Greenville Track Club-ELITE - a post-collegiate, Olympic-development program
established 2012
11 USA Olympic Trials Qualifiers
One Paris 2024 Olympian
established 2012
11 USA Olympic Trials Qualifiers
One Paris 2024 Olympian
|
|
During the year 2024 Greenville Track Club-ELITE athletes competed in the 25 following locations:
There were many highlights, including Eduardo Garcia's selection for and participation in the 2024 Paris Olympic Marathon, and multiple GTC-ELITE program records: 1500m 3,000m, 5,000m on the track and 5K, 10K, 15K, 20K and Half Marathon (3 times) on the roads. JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
DECEMBER
0 Comments
GTC-ELITE's Mastandrea and Weitzel Still Ranked 1st & 2nd in South Carolina Road Race Standings12/13/2024 Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Jack Mastandrea continues to be ranked first in the most recent South Carolina Road Race Rankings published by USATF State Record Keeper Bill Marable. His teammate and training partner, Jason Weitzel, remains second in the rankings. It is the fourth consecutive month that Jack has been ranked first, while Jason has been ranked among the top three for 37 straight months. Their teammate Ryan Drew is currently ranked sixth. Jack and Jason have frequently exchanged places during 2024 with Weitzel winning the Downtown Greenville 5K in January and Mastandrea placing second. Then Jack placed ahead of Jason at the 2024 USATF Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando and was 12th (29:03) overall at Charleston's Cooper River Bridge Run, while Jason was 14th (29:24). Jason then won the United Community Reedy River Run 10K with a time of 29:44, while Jack was third. Jason ran 29:13 and Jack 29:31 for 10,000 meters on the track at the Portland Track Festival in June. Then Jack placed 7th and Jason 9th in the USATF 8K Road Championships at the Crazy 8s road race in Kingsport, TN on July 20. Jack then placed 13th in a deep field at the USATF 20K Championships in the Faxon Law New Haven Road Race on September 2 while Jason did not run there. Jack and Jason also competed in September at the USATF 10K Championships at the Great Cow Harbor 10K in Northport, NY, placing 10th and 12th respectively. They then placed second and third in the Indianapolis Monumental Half Marathon on November 9th with times of 1:03:49 for Jack and 1:04:00 for Jason. And last weekend Jack ran a huge personal best of 2:15:57 at the California International Marathon in Sacramento. However, many of the previous mentioned events were not within the confines of South Carolina and did not factor in the SC Road Race Rankings, as both Jack and Jason competed in prestigious events nationally. Jack & Jason Head-to-Head Competition in 2024
GTC-ELITE alums Ricky Flynn (Greenville) and Roland Hakes ( Columbia) are ranked 4th and 8th. Greenville runners occupy six of the top ten ranking positions. Sergio Cuartas, who frequently trains with GTC-ELITE, is ranked 7th. South Carolina Road Race Rankings |
1 Jack Mastandrea (26