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United States of America Track & Field, Adirondack Association Seeks Volunteers for Leadership Positions
Posted January 22, 2024
USATF-Adirondack is one of 56 associations that govern and promote the sports of
track and field, cross country, and road racing in the United States.
Geographically, the Adirondack Association stretches north to the Canadian
border, west to beyond Utica, south to Kingston and east to the Massachusetts
border. ADK supports organized clubs within this area, administers youth meets
like the Junior Olympics and provides a distance-running Grand Prix series of road
races, among other things.
Currently, the Association is seeking to fill several leadership positions: Treasurer,
Coordinator of Track and Field, and Vice President. All meetings throughout the
year are virtual. Other opportunities to get involved in other Association work
also exist, as well: membership, sanctions, and event support are but several
examples. If you are interested in serving in any of these positions, desire more
information, or if you would like your name placed on the Association volunteer
list, please contact Adirondack Association President Kristen Hislop at
president@adirondack.usatf.org
Capital Region All-Time Marathon Performance List
Posted December 26, 2023
Check out a revised all-time Capital Region Marathon list on our new Archives/Records page.
We greatly appreciate the work of 2023 HOF inductee Mark Mindel in creating and revising this list.
Capital Region Runners Compete Successfully in NCAA Championships
Posted December 18, 2023
With Capital Region distance running superstar Kelsey Chmiel (Saratoga Springs/
North Carolina State) on the sidelines with an injury, it fell to the purview of five
other local stars to hold the banner of our region high at the 2023 NCAA National
Championships on November 18 in Charlottesville, Virgina. You will recall that
Kelsey was an integral part of NC State’s NCAA national championship teams in
2021 and 2022, when she placed sixth and second respectively, arguably the best
performances ever recorded in this event by a Capital Region harrier.
The premier performance of ’23 was turned in by graduate student Tyler Berg
(Burnt Hills/Columbia/Notre Dame), who broke into the double digits in 92nd
place, leading the Fighting Irish to a 14th place team finish. Redshirt freshman
Gitch Hayes (LaSalle/North Carolina) completed the course at No. 147 and
Nicholas Soldevere (Guilderland/Iona) checked in at place 206. Tyler was the third
man for the Irish and Gitch held down position No. 5 for the sixth place Tar Heel
team.
On the women’s side, frosh Sheridan Wheeler (Saratoga/Iowa State) copped the
highest local finish at 183 and junior Faith DeMars (Ballston Spa/Penn State)
crossed the line at 197.
Photos from the 2023 Induction Ceremony Are Now Here!
Posted December 4, 2023
Click the button above to see them.
Hall of Fame 2023 Scholastic Award Winner Neil Howard III’s Channel 13 Video Story
Posted November 29, 2023
Click the button above to see this great feature on Neil Howard III!
University of Michigan Track and Field Gets Commitment From Nation's Top Decathlete
Posted October 31, 2023
After several months of recruiting days and official visits with universities in major conferences interested in signing the multi event national champion and elite hurdler, Taconic Hills senior Neil Howard III has announced he has committed to the Big 10's University of Michigan for his collegiate career.
Howard III is a three-time national champion in the Decathlon and holds the freshman, sophomore, and junior class NYS records in the event. This past June, his personal best score of 7,153 points at Nike Outdoor Nationals in Eugene, Oregon made him the all-time NYS leader in the event, breaking a record that had stood since 1962. A six-time NYS champion, Howard holds five outdoor titles in the long jump, pole vault, 110 meter hurdles and back to back championships in the 400 meter hurdles, as well as Federation titles in the long jump, pole vault, and 400 meter hurdles. His 400m hurdle time of 52.41 eclipsed a fifteen year old NYS Section 2 record by over half a second. During the last indoor track season, he won the pole vault state title with an indoor personal best vault of 15' 9" and captured the Federation title.
After his All-American performance in the Decathlon in June, and with only one day of rest, he put up a fourth place finish in the 400 meter hurdles at Nike Outdoor Nationals. Later that month, Neil was named as one of the original 40 members of the Nike Elite Program, a new program dedicated to developing the top high school track and field athletes in the United States. With support from the National Scholastic Athletics Foundation (NSAF) and USA Track & Field (USATF) Nike Elite members attended an immersion event held at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Nike provides athletes with competition apparel, mentorship, and support to compete in key competitions throughout the upcoming season like the Millrose Games, Mt. Sac Invitational, and the USATF U20 Championships next summer.
Neil was named the Times Union Athlete of the Year and was most recently honored as a scholastic winner by the Greater Capital Region Track and Field Hall of Fame along with three other high school students who were chosen as representing athletes with the most significant track and field accomplishments last season.
The GCRTFCC Hall of Fame thanks Mark Mindel for compiling this top 20 list of All-Time Capital Region Marathoners
Under the leadership of Head Coach Jeoff York, the Hudson Valley Community College Track and Field program is seeking to hire an assistant men’s and women’s coach for track and field. Among the duties of the position, the assistant will be responsible for working with distance runners and weight throwers.
