Trevor Inspires Others

The Children's Hospital of Pittsburg, PA has written a story and video on TEAMmate Trevor Barron about his recovery from epilepsy. His story is very inspiring. You can view the video here:



And read the article here.

This Sunday morning, Maria will be competing for the 30km National Championship in New York. She is the defending champion. Good luck!

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Coach Tim gets Inducted into the UWP Hall of Fame

This past weekend in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the leader of Champions International, Coach Tim, was inducted into his college (University of Wisconsin-Parkside) athletics hall of fame. This is a big honor for Tim and something he has waited for since he graduated 15 years ago. At UWP Tim was the schools first 4-time NAIA Champion. Since graduating from UWP, Tim has been on two Olympic Teams and has broked 12 American Records both on the track and road.

Here is a picture of the plaque that will now hang in the halls of the UWP athletic walls.


Next up for the TEAM is the 30km National Championships on October 31st in New York where Maria will look to defend her title.

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Start of The New Season Begins

Now that the whole TEAM has taken some well deserved time off after a long season, it is now time to start some early racing. Today Maria and Lauren competed in the USA National 1-Hour Championships. Both went into the race with open minds and no real big expectations. They were just hoping to give a good effort since they have only been doing base work and no speed at all.

A lot of America's top women came out today to see who could walk the furthest in an hour. The gun went off and Teresa pushed the pace from th beginning. Maria went out in her own pace and was very conservative walking 1:57-1:58 per lap. She held a good pace of 24:36 for 5km's and then started to have stomach issues and slowed slightly to a great 49:15 split for 10km's. Maria finished in a strong 2nd place covering 12,163m's in an hour with Teresa finishing in 1st in 12,813m's. Lauren was next for the TEAM and she had some company with Loretta McGovern and Erin Talcott forming a little group. They stayed together for most of the race but as the race came close to an end, Erin fell off first and then Lauren with Loretta prevailing to come 3rd in 11,597m's. TEAM member Lauren finished 4th in her best performance over an hour at this time of the season in 11,436m's. Both women did a great job!

Next up for the TEAM we will have Maria competing at the USA 30km Championships on October 31st in New York.

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