Abdi bile biography of martin
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—– assistant coach December 1983 — June 1984 at Fort Hunt High School, Alexandria, Virginia. Coached with….[2 of my high school coaches Marshall Windsor boys head coach, and Andy Tissinger girls head coach]….[and Vicki Verender, former runner at Langley high school]
—– assistant coach December 1984 — June 1985 at Fort Hunt High School, Alexandria, Virginia. Coached with…..[Eric Parcells, head coach]….[Mike Scuderi my former college teammate, High School All-American triple jumper at Annandale high school]….[Mike Braxton my former college teammate, National Junior Champion and school record holder in the high jump at George Mason University, High School All-American at Mt Vernon high school].
For several months I coached the girl friend of head coach Eric Parcels. She was a 26 year old elementary school teacher and 3:06 marathon runner attempting to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Trials marathon. She only wanted to do one attempt. Had some issues during the race but ran 2:56 at the Shamrock Marathon in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Trials qualifying time was around 2:47.
—– assistant coach August 1985 — June 1986 at West Potomac High School, Alexandria, Virginia. Fort Hunt & Groveton high
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Racing Past
Where footsteps Led to Cheptegei. In Search of Uganda’s First Distance-runners of Note
The successes of Ugandan distance-runners in recent years, culminating in Joshua Cheptegei’s World records at 5000 and 10,000 metres, caused me to wonder who were the pioneers in that country in these events. Inevitably, a first thought that came to mind was concerned with the influence of the highly esteemed Malcolm Arnold, who went to Uganda from Britain as Director of Coaching from 1968 to 1972 and famously discovered John Akii-Bua, winner of Olympic and Commonwealth titles and World record-breaker at 400 metres hurdles in those years. Arnold also guided the careers of Judith Ayaa and Silver Ayoo, bronze and silver (aptly enough!) medallists for 400 metres at the Commonwealth Games of 1970 and 1974 respectively.
A report in the issue of the British magazine, “Athletics Weekly”, for 6 September 1969 is excitedly headlined “Ugandan Athletes Rival Kenyans” and features a sprinter, William Dralu, who ran 100 metres in a spectacular 10.1 in the heats of the national championships in Kampala on 8-9 August, and Judith Ayaa, who set a women’s record for 400 metres of 53.6, both of them winning East African Championships ti