For necessary qualifications, a full list of responsibilities and application procedure, please review the requisition which can be found at:
HS National Meets: Neil Howard is the Decathlon Champion and the Guilderland Girls Capture Relay
Posted June 20, 2023
The trip to Oregon was well worth it for Neil Howard. The Taconic Hills junior smashed a 57-year-old state record Friday night (June 16), rallying to win the decathlon in the 2023 Nike Outdoor Nationals at historic Hayward Field.
Howard finished with 7,153 points to take down the state mark of 6,779 set by Alvin Pearman of Roosevelt (Long Island) in 1966. He won by 118 points over Max Tucker of Georgia. Howard now owns the state freshman (6,316), sophomore (6,683) and junior class records.
Howard stood fifth after Day 1 but took the lead with a PR-matching 15-9 in the pole vault. He slipped to second after the javelin (155-9), but his 4:30.23 in the 1,500 was sufficient to prevail. Howard’s other marks were 11.30 in the 100, 21-10 3/4 in the long jump, 41-4 1/4 in the shot put, 5-5 in the high jump, 48.49 in the 400, 14.97 in the 110 high hurdles and 119-7 in the discus.
Meanwhile, across the country in Philadelphia, the Guilderland Track Club won the girls’ 1,600-meter sprint medley relay Saturday, Saratoga Springs finished an impressive second in the distance medley relay Sunday and the Streaks’ Sheridan Wheeler placed second in the 2,000-meter steeplechase Friday night during the New Balance Outdoor Nationals at Franklin Field.
Capital Region Track, Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame Announces Its Scholastic Award winners
Posted June 17, 2023
Newly crowned state champions Neil Howard of Taconic Hills and Bashir Praileau of Albany Academy head the list of 2023 Scholastic Awards being presented by the Greater Capital Region Track, Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame.
Sprint and hurdle specialists Kendall Barnhart of Guilderland and Abigail Wicks of Averill Park were also chosen, and the Guilderland girls’ crew of head coach Chris Scanlan and assistants Dave Kosier, Taylor Mead and Dan Penna earned a new award as Track Coaching Staff of the Year.
All of the Scholastic Award winners will be honored when the GCRTFCCHOF inducts nine new members into its hall during a banquet on Oct. 7 at the Albany Marriott on Wolf Road in Colonie.
Harry Marra, 2012 USATF National Track Coach of the Year, Pens
Book Documenting his Lifetime of Coaching Decathletes:
"Stories From the Passenger Seat: Lessons Learned From a
Lifetime of Coaching"
Posted April 2, 2023
Former area resident Harry Marra, selected as the United States Track and Field Nike Coach of the Year in 2012 and International Amateur Athletic Federation Coach of the Year in 2016, has recently published a book recounting his over five decades of coaching track and field, Stories From the Passenger Seat: Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Coaching.
Marra, who graduated from Christian Brothers Academy in 1965, has spent a lifetime instructing physical education and coaching track and field at a multitude of locations around the United States. These coaching stops have included Queen of Peace High School in New Jersey, University of California Santa Barbara, Springfield College, San Francisco State University and the University of Oregon. In the 1990s, he was the national decathlon team head coach, and under his tutelage, Dan O’Brien won the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
An accomplished decathlete himself, Coach Marra gained his most recent multi-event success at the 2010-2017 Oregon Track Club Elite, as the decathlon and heptathlon coach. He became personal coach to Ashton Eaton and his wife Brianne Theisen-Eaton. Eaton won the Olympic gold medal in the decathlon in 2012 and 2016. Theisen-Eaton scored silver in the heptathlon at two world championships and a bronze at the Olympics.
In the fall of 2019, Marra returned to the area to be part of the second Greater Capital Region Track, Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame Induction Banquet where he delivered a keynote speech and, along with Don Gallagher, accepted the induction plaque for longtime CBA coach, the late Cliff Lehman.
Coach Marra’s book can be purchased online at CoachesChoice.com
For further info: Pete Sheridan, psheridan3@nycap.rr.com 518.860.7721 cell
Neil Howard III Repeats Decathlon National Championship; Sets NYS Sophomore Record
Posted January 11, 2023
Neil Howard III, a junior from Section II's Taconic Hills High School, won Olympic gold at the USA Track and Field Junior
Olympic Championships in Sacramento, California in July. Howard defended his 2021 national title in the decathlon where he combined
his speed, strength, and endurance in ten events over two days to earn All-American status with a personal best score of 6,683 points,
1,305 points over the second place finisher. At the end of day one, Howard led the field of nine athletes in the 15-16 age
division in total points after the 100m (11.34 sec. PR), long jump (21‘ 6.6”), shot put (37’ 11"), high jump (5’ 8.75”)
and 400m (50.67 sec. PR). Day two, the following events were contested:
the 110m hurdles (15.92 sec.), discus (121’ 7” PR), pole vault (13’ 11”), javelin (145’ 10.8” PR) and 1500m (4:37.92 sec.) run.
