Many thanks for checking in on the team and for your support --both implicit and explicit --over the past year. For reasons that might bear discussion in forums other than the electronic, we have suspended operations of the ITA NH Team, though In the Arena (ITA) will maintain both an athletic and a civic footprint here in the Upper Valley through local staff and board members as well as through the appointment of Ben True to the ITA National Roster.
Since making this decision, Head Coach Tim Broe has headed back to the Midwest where the deer are bigger and the water fowl more plentiful; Lex Williams has followed Tim to Ann Arbor; Jeff Schirmer has returned to his Illinois roots; Brian Gagnon has headed South where he is in the best possible middle-distance hands with Coach Frank Gagliano's NYNJ Track Club; and, as stated above, Ben True has set down roots in the Connecticut River's Upper Valley, where he will continue to mentor area youth as well as work towards his goals of hitting the Olympic A-standard and taking a run at the US Olympic 10k Team.
ITA is proud of all that the ITA NH Team accomplished, including Ben True's capturing of two national titles (5k and 10k road) and the overall USA Road Racing crown and the launching of two extraordinarily successful middle school XC programs, both of which will morph into winter training groups and spring track teams in 2012.
To keep up with ITA's Upper Valley-based Arena Athlete Ben True, please visit his blog; and you can always keep up with the parent organization, ITA, by visiting our site, too.
Onwards and upwards.
1 comment:
Amory and David,
Best to Ben.
Thank you for your effort to reach the youth of America through In The Arena. You are appreciated. Please continue somehow with your noble work. It is gratifying to know you care.
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