New Details on Junior Olympics

The Mid-Atlantic Association will host the Junior Olympics Region 2 Championships July 5-8 at the University of Delaware, and a flyer with the details is posted here. To enter the regional championships, an athlete must first qualify at the preliminary qualifiers and association championships in June. The preliminary meets will be on June 2 at Glasgow High School in Delaware and on June 3 at Ben Johnson Stadium at Germantown High School in Philadelphia. The Mid-Atlantic Association Championships will be June 16 at West Chester University.

Annual Throw-a-Thon Coming up in June

The 12th Annual Throw-a-Thon will be held on June 2 and 3 at Albright College in Reading, PA. The event includes the USATF East Region Masters Throws Pentathlon and Ultra Weight Pentathlon Championships. For more information, click here.

Still Alive After Five!

This summer's Greater Philadelphia Runners Pentathlon will take place on August 12 at Germantown Academy's newly constructed athletic complex in Fort Washington, PA. New for 2012 will be a separate Team Competition. For more information: Individual Competition / Team Competition.

Popular All-Comers Series Returns to Germantown Academy

Germantown Academy will conduct All-Comers Track & Field Meets on Tuesday evenings June 26, July 10 and July 24 at their newly constructed athletic complex in Fort Washington, PA. All ages are welcome. For more information, click here.

Wilmington Club Hosts Meet for Youth

The Wilmington Track Club will sponsor the Art Madric 1st State Outdoor Track Classic for youth athletes on Saturday, June 9, at Caravel Academy in Bear, DE. More information is posted here.

TNT Wins Masters Indoor Championship

The TNT International Racing Club, based at Lincoln University, place first at the USA Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships held March 16-18 at the Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse Indoor Track Facility in Bloomington, Ind. The club finished with 534 points, ahead of the Southern California Track Club with 479 and the Atlanta Track Club with 310. The Athena Track Club, which is also a member of USATF Mid-Atlantic, placed eighth. Full results are posted here. A statement from TNT President Kyle Lanier is posted here.

Joy Hampton Finishes 2nd in Boston Marathon Age Group

On a miserably hot day for a marathon, Mid-Atlantic's Joy Hampton ran 4:07:45 to place second in the 65-69 age group at the Boston Marathon on Sunday, April 15. Joy was just 2:13 off the winning time in her age group. Boston recognizes 1st - 5th place in age groups with non-monetary awards. Also noteworthy, this was the 25th consecutive year Joy has completed the Boston Marathon.

Outdoor Championships Set for June 9

The 2012 USATF Mid-Atlantic Open/Masters Outdoor Championships will be held on Saturday, June 9, at Widener University in Chester, PA. The Open division is for men and women aged 14-29, and the Masters division is for athletes 30 and older. Participants must be USATF members. The entry form and information including registration fees, the schedule of events and directions is posted here.

Lorraine Jasper Is World Champion

Congratulations to Lorraine Jasper of Mid-Atlantic and the Athena Track Club for winning the 800 meters in the women's 50-54 age division at the World Masters Indoor Championships in Jyväskylä, Finland! Lorraine's time was 2:28.31. She also won the silver medal in the 1,500 meters with a time of 5:02.65. Complete results for the championships are posted here. A story and a list of U.S. medal winners is posted here.

Indoor Championship Results

Full results are now posted here for the Mid-Atlantic Open/Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships held March 25 at the University of Delaware in Newark. The meet was hosted by Philadelphia Masters Track & Field Association.

Two Open/Masters Meets in May

The Philadelphia Masters Track and Field Association will conduct Open/Masters Developmental Meets on May 7 and 20 at West Chester University. The meets are for athletes age 15 and older. For more information, click here.

Read the January Newsletter

The new issue of the Mid-Atlantic Quarterly may be viewed by clicking here. Highlights include:

  • The individual and club winners of the Grand Prix Circuit, the Off-Road Series and the Cross-Country Series.
  • An extensive report from the USATF national meeting – including new certification levels for officials and a compromise on the “citizenship rule” controversy.
  • An introduction to Mid-Atlantic’s new leaders of High Performance Track & Field and Youth Athletics.
  • The second part of Penn Relays director David Johnson’s fascinating profile of Philadelphia track pioneer John Baxter Taylor.

Delegates Report from National Meeting

The USATF National Meeting in December in St. Louis covered a multitude of track & field topics, and 14 Mid-Atlantic delegates were there to take it all in. Full reports from the delegates are posted here.

Changes in Officials Certification

USATF has announced that the system of officials certification will change for the 2013-2016 Olympiad. For example, new officials will now start at the Apprentice level, and certain discliplines will have separate grades. A brief explanation of the changes is posted here. For now, instructions and forms for new and renewed certifications are under the Officials tab above.

McCoubrie Wins National XC Championship

Doreen McCoubrie, a Philadelphia-area runner affiliated with the Athena Running Club, won the women's 2011 USATF Masters 5K Cross Country Championship in October.

The Athena team of McCoubrie, Lorraine Jasper and Julie Hankin also won the W40 team title at the championships, which were on Oct. 22 at Center Park in Fairmont, NY.

The Greater Philadelphia Track Club team of Kevin Forde, Gene Tung, Andy Shearer, Chris Carroll and Dave Brown took third place in the M40 division. For more on that race, click here.

McCoubrie, who is membership and sanctions chair of the Mid-Atlantic Association, won the overall women's title with a time of 19 minutes and 44 seconds -- 37 seconds ahead of the next finisher.

GPTC team

GPTC M40 Team Places 2nd in National 5K

The team, led by Nick Berra and Kevin Forde, was one of three men's squads representing Greater Philadelphia Track Club that competed in the Syracuse Festival of Races, which also acted as the 2011 USATF Masters 5K Road National Championship. Read more.




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New Mid-Atlantic Officials Shirts Available

The Mid-Atlantic Officials Committee announces that the officials shirt debuted at their annual meeting is now available for purchase. Thanks to the efforts of the committee's vice chair, Earl Edwards, the shirts are reasonably priced and well embroidered. The shirts are not required but will give you something distinctive to wear when a meet does not require the national shirt or meet-specific clothing. Order form.


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