Howard set the NYS freshman decathlon record with his win last year. He now owns the sophomore decathlon record,
beating the previous score from 1984. At the NYS meet in June, Howard long jumped a personal best leap of 23' 10.5" to earn
the NYS Federation title, and won the Division 2 400m hurdle title with a time of 55.76 before coming in third place in
the Federation race with a personal best time of 54.69 seconds.
Capital Region Harriers Star at NCAA Division I Championships
Posted December 22, 2022
The GCRTFCCHOF would like to provide a big shout out to four Capital Region collegiate cross country runners who
recorded excellent performances at the NCAA championships on November 19.
Kelsey Chmiel (Saratoga Springs/North Carolina State) posted a tremendous 3rd place finish (19:37.1) which
was integral to NC State defending the championship that they won in ’21.
Also on the women’s side, Abigal Spiers (Niskayuna/Syracuse) ran to a 124th place.
Tyler Berg (Burnt Hills/Columbia), running as an individual qualifier, posted a 78th place finish (30:02.2).
Representing Syracuse on the men’s side, Noah Carey (Guilderland) rolled to 81st place, hard on the heels of Tyler.
Section 2 Cross Country Teams Win State Championships
Posted November 21, 2022
Three local high school cross country teams won titles at Saturday’s (Nov. 12) state championships at Vernon-Verona H.S.
On the boys’ side, the Spartans of Burnt Hills emerged victorious for the 6th consecutive year.
This string matched the all-time state record for consecutive wins, established by Beaver River way back in 1983-89.
It was the 11th title overall for Coach Chip Button, which places the school 2nd behind Beaver River, which has 17, for total wins.
For the girls’, the Streaks of Saratoga came out on top with their 17th state championship, which leads the state all time.
Coaches Linda and Art Kranick have been "at the helm" for all of the wins.
On the Class C level, the Blackbirds of Voorheesville won their initial state championship,
defeating 2nd place Addison by 26 points. Congrats to all of these hardworking athletes and coaches.
HOF Trustee Cara Udvadia Finds Success in First Marathon Race
Posted November 21, 2022
Cara Udvadia, the most recent addition to The Board of Trustees, Greater Capital Region Track,
Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame, placed second among all women at the October Marine Corps Marathon
in Washington, D.C. Ms. Udvadia had set an ambitious goal for her initial 26 miler: to break 2 hours, 50 minutes.
Assisted in her training program by her dad, Mohonasen HS track and cross country coach Bill Sherman,
Cara superceded the goal with by significant margin at 2:47:08.
Making it a "family affair," husband Ryan was third at 2:27:36.
Congrats to two of the finest road racers on the local scene.
Greater Capital Region Track, Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame seeking candidates
The Greater Capital Region Track, Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame is
accepting candidates for its fourth class of inductees and has decided to combine
the third and fourth classes in one ceremony in the fall of 2021.
Due to the pandemic, inductions for the third class had to be postponed in
September. The committee recently decided that a tentative rescheduled date for
the spring of 2021 would not be practical, either.
Eligible candidates include track and cross county standouts, road racers, coaches
and contributors whose achievements occurred primarily in the Capital Region.
Nominees must be at least five years removed from high school, but need not be
retired from the sport. Nominations will be accepted through April 15.
Inductees chosen for the third class in 2020 include sprinter Izaiah Brown
(Amsterdam 2015); distance runners Ray Trail (Mont Pleasant ’35-36), Katie
Twarog Moulton (Colonie ‘01) and Krissy Haacke Dillabough (Shaker ’93); Olympic
half-miler Ysanne Williams (Albany ‘98); hurdlers Jeff York (Troy ‘89) and
Madalayne Smith (Saratoga Springs ‘10); pole vaulter Jared O’Connor
(Shenendehowa ‘04); and veteran coaches Dave Petersen (Fonda-Fultonville),
Frank Myers (Colonie) and Roberto Vives (University at Albany).
The Mission
The Capital Region Track and Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame was founded to provide recognition to those athletes, coaches, and officials who have achieved superlative performances
or who have made significant contributions to the history and growth of these sports in the Great Capital Region area of Upstate New York.
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Join us for the 2022 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony!
The Capital Region Track, Field, and Cross Country Hall of Fame induction banquet is coming on Saturday, October 1 at 6PM at the
Albany Marriott on Wolf Road in Colonie.
Time is running short! Registration for The Fourth Annual Greater Capital Region Track, Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame Induction Banquet closes in two weeks at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, September 28. Be there at the Wolf Road Marriott on October 1st to honor two legendary coaches, Marbry Gansle and Matt Jones, distance running legends Dana Ostrander Bush, Kevin Scheuer, Jen Fazioli, and Aidan Tooker, 1950s sprint superstar John Gregg, All-American Dr. Tim McCrossen, and all-time jumps champions Tedi DeMaria and Felipe Reyes. In addition, the top four high school athletes of the spring 2022 season will be recognized: Gianna Locci, Alex Saltsman, Zionna Perez-Tucker and Gitch Hayes.
Don’t miss our sport’s top event of the year.
