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Flagstaff - May 12, 2008 - Starting its second year, McMillanElite announces expanded benefits for athletes for 2008 and 2009. adidas – the team’s primary sponsor, has increased its commitment and now provides free housing in addition to an equipment and race travel sponsorship. Additionally, McMillanElite athletes now receive a health insurance subsidy, quarterly blood testing, physiological monitoring, access to physical therapy and medical support as well as a bi-weekly massage subsidy, all while living and training in the high-altitude training Mecca of Flagstaff, Arizona.
“Our goal has been to provide an opportunity for emerging elite athletes to ‘Go for it’,” says coach Greg McMillan. “With the support of adidas and our other generous sponsors, athletes have all they need to focus solely on being the best runners they can be. We look forward to welcoming new athletes as their collegiate eligibility is completed and continuing the resurgence of U.S. distance running.”
McMillanElite team member and Olympic Trials qualifier, Brett Gotcher, says, “Not being a contract-level athlete right out of college, I worried that I wouldn't be able to maintain a ‘running lifestyle’ while still having to pay the bills. McMillanElite’s benefits are more than I could have asked for and will be instrumental in bridging the gap to becoming a full-time professional athlete.”
As mentioned by Danny Lopez, Sports Marketing Manager for adidas US Running, “adidas has long been committed to helping athletes reach their goals. The McMillanElite team is just another prime example. Our investment into this team is an investment in the future of American distance running. Highly successful Team programs have been popping up around the country for a while now. We have wanted to get involved for some time, but have been waiting for the perfect opportunity. The amazing work Greg is doing in Flagstaff has provided us that opportunity. We are confident the future of this team will be very bright indeed.”
About McMillanElite
McMillanElite, Inc. is a new, non-profit, post-collegiate running team based in Flagstaff, Arizona and under the direction of Coach Greg McMillan. This new team offers emerging elite runners an ideal training environment combined with the necessary support to achieve success in long distance running. McMillanElite is sponsored by adidas, McMillan Running Company, New York Road Runners, the NAU Center for High Altitude Training and the Wharton Health Experience. For more information, visit the team’s website at www.mcmillanelite.com.
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MarathonPerformance.com, a new web site highlighting the Boulder- and Eugene-based athletes coached by Brad Hudson, has launched. The current roster includes Casey Burchill, Jason Hartmann, Dathan Ritzenhein, James Carney, and Stephanie Rothstein, with promises of more athletes to come in 2008.
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The Guelph, Ontario-based Speed River Track Club, a post-collegiate training group for Canadian runners, has launched a new web site, www.guelphrunning.com. Included in the web site is the announcement that AGSI (Angus GeoSolutions Inc.) will be providing funding for the Canadian Cross Country team, which will help offset the cost of representing Canada at events for which the travel is usually self-funded by the athletes.
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Flagstaff, Arizona - July 4, 2007 - McMillanElite is proud to announce the first athletes for this new post-collegiate running team. Female athletes include Amy Hastings (NCAA champion and American collegiate record holder from Arizona State University) and Brianna Torres (U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier from Arizona State).
Male team members are Brett Gotcher (All-American from Stanford, U.S. Junior 10k champion and Junior Pan Am Games gold medalist at 10,000m), Mike Hanlon (Three-time Patriot League champion from Colgate University), Andrew Middleton (All-American from the University of Texas), Ben Rosario (U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Qualifier from Truman State University) and Mike Smith (All-American from Georgetown, Junior Pan Am Games bronze medallist at 5,000m).
Full bios on each athlete can be found on the team's website www.mcmillanelite.com. Athlete recruitment will continue throughout the year.
About McMillanElite
McMillanElite is a new post-collegiate running team based in Flagstaff, Arizona and under the direction of Coach Greg McMillan. The team offers emerging elite runners an ideal training environment combined with the necessary support to achieve success in long distance running. McMillanElite is sponsored by McMillan Running Company, Inc. (www.mcmillanrunning.com), adidas (www.adidas.com) and with the support of private donors. For more information visit the website at www.mcmillanelite.com.
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The newly-formed Carrboro Athletics Club—a post-collegiate training group based in North Carolina—has launched its web site.
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A new post-collegiate training group, Team Indiana Elite, coached by Robert Chapman and based at Indiana University, is now forming.
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Joe Driscoll has created a new web site, www.zapfitness.org, where readers can learn more about ZAP's athletes and the training they are doing.
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The fact that Providence, Rhode Island is home to one of strongest post-collegiate training groups in the U.S. doesn't often get much attention. However, a new web site, RunProvidence.com, showcases this and the athletes who make up the group. The group includes Kim Smith, Amy Rudolph, Mary Cullen, Amy Mortimer, Patrick Tarpy, Keith Kelly, Mark Carroll, Marie Davenport, Roisin McGettigan, and others.
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Greg McMillan has announced the formation of a new post-collegiate training group based in Flagstaff, Arizona. More information can be found here.
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Boston, Massachusetts - With the Boston Athletic Association hosting the 2007 USA Women's Marathon Championship as part of the Boston Marathon on April 16, and the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Women's Marathon on the day before the 112th Boston Marathon, the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project women's team is now set to make their official Boston debut. The team's five women—Desiree Davila, Yolanda Flamino, Dot McMahan, Kelly Stewart, and Melissa White—will be visiting Boston on February 15-17 to train on the traditional Boston Marathon course, and to tour the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials route, which consists of multiple loops in Boston's Back Bay and into Cambridge.
Over the past seven years, the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project of Rochester, Michigan, has emerged as the preeminent marathon training group in the nation. Nowhere was this status more obvious than at the 2006 Boston Marathon, when men from the Hansons program took the city by storm, placing fourth, 10th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 19th, and 22nd. The Hansons team was a large part of an American resurgence at last year's Boston Marathon: a race where five Americans placed among the top 10.
All five Hansons-Brooks women will return in two months to compete in the 2007 Boston Marathon. White (2:39:21 PR), McMahan (2:43:27 PR), and Flamino (2:45:19 PR) have already run U.S. Olympic Team Trials qualifying standards, while Davila (debut) and Stewart (2:58:21 PR) will be attempting to qualify for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Boston. The women will be competing for overall Boston Marathon prize money and a separate prize money purse for U.S. women.
Accompanying the team to Boston this week will be Hansons-Brooks co-founders Keith and Kevin Hanson. The brothers, who own a chain of running shoe stores in Michigan, founded the Distance Project in 2000 with the goal of giving something back to the sport. They now own several houses for the team, and provide travel, coaching, and part-time jobs for 22 athletes.
As a part of its American Development Program, the B.A.A. is devoted to assisting top American marathoners to visit Boston and train on the courses where they will soon be competing for the 2007 national championship and the 2008 U.S. Olympic team. Also as a part of the American Development Program, the B.A.A. sponsored a men's group from the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project, as well as seventh place 2006 Boston Marathon finisher Peter Gilmore of California, as they competed at the Ohme-Hochi 30k Road Race in Japan earlier this month. All of these athletes are expected to compete at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Men's Marathon in the fall of this year in New York City.
[Press release provided by the B.A.A.]
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