p.m. Pole Vault Men Decathlon 2:30 p.m. High Jump Women Heptathlon 5:15 p.m. Javelin Men Decathlon 4:40 p.m. Shot Put Women Heptathlon 5:40 p.m. National Anthem 5:20 p.m. National Anthem 5:50 p.m. High Jump Women Final 5:30 p.m. Javelin Women Final 5:55 p.m. Triple Jump Men Final 5:38 p.m 200m Women Heptathlon 6:03 p.m. 100m Hurdles Women Semi-Finals 5:40 p.m. Pole Vault Women Final 6:15 p.m. Javelin Men Decathlon 6:03 p.m. 110m Hurdles Men Semi-Finals 6:19 p.m 100m Men Semi-Finals 6:19 p.m. 400m Hurdles Women Semi-Finals 6:35 p.m. 3000m Steeple Women 1st Round 6:30 p.m. Long Jump Women Final 7:06 p.m. 400m Women Final 6:35 p.m. 400m Hurdles Men Final 7:15 p.m. 400m Men Final 6:43 p.m. 10,000m Men Final 7:23 p.m. 1500m Men Decathlon 7:20 p.m. 200m Women Final 7:43 p.m. 100m Hurdles Women Final 7:34 p.m. 200m Men Semi-Finals 7:52 p.m. 100m Men Final 7:51 p.m. 110m Hurdles Men Final

Monday, June 22 Sunday, June 28 4:20 p.m. National Anthem 1:00 p.m. Long Jump Women Heptathlon 4:30 p.m. PoleVault Men Final 2:05 p.m. Javelin Throw Women Heptathlon 5:15 p.m. Javelin Throw Men Final 2:35 p.m. National Anthem 5:40 p.m. Triple Jump Men Final 2:45 p.m. High Jump Men Final 5:50 p.m. 3000m Steeple Men 1st Round 3:25 p.m. Long Jump Men Final 6:22 p.m. 800m Men Final 3:40 p.m. 800m – b Women Heptathlon 6:30 p.m. 1500 Women Final 3:53 p.m. 800m – a Women Heptathlon 6:40 p.m. 5000m Men Final 4:03 p.m. 400m Hurdles Women Final 4:12 p.m. 5000m Women Final Wednesday, June 24 4:35 p.m. 800m Women Final 12:50 p.m. National Anthem 4:43 p.m. 1500m Men Final 1:00 p.m. Hammer Throw Men Qualifying 4:53 p.m. 200m Men Final Hammer Throw Men Qualifying TAFWA Newsletter - Page 20 - March 2020 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Standards Men Women Standard Field Size - Rounds Event Standard Field Size - Rounds 10.05 (32–3) 100m 11.15 (32-3) 20.24 (30–3) 200m 22.80 (30-3) 45.20 (28–3) 400m 51.35 (28-3) 1:46.00 (32–3) 800m 2:02.50 (32-3) 3:37.50 (30–3) 1500m 4:06.00 (30-3) 13:25.00 (24–2) 5000m 15:20.00 (24-2) 28:00.00 (24–1) 10k 32:25.00 (24-1) 1:36:00 (15–1) 20k RW 1:48:00 (15-1) 5:15:00 (15–1) 50k RW - - 13.48 (32–3) 110m Hurdles - - - - 100m Hurdles 12.84 (32-3) 49.50 (28–3) 400m Hurdles 56.25 (28-3) 8:32.00 (24–2) 3000m SC 9:50.00 (24-2) 2.26 (24–2) High Jump 1.87 (24-2) 5.75 (24–2) Pole Vault 4.60 (24-2) 8.00 (24–2) Long Jump 6.70 (24-2) 16.66 (24–2) Triple Jump 13.50 (24-2) 20.65 (24–2) Shot Put 17.70 (24-2) 62.00 (24–2) Discus Throw 58.00 (24-2) 72.00 (24–2) Hammer Throw 68.00 (24-2) 75.00 (24–2) Javelin Throw 54.00 (24-2) - - Heptathlon 6,000 pts (18) 7900 pts. (18) Decathlon - -

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 21 - March 2020 2020 Olympic Games Standards

