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United states governing trunk for track and field

USA Track & Field

Sport	Track & Field Long-Altitude Running Race Walking
Jurisdiction	National
Abbreviation	USATF
Founded	1979; 43 years ago  (1979) (as The Athletics Congress)
Affiliation	World Athletics
Regional amalgamation	NACAC
Headquarters	Indianapolis, Indiana, U.South.
President	Vin Lananna
CEO	Max Siegel
Official website
www.usatf.org

USA Rails & Field (USATF) is the United States national governing torso for the sports of rails and field, cantankerous country running, road running and racewalking (known as the sport of athletics outside the The states). The USATF was known between 1979 and 1992 as The Athletics Congress (TAC) after its spin off from the Amateur Athletic Wedlock (AAU), which governed the sport in the US through most of the 20th century until the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 dissolved its responsibleness. Based in Indianapolis, USATF is a non-turn a profit arrangement with a membership of nearly 130,000. The organization has iii key leadership positions: CEO Max Siegel,^[ane] Board of Directors Chair Steve Miller,^[2] and elected President Vin Lananna.^[3]

Us Track & Field is involved in many aspects of the sport at the local, national, and international level – providing the rules, officials, coaching education, sports science and athlete development, youth programs, masters (historic period 35+) contest, the National Track & Field Hall of Fame, and an annual meeting. Information technology besides organizes the annual Us Track & Field Outdoor Championships, the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships, the USA Cross State Championships, the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships and the USATF National Club Rails & Field Championships. Through its sanctioning program, the national body provides the insurance coverage necessary for members to rent facilities, thus allowing for competitive opportunities for all athletes to happen. USA Rail and Field has held National Conventions since the 1870s or 1880s x NAAA Rails and Field Championship and Convention locations, December iii-half dozen, 2020 was held virtually; earlier announced USA Track & Field | 2020 USATF Annual Meeting to be held almost instead of face to face.

History [edit]

On April 22, 1879 National Association of Amateur Athletes of America (NAAA) was formed and after replaced by the AAU x NAAA Track and Field Championship and Convention locations On Jan 21, 1888, in the city of New York, rower and runner William B. Curtis and James Edward Sullivan founded what officially became, the Apprentice Athletic Union (AAU) x AAU Convention Locations. The AAU governed the sport of runway and field in the United States until 1979, when the first Amateur Sports Act of 1978 decreed that the AAU could no longer concur international franchises for more than one sport. The enactment of the Apprentice Sports Act was prompted by lobbying by athletes, particularly runners, who felt that the AAU imposed artificial rules preventing widespread participation in sports.

The Athletics Congress (TAC) emerged from the AAU in belatedly 1979, when its first annual meeting was conducted in Las Vegas, in conjunction with the annual AAU Convention. A constitutional convention was afterwards held in Dallas–Fort Worth in 1980.

In 1992, TAC changed its name to USA Rails & Field (USATF) to increase recognition for the organization and for the sport in the United States. However, USATF inherited from AAU the 57 regional associations which are responsible for promoting the sport in a detail state or locality. Many of these associations were viewed as unaccountable to their members and some were defendant of operating in a racially discriminatory fashion. In addition, in some areas, the AAU continues to organize track and field events, including youth running programs.

In response, the USATF restructured the Associations, and adopted Regulation fifteen, which set minimum standards for clan performance and chosen for biannual accreditation of each association under those standards.

In May 2008, the United States Olympic Committee notified USATF that its governance was scarce and threatened to remove its national governing body status unless major reforms were made.^{[5] [6]} In response, at USATF'southward December 2008 Convention, the size of its lath of directors was reduced from 31 members who had represented constituencies within the organization to 15, and none of the new directors could have an operating role in the organization. Most of the new lath members represented sponsoring organizations. On February eighteen, 2009, the members of the new, reduced Board were announced.^[7]

2020 Olympic Trials Held in 2021 [edit]

The states Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), and the TrackTown USA Local Organizing Committee announced the release of the updated competition schedule for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Track and Field, that volition accept place in June 18–27, 2021, at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.^[8]

Recent Highlights [edit]

Since the founding of the new board and the hiring of Siegel every bit CEO, USATF in 2016 achieved his highest medal count at an Olympics since 1936 (32) and its most-e'er medals at a world championships, past winning xxx at the 2017 IAAF Globe Championships. The organization has seen explosive growth of its budget and sponsor ranks, with the annual upkeep growing from $22M to virtually $37M.^[9] In 2016, information technology established an "Athlete Revenue Distribution Model" that provided additional money to elite athletes.^[10]

