Breaking News: Newest Club Members!
The club congratulates Dr. Jack & Kelly Horowitz on the birth of their twin sons, Max and Miles [seriously]. They weighed in at 5 pounds, 5 ounces. Ironically, the babies were born just two days after Jack attended the banquet where we honored some of our oldest club members.
Rich Szymanski started spreading the word and has already registered them to run on our USATF teams. Rumor has it that he is campaigning for USATF to create an under 5 age-group. 😉
70 Attend 30th Annual Banquet
On Saturday March 3 almost 70 people gathered for the Pike Creek Valley Running Club’s annual banquet at White Clay Country Club outside of Stanton, De. This gathering was special because the 30th anniversary of the founding of the club had just passed. So on this occasion for the guest speaker, the four original founders of the club were invited to speak. A good number of former club members, who are in the club’s Hall of Fame, also attended. There was a lot of catching up with people who hadn’t been in touch in more than a decade as well as an introduction for some of the newer club members to those who had been there in the beginning.
First club president Dave Pie spoke the longest and recounted how the early members had felt left out when the newspaper listed out of town race results and they were always listed as “unaffiliated”. That planted the idea of starting a running club in the Pike Creek area. The idea was spurred on when one Christmas they all received from their wives patches which said “Pike Creek Valley Running Club”. So after they drew up bylaws and after a few sparsely attended meetings, the interest in being in a running club in the Pike Creek area blossomed. At one point there were monthly meetings with well over 100 in attendance.
In addition to the nostalgic remembrances, the club presented numerous major and minor awards for individual running achievements in 2011. Two members, three-time President Jerry Herman and 79 year-old, still active runner John Schultz, were inducted into the club’s Hall of Fame. Other major award winners were: Ray Christensen, Member of the Year; Dan Suher, Rookie of the Year; Dan Weintraub, Spirit Award; and Epi Camacho, Greg Cauller, Matt Cutrona, Sherri Herrmann, Fred Shufflebarger and Vic Zwolak, Outstanding Achievement.
See link to Photos on home page
Haddonfield Adrenaline 5K
From Ed Maher of MA-USATF:
Just a reminder, the first 2012 Grand Prix race, the Haddonfield Adrenaline 5K is now less than two weeks away – Saturday March 17. A current newsletter from the sponsoring organization indicates 200 spots are left of the original 1,000 spot entry limit. Entry fee is still $25 for approximately the next week.
Online registration for our first 2012 Grand Prix race, the Haddonfield Adrenaline 5K, is now open at: Run Sign Up for Adrenaline.
USATF members for 2012 can utilize the $2 Grand Prix discount by entering “usatf” in the coupon code field.
Club contacts please get this information out to your USATF Mid-Atlantic members along with encouraging them to renew their USATF membership for 2012 where applicable.
Race Results:
Snowball Five Miler:
29:41 Matt Cutrona, 3rd Overall, 1st Master
32:11 Sara Rusk, Overall Female Winner
35:44 Sherri Herrmann, 2st Female Master