The Sport Committee Chair will, and only where necessary, adjust • high school meets but not dual or triangular meets. the standards no later than 45 days prior to the competition, based on • meets or events which meet a minimum for competitiveness as entries received up to that time. set by the Chair of the Sport Committee and determined to be valid by As required, USATF may have no standard that is superior to the the USATF staff member responsible for the verification and validity of Olympic standard. The number of rounds in the 100m, 200m and marks. 110mH coincide with the Olympic Games program, where those who • Please refer to the following link for Criteria for a Legal Meet achieve the standard will advance directly to the quarter-final round. 3. Hand times are acceptable only for those events in which the The Men’s and Women’s T&F Chairs will handle all entry appeals up distance is equal to or greater than 800 meters. No timing allowance to 48 hours prior to the start of competition in each event. Thereafter, factor for qualifying shall be made for hand times. Hand times will be the Entry Appeals Committee, consisting of two Athletes Advisory adjusted using USATF Rule 166-7 for the purposes of seeding. Committee members, one Men’s T&F Committee member and one 4. Wind-assisted performances will not be accepted for 2020 U.S. Women’s T&F Committee member will have the sole responsibility to Olympic Trials qualifying. handle entry appeals. 5. There will be no adjustment for marks made at altitude. For each event, the approximate field size (not the minimum) and 6. Qualifying marks must be attained in a 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials number of rounds are shown. Also shown are the standards that will event. No qualifying marks will be allowed using alternate events, ex- be used for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials. cept for the men’s and women’s Mile runs as follows: An appeal to use All verified entries who have met the standard within the pre- a Mile qualifying mark for the 1500 will be accepted only if the mile scribed period and at a bona fide meet (see guidelines below), shall mark was made during the 2020 season, from Wednesday, January 1, be qualified to participate in the U.S. Olympic Trials. Additional veri- 2020 through Sunday, June 7, 2020, and the mark is 3:54.00 or better fied entries from the rank order list of those who have entered and for the men and 4:28.43 for the women. declared shall be invited to participate in the Trials only to the extent 7. An Athlete must be U.S. citizen and eligible to represent the that the indicated field size has not been filled by those with the stan- United States in international competition, as well as being a U.S. dard. An invitation will be extended to these additional persons based citizen on the date of Declaration for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials in on verified entries in their performance rank order. that event - this date being 48 hours prior to the first day of competi- tion in the event. 2020 USOT - QUALIFYING GUIDELINES: 8. Athletes who have earned Automatic Qualification into the meet 1. All qualifying performances for the U.S. Olympic Trials must be under USATF Rule 8 must follow all entry procedures and declarations attained on a standard outdoor track in the period Wednesday, May 1, procedures, and will be counted in that event’s field sizes by the seed- 2019 through Sunday, June 7, 2020, or on an indoor track, in the same ing committee. event, in the period Wednesday, January 1, 2020 through Sunday, 9. At the U.S. Olympic Trials, the mark used for qualifying and the June 7, 2020; except for the 10,000 meters, Decathlon & Heptathlon mark used for first round seeding might not be the same, as described and 20km Race Walks, whose qualifying period is from Tuesday, Janu- per USATF Rule 166.2.(d).i. Each qualified entrant in each event ary 1, 2019 through Sunday, June 7, 2020. The qualifying performance should submit a 2020 season best (January 1, 2020 – June 7, 2020) for the men’s 50km Race Walk must be attained in the period Monday performance, if one exists, whether it meets the qualifying standard January 1, 2018 through Sunday, January 12, 2020. or not. Seeding for the first round of competition is based, first, on all 2. Qualifying marks must be made in accordance with USATF Rule 2020 season performances in rank order, followed by any 2019 season 149 and verifiable in one of the following: performances, even if they do not meet the qualifying standard (Rule • USATF or IAAF sanctioned meets/events which prescribe to or 166-2.