Controversy [edit]

At the 2014 annual meeting, the member delegates voted 392–70 to re-nominate Robert Hersh as the USATF'southward nominee to the IAAF council. At the time, Hersh was the sitting senior vice-president of the IAAF quango and by virtue of that position, a USATF lath member. Still, the reconstituted Board disregarded the vote of the fellow member delegates and instead voted 11–1 to nominate president Stephanie Hightower as the nominee to the IAAF council. The Lath's action acquired such a controversy that USATF sent an e-mail two days later to all of its members attempting to explain its action. The e-mail wrote, "This is a different era and a dissimilar time. Nosotros think Stephanie Hightower provides us with the best chance to move forward as function of that change."^[xi] Hightower later that summertime, at the IAAF Congress, was elected to IAAF Council with the most votes of all candidates and led to all USATF candidates for IAAF positions being elected.^[12] In 2018, after serving on the IAAF Quango for four years, Hightower came up for reelection. She was defeated by a vote of the delegates in favor of Willie Banks.^[13]

In 2016, Vin Lananna was elected president of USATF.^[14] On February xviii, 2018, Lananna was place on "temporary administrative leave" awaiting a federal investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service into possible criminal disharmonize of interest in regards to the awarding of the 2021 Globe Championships in Athletics to Eugene, Oregon.^[15] Lananna was also the long time president of TrackTown The states, the hosting organization for the Earth Championships and had hosted the 2016 IAAF Earth Indoor Championships. Lananna is likewise an Associate Athletic Director at the University of Oregon, the host stadium of the event. Lamine Diack was the IAAF president in April 2015 at the fourth dimension of the accolade and is under house abort in France on charges of corruption.^[16] The 2021 Championships was awarded in an unconventional fashion, without the usual formal bidding procedure.^[17] The selection of the host urban center was announced on April 16, 2015 in Beijing.^{[18] [19]} Eugene previously did put in a bid for the 2019 World Championships, losing to Qatar.^[17] The selection of Eugene will make the 2021 event the first held in the United states. Runner'southward World magazine reported that Eugene's selection past World Athletics, then known as the International Clan of Athletics Federations, was an "unusual motion".^[20] They report the choice of Eugene volition make the 2021 issue "the showtime held in the United States." The consequence volition be the second held in Due north America, subsequently Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 2001. The Guardian reported that the lack of bidding triggered concern in European cities that had bid to host the event.^[21] They quoted Lamine Diack, IAAF president, who justified the lack of bidding with the claim the option of Eugene to host the effect, "enables us to take advantage of a unique opportunity to host a financially successful tournament that may never ascend again."

Despite this, the lack of bidding for the 2021 event was not unprecedented: the 2007 World Championships were awarded to Osaka, Nippon, without behest. On July 17, 2018, Lananna also resigned every bit president of TrackTown USA, but has not left his position at the University.^{[22] [23]} Since Feb xviii, 2018, the acting USATF president has been Mike Conley.

Affiliations [edit]

United states Track & Field is the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) member federation in the United States. USATF is a fellow member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and selects teams for Olympic and Pan American Games competitions. To select the athletes for the Olympic Games, every Olympiad USATF conducts the Olympic Trials.

USATF also has membership in, or close affiliations with, the NCAA, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), the Route Runners Club of America (RRCA), Running USA, and many customs-based and disabled sports organizations.

USA Track & Field is a Founding Sports Partner of the Sports Museum of America, joining more than than 50 other single-sport Halls of Fame, National Governing Bodies, Museums and other organizations across North America to richly celebrate the history, grandeur and significance of sports in American culture. Set to open in New York Metropolis on May 7, 2008, the Sports Museum of America volition showcase both USA Track & Field and the National Track & Field Hall of Fame in its Hall of Halls Gallery (forth with providing an annual donation) in return for sharing some of the hall of fame'south valuable artifacts and their support of the creation of the Nation's first all-sports museum experience.

Associations [edit]

USATF is composed of 57 Associations, which are the localized administrative districts.^[24] For contest, each association is obligated to conduct (local) association championships. This is the initial rung in the contest tournaments that lead to various national championships, though many national championships do not require participation at the lower level. More often than not the associations follow state borders, but in the cases of smaller states, several states are combined into one association and in the instance of larger states, the state is divided into multiple associations in guild to more effectively serve clusters of the population base. Almost clan borders parallel the initial associations created by the AAU, though there has been some adjustment to those defined borders since, including the creation of new associations. Dependent upon the clan fulfilling its obligations to its membership and the number of members in the association, each association is allowed to transport a delegation of representatives to the National Coming together in early December each twelvemonth. This is the primary means through which the local constituents are able to have a vocalisation in the direction the national organization. Individual members may also attend the meetings, though voting is carefully controlled by the past-laws, based on the participation of various constituent groups. The National Meeting is the only time political business organization, rule changes and record ratification tin be transacted past most wings of the organization.

