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NCAA REPORT Division llI Track & Field CHRIS HALL PRESIDENT, NCAA DIVISION III TRACK & FIELD COACHES NCAA DIVISION III CROSS COUNTRY As I am writing this edition of my president’s report the 2011 outdoor season has come to a close. Hopefully all of you are enjoying a relaxing summer and recuperating from what was a very long but also a great year of track and field. We had an outstanding outdoor championship and I would just like to take a moment to thank Ohio Wesleyan, who served as the host for the meet, and to congratulate our champions. The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh found themselves back in a familiar position, winning the women’s team championship for the first time since 2007. This was the first under head coach Pat Ebel. On the men’s side it was again North Central College capturing the NCAA championship, the first time, under new head coach Frank Gramarosso. The Titan women had a relatively comfortable victory of 21 points while the men’s crown was not decided until they crossed the finish line in the 4 x 400 relay. Two points separated La Crosse and North Central in the team standings but it was really just 2 tenths of a second that determined the team champion. Both Pat and Frank were recognized as coach of the year. I would also like to take a moment and recognize the tremendous work and leadership we are receiving from our USTFCCCA National office and of course our CEO Sam Seemes. This office has been instrumental in developing a much more unified coaches association and given us a voice that is being heard by the NCAA and our sport committee. There is no doubt that they have our best interests in mind and are working hard to give our student athletes an experience they will never forget. As always there is additional work to be done and I hope that, while reading this report, you will begin thinking about getting more involved in the association. Our meetings will again be held in San Antonio, Tex., from Dec. 12 to 15. We expect to have a number of significant agenda items to discuss, highlighted by the indexing of indoor tracks for national qualifying performances and field size for the championship meets. We are also asking each of you to please consider what you feel could make our already great sport better. Submit your items for consideration at the convention before September 15th and we will continue to work with the NCAA Track & Field Subcommittee to make improvements for the 2012 indoor and outdoor championships. The Division III Cross Country Executive Committee has suggested that member programs who host a regular-season 2011 cross country meet adjust their entry fee structure such that USTFCCCA member programs receive a preferred rate $50 less than that of non-USTFCCCA members. More information can be found at http://www.ustfccca.org/ustfccca-xc-preferred-entry-fees REGIONAL REALIGNMENT The NCAA Division III Championships Committee is still reviewing its options. Because this realignment must take into effect the best interest of so many sports you can understand that it is a lengthy process. As always, the USTFCCCA national office will keep you updated on advances on this issue. USTFCCA COMMITTEES Interested in becoming more involved with Division III cross country? Two committees are seeking members: The Law and Legislation Committee and the Nominations and Elections Committee. Involvement for either committee would involve working with the respective chair throughout the year and meeting as a group at the annual convention. You can find more information, including the committee chairs, within the handbook located online. If you are interested in serving on either committee, please email President Greg Huffaker at ghuffake@iwu.edu RANKINGS A reminder: A preseason regional ranking will be released on Tuesday, August 23 with the first regional ranking of the season released on Tuesday, September 13. The preseason national poll will be released on Wednesday, August 31 and the first national poll of the season released on Wednesday, September 14. All release dates are listed on page 31 of the Division III Cross Country Handbook found online. A reminder: Meet schedules and results can be found on the USTFCCCA website. Please send meet dates to Tom Lewis (tom@ustfccca.org) in the USTFCCCA national office if your meet is not posted. The USTFCCCA Track & Field Academy is hosting several programs over the next several months, including two high-level courses, Sports Science for the Speed and Power Events and Sports Science for the Endurance Events. Those courses, along with other TFA programs, will be held prior to the USTFCCCA convention in San Antonio. Additional information about the Track & Field Academy and the convention can be found at www.USTFCCCA.org. Chris Hall is the Head Men’s & Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field coach at the University of Chicago. He can be reached at hallc@uchicago.edu This report was prepared by the USTFCCCA national office staff. 6 techniques AUGUST 2011