(d) i ). Note that a 2019 season mark may qualify an individual exceed USATF competition rules, or into the competition, but will not be used for seeding purposes when a • college meets/events which prescribe to or exceed USATF com- 2020 season mark exists. petition rules, or TAFWA Newsletter - Page 22 - March 2020 2020 Olympic Games • Track & Field Schedule Friday - July 31, 2020 Morning Evening 9:50 Deca - Discus M A 6:00 20km Racewalk M Final 19:00 100m M MC 10:00 4x100m Relay W R1 9:00 3,000m Steeplechase M R1 19:07 Long Jump M MC 10:30 800m M MC 9:15 High Jump M Q A+B 19:20 Pole Vault W Q A+B 10:40 200m M MC 9:45 Discus M Q A 19:45 100m Hurdles W MC 10:55 Deca - Discus M B 9:55 800m W R1 20:00 Discus W FINAL 11:00 Triple Jump M FINAL 10:55 400m Hurdles M R1 20:05 400m M SF 11:05 Shot Put M FINAL 11:20 Discus M Q B 20:35 400m Hurdles W SF 11:30 4x100m Relay M R1 11:40 100m W R1 21:15 3,000m Steeplechase M FINAL 11:55 110m Hurdles M FINAL Evening 21:40 5,000m W FINAL 12:30 Deca - Pole Vault M A+B 19:00 5,000m W R1 12:35 Hept - Javelin W A 19:05 Triple Jump W Q A+B Tuesday - August 4, 2020 Morning 13:45 Hept - Javelin W B 19:25 Shot Put W Q A+B 9:00 Triple Jump M Q A+B Evening 20:00 4x400m Relay X R1 9:05 1,500m M R1 19:00 Shot Put M MC 20:25 20km Racewalk M MC 9:20 Javelin W Q A 19:07 Triple Jump M MC 20:40 10,000m M FINAL 9:45 400m W R1 19:15 Deca - Javelin M A 10:30 Discus W MC 19:20 Pole Vault W FINAL Saturday - August 1, 2020 Morning 10:37 3,000m Steeplechase M MC 19:25 4x400m Relay W R1 9:00 400m Hurdles W R1 10:50 Long Jump W FINAL 20:00 1,500m M SF 9:30 Discus W Q A 11:05 200m M R1 20:15 110m Hurdles MC 9:40 Pole Vault M Q A+B 12:20 400m Hurdles M FINAL 20:20 Deca - Javelin M B 9:50 800m M R1 12:25 5,000m W MC 21:00 400m M FINAL 10:45 100m Hurdles W R1 Evening 21:20 Hept - 800m W FINAL 10:55 Discus W Q B 19:00 Long Jump W MC 21:40 Deca - 1,500m M FINAL 11:35 100m M Prelim 19:10 110m Hurdles M R1 Evening 19:15 Shot Put M Q A+B Friday - August 7, 2020 Morning 19:00 10,000m M MC 19:20 Pole Vault M FINAL 6:00 20km Race Walk W FINAL 19:10 Long Jump M Q A+B 19:45 400m Hurdles M MC Evening 19:15 100m W SF 20:00 5,000m M R1 20:00 Pole Vault W MC 19:45 100m M R1 20:35 Hammer W FINAL 20:07 Heptathlon W MC 20:15 Discus M FINAL 20:50 200m M SF 20:14 Decathlon M MC 20:50 800m W SF 21:25 800m W FINAL 20:25 4x400m Relay M R1 21:35 4x400m Relay X FINAL 21:50 200m W FINAL 20:40 20km Race Walk W MC 21:50 100m W FINAL 20:50 Javelin W FINAL Wednesday - August 5, 2020 Morning 21:00 5,000m M FINAL Sunday - August 2, 2020 Morning 9:00 Deca - 100m M Heats 21:20 400m M MC 6:00 Marathon W FINAL 9:25 Javelin M Q A 21:35 400m W FINAL 9:10 Hammer W Q A 9:35 Hept - 100m Hurdles W Heats 21:50 1,500m W FINAL 9:25 Marathon W MC 9:55 Deca - Long Jump M A+B 22:10 5,000m M MC 9:40 3,000m Steeplechase W R1 10:00 Pole Vault M MC 22:17 400m W MC 9:50 Long Jump W Q A+B 10:35 Hept - High Jump W A+B 22:30 4x100m Relay W FINAL 10:20 Discus M MC 10:40 Hammer W MC 22:35 1,500m W MC 10:35 Shot Put W FINAL 10:47 800m W MC 22:50 4x100m Relay M FINAL 10:40 Hammer W Q B 11:00 110m Hurdles M SF 10:45 400m M R1 11:05 Javelin M Q B Saturday - August 8, 2020 Morning 11:50 4x400m Relay X MC 11:10 Deca - Shot Put M A+B 5:30 50km Race Walk M FINAL Evening 11:30 400m Hurdles W FINAL Evening 19:00 100m W MC 12:10 400m Hurdles W MC 19:00 Javelin W MC 19:10 High Jump M FINAL Evening 19:07 4x100m Relay W MC 19:15 100m M SF 18:30 Deca - High Jump M A+B 19:15 4x100m Relay M MC 20:04 Shot Put W MC 19:00 1,500m W SF 19:23 50km Race Walk M MC 20:20 Triple Jump W FINAL 19:05 Hept - Shot Put W A+B 19:35 High Jump W FINAL 20:25 800m M SF 19:30 400m W SF 19:45 10,000m W FINAL 21:05 400m Hurdles M SF 19:50 200m W MC 20:00 Javelin M FINAL 21:37 High Jump M MC 20:00 3,000m Steeplechase W FINAL 20:40 1,500m M FINAL 21:50 100m M FINAL 20:15 Hammer M FINAL 20:47 10,000m W MC 20:30 Hept - 200m W Heats 21:15 1,500m M MC Monday - August 3, 2020 Morning 20:50 3,000m Steeplechase W MC 21:30 4x400m Relay W FINAL 9:00 Hammer M Q A 21:05 800m M FINAL 21:38 Javelin M MC 9:35 1,500m W R 1 21:30 Deca - 400m M Heats 21:50 4x400m Relay M FINAL 10:08 Triple Jump W MC 21;55 200m M FINAL 21:58 High Jump W MC 10:20 Long Jump M FINAL 22:05 4x400m Relay W MC 10:30 200m W R1 Thursday - August 6, 2020 Morning 22:13 4x400m Relay M MC 10:30 Hammer M Q B 9:00 Deca - 110m Hurdles M Heats 11:50 100m Hurdles W FINAL 9:10 High Jump W Q A+B Sunday - August 9, 2020 Morning 9:30 Hammer M MC 6:00 Marathon M FINAL 9:40 Hept - Long Jump W A+B TAFWA Newsletter - Page 23 - March 2020 Catching Up With ... Chris Miltenberg, UNC https://goheels.com/news/2020/1/14/featured-writers-goheels-exclusive-in-it-for-the-long-haul.aspx

