Friday, March 25, 2011

Team USA competes for Race Walk Titles

INDIANAPOLIS - 2004 Olympian John Nunn and standout junior walker Trevor Barron lead a contingent of thirteen of the U.S.'s best race walkers to compete this weekend at the 15th Pan American Race Walking Cup in Envigado, Colombia.
Nunn and Barron are joined by their 2009 Americas Race Walk Cup teammate Solomiya Login who lead Team USA in placing sixth of fourteen teams competing in El Salvador. Barron was recently named the 2010 USATF Youth Athlete of the Year after he set five American junior records over the course of the year.

Full Team Roster:

Men's 50 km - Jonathan Matthews, Helena, Mont.
Men's 20 km - John Nunn, Escondido, Calif.; Patrick Stroupe, Armstrong, Mo.; Dan Serianni, Rochester, N.Y.
Women's 20 km - Susan Randall, Beavercreek, Ohio; Erin Gray, Eugene, Ore.; Solomiya Login, Philadelphia, Penn.; Erin Talcott
Junior Men's 10 km - Trevor Barron, Bethel Park, Penn.; Alex Chavez
Junior Women's 10 km - Erika Shaver, Greenville, S.C.; Nicolette Sorensen, San Diego, Calif.; Maite Moscoso, Longwood, Fla.

About USA Track & Field

USA Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track & field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States. USATF encompasses the world's oldest organized sports, the World's #1 Track & Field Team, the most-watched events at the Olympics, the #1 high school and junior high school participatory sport, and more than 30 million adult runners in the United States: www.usatf.org.

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