HIGH SCHOOL REPORT IAAF COACHES COMMISSION REPORT WAYNE CLARK VICTOR LOPEZ CHAIRMAN, IAAF COACHES COMMISSION Recently the Ohio Association of Track & Cross Country Coaches recognized the 75th anniversary of Jesse Owens establishing four world records during one track meet. I thought you might like to read a little history about this great track and field performer. Loving to run, Jesse began his track career in junior high school becoming an exceptional talent in the sprints. During his high school days at Cleveland East Tech Owens established the national high school record in the long jump and equaled the world record in the 100-yard dash at 9.4 seconds. Because of an after-school job, Jesse practiced mostly on his own before school each day. Yet, Jesse persevered. Unbelievable by today’s standards, Jesse attended Ohio State University without a scholarship. Also, in that time period, because he was African American, he was banned from living and eating with his white university teammates, was given individual travel arrangements, and had to work a part-time job to help pay for his tuition. But Jesse persevered. It was just over 75 years ago, in 1935, that Jesse set four world records within a 45 minute time period in the Big Ten Championships. He tied his own WR in the 100 yard dash and smashed the WR in the 220, the broad jump, and the 220 low hurdles. Some sports enthusiasts claim this meet to be the most valiant sports accomplishment of all-time. This achievement in just 45 minutes! Jesse persevered. Not only was Jesse a tremendous athletic ambassador for track and field, but in the highly racially motivated 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Jesse won four gold medals, making him an ambassador for all mankind. After these accomplishments Jesse became somewhat more accepted, but he was not recognized by any U.S. President until Dwight Eisenhower honored Owens as an “Ambassador of Sports” in 1955. Throughout, Jesse persevered. After his 1936 Olympic successes, Owens was obligated to continue racing in Europe without expenses or funding. He became homesick and returned to the United States without “permission”. His amateur status was immediately revoked by USOC President Avery Brundage, and Jesse was left with few resources for his family. Jesse’s life was sustained by periodic involvements with failed businesses, exploitation of racing against horses, as well as employment as a gas station attendant. Fortunately, Jesse’s family remained lovingly true to him. But, during his deepest lifetime low, Jesse had to file for bankruptcy. Remarkably, Jesse persevered. In later life Jesse traveled the world speaking for large corporations and the U.S. Olympic Committee, which had rejected him in prior years, relating his story and encouraging others of less fortunate circumstances to persevere. Perhaps Jesse’s story will encourage all of us to scrutinize our treatment of others, while encouraging those we coach to remain persistent in striving to achieve Jesse’s athletic accomplishments. Wayne Clark is the Clinic Chair of the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches. He can be reached at clark002@columbus.rr.com. The 2003 IAAF Congress held in Paris, France approved a resolution to make athletics the number one sport in schools all over the world. We as coaches understood that this was a very important step in the development of track and field. Theold system which was used in most countries all over the world, the club system, was dying. Therefore, the IAAF Long Term Athlete Development Plan emphasis since 2003 has been to introduce athletics from the primary school up to high school in all the countries around the world. I pleased to say that the program is making progress with the introduction of the IAAF Kids Athletics program in elementary schools and with an emphasis in Youth competition beyond the primary school. In the NACAC area, especially in the Central American and Caribbean region, the program is pretty much in place and making big strides with athletes all over the region producing fantastic results. I must say that, in the U.S., this system has been the bread and butter in the development of track and field. Seeing that the system has worked in U.S. and other countries like Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and elsewhere, the IAAF understood that this was the way to go. But where the U.S. really is a mile apart from the rest of the world is in the development of track and field beyond the secondary schools. The U.S., with its NCAA program, has perhaps one of the best if not the best high performance development systems in the world. No other country in the world has a system of three divisions like in the NCAA, a system in the NAIA and a system in the junior colleges, where athletes receive a scholarship to study and to participate in athletics at that particular university or college. Puerto Rico has a similar program, maybe the equivalent of the NCAA Division II, where there is a university league composed of 21 institutions where the competition in a number of sports is as intense as in the U.S. and the athletes receive scholarships like in the U.S. I believe universities in Jamaica are starting to do the same. Where else can you get a four- or five-year education, practice the sport under the best coaches, have use of the best facilities and compete in a top-notch program? The only place that we know which has a program of that magnitude is in the U.S. Therefore, the IAAF aspiration is that all the countries around the world follow that example because it has proven that it is the best. I would like to congratulate all the members of the USTFCCCA for the fantastic job that they do year in year out in developing athletes—not only from the U.S., but from other countries as well. Victor Lopez can be reached at victorlp8@aol.com. AUGUST 2011 techniques 7
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