The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame Announces THE CLASS OF 2014 INDUCTEES:
Ernie Anderson – Multi sports at Conrad & Delaware State. Track coach at Delcastle
Tom DeMatteis – Soccer athlete and coach at St. Mark’s
Tom Hickman – Track and Field coach at Cape Henlopen
Alvin Huey – Multi sports at Milford and University of Delaware
Dario Mas – Racquetball
Derrick May – Three sports at Newark. Baseball for the Cubs and other MLB teams
Judith O’Neill – Martial Arts
Frank Shea – Multi sport official
Ben Sirman – Multi sport athlete, coach and administrator in Sussex County
John Testa – Multi sports at St. Mark’s and wrestling at Clarion University
The annual gala induction banquet will be held on Thursday, May 15, 2014 at the Chase Center on the Wilmington Riverfront. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for a social hour and silent auction with the dinner beginning at 6:45 p.m.
To purchase banquet tickets to this grand night celebrating the best in Delaware sports, e-mail Sue Holloway at or call 302-992-0550. Banquet tickets are $60 each. Tables for 10 are available. No tickets sold after May 7, 2014.
Checks payable to: “DSMHOF” can be mailed to: Sue Holloway, 3 Blackberry Lane, Wilmington, DE 19807. Tickets may be purchased using Visa or MasterCard by calling Sue Holloway at 302-992-0550.
Sponsor Advice
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http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2013/11/04/sports-chiropractic-treatment-for-running-injuries
http://www.active.com/running/articles/how-sports-chiropractors-prevent-injury-in-runners
Race Results, Reviews and accomplishments:
Betty Olmstead, Girl Scout Thin Mint 5K, Apr. 13th, 40:21
Garden Spot Village Half Marathon, Apr. 12th, 3:12:39 (2nd in AG)
Denise Boyle, Philly Hot Chocolate 5K, Apr. 6th, 26.22 (1st in AG)
Delaware City Duathalon, Apr. 12 (5k, 17.2 mile bike, 5k)
Theresa Cannon, 1:52 (2nd in AG)
Shawn Coughlan, 1:46 (2nd in AG)
Liam Kauffman, 23:45 (relay)
USATF
USATF Double Jeopardy April 26th weekend
The next USATF events for both off-road and Grand Prix occur on the weekend of April 26. The off-road series continues with the Triple Crown 10k at the Carpenter Recreation area in Newark’s White Clay Creek State Park just north of Newark on Saturday. The club has typically done very well on our home course and we need your support to continue our success. Day of registration will be available for the trail race.
The road series will resume with the Valley Forge 5 miler on Sunday. Important note – Valley Forge does not permit day of registration due to Federal park restrictions. Please register online prior to April 20th!
Races/results for the Grand Prix Circuit can be found at http://www.mausatf.org/htmlldr/grandprix.htm
Races/results for the Off-Road Series can be found at http://www.mausatf.org/htmlldr/offroad.htm
Garden Spot Valley Half-Marathon Race Recap (Mark DeNio)
I went with Betty Olmstead and we drove up Rt. 202 instead of the usual Rt. 41 from Hockessin. We took Rt. 30 then Rt. 100 as if we were going to the Turnpike then we got on Rt. 322. That took us right into New Holland and near the race site. It took about an hour. I had a mental picture of the Lancaster area being much further away, probably because I would drive down from north Wilmington to Rt. 41 and then “up.”
At the race site we ran into Chrissy Hower, she is a “half fanatic” who only started running two years ago. She’s so accomplished now that she ran the Bucks County half the next day! I still walk and there was NO WAY I was contemplating doing a half the next day. Chrissy, Betty and I hung out as a group for the pre- and post-race festivities.
This was a VERY well-organized race. There were rows of porta-potties and attendants calling out when one became available. The registration tent could have been better organized simply because the pick-up was by bib number not name. Luckily I remembered mine but wondered how other people coped. There was a runner recovery tent that turned out to be food and drink not massage and other things. (The race mentioned showers and a hot tub available.)
At the start it took me over a minute to cross the mats since there were 1200+ racers. The course was well marked and I was never alone for long especially once I got to the out-and-back part of the course. Lots of hills and inclines but nothing killer. The “killer” hill was a short, steep hill we had the pleasure to go down first on the way out to the turnaround. I have other candidates for the killer hill. Each mile marker was painted on the ground as well as with a sign. The miles were painted in yellow until the distances differed then the half was painted in dark blue. Sometimes that made the marks a little hard to see but the signs helped.
Afterward all the food and drink in the recovery tent was free and even the spectators’ food court offered a free entree and drinks to the racers. Hats and shirts from this and previous years’ races were on sale. If there was an expo the night before there was no sign of it the next day. (It may have been in the registration tent like Delaware but I didn’t explore. I had to get back to the car and get geared up before the race. The tent wasn’t nearly as large as Delaware’s though.)
Another tent offered massages but there was a long waiting list by the time I finished and could sign up. I waited an hour or so and got my turn. Many thanks to Betty for letting me know about the sign up and suggesting I go do it before I finished eating and recovering. One thing EVERY race needs to do better is communicate what options are available to runners and how to access them.
All-in-all, it was a great day. I set a personal best, saw old friends and made a new one! I will definitely consider doing this race again. Now off to the Delaware Marathon Running Festival on Mother’s Day!