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3rd Annual Southern
California Track & Field
Reservations must be received by Friday, April 23. This award was created to recognize exceptional individuals who have helped to advance Track & Field in Southern California—coaches, athletes, officials, media correspondents, meet directors, and our sport’s most ardent supporters. This is something we have not done well compared to other sports. The cost of the banquet is $35, which includes tax and tip. The program for the evening will be: If you'd like to attend, please email or call me and you can pay at the door. Best regards, DIRECTIONS-- From the 10 Fwy West: Exit at Overland Blvd…North 3-miles to Santa Monica Blvd…Right (East) to Century Park East… Right ¼ block, then Left (East) onto Little Santa Monica Blvd for 2-blocks. The Friars Club will be on your right at the corner of Charleville & Little Santa Monica Blvd. PRESS RELEASE: Jacqueline Hansen, Brian Springer, and
Willie Banks to LOS ANGELES – Women’s long distance running pioneer Jacqueline Hansen, businessman Brian Springer, and former Triple Jump world record holder Willie Banks are the 2004 recipients of the Track & Field Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Southern California Association of USA Track & Field. The awards will be presented at a banquet at the Friars Club in Beverly Hills on Tuesday evening, April 27. Jacqueline Hansen became interested in long distance running while attending Cal State Northridge. In 1972, she won her first Marathon, Culver City’s Western Hemisphere race. In 1973, she won the prestigious Boston Marathon. In 1974 she won the collegiate mile championship and graduated from CSUN. After college, she continued to win races from 1500 meters to 50-miles, set records, and break new ground. She became the first women to run the marathon under 2:40, and in 1984 at age 36, qualified for the Olympic Marathon Trials. Those trials would not have been held if, as president of the International Runners Committee, she had not lobbied and cajoled Track & Field’s international governing body and the IOC to include the women’s marathon in the Olympic Games. A member of the Road Runner Clubs of America Hall of Fame, she is now a program officer for the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles where she directs the AAF Coaching Program. Brian Springer ran track and cross country at Culver City High School and Cal State Long Beach. After a stint of teaching high school Industrial Arts and coaching track and cross country, he moved to Palos Verdes High School to teach Metal Shop full-time, helped the track coach by repairing broken equipment, and became a USATF Official and Starter. He returned to coaching (the field events this time around), became proficient in the operation of the original Accutrak Photo Finish Camera, and developed a rental service with 9 Accutrak units which resulted in him timing as many as 25 different meets in a single week. After seeing the sport’s need for better, consumer-oriented track equipment, in 1982 he began selling his signature Starting Block Caddy and Field Event Performance Boards out of his garage. Their use at the 1982 NCAA Championships at BYU resulted in $15,000 of orders and SpringCo Athletics was in business. In 1984, SpringCo was chosen to produce several new and unique equipment items for the Los Angeles Olympic Games. In 1986, the company began selling a full spectrum of track & field equipment and in 1987 the first SpringCo catalog was produced. Today, SpringCo Athletics is the 2nd largest mail order track & field equipment company in America with a 60,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Torrance and 18 full-time employees. Along the way, SpringCo has been a generous corporate supporter of the CIF and high school, college, and USATF track programs throughout Southern California. Willie Banks was a 4-time NCAA All-America at UCLA and a 3-time Olympian. America’s greatest triple jumper, he held the American record for 15-years and the world record for 10-years. No one before or since has ever engaged track meet crowds in the horizontal jumps the way that he did during his unparalleled career. He has also been active in the sport’s national governing body (USA Track & Field) serving terms as Chairman of the Athletes’ Advisory Committee, Delegate to the USOC, and Vice President. Since retiring from competition, he has been a successful Olympic sports marketing and management consultant, serving as Deputy Executive Director for the 1994 World Cup Soccer Championships in Los Angeles and as Director of Athlete Services for the 1996 Olympic Athletes Village in Atlanta. Fluent in Japanese, in Japan he has served as a coach, professor of law and sports, author of more than 25 major newspaper articles, and an expert television sports commentator. He is president of HSJ Incorporated (a company that specializes in assisting cities bidding for International events like the Olympic Games), president of the USATF Track & Field Alumni Association, and Vice President of the USOC Athlete Alumni Association. Time magazine has dubbed him, “The United States Ambassador of Track & Field. Contact for banquet reservations and additional information:
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