AT&T Running Club
Mid-Atlantic Regionals
Alexandria High School, Alexandria, VI
June 08-09, 2024
Complete Results - AT&T Results (pdf) - Photos on Facebook
Meet Recap by Tony Thurman
AT&T won the Mid-Atlantic Corporate Relays this year, defeating Booz Allen by a score of 723 to 694 https://www.grunsports.com/MACR/2024/MACR_Results_2024.pdf .AT&T needed points from every event we entered to secure our victory.
The 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 small, our team was very powerful, winning 11 of the 12 head-to-head match-ups in team events.
We had team members from Atlanta, California, Chicago, Kansas City, Nebraska, Washington State, Canada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and the Washington, DC area.
We turned in a dominant sprint performance with gold medal performances in both the men’s 100M and 400M events, the Women's 200M and 400M events as well as the 4x100M, 4x200M, 4x400M, Sub-Masters Sprint and Senior's Relays. Our sprint team consisted of Marcus Shute, Marcus Thurman, Bob Peters, Alfonso Peterson, Kristen Thurman, Jovette Jolicoeur and Jacklyn Slaughter.
Our middle distance team, consisting of Phil Gibbons, Ken Gibbons, Linda Hanson, Bob Peters, Jovette Jolicoeur, Breeanne Martin, Rob Halliday and Ashley Brown, won the Team Mile, the Team 3000M, and Women’s Relay, and scored valuable points in the Team 800M.
Our throwing team, consisting of Joe Johns, Jovette Jolicoeur, Breeanne Martin and Tony Thurman, won the Shot Put, Discus, Team Throw and Thrower’s Relay and our jumping team with Jovette Jolicoeur, Breeanne Martin 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 Jolicoeur, 5 gold medals for Tony Thurman, and 4 gold medals for Marcus Shute, Jacklyn Slaughter, Marcus Thurman, Joe Johns, Breeanne Martin and Alfonso Peterson.
For 2025, 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.
As usual, Ken Gibbons did a phenomenal job of scheduling the team in their events and single handedly managing the meet, which is usually the work of three people. 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. 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 to Ken for mentoring me through season and carrying much of the work load.
I again would like to thank Lou again for leading this team for all these decades and for mentoring me.