Number	Name	Definition (if non * country borders)	~ Population base
1	Maine	*	ane,330,000
2	New England	Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont	9,750,000
three	Adirondack	Northeastern New York	2,190,000
four	Niagara	Western New York (west of Broome, Cortland, Onondaga and Oswego Counties)	3,910,000
5	Connecticut	*	iii,600,000
6	New York	New York City, Dutchess County, Orange County, Putnam County, Rockland County, Sullivan County, Westchester County	9,915,000
7	New Jersey	*	8,940,000
viii	Mid-Atlantic	Delaware, Bedford Canton, Centre County, Clinton County, Huntingdon County, Potter County, Pennsylvania	x,375,000
ix	Alabama	*	4,850,000
ten	Potomac Valley	Maryland, District of Columbia, Arlington Canton, Fairfax County, Alexandria, Falls Church, Virginia	viii,155,000
11	Three Rivers	Western Pennsylvania (portion non in Mid-Atlantic) and shared jurisdiction of the counties of Brooke, Hancock, Marshall and Ohio Counties in West Virginia (iii,525,000)	3,390,000
12	Virginia	Virginia minus Arlington Canton, Fairfax County, Alexandria, Falls Church	6,810,000
xiii	N Carolina	*	9,950,000
xiv	Florida	*	19,750,000
15	Tennessee	*	half-dozen,550,000
16	Indiana	*	6,600,000
17	Ohio	Ohio except Lake Erie Association	vii,230,000
18	Lake Erie	Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Harrison, Holmes, Huron, Jefferson, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Richland, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, and Wayne Counties	4,365,000
19	Michigan	*	9,910,000
xx	Wisconsin	*	5,760,000
21	Illinois	Illinois minus Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, St. Clair counties	12,265,000
22	Ozark	Eastern Missouri (including Camden, Dallas, Douglas, Knox, Miller, Monroe, Montgomery, Osage, Ozark, Superhighway, Ralls, Scotland, Shelby, Webster counties and Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, St. Clair counties Illinois	3,750,000
23	Arkansas	*	2,970,000
24	Southern	Louisiana and Mississippi	7,650,000
25	Gulf	Texas divisional on the northward and including Robertson, Leon, Houston, Angelina, Nacogdoches Counties, and Shelby; and on the west by and including Matagorda, Wharton, Colorado, Austin, Washington, Brazos, and Robertson Counties.	6,825,000
26	Southwestern	Texas bounded on the south by and including the Counties of Irion, Tom Greenish, Concho, McCulloch, San Saba, Mills, Hamilton, Coryell, Bell, Falls, Limestone, Freestone, Anderson, Cherokee, Rusk, and Panola; and on the west by and including the counties of Hardeman, Foard, Knox, Stonewall, Fisher, Scurry, Borden, Howard, Glasscock, and Reagan.	10,250,000
27	Oklahoma	*	iii,880,000
28	Missouri Valley	Kansas and western Missouri	5,850,000
29	Nebraska	*	1,880,000
thirty	Minnesota	*	v,460,000
31	Montana	*	1,025,000
32	Colorado	*	5,355,000
33	USATF Southern California Association	Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties in California	nineteen,025,000
34	Utah	*	2,945,000
35	Inland Northwest	Washington east of and including counties of Chelan, Kittitas, Klickitat, Okanogan and Yakima Counties and Idaho north of and including Idaho County	ane,755,000
36	Pacific Northwest	Washington west of Inland Northwest	5,605,000
37	Oregon	*	3,970,000
38	Pacific	Northern California including San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties north and Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Humboldt, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey, and Washoe Counties in Nevada	13,530,000
39	Hawaii	*	1,420,000
twoscore	Iowa	*	3,110,000
41	Kentucky	*	4,415,000
42	New Mexico	*	ii,085,000
43	South Texas	Texas bounded on the east past and including the counties of Milam, Burleson, Lee, Fayette, Lavaca, and Jackson; on the due south by the Gulf of Mexico and the Democracy of United mexican states; on the due west by and including the counties of Val Verde and Crockett; and on the due north by the counties of Crockett, Schleicher, Menard, Mason, Llano, Burnet, Lampasas, and Williamson.	five,560,000
44	San Diego-Royal	San Diego and Imperial County, California	3,275,000
45	Georgia	*	10,100,000
46	Fundamental California	Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and Tulare Counties	2,595,000
47	West Texas	Texas divisional on the due east by and including the counties of Lipscomb, Hemphill, Wheeler, Collingsworth, Childress, Cottle, King, Kent, Garza, Lynn, Dawson, Martin, Midland, and Upton; on the due south by and including the counties of Upton, Crane, Ward, and Loving; on the west by the State of New Mexico; and on the north by the Country of Oklahoma	1,175,000
48	Arizona	*	half dozen,730,000
49	Nevada	Clark, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka Lander, Lincoln, Nye and White Pine Counties in Nevada	ii,190,000
50	Wyoming	*	585,000
51	W Virginia	* (shared jurisdiction with Three Rivers in Brooke, Hancock, Marshall and Ohio Counties) (ane,715,000)	1,850,000
52	Dakotas	North Dakota and South Dakota	1,600,000
53	Border	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, El Paso, Hudspeth, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves and Terrell Counties in Texas	855,000
54	Snake River	Idaho southward of Idaho County	i,335,000
55	Southward Carolina	*	4,830,000
56	Alaska	*	740,000
59	Long Island	Nassau Canton, Suffolk Canton	2,835,000

