USA Track & Field's Jesse Owens Awards presented by Nike will be broadcast for the first time in 2012, with a highlight show airing on NBC Sports Network from 7-8 p.m. Eastern Time December 27, 2012. Among the track and field luminaries appearing in the broadcast are Allyson Felix, Ashton Eaton, Aries Merritt, Dawn Harper, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Dan O'Brien, Christian Taylor, Manteo Mitchell, Lopez Lomong and many more. Mark your calendar!

  

  

  

• Myrtle Beach, SC, will host the Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships.
• Bloomington, IN, will play host to the Youth Outdoor Championships.
• Houston, Texas, will host the Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships.

Region 3 previously included Georgia, North Carolina, Potomac Valley, South Carolina, Virgnia, and Florida.  At the Annual meeting this past weekend, the region was redefined. Effective January 1, 2013, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida will form one region. 

  

If you have any questions related to this, please contact your youth zone representative - Inez Finch at inezfinch@aol.com or your youth chair, Jacqui Collins at jacquicollins@usatfga.org.  

  

  

The Georgia Association, along with 56 other associations across the country, must meet certain standards on an annual basis to maintain their accreditation as a member organization of USATF. 

  

For many years, Associations were held to meeting 10 required standards plus 6 of 9 "other" standards.  Required standards included such items as minumums for so many USATF members per 100,000 of population, so many officials, publishing financial reports, fiscal solvency, etc. Other standards included newsletters, website, coaching education, championships, etc. Not meeting these standards resulted in an association not being in good standing and potentially losing their voting rights.

  

 An Accreditation Standards Taskforce was formed several months ago to review the standards and update them based on today's information.  Georgia Membership Chair Linda Bommicino was part of that taskforce. She and a small committee met weekly for several months to drive out requirements. An updated, streamlined set of standards resulted.

  

For her work on the taskforce, Linda Bommicino was presented with an award acknowledging her efforts on this taskforce.  Linda serves as the Secretary of the Associations Executive Committee, and was re-elected to that position at the annual meeting.

  

  

  

Scott Hamilton Award - awarded to Tracey Russell, Executive Director of the Atlanta Track Club.  This award was established by the late Scott Hamilton to pay tribute to the leaders in this discipline at the Association level. Scott was a long-time Association officer in Hawaii and original member of the AAU's LDR committee.  

Congratulations Tracey and thank you for promoting long distance running in Georgia!

  

Congratulations to Georgia member Charles Ross, Men 75+, for being selected as an age group winner.  Charles has been setting records for his age group for the last few years at the local and national level. He is an asset to the Georgia Association. Way to go, Charles!

  

 

The award winners included: 

• Best Olympic performance by a female - Allyson Felix
• Best Olympic performance by a male - Will Claye
• Best Olympic Trials performance - Ashton Eaton
• Clutch performance of the year - Brittney Reese
• Breakthrough athlete of the year - Aries Merritt, (Georgia)
• Inspirational performance of the year - Manteo Mitchell

              

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