By Pat James, GoHeels.com from 1986-90.

Back in the summer of 2018, shortly after the NCAA As certain as Miltenberg was of UNC’s potential, it took outdoor track and field season ended, Chris Miltenberg Cunningham’s call for him to start thinking what he was received a call from Bubba Cunningham. doing at Stanford could work in Chapel Hill. Over the next year, that thought occasionally crossed his mind. Then, last At the time, North Carolina’s athletic director was simply June, Cunningham came calling again. interested in learning more about what it takes to build and maintain an elite track and field program, said Miltenberg, This time, after not renewing the contract of Harlis then coming off his sixth year as Stanford’s director of track Meaders, the Tar Heels’ director of track and field and cross and field and cross country. And he never, ever mentioned country, Cunningham wanted to discuss Miltenberg filling the prospect of a job. the vacant position.

Still, Miltenberg thought, “That’s a pretty special place, Since taking the Stanford job in 2012, several schools Carolina, with enormous potential.” had called to gauge Miltenberg’s interest. Most he quickly turned away. But immediately, he knew he was serious He’d held that belief for years. about this one. And out of respect for Stanford, he didn’t want to drag out conversations with Carolina. As colleagues, Patrick Henner, Georgetown’s former director of track and field and cross country, said he and So, on June 25, Miltenberg flew to the Denver Miltenberg, a member of Henner’s staff from 2007-12, International Airport, where he met with Cunningham often talked about the programs they thought had the most to talk about the job. That night, he returned home and potential. UNC consistently neared the top of their list. consulted with his family. Then, just two days later, he called Cunningham and told him he was in. For the same reasons it did then, Miltenberg at one point told Sean McGorty, who ran at Stanford from 2013-18, Miltenberg’s decision to leave Stanford, one of the how the Tar Heels were one of the sport’s greatest sleeping NCAA’s most storied programs, shocked the running giants. community. But it wasn’t one he really made based on where he was. “He always thought it was such a great school and that it would be very easy to build something there because similar It was largely about where he was going. to Stanford there’s a lot about the school that also helps to sell it,” said McGorty, whose father, Kevin, and uncle, The chance to build something from scratch at a great Dennis, won five straight ACC decathlon titles at Carolina academic institution was one of the most appealing aspects TAFWA Newsletter - Page 24 - March 2020 for Miltenberg in coming to Carolina. Even more intriguing him to consider the big picture. was the opportunity for him, his wife Colleen and their four children to live in Chapel Hill, a welcomed change of pace “Even when I was choosing where to run in college,” from Silicon Valley. Perhaps the biggest determining factor, Miltenberg said, “(McDonnell was about) just making sure though, was Cunningham. it had a good balance of wanting to run at the highest level and also setting myself up for the rest of my life.” “Talking with Bubba,” Miltenberg said, “his vision for it sold me and his commitment to it and being behind us and Georgetown fit that criteria. what we’re going to go do and build, and that we can change this thing.” Under the direction of legendary coach Frank Gagliano, the Hoyas’ track and field and cross country teams had long Almost seven months later, Miltenberg is just as sure of been among the nation’s elite. Many of New York’s best high that. And on Saturday, the Tar Heels took another small school runners were part of that success. And Miltenberg step in that process with a successful showing at the Dick hoped to follow in their footsteps. Taylor Carolina Challenge, the track and field teams’ first competition under Miltenberg. In many ways, though, his freshman year didn’t go as planned, as he battled through two stress fractures and It was a new scene for Miltenberg, far away from his a bout of mononucleosis. More adversity came after the seven years at Stanford. But he has spent his time adjusting season, when Gagliano announced he was retiring from to his new surroundings feeling grateful for all of the college coaching. choices he made, the lessons he learned and the people he met with the Cardinal, all of which led him to the Eddie In the immediate aftermath of Gagliano’s retirement, Smith Field House on a rainy Saturday. Miltenberg considered transferring. Ultimately, he didn’t. And that proved to be one of the most important decisions “If I had left early, when it was hard, I never would’ve he’d ever make, as it led to him meeting Henner, who came learned the things I learned,” Miltenberg said. “I would’ve in as Georgetown’s men’s distance coach and became one of never learned how to do it the right way. And what I realize the most influential figures in his life. is I still don’t have it all figured out, but you learn as you go. Instead of trying to think you’ve got it figured out, it’s “He empowered us to believe and commit to what constantly learning and evolving. I had to learn to have that we wanted to do and change the culture of our team mindset.” dramatically,” Miltenberg said. “But more than anything else, he believed in me in a way probably no one had before, Setting the pace and certainly not in a way I believed in myself.”

