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TFS News Briefs: Olympic Trials Edition: 4/18/08
Posted April 18th, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Marathons, Olympics, TFS News Briefs
Profile of Hansons-Brooks Distance Project
All five members of the Michigan-based Hansons-Brooks Distance Project women’s team have qualified for Sunday’s Olympic Marathon Trials in Boston. Dot McMahon, Melissa White, Yolanda Flamino, Desiree Davila and Lori Stich are profiled in an article on the Detroit Free Press website.
Read more at: [Detroit Free Press]
Polish Immigrant Will Run for 9/11 Victims at Trials
Magdalena Lewy, a Polish immigrant who became a naturalized US citizen on 9/11/01, the same day thousands of her compatriots were killed in a senseless act of terrorism, will run in honor of those Americans this Sunday as she tried to make the US Olympic Marathon Team. The assistant coach at Cal was profiled in an article on the San Francisco Chronicle website.
Read more at: [San Francisco Chronicle]
Emily LeVan Will Run Trials In Celebration Of Her Daughter
Three-year-old Madeline Johnson has Leukemia. Her mother, Emily LeVan, will be running the US Olympic Marathon Trials on Sunday in celebration of her special daughter.
Read more at: [Boston Herald]
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Hansons’ women are headed for Boston
Posted February 14th, 2007 at 11:30 AM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Marathons
Although the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project may be best known for their male athletes, like Brian Sell, Chad Johnson and Clint Verran, they also have a women’s program.
Five of them –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. The 2007 Boston Marathon will host the U.S. Women’s Marathon Championship on April 16.
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