Competitors [edit]

Many of the nearly 100,000 Americans members of USATF participate in athletics competitions through i of the thousands of clubs established in all 50 states. While nearly of these members participate as athletes, coaches, officials and supporters of athletics at the grass roots level, elite athletes who correspond the U.s.a. in international competition are likewise required to be members of USATF. USATF also has 57 Associations to promote the sport locally, and membership in USATF also constitutes membership in a local association, with the dues being divided between the national and local group.

During the 1980s and 1990s, USATF encouraged major marathons to require USATF membership equally a prerequisite to entering those races. Nevertheless, all marathons dropped this requirement for not-elite runners, causing the developed membership in USATF to drib dramatically in the 2000s. In some USATF associations, the number of youth members far exceeds the number of adult members.

Today, USATF competes for youth membership with a parallel attempt from the AAU, and with road racer/adult recreational runner membership with the Road Runners Social club of America (RRCA) and its member clubs. In many cases, youth track clubs bring together both USATF and AAU and then that they can compete in both sets of rail meets, and developed running clubs join both RRCA and USATF. However, unlike USATF which requires each individual runner to also become a fellow member of USATF in gild to compete in events or proceeds other membership benefits, when a club joins RRCA, all of its members automatically get members of RRCA also. As a result, RRCA has grown to 180,000 private or family members compared with 100,000 USATF members, many of whom are children.

To the general public, the similarity in terminology used past the organizations' events can lead to confusion. For example, both USATF and AAU conduct a series of rails meets chosen the Junior Olympics^[25] and USATF, AAU and RRCA conduct dissever National Championships and Country Championships. Both AAU and USATF operate 57 state or local Associations, although the boundaries of their service areas are no longer exactly the same.

Regarding the funding of promising mail service-collegiate athletes, USATF competes with RRCA's Road Scholars program to select athletes for stipends.

Title series [edit]

In 1999, the USATF established the Golden Spike Bout – later the Visa Championship Series (VCS) – to showcase track and field in America and to facilitate the broadcast of cardinal events on national telly networks. Using innovative meet formats, the VCS helps repackage the sport, draws new fans and new sponsors, and provides increased financial incentives for USATF athletes. The VCS fills indoor arenas and outdoor stadiums across the land. Athletes compete for prize money at each meet, and the top athletes share in a bonus pool of $100,000. The final meet of the season is the USA Rails & Field Indoor Championships. Most focus on the U.s.a. Track & Field Outdoor Championships to make IAAF World Championships in Athletics and Athletics at the Summer Olympics teams.