By the time Miltenberg entered John Glenn High School Miltenberg went on to be a two-time All-American, in Elwood, New York, he’d played several sports. He wasn’t placing fourth in both the 3,000 meters and distance good at any of them, though. Nor was he passionate about medley relay at the 2001 NCAA Indoor Championships. But them. injuries hampered him in his last two seasons.

But once he started running, he immediately became As it turned out, the lessons he learned then prepared hooked. No longer did he have to wait for a teammate to him the most for what came next. pass him the ball or for a coach to sub him into a game. Instead, whatever he got out of running was the direct “When you’re hurt and feeling down and guys are result of the work he put in. That appealed to him more traveling to compete and you’re home, you learn what than anything. you’re made of then and you learn how to be focused on the process,” he said. “The sport taught me how to do that, and Although a strong running culture didn’t exist on Long that had nothing to do with how fast I ran. It was like, ‘You Island or at John Glenn, Miltenberg never let that deter can take that and go do anything.’” him. He realized early in his high school career he wanted to run in college, and his two coaches worked with him to ‘Whatever it takes’ chase that dream. Colleen Miltenberg (née Kelly) was a freshman at “They let me set the pace on how much I really wanted to Georgetown when she met her future husband in the fall be into it,” he said, “and (made sure) I was the one driving of 2000. It wasn’t until January 2001, though, when they how much I wanted to do it, not somebody else.” reported back to school early for their first indoor track meet, that she truly started to get to know him. His mom, Patty McDonnell, did the same. “I could tell he was the type of person who knew what Miltenberg’s parents split up when he was young, leaving he wanted and wasn’t going to let anything stop him from McDonnell to raise Miltenberg and his three younger getting where he was going,” said Colleen, also a track All- brothers for much of their lives on her own. Watching his American at Georgetown. “There wasn’t one specific thing mom persevere through many challenges inspired him and he was going for at that particular moment. But I could just taught him how to be resilient. He doesn’t hesitate to call tell he had this drive in him.” her the strongest person he’s ever known. A business major, Miltenberg initially shared the same As much as McDonnell supported Miltenberg’s running goal as many of his classmates: to one day work on Wall aspirations, she always stressed academics and encouraged Street. Over time, though, his interests shifted. And even

