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USATF News & Notes Volume 3, Number 103 October 28, 2002 Five elected to Track Coaches Hall of Fame Mel Brodt, Bill McClure, Clarence Robison, Deanne Vochatzer and Berny Wagner have been elected to the United States Track Coaches Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the sport in the U.S. The induction ceremony will be held at a Noon luncheon on Saturday, December 7 in conjunction with the United States Track Coaches Annual Convention at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri. The United States Track Coaches Convention is held within the framework of the USATF Annual Meeting, Dec. 4-8, in Kansas City. The former head track coach at Bowling Green State University, where he led numerous championship teams, Mel Brodt has remained active as an international clinic speaker since his retirement. A former president of the Division I Cross Country and Track & Field Coaches Associations, Brodt is best known for coaching Dave Wottle, the 1972 800-meter Olympic champion. He is a member of the Ohio Track Coaches Hall of Fame and the Bowling Green Athletic Hall of Fame. Now retired, Bill McClure amassed a sterling coaching record at Samford University, Louisiana State University, the University of South Carolina and Abilene Christian. An assistant U.S. track and field coach at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, during his career McClure coached 42 athletes, who won All-America honors a total of 63 times. In eight years as the head coach at Abilene Christian, his teams won seven titles each in track and cross country in the Southland Conference. McClure also served as secretary and chairman of the NCAA rules committee and NCAA representative to the U.S. Olympic Committee. The head men’s coach at BYU for forty years, from 1949 through 1988, Clarence Robison was also a member of the 1948 U.S. Olympic team, where he competed in the 5,000 meters. His BYU teams won eighteen conference championships and tied for the NCAA national championship in 1970. He coached more than 100 All Americans, including more than 20 national champions and 26 Olympians. He is a member of the Utah Sports Hall of Fame and the BYU Hall of Fame. The head women’s track & field coach at the University of California at Davis, Deanne Vochatzer was an outstanding athlete who qualified for several USA national teams as a hurdler. A high school coach for seven years, Vochatzer coached at California State University at Chico, the University of Florida and Cal Poly SLO before starting her tenure at Cal Davis, where her teams have won ten straight conference championships, with nine finishes in the top ten at either the NCAA Division II Indoor or Outdoor Championships. Vochatzer, the head U.S. women’s coach at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, has served on many USATF committees during her career. Berny Wagner was the head track coach at Chico State University from 1963 to 1965 and at Oregon State University from 1965 to 1975. Prior to his college career, Wagner coached at the high school level for 13 years. Wagner was the Executive Director of the U.S. Track & Field Federation and also served The Athletics Congress (now USATF), as the national coach coordinator and manager for elite teams. Twenty-one of Wagner’s athletes became All-Americans and four made Olympic teams including Dick Fosbury, who set an American record in the high jump and won the Olympic Gold Medal in 1968. U.S. finishes second at North American 5K Championships Team USA’s men’s and women’s teams finished second to Mexico at the 2002 North American 5K Championships Sunday at Chula Vista, Calif. The championships were held in conjunction with the 14th annual Arturo Barrios Invitational 5K & 10K. Bolota Asmeron led the U.S. men’s team with his second place finish in 13 minutes, 54 seconds. Clint Wells was fourth in 14:01, with Henry Dennis sixth in 14:19. Mexico’s David Galvan won the men’s competition in 13:47. Sylvia Mosqueda led the American women’s team with her fourth-place finish in 15:38. Libbie Hickman was sixth in 15:49 and Colleen De Reuck was seventh in 15:57. Mexico’s Dulce Rodriguez won the women’s competition in 15:30. Using a cross-country scoring format where the first two runners of each gender for each three-member team score, Mexico tallied 10 points for the win and $12,000. Team USA was second with 16 points ($6,000), with Canada third with 21 points ($3,000). FOX Sports NET will broadcast the North American 5K Team Championship on Friday, November 8 at 3:00pm and Monday, November 11 at 11:30am. For complete Arturo Barrios 5K and 10K results visit http://www.eliteracing.com. Kelly, Chisum win in Boston Keith Kelly and Kristin Chisum won the men’s and women’s individual competitions in convincing fashion Sunday at the Mayor’s Cup Cross Country races at Franklin Park in Boston. The 2000 NCAA cross country champion for Providence, Kelly, from Ireland, won the men’s 8-kilometer title in 23 minutes, 48 seconds. Last year’s winner Sandu Rebencuic was the runner-up in 24:18. Bryn Mawr Running Club won the men’s team competition with 61 points. Chisum won the women’s 5-kilometer race for the first time after finishing as the runner-up in 2000, third in 1997 and second in 1996. A former U.S. 15K champion and a Princeton University graduate, Chisum won the race in 16:40, followed by runner-up Blake Russell in 16:52. The Boston Athletic Association easily won the women’s team competition with 45 points. 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