USA Masters Rails and Field Championship [edit]

Masters athletics has several Title competitions:

1. USATF Masters Outdoor Championships began July 1968 and accept been held every year (except 2020).^[26]
2. USATF Masters Indoor Championships began March 1975 and have been held every yr (except 2020).^[27]
3. U.s. Runway and Field is considering (2020) calculation the 25-29 age bracket for the USA National Masters Outdoor Track and Field Championship. Historic period 30-34 is already competing at the United states of america National Masters Outdoor Rails and Field Championship.^[28]
4. World Masters Athletics Championships began August 1975 in Canada and continue to today.^[29]

Resources [edit]

• Mastersrankings

References [edit]

1. ^ "USA Rails & Field - Max Siegel named CEO of USA Rails & Field". Usatf.org. Apr 23, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
2. ^ "Hightower steps downwards equally USATF board chair; Miller selected to serve". Usa Track & Field. Apr fifteen, 2015. Archived from the original on Nov 27, 2020. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
3. ^ "Opening Session kicks off 2016 USATF Almanac Meeting in Orlando". USA Track & Field. December 1, 2016. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved Nov 27, 2020.
4. ^ "Hall of Fame – usatf.org". usatf.org . Retrieved April 7, 2018.
5. ^ Baum, Bob (June thirteen, 2008). "U.s. Olympic Committee pressures track federation on reforms". U.s. Today . Retrieved February 23, 2009.
6. ^ Bill Roe press conference excerpts, 07-01-2008. Retrieved February 23, 2009.
7. ^ USATF announces new Board of Directors, 02-18-2009. Retrieved Feb 23, 2009.
8. ^ USATF. [1] Retrieved Feb 26, 2021
9. ^ "Max Siegel". USA Runway & Field. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
10. ^ "USA Rails & Field | News". usatf.org.
11. ^ "A Message from the USATF Lath of Directors". The states Track & Field. December 9, 2014. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved Nov 27, 2020.
12. ^ "USATF candidates score record victories in IAAF elections". Us Track & Field. Baronial xix, 2015. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
13. ^ "USATF Almanac Meeting Highlights – MastersRankings.com".
14. ^ "Vin Lananna Elected USATF President Post-obit Joyner-Kersee's Withdrawal". www.flotrack.org.
15. ^ "Board of Directors Coming together Minutes" (PDF). USA Runway & Field. Feb eighteen, 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on Nov 27, 2020. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
16. ^ "FBI investigates award of 2021 Worlds" – via www.bbc.com.
17. ^ ^{a b} Christopher Clarey (April xvi, 2015). "Without Bidding, Eugene, Ore., Is Abruptly Awarded Earth Runway Championships". New York Times. p. B12. Retrieved August 29, 2015. In that location was surprise in multiple fourth dimension zones on Th when Eugene, Ore., became the first city in the U.s.a. to secure the earth outdoor track and field championships. It volition stage them in 2021 without the usual constraint of having had to win a formal behest process.
18. ^ "USA Runway & Field - U.s.a. to host 2021 IAAF Earth Championships". usatf.org . Retrieved September 5, 2015.
19. ^ "Eugene, Oregon awarded 2021 Worlds without bidding procedure". BBC Sport . Retrieved April sixteen, 2015.
20. ^ David Monti (Apr 16, 2015). "Eugene to Host 2021 Track World Championships: Oregon Metropolis will be first U.S. site of global meet". Runner's World. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2015. In an unusual motion that bypassed the usual bidding process, the International Association of Athletics Federations awarded Eugene, Oregon, the 2021 World Championships in Athletics in a special vote on the 2d day of their Council Meeting in Beijingl
21. ^ "IAAF nether burn for awarding 2021 World Athletics Championships to Eugene". The Guardian. April sixteen, 2015. Retrieved Baronial 29, 2015.
22. ^ Oregonian/OregonLive, Ken Goe | The (July xviii, 2018). "Vin Lananna resigns as TrackTown USA president". oregonlive.
23. ^ "Trying to Make Sense of USATF'due south Suspension of Vin Lananna - Was This A Silent Insurrection? - LetsRun.com". www.letsrun.com.
24. ^ "USA Track & Field | Associations". usatf.org.
25. ^ "AAU - Track and Field". aauathletics.org . Retrieved April 7, 2018.
26. ^ USA Masters Track and Field Outdoor Championship Retrieved Oct. 26, 2020
27. ^ USA Masters Track and Field Indoor Title Retrieved Oct. 26, 2020
28. ^ Runner's Earth Retrieved October. 26, 2020
29. ^ Masters Rails and Field Outdoor Title Retrieved October. 26, 2020

External links [edit]

• Us Track & Field official website

1. USATF website
2. USATF Masters website
3. World Masters Athletics (WMA)
4. SCA USATF
5. Mastershistory.org website
6. National Masters News magazine
7. World Masters Rankings
8. Northward and Central America and Caribbean area Region of Globe Masters Athletics (NCCMA)
9. Southern California Striders
10. Order Westward rails club
11. Listing of USA Masters Runway and Field Records Masters Track and Field Record Lookup - Dwelling house Masters Records American

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