USA Track & Field(USATF) is the national governing body for track and field, long-distance running including cross country and mountain-ultra-trail running and race walking in the United States. The USATF Niagara Association territory is defined as the State of New York west of and including the counties of Oswego, Onondaga, Cortland and Broome. This includes the metropolitan areas of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Jamestown, Ithaca, and Binghamton. USATF encompasses the world's oldest organized sports, the most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the #1 high school and junior high school participatory sport and more than 30 million adult runners in the United States. Welcome to USATF Niagara.
The return of the NY State Empire Games has been delayed until 2014. The return of this popular multi-sport event including Open, Scholastic and Masters’ competition in Track & Field and Road Racing was originally slated to return in 2013 hosted by the Rochester Area. Instead, the planners have moved back the return to the summer of 2014 due to budgetary constraints.
For more information go to: http://www.empirestatesummergames.org/
2/16/13, NY, NY
Former and current USATF Niagara athletes were top finishers at the 106th Millrose Games at the Amory in New York City on Saturday, February 16th. 2012 Olympic Pole Vault Champion, Jenn Suhr, won the Women’s Pole Vault at 4.65m with former Buffalo area resident Mary Saxer in 3rd at 4.40. Ex-Tully, NY High School star, Lopez Lomong, won the highlight event, the famous Wanamaker Mile, by thirteen hundredths of a second over fellow London Olympian Matt Centrowicz in 3:51.21. In the USATF Women and Men’s National Championship Mile Race Walks, Niagara walkers posted great showings with Miranda Melville, 2nd, 6:49.32, Erin Taylor-Talcott, 7th, 7:17.06 and Rachel Tylock, 9th, 7:30.40 for the women and Dan Serianni, 2nd 6:10.64 and Dave Talcott, 7th, 7:12.99 for the men. The Syracuse Chargers Men’s Distance Medley Relay finished 2nd in 9:58.26 with Justin Craddock, 2:58.20, Josh Guarino, 52.76, Nick Guarino, 1:54.83 and Chris Popovici, 4:12.48. West Genesee High School Junior, Laura Leff was 3rd in an exciting HS Girls’ Mile in 4:54.71. Former Syracuse Univ. hurdler, Jarret Eaton was 3rd in the 60m HH in 7.63.
For complete results go to: http://branchsportstech.com/2013_Meets/indoor/02-16-millrose/
For a great article on Lopez Lomong's win in the Wanamaker Mile go to: http://www.runnerspace.com/news.php?news_id=92585-Lopez-Lomong-Honors-Family-With-Home-State-Win-In-NYRR-Wanamaker-Mile-RRW
New Master runner, Scott Weeks, M40, Cortland, NY, Syracuse Chargers joined three Master runners from the Boston area to set a new Master 4×800 world best at NY City Armory indoor track on Friday, January 25th. Weeks, Erik Nedeau M41, Chris Simpson M44 and Mark Gomes M42, averaged under two minutes per 800m leg to run 7:58.12, which crushed the listed indoor WR of 8:07.48 set in 2009.
The splits were amazing: Simpson – 2:00.9, Weeks – 1:57.8, Gomes – 2:00.9 and Nedeau – 1:58.5
Complete story available at: http://www.armorytrack.com/News/Post/very-happy-masters
Meanwhile, on Saturday, January 26th up in Boston, MA at the BU Terrier Classic, Syracuse Charger Open Men fared very well. They were led by Josh Guarino’s 4th place finish of 1:51.06 in the 800m which was only .22 off the win. Josh’s brother, Nick Guarino finished 12th in the Mile in 4:04.49. The Mile race was won by London Olympic 10k silver-medalist, Galen Rupp, who ran the 5th best indoor mile time ever - 3:50.92. Chargers Justin Craddock (22nd, 1:54.65) and Chris Popvici (35th, 1:55.66) also posted fast times in the 800m. Complete Men’s results at: http://www.lancertiming.com/results/winter13/terrierm.htm
