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USATF News & Notes
Volume 3, Number 103 October 28, 2002
Five elected to Track
Coaches Hall of Fame
Mel Brodt, Bill McClure, Clarence Robison, Deanne Vochatzer
and Berny Wagner
have been elected to the United States Track Coaches Hall of Fame. The
Hall
of Fame recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions
to
the sport in the U.S.
The induction ceremony will be held at a Noon luncheon on Saturday, December
7 in conjunction with the United States Track Coaches Annual Convention
at
the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri. The United States Track Coaches
Convention is held within the framework of the USATF Annual Meeting, Dec.
4-8, in Kansas City.
The former head track coach at Bowling Green State University, where
he led
numerous championship teams, Mel Brodt has remained active as an
international clinic speaker since his retirement. A former president
of
the Division I Cross Country and Track & Field Coaches Associations,
Brodt
is best known for coaching Dave Wottle, the 1972 800-meter Olympic champion.
He is a member of the Ohio Track Coaches Hall of Fame and the Bowling
Green
Athletic Hall of Fame.
Now retired, Bill McClure amassed a sterling coaching record at Samford
University, Louisiana State University, the University of South Carolina
and
Abilene Christian. An assistant U.S. track and field coach at the 1972
Olympic Games in Munich, during his career McClure coached 42 athletes,
who
won All-America honors a total of 63 times. In eight years as the head
coach
at Abilene Christian, his teams won seven titles each in track and cross
country in the Southland Conference. McClure also served as secretary
and
chairman of the NCAA rules committee and NCAA representative to the U.S.
Olympic Committee.
The head men’s coach at BYU for forty years, from 1949 through
1988,
Clarence Robison was also a member of the 1948 U.S. Olympic team, where
he
competed in the 5,000 meters. His BYU teams won eighteen conference
championships and tied for the NCAA national championship in 1970. He
coached more than 100 All Americans, including more than 20 national
champions and 26 Olympians. He is a member of the Utah Sports Hall of
Fame
and the BYU Hall of Fame.
The head women’s track & field coach at the University
of California at
Davis, Deanne Vochatzer was an outstanding athlete who qualified for several
USA national teams as a hurdler. A high school coach for seven years,
Vochatzer coached at California State University at Chico, the University
of
Florida and Cal Poly SLO before starting her tenure at Cal Davis, where
her
teams have won ten straight conference championships, with nine finishes
in
the top ten at either the NCAA Division II Indoor or Outdoor Championships.
Vochatzer, the head U.S. women’s coach at the 1996 Olympic Games
in Atlanta,
has served on many USATF committees during her career.
Berny Wagner was the head track coach at Chico State University from
1963 to
1965 and at Oregon State University from 1965 to 1975. Prior to his college
career, Wagner coached at the high school level for 13 years. Wagner was
the
Executive Director of the U.S. Track & Field Federation and also served
The
Athletics Congress (now USATF), as the national coach coordinator and
manager for elite teams. Twenty-one of Wagner’s athletes became
All-Americans and four made Olympic teams including Dick Fosbury, who
set an
American record in the high jump and won the Olympic Gold Medal in 1968.
U.S. finishes second at North American 5K Championships
Team USA’s men’s and women’s teams finished second
to Mexico at the 2002
North American 5K Championships Sunday at Chula Vista,
Calif. The
championships were held in conjunction with the 14th annual Arturo Barrios
Invitational 5K & 10K.
Bolota Asmeron led the U.S. men’s team with his second
place finish in 13
minutes, 54 seconds. Clint Wells was fourth in 14:01, with Henry Dennis
sixth in 14:19. Mexico’s David Galvan won the men’s competition
in 13:47.
Sylvia Mosqueda led the American women’s team with her
fourth-place finish
in 15:38. Libbie Hickman was sixth in 15:49 and Colleen De Reuck was seventh
in 15:57.
Mexico’s Dulce Rodriguez won the women’s competition in 15:30.
Using a cross-country scoring format where the first two runners of each
gender for each three-member team score, Mexico tallied 10 points for
the
win and $12,000. Team USA was second with 16 points ($6,000), with Canada
third with 21 points ($3,000).
FOX Sports NET will broadcast the North American 5K Team Championship
on
Friday, November 8 at 3:00pm and Monday, November 11 at 11:30am.
For complete Arturo Barrios 5K and 10K results visit
http://www.eliteracing.com.
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