AT&T Running Club
Mid-Atlantic Regionals
Washington, D.C. area
June 10-11, 2023
Complete Results: June 10 Results - June 11 Results
- Team Scores
Meet Recap by Tony Thurman
AT&T competed in the Mid-Atlantic Corporate Relays this year. This year’s
meet, held in the Washington D.C. area, consisted of most of our usual track
and field events, but did not include the road races. Although our team was
smaller than in past years, we competed very well and had a great time! We
had team members from Atlanta, California, Chicago, Kansas City, Nebraska,
Washington State, Canada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Washington DC
area. AT&T finished in second place in the meet behind Booz Allen Hamilton
who had a larger team that completed four more relays than AT&T.
We turned in a remarkable sprint performance with gold medal performances
in both the men’s and women’s 100M, 200M, and 400M events as well as the
4x100M, 4x200M, WMA Sprint and Senior’s relays. Our sprint team consisted
of: Marcus Shute, Marcus Thurman, Alfonzo Peterson, Mike Bradecamp, Jacklyn
Slaughter, Chelscie Pacheco, Brendan Putnam, Tony Pacheco, Holly Barilla,
and Jovette Jolicoeur.
Our middle distance team consisting of Tony Pacheco, Brendan, Ken Gibbons,
and Linda Hansen scored valuable points in the team 1500M and 3200M events.
We are hoping for a speedy recovery for Phil Gibbons who got injured early
in the 1500M race.
Our Throwing team consisting of Joe Johns, Jovette and Tony Thurman won the
Shot put and team throw and our jumping team with Jovette, Chelscie and Tony
Thurman won the high jump, long jump and team jump events. The meet results
are attached below.
Some noteworthy individual performances included:
7 Gold Medals for Jovette, 4 gold medals for Marcus Shute, Jacklyn and
Mike.
For 2024, the AT&T team is considering whether to participate in the
Mid-Atlantic Regional Relays again in June (if held), or in a National meet
in Portland, ME in July hosted by the Maine Corporate Track Association.
This meet and our strong performance wouldn’t have been possible without a
lot of work behind the scenes by a number of people. I am thankful that
Gordon Smith, from the Booz Allen team spear-headed the meet and worked the
local logistics to secure the venue. I’d like to thank Linda Hanson for
organizing the team dinner that was well attended and enjoyed by all. Also,
Mike Bradecamp picked up all of the beverages and snacks for us.
As usual, Ken Gibbons did a phenomenal job of scheduling the team in their
events. He dealt with multiple changes in personnel with athletes who had to
cancel and with some last-minute additions to the team. He also provided
some significant support to the corporate meet coordinator in defining the
meet events and the team scoring. While I see Lou thank him every year,
words don’t capture the impact Ken has on our team. A significant amount of
our success over the years can be attributed his artful crafting of our
line-ups to maximize our team points.
I again would like to thank Lou again for leading this team for all these
decades and for mentoring me through season.