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 25 - March 2020 after completing the prerequisites for medical school, he America honors (eight in cross country and 36 in track still didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life when he and field) in his five years as Georgetown’s head women’s graduated from Georgetown in 2003. cross country coach and associate head coach for track and field. He coached 22 individual second-place finishers and All he knew for sure was he wasn’t done running. one individual national champion – Infeld, the 2012 NCAA champion in the 3,000. So, along with his college roommate, Miltenberg moved to San Diego, where he spent the next few months training “We had such a small, close-knit team and he really with hopes of qualifying for the 2004 Olympic Trials. He worked individually with every athlete, and I think that was came close. But once again, an injury derailed him – and led huge and part of why we were so successful,” said Infeld, him to start preparing for life after running. Not until he a 2016 Olympian. “And we just had so much fun with it. began contemplating what that would be like did he think of We really wanted to do well and we loved it and he was coaching. so passionate and we were passionate about it that it all melded so well together.” “I thought, ‘Man, if I can go to work every day and give that back to the next generation, that’s the greatest job in Still, Miltenberg wanted more. the world,’” he said. “’And I’ll do whatever it takes to be able to do that.’” Colleen knew from the moment her husband entered coaching that he wouldn’t settle for being an assistant Upon reaching that realization, Miltenberg started his entire career, even at a place as special to them as emailing every college coach in the country, looking for an Georgetown. The more success the Hoyas had, the more opportunity. Eventually, he found one at Columbia. And Miltenberg’s head-coaching aspirations grew. So did his in his three years there, the women’s cross country team belief that he could take what was working so well at captured two Ivy League titles, the men’s team won its first Georgetown and apply it to an entire program. in 25 years and nine student-athletes earned All-America honors. Miltenberg never thought he’d have a chance to do so at Stanford. But on July 8, 2012, Brien Bell – now the Working with Willy Wood, then the Lions’ director of head coach of Syracuse’s cross country and track and field track and field and cross country, opened Miltenberg’s mind programs – texted Miltenberg, informing him that the to other coaching techniques. Those served him well at his Stanford job was open. next stop, a familiar one at that. At the time, Stanford was also without an athletic In May 2007, Miltenberg received a call from Henner, director. That, however, didn’t stop Miltenberg from telling him Ron Helmer – Georgetown’s director of track emailing as many athletic-department officials as he could, and field and cross country since Gagliano retired – was which later led to a phone interview. Some time passed leaving for Indiana. Henner was planning to apply for before he heard anything else. Then, coincidentally enough, the vacant post. If he got it, he wanted Miltenberg to join Muir – who’d left Georgetown for Delaware – was chosen as his staff as an assistant and coach the women’s distance the Cardinal’s new athletic director. runners. Five years after hiring him at Georgetown, Muir again The opportunity to return to Georgetown was one took a chance on Miltenberg, naming him Stanford’s 19th Miltenberg relished. So in the ensuing weeks, he worked head coach/director of track and field in one of his first acts with Henner to develop the strategic plan that helped him as athletic director. As thrilled as he was, Miltenberg started earn the director’s job, and in turn, brought Miltenberg back thinking then of everything he was leaving behind. to Washington D.C. “Just the proposition of totally taking over a program and Looking back, Miltenberg often wonders why Henner it’s all on your own shoulders, that’s pretty scary,” Henner and then-Georgetown athletic director Bernard Muir said. “But deep down, he and I both knew he was ready to trusted him, a 27-year-old. But what Miltenberg lacked in do it.” experience, he made up for with a strong work ethic and contagious passion. At least in some ways.

“He just had a great energy and excitement about him,” A wake-up call said Emily Infeld, one of Miltenberg’s first recruits at Georgetown. “And I was super drawn to that. Then, once I On Aug. 27, 2012, the day after Miltenberg’s 32nd went on my official trip, I was like, ‘I love the dynamic of the birthday, Stanford announced his hiring, making him the team, I love the culture that I feel like he has set forth on youngest head coach in Division I. At the time, he was too the team.’ And I was like, ‘I need to be a part of this.’ naive to comprehend how big of a deal it was for someone his age to take over such a prestigious program. “I knew something special was going to happen.” He was also too inexperienced to know how to get it off In Miltenberg’s first year, the Georgetown women’s cross the ground. country team placed 28th at the NCAA Championships. The Hoyas went on to take ninth, 21st and fourth the next three The Cardinal had already started cross country practice years. Then, in 2011, he led them to the NCAA title and was and were just a few days away from its first meet when named National Coach of the Year. Miltenberg finally arrived on campus. Immediately, he went to work with both cross country teams. But he was forced Overall, Miltenberg’s student-athletes earned 44 All- to balance that with coaching all the sprinters, jumpers and TAFWA Newsletter - Page 26 - March 2020 throwers until he hired his staff. ever heard was things would be different once he had a roster full of student-athletes he’d recruited. The 2016 Because he’d never done that before, that proved to be cross country season, his fifth at Stanford, supported that one of his biggest challenges. Not only did he not have claim, as the men and women finished second and fifth, anyone who’d previously worked for him who he could respectively, at the NCAA Championships. It also gave him contact, but he also didn’t know what kind of person fits in more hope for what the Cardinal could accomplish that next best at a place as unique as Stanford. spring.

