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The club has awarded the 2009 Margaret Bradley Award to Meghan Lynch who will compete in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 12K on May 19th, 2009. Club members are invited to join us for a reception for Meghan on May 2 at 7pm.

See the final results and pictures from the GBTC Invitational held on January 18, 2009.

See the latest edition of the Wingfoot, the club newsletter, by editor Michelle Lang.

And there is plenty more to read about the club...

GBTC Blog

Here are the latest entries from the GBTC blog giving GBTC racing, results, and photos often posted on the day of the event by a team of club reporters.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Sherita Williams, TJ at US Nationals

Sherita opened her US Nationals Triple Jump in style with a big 13.33 meter (43-9) jump, a 2009 season best, to earn herself 3 extra jumps in the finals. She beat out some tough competition this year, including last year's Olympic Trials winner and Hayward Field facility record holder Shani Marks. Sherita's PR of 13.52m from the OT prelims last year would have earned her the same position 8th overall this year with her first jump, one spot up from last year's Olympic Trials effort.

Sherita will return to New England this weekend and enter her final prep of the season getting ready for our Club Nationals at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island, NY July 10-11. Sherita continues to hold the Club National meet record in TJ since 2007 when the meet was last held in New York.

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posted by coachdcal at 12:34 AM

Monday, June 22, 2009

Sunday, June 14, 2009

GBTC in Force at Finale of Twilight Series

Josh Seeherman went sub-2:00 for the first time this year.
Photo by Bruce Davie

GBTC was well represented at the last meet of the New Balance Boston Twilight series. Full results here and a few photos here and here. Next up on the agenda is the New England Championships next week, with Club Nationals coming up in July.

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posted by DrBruceD at 12:01 PM

Friday, June 12, 2009

Greater Boston to Jump into Twilight meet

Victoria Barnaby in steeple 6/6/09
photo by GreaterSnap
Saturday June 13, starting at 5:30 at Bentley College in Waltham, MA.
http://www.nbbostontwilightseries.com/

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posted by Tom Derderian at 5:00 PM

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Teams burst to top of 2009 USATF Grand Prix

MacQueen, McCabe, Lynch, Lee, Kelly,
Ovanin, Chick, Vance.
Wommack, Haringa, Smith, Somers, Eckel, Papadopoulos, and Mendoza in front.
Photos by GreaterSnap
Lincoln, RI?Prior to today's USATF Grand Prix Championship the Central Mass Striders men's team tied the GBTC men for first place in the year-long series. CMS also led the GBTC women's team by a point. Today the men's team placed third but two team places ahead of CMS in the 18 team field. That thrust them into the lead.
The GBTC women placed second team behind the Boston Athletic Association that won both races, but three places ahead of series leading CMS. So both GBTC teams now lead the series. The men's team has won the series but the women's team never has.
In the women's race Bradley award winning runner, Meghan Lynch, ran the best race of her life (so far) to take 5th place.
Smith, Wommack, Haringa, McCabe, and Lee all ran in the NB Twilight meet the night before.

10th Annual Rhody 5K Road Race
New England Grand Prix Championship
June 7, 2009 Lincoln, RI
1 14:33 4:41 Luke Meyer BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
10 15:26 4:58 Dan Smith GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
11 15:28 4:59 Kevin Somers GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
19 15:44 5:04 Matthew Haringa GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
27 15:50 5:06 Andrew Wommack GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
40 16:09 5:12 Ioannis Papadopoulos GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
51 16:23 5:17 Ryan Eckel GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
66 16:36 5:21 Eric Mendoza GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
78 17:15 5:33 Will Feldman GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
80 17:16 5:34 Brad Kozel GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
81 17:19 5:35 Michael Panas GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
85 17:26 5:37 Bruce Davie GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
98 17:52 5:45 Adam Greenspan GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
167 20:15 6:31 Andrew Guida GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
221 21:49 7:02 Norm Robbie GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
440 men

1 17:22 5:36 Marisa Ryan unattached
5 17:53 5:46 Meghan Lynch GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
8 18:17 5:53 Gretchen Chick GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
10 18:21 5:55 Allison McCabe GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
15 18:45 6:02 Tara Vance GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
16 18:48 6:03 Jennifer Lee GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
18 18:48 6:04 Jane-Marie Ovanin GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
26 19:12 6:11 Kyle Linn MacQueen GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
31 19:42 6:21 Elizabeth Kelly GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
329 women
full resutls: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/09/ri/Jun7_10thAn_set9.shtml
more photos on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbtc_snapper

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posted by Tom Derderian at 7:06 PM

Part of the winning track team at New Englands smiles for Coach Tom. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

 Gretchen Chick finished eighth place at the USATF-NE Rhody 5K Championships. GBTC placed two other women in the top ten, giving them second place at this race and the lead in the Grand Prix series. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

David Bedoya runs to a solid 2:27 as he leads the men's team to fourth place in the Boston Marathon. (Photo by Emily Raymond.)

GBTC's Deanna Clark makes a splash in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Northeastern University Husky Spring Open. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

Dan Smith and Robert Emond help the men's team to a third place finish at the New Bedford Half Marathon.  (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

GBTC's Tara Vance runs to a 5K personal best of 18:30 at the BU Valentine Invitational. Vance is training for April's Boston Marathon. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

Andrew Wommack is on his way to a 50:36 win at the Great Stew Chase 15K on February 1. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

Josett Pierre-Louis competed in the 200 and 400-meter sprints at the BU Terrier Invitational last weekend. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

 Keep watching this space for more "Pictures of the Week."

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