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The unfortunate part is that the A-day game is going to be on the same day again. This means that air fare will be expensive and hotel rooms will be tight. So book early because you will be completing availability with two other events. Last year USAT reserved extra hotel rooms for USAT collegiate. I know they will do the same this year but they might also use those rooms for the Olympic qualifier athletes and for the other races. My guess is that it will be harder to reserve hotel rooms this year.
Bret
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From: Kendrick Gibson
I received this from the RD this morning. It has the entire race weekend scheduled. Additionally, I hard A-Day (the spring scrimmage football game that 90,000 people attend) is being held on April 19th.... I'm going to see if anyone will address this at today's press conference.
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Since it was just announced on Channel 13 here in Birmingham, I can FINALLY
release the news as well.
2008 USA Triathlon Olympic Trials: Team Magic is managing the race, well
actually the whole weekend!!! GREAT NEWS...we have the 2008 Olympic
Triathlon Trials right here in our back yard - Tuscaloosa, AL!
Olympic Trials Official Announcement: News Release in Tuscaloosa, Thursday
at 2pm, Tuscaloosa City Hall. Check the USAT website maybe later today for
more information about the race.
http://www.usatriathlon.org/UsatEvents/OlympicTrials.aspx
See footage on course: http://youtube.com/watch?v=I4IrlEJKYgc
National Collegiate Triathlon Championships, Twenty-Twelve Talent ID Race,
Tuscaloosa Triathlon Age Group Race
http://www.usatriathlon.org/UsatEvents/NationalChampionships/CollegiateNatio
nals.aspx
See footage on 2007 event:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X2wTm_flTrQ&feature=related
Get the word out though all your contacts! If you have a chance and happen
to be in Tuscaloosa today at City Hall at 2 pm, join in the press release
and show your support!
4 EVENTS:
April 19, 2008
Collegiate National Championship
- 1,000 collegiate student/athletes from 100+ schools
- United States Naval Academy 2007 National Champion
- Morning start
- Registration is open
USA Triathlon Olympic Trials
- 1st USA male and 1st USA female qualify for the US Olympic Team
- International event; US athletes must be Olympic Eligible to
compete (ranked in the top 125 World Rankings)
- $50,000 Prize Purse
- Draft-legal event, multiple loop course; Olympic style of racing
- Olympic Distance: 1.5K Swim, 40K Bike (8 loops), 10K Run (6
loops)
- First stop on USAT's Haul to the Great Wall elite race series.
April 20, 2008
Tuscaloosa Triathlon - Age Group Race
- Sprint Distance: 750m Swim, 20K Bike, 5K Run
- Open to all 13 year's of age and older
- Alumni Wave
- Registration is open
Twenty12 Talent ID race
- Same type of racing as the Trials event
- Sprint Distance: 750m Swim, 20K Bike (4 loops), 5K Run (3 loops)
on same course
- Limited to 75 males and 75 females
- Allows USAT to identify athletes to develop for the 2012 London
Games
- $4,000 Prize Purse
- Ages 16-29 are allowed to participate (can't turn 30 years old at
any point during 2008)
From: Kendrick Gibson
I received this from the RD this morning. It has the entire race weekend scheduled. Additionally, I hard A-Day (the spring scrimmage football game that 90,000 people attend) is being held on April 19th.... I'm going to see if anyone will address this at today's press conference.
__________________________________________________________________________
Since it was just announced on Channel 13 here in Birmingham, I can FINALLY
release the news as well.
2008 USA Triathlon Olympic Trials: Team Magic is managing the race, well
actually the whole weekend!!! GREAT NEWS...we have the 2008 Olympic
Triathlon Trials right here in our back yard - Tuscaloosa, AL!
Olympic Trials Official Announcement: News Release in Tuscaloosa, Thursday
at 2pm, Tuscaloosa City Hall. Check the USAT website maybe later today for
more information about the race.
http://www.usatriathlon.org/UsatEvents/OlympicTrials.aspx
See footage on course: http://youtube.com/watch?v=I4IrlEJKYgc
National Collegiate Triathlon Championships, Twenty-Twelve Talent ID Race,
Tuscaloosa Triathlon Age Group Race
http://www.usatriathlon.org/UsatEvents/NationalChampionships/CollegiateNatio
nals.aspx
See footage on 2007 event:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X2wTm_flTrQ&feature=related
Get the word out though all your contacts! If you have a chance and happen
to be in Tuscaloosa today at City Hall at 2 pm, join in the press release
and show your support!
4 EVENTS:
April 19, 2008
Collegiate National Championship
- 1,000 collegiate student/athletes from 100+ schools
- United States Naval Academy 2007 National Champion
- Morning start
- Registration is open
USA Triathlon Olympic Trials
- 1st USA male and 1st USA female qualify for the US Olympic Team
- International event; US athletes must be Olympic Eligible to
compete (ranked in the top 125 World Rankings)
- $50,000 Prize Purse
- Draft-legal event, multiple loop course; Olympic style of racing
- Olympic Distance: 1.5K Swim, 40K Bike (8 loops), 10K Run (6
loops)
- First stop on USAT's Haul to the Great Wall elite race series.
April 20, 2008
Tuscaloosa Triathlon - Age Group Race
- Sprint Distance: 750m Swim, 20K Bike, 5K Run
- Open to all 13 year's of age and older
- Alumni Wave
- Registration is open
Twenty12 Talent ID race
- Same type of racing as the Trials event
- Sprint Distance: 750m Swim, 20K Bike (4 loops), 5K Run (3 loops)
on same course
- Limited to 75 males and 75 females
- Allows USAT to identify athletes to develop for the 2012 London
Games
- $4,000 Prize Purse
- Ages 16-29 are allowed to participate (can't turn 30 years old at
any point during 2008)
On Dec 5, 2007 3:28 PM, Bret Fortenberry <
bret.fortenberry@...> wrote:
Oh that explains why the President of our region asked me what I thought of the nationals race course.
I just happened to say that the bike course was the perfect mixture to make the course extremely fast but still challenging. Yup I am the reason that the Olympic trial is there.
Ha, ha I wish I had that much influence :)On Dec 5, 2007 2:06 PM, Kendrick Gibson < kendrick.gibson@...> wrote:
Check out this link from the Birmingham news below. There will be a pro/amateur race the day after Nationals, but that isn't the ITU race. I will be attending the press conference tomorrow so I'll get all the details after that. Kevin is correct about the final selection race to be in Hawaii, but it was cancelled. Matt Bonvicin, our Southeast USAT Rep was telling me that USAT loves T-Town for some reason, hence the coaching clinic last weekend.
http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/sports/119684679865810.xml&coll=2
Also, Matt is already working out a combined ITU/Collegiate Training Camp sometime this spring to train on the course here in Tuscaloosa.
KendrickOn Dec 3, 2007 9:50 PM, Bret Fortenberry < bret.fortenberry@...> wrote:What Kevin mentioned is exactly what is written on the active.com page that describes the event.On Dec 3, 2007 8:54 PM, Kevin Collington < kmc56@...> wrote:I'm pretty sure all the trials events have been selected already -
Hawaii on April 27 and the Des Moines world cup. But I do
remember hearing about a "talent ID race" to be held in Tuscaloosa
on the same weekend. It was supposed to be for age group athletes
between 24 and 29 and follow ITU draft legal rules, and is meant
to find talent in the age group ranks to be developed towards the
2012 olympics.
I could be wrong though...
Kevin
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