At that point, Miltenberg said he thought in many ways Then, things unraveled. Over the winter, several of his he was solely responsible for his success. So instead of runners on the men’s side suffered injuries that lingered hiring a head cross country coach, he hired two distance into the track and field season. It only got worse from there, assistants who were primarily tasked with recruiting duties as the men finished last at the Pac-12 Championships and as he coached the distance runners himself. That didn’t sent just one runner to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. make life any easier as he attempted to acclimate to his new role and surroundings. That representative, Grant Fisher, won the 5,000 meters, making him Miltenberg’s first outdoor national champion “That first year nearly killed me,” he said. “I still think on the men’s side at Stanford. But not even that could lift about how hard that year was, just trying to figure out what Miltenberg’s spirits. the heck we were doing.” “I was in a down place,” he said. “I was not sleeping, I was As difficult a time as that was for Miltenberg, it was also not taking care of myself, I was blaming myself for these trying for Colleen. After Miltenberg left for Stanford, she guys getting hurt and why we weren’t better. I was putting stayed behind in Washington D.C., for about two extra all this weight on myself. And in the summer of 2017 is months to finish her job, sell their house and pack their when I was like, ‘I’ve got to change. I’ve got to change the belongings, all while taking care of their two eldest children, way I’m doing this or else I’m going to go do something then a 2-year-old and a newborn. else.’”

Even after moving to California, Colleen didn’t see her He opted for the former. And over the next two years, he husband much. Initially, she’d viewed the idea of being got back to having fun again and started checking in with home full-time as one of the most appealing aspects of himself more. Miltenberg taking the Stanford gig. But it contributed to a feeling of isolation. Although he never empowered his assistants to the same degree as Henner, Miltenberg began letting them do more. “So many days he would come home and he would be the Dylan Sorensen, now a men’s distance assistant at UNC, first adult who I had interacted with all day,” Colleen said. accepted the same position at Stanford in July 2017. From “It was definitely a tough year, not my favorite year of all.” the moment he arrived, McGorty, a 10-time All-American for the Cardinal, saw how Miltenberg trusted Sorensen, For two years, Miltenberg took a full-throttle approach allowing him to run team meetings. He also encouraged to his job, pushing himself and his staff to the brink of Sorensen to meet with the runners individually. That, exhaustion. Had the results been better, he might’ve stuck McGorty believes, helped Miltenberg get a better pulse of with it. But because the Cardinal was inconsistent and he the team. felt as if some student-athletes were slipping through the cracks, he decided to make a change. That came in the form “It’s hard when you have at least maybe 20 guys on the of hiring Elizabeth DeBole (née Maloy), who he coached at team; that’s not even including the women,” said McGorty, Georgetown, as his women’s distance assistant. the 2018 NCAA champion in the 5,000. “So you have to understand it might not be the same for every athlete, but Miltenberg credits DeBole for much of the success that hope everyone knows at the end of the day you still want followed. He regrettably didn’t give her as much control, them to succeed. though, as Henner had with him. “I think (Miltenberg) would try to make that clear in The longer Miltenberg went without a national team meetings, and also what I think he learned was how if championship, the more determined he became to live up he’s confident he’s spread his message to assistant coaches, to Stanford’s standard. The thought of being one of the that they are branches of his tree that can reach further into Cardinal’s few coaches without an NCAA title drove him. So everyone’s lives.” did knowing he was being judged from the outside. As enjoyable as Miltenberg’s last two years at Stanford “At that age, I was fueled as much by insecurity as were, they were also his most successful. anything else,” he said. “I’m young, so many people in the country were resentful that I had that job. We had had some In cross country, the Cardinal men’s and women’s teams success at Georgetown, but there were people who had a lot each placed fourth at the 2017 NCAA Championships, more success than me who didn’t get that job. So, I was on marking the first time they both finished inside the top four a mission to prove I belonged there – and there’s a massive since 2006. They then each took fifth in 2018. That same flaw in that.” year, the men’s team won its second straight Pac-12 title.

It took the lowest point of his career for him to learn that In track and field, the women’s third-place showing at lesson. the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Championships was two points out of first and matched Stanford’s highest women’s From the moment he became a head coach, all Miltenberg finish ever. Last spring, the Cardinal men placed fourth TAFWA Newsletter - Page 27 - March 2020 at the NCAA Indoor Championships, marking its highest A great reminder of how important those are came soon finish since 2007. It then took fifth at the NCAA Outdoor after he arrived at Carolina. Given his credentials, he went Championships, good for its best finish since 2001. into his first team meeting thinking all the student-athletes would be excited about having him as their new head coach. For those efforts, the United States Track and Field and But no one seemed to care. And he knew they wouldn’t until Cross Country Coaches Association named Stanford the he showed how much he cared. Terry Crawford Women’s Division I Program of the Year in 2018 and then the John McDonnell Men’s Division I Since then, one of Miltenberg’s main priorities has been Program of the Year in 2019. building trust with them. Those relationships might not be nearly as strong as the ones he had at Stanford as of yet. But “We hit it those last two years really well,” Miltenberg in time, they surely will be. said. “I’m not saying that’s because of me; I think it’s because I finally got out of the way and started doing it the “I think one of his strongest abilities is his ability to coach right way. We had a lot of success those first five years, but I the whole person and figure out, besides the training load, think we took another a big turn those next two.” the mileage they’re running or the weights they’re lifting, what the are demands on that student-athlete,” Henner And that made leaving so much harder. said. “You have to take those into account when coaching them. I think that’s something he’s very, very good at is A chance to be special making connections and coaching a whole person.”

Upon returning home from the 2018 NCAA Cross And making those relationships last. Country Championships, Miltenberg started telling Colleen how he thought 2019 could finally be the year the Cardinal “We’ll still maybe at least once a month try to talk on captured the national title that had eluded it since his the phone,” McGorty said. “If not, we’ll still constantly be arrival. texting. He basically became a second father at Stanford for me. I was very fortunate to have that close relationship with So many times throughout her husband’s Stanford him, and know I’ll have that for the rest of my life.” tenure, Colleen had heard him say such things. And every time, something happened, whether it was an untimely McGorty now trains with Nike’s Bowerman Track Club, injury to one of his top runners or the team simply not along with Fisher, Infeld, Vanessa Fraser and Elise Cranny performing its best when it needed to most. – the last two of whom ran for Miltenberg at Stanford. The five of them jokingly refer to themselves as “Milt’s Crew.” Colleen thought of all those instances last June, as she and Miltenberg deliberated over UNC’s offer. At that time, While in Portland, Oregon, for the Nike Cross Nationals Miltenberg still believed the Cardinal was on the verge of in December, Miltenberg met them for a dinner over which taking a major step forward, making the idea of leaving hard they rehashed old stories and asked Miltenberg about his to imagine, especially given all the time and effort he’d put new job. into getting the programs where they were. But how could he stay, knowing the opportunity to go to Carolina was “He just sounded so excited about the future and building so undeniably perfect for his family and might not come this,” Infeld said. “That made me be like, ‘He’s so excited. around again? He’s going to do incredible. He’s ready to do this. He’s super motivated.’ I just think he’s so talented and such a great “I said to him, ‘Let’s say we stay, you win (a national coach that I have no doubt the program is going to thrive.” title) and then we wake up here the day after cross country nationals and we said no to UNC, then what?’” Colleen said. At 39 years old, Miltenberg is still the youngest head “He was kind of like, ‘Yeah, I know.’ It was definitely hard, coach among Power 5 programs. But he no longer feels the and I could tell it really wore on him and weighed on him in same need to prove himself that he once did at Stanford. making the decision.” Many hard lessons helped him learn that’s not what It did throughout his first cross country season in Chapel coaching is about. It’s about building up the people around Hill, too. him, his assistant coaches and his student-athletes. And only that can lead to him building the sort of program he’s “I cried a lot,” Miltenberg said. “I had a lot of days even always envisioned that UNC can become. this fall where I’d be driving in to work sick to my stomach, thinking about what we were missing.” “I’ve been really, really lucky,” he said. “I’ve been some great places with some great people, and I’m excited to With Miltenberg’s help, senior Paige Hofstad became really build this thing into something really special. Not the first Tar Heel since 2015 to qualify for the NCAA Cross only can we become the best team in America, we can build Country Championships in November. That, however, was something that we’re all going to be really proud of in every one of UNC’s few highlights. Meanwhile, Stanford’s women regard – not only in terms of what our student-athletes are won the Pac-12 title and the NCAA West Regional before doing while they’re here, but what we’re setting them up to placing third at the NCAA Championships, where the men do after they leave here, too. took sixth. “Certainly we’ve got a long way to go and it’s a lot of Miltenberg missed being a part of the Cardinal’s success. basics right now. But we’re going to build something really More than anything, though, he missed the relationships he special over time. And that’s what I’m excited about, is had with his student-athletes. being in a place where we’re in it for the long haul.”

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