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USATF GA Gold Sponsor "Road Runner Sports" (RRS)Hosts Summer Games Party on July 18th
Join Road Runners Sports on Wednesday, July 18th for fun with USA Track & Field Georgia, Nike, Mizuno & more, as they raffle off prizes every 30 minutes! The grand prize will be a free pair of shoes and custom-made insoles. RRS will lead a 5K run at 7pm (optional), followed by scavenger hunts and other family friendly games. Food, refreshments, and beer will be provided for all guests that RSVP. So bring the whole family, enjoy, play, party & WIN!
Who, What, When and Where...
Road Runner Sports Atlanta
3756 Roswell Rd, Ste 16
Atlanta, GA 30342
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)
RSVP on our USATF Georgia site: RSVP
IAAF World Junior Championships
Barcelona Spain - July 10 - 15, 2012
Several young Georgia athletes were in Barcelona this weekend competing at the World Junior Championships. Results from the IAAF website:
M100m Finals - Tyreek Hill - 4th place, 10:29. Winning time was 10.05.
M200m Finals - Tyreek Hill - 3rd Place, 20:54. Winning time - 20:48
WHammer - Shelby Ashe - 10th, 58.62. Winning throw 70.62.
W100m H - Morgan Snow - 1st Place - 13:38
U.S. 4x100 relay team of Tyreek Hill (Decatur, GA), Aldrich Bailey, Arthur Delaney, and Aaron Ernest won the World Junior title with the second-fastest time in world-junior history, 38.67.
Morgan Snow (Decatur, Ga.), Clemson's Dezerea Bryant (Milwaukee, Wis.), Jennifer Madu (Murphy, Texas), and Shayla Sanders (Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.) claimed the gold with a world-junior leading time of 43.89 in the women's 4x100 relay.
The U.S. women's 4x400 relay claimed their sixth-straight world junior gold with the best time of the year by a under-20 squad with a time of 3:30.01. The final relay order of Erika Rucker (Lithonia, GA), Olivia Ekponé, Kendall Baisden, and Ashley Spencer.
High School Record: Kendell Williams (Marietta, GA), women's heptathlon, 5578 (13.74, 1.81, 10.70, 24.94, 6.11w, 30.48, 2:26.60)
Head Coach for the USA Team was Wendy Truvillion (former USATF Georgia board member now living in Arizona). Also traveling as team orthopedic was Dr. Amadeus R. Mason who is an assistant professor in the Orthopaedics and Family Medicine departments at Emory University.
Dr. Mason is also Team Physician for the Nike/National Scholastic Sports Foundation Track & Field/Cross Country meets, Georgia Tech Track & Field, and Tucker High School.
Complete Results
Atlanta Track Club Names Coach Mike Judge
Girl's Coach of the Year
Every year the Atlanta Track Club honors coaches who work tirelessly to inspire and encourage Georgia's high school track & field athletes. This year, Mike Judge (USATF Georgia 2nd Vice President) was named ATC Girls' Coach of the Year.
Judge started the Throw1Deep Club in 1999 and since then has coached 168 high school all-Americans, 17 national champions, and 50 Georgia high school state champions in shotput and discus.
Judge is an athlete in his own right having held school records in both the shotput and the javelin throw, and was an All-SEC athlete for 3 years in a row.
The USATF Georgia Association congratulates Mike Judge as well as Boy's Coach of the Year - Josh Mize (Oconee Country High School) on this great honor.
ESPY Awards - "Best Track & Field Athlete for 2011"
USATF Georgia Association congratulates Christian Taylor for being nominated for an ESPY Award for "Best Track & Field Athlete for 2011".
After an exceptional college career at the University of Florida, 10-time All-American triple jumper Christian Taylor burst onto the international track and field scene in 2011. After winning the U.S. title, Taylor marked his World Championship debut with a gold-medal performance. The 21-year-old American jumped a world-leading 58 feet, 11 ĵ inches to beat defending champion Phillips Idowu.
Taylor was in good company competing for an ESPY with such notable athletes as Walter Dix, Carmelita Jeter, and Jason Richardson. Walter Dix was ultimately selected as Best Track & Field Athlete for 2011 and was presented with the award at the ESPY Awards on July 11, 2012.
The ESPY Awards (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) is presented annually by ESPN to recognize individual and team athletic achievement and other sports related performances.
Follow this LINK for a list of complete winners.
Georgia Member Stephanie Herbst-Lucke
4th Women's Master at Peachtree
Excerpted From National Masters News - "Six Break 90% At AJC Peachtree Road Race Atlanta, Georgia, July 4, 2012"
The Atlanta Journal Constitution Peachtree Road Race 10k once again produced "fireworks" in the masters division as several runners lit up the road with 90%+ age graded scores. Leading the way was Colleen DeReuck, 48, who was the second masters woman overall and the 19th woman overall, running 35:13 for a 96.1% score. Third masters woman and second W45 was Stephanie Herbst-Lucke, 46, who ran 35:30 to score 93.2%. Topping W40 and all masters women while scoring 89.7% was Tatyana Mezentesva, 40, from the Ukraine, who ran 35:02.
Congratulations to Georgia member Stephanie Herbst-Lucke for
consistently strong performances as a master athlete!
USATF Georgia Hall of Fame Dinner & Gala
August 25, 2012
Register HERE
USATF Georgia BLOG - New Online Feature
Join us as we present our new USATF Georgia BLOG - a forum for presenting articles of interest on various topics related to track & field by distinguished experts in the field. Our blog is interactive and welcomes comments and suggestions from readers.
Our first post is from Coach Mike Goss, who presents an interesting article that focuses on Allyson Felix. "Felix is one of my favorite athletes of all time; she doesn't have the "show muscles" but she definitely has the "go muscles". Coach Goss goes into the importance of training the nervous system as a priority.
USATF Georgia BLOG
NOTICE TO OUR MEMBERS: We need your help in bringing the latest news to our Georgia members. If we miss acknowledging your team(s), your athlete(s), your accomplishment(s), please contact us. We welcome your feedback, your news items, and your photos. Please send your contributions to secretary@usatfga.org.
Countdown Clock - 2012 London Olympics - Link
Complete Team USA Roster - Link
The Olympic Team Uniform Controversy
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said he was "so upset ... they should take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again." House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, clucked of the Olympic committee at a news conference that "You'd think they'd know better."
Another View: As our U.S. athletes march around the track at London's Olympic Stadium wearing their Chinese-made uniforms and waving their  Chinese-made American flags, there is a good chance that Chinese athletes will have arrived in London by U.S made aircraft, been trained on U.S. designed and engineered equipment, wearing U.S. designed and engineered footwear, many having perfected their skills using U.S. created technology.
Support Our Georgia Sponsors
Peachy Parking - Discount Airport Parking for Georgia Members - For online reservations, click Here.
Road Runner Sports, Atlanta - Gold Level Sponsor
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