POTOMAC
VALLEY TRACK CLUBPotomac Valley Track Club announced its 2001 honorees at its annual awards picnic on Sunday, June 24, at the Briggs home in Springfield, Virginia.
Club president Sal Corrallo presented
the Ray Gordon Outstanding Athlete Award to Evelyn Wright, 64, of Annapolis
MD, who works in Arlington VA. An accomplished multi-sport athlete,
Wright shares the national record for the High Jump among women 60-64 (4
feet, 1.25 inches indoors,
4'1.5"; 4'2" pending verification outdoors) and holds
the national record for the Triple Jump in that group (26 feet, 10 inches
indoors),
according to National
Masters News. She completes frequently at PVTC meets and represents
the club at regional and national meets.
(Ray Gordon was one of the founders of PVTC and one of its first presidents.)
Corrallo presented the Ed Barron Memorial Service Award to Jay Jacob Wind, 51, of Arlington VA. Wind runs PVTC events all year, directs PVTC's indoor meets with DC Road Runners Club, publishes PVTC's website, and moderates its e-mail list. Wind's most important service to the club, however, is that he stays after the summer track meets and helps clean up, Corrallo said.
(Ed Barron was a founder of PVTC and the originator of age group awards in races.)
The President's Award for Outstanding Service to the Club went to Tim Baker of Silver Spring MD, the reliable, knowledgable official at the start or finish line of all the club's track meets. Baker was the driving force behind the club's mastery of the FlashBrite fully automatic timing system.
The Carl Schueler Racewalker of the Year Award went to Kara Boufflert, 34, of Washington DC, a champion racewalker who won numerous titles the last few years. Wearing the PVTC jersey at the National Championship 50-kilometer racewalk on March 31 in Manassas VA, Boufflert led for the first 20K before dropping back to second place to Susan Armenta, who was not pregnant at the time, unlike Kora, who was.
(Carl Schueler, now trains racewalkers at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He was a Bethesda MD resident when he won the Olympic Gold Medal at the 50K racewalk in Mexico City in 1968.)
Service Award winners were:
Tim Baker, James Barr, Stacey Barr,
Scott Bentley, Bob Briggs, Tracey Briggs, Craig Chasse, Carla Convery,
Marjorie Corrallo, Sal Corrallo, Alonzo Davis, Cliff DeWitt, Larry Dickerson,
Rolland Elliott, Jim Goldstein, Sharon Good, Ari Guttman, Jamie Hagerbaumer,
Norm Johnson, Diane Lasichak, Toni Lataw, Don McCarten, Jack McMahon, Roger
Meyer, Valerie Meyer, Don Riggs, Bill Smith, Welch Suggs, Peter Taylor,
Russ White, Jay Wind, Mil Wood, and Pamela Wusthof.
Athletic Achievement Award winners were:
TRACK & FIELD
James Barr, Alice Chong, Carla Convery,
Larry Colbert, Pat Epley, Mel Fields, Bill Smith
LONG DISTANCE:
Craig Chasse, Larry Dickerson, John
Haubert, Don McCarten, Bill Osburn, Ted Poulos, Jay Wind
RACEWALKING:
Bruce Booth, Kora Boufflert, Jim Carmines,
Mary Lathram, Will Leggett, Ian Whatley
ULTRARUNNING:
Valerie Meyer
The club's web site is www.pvtc.org,
and its hotline phone number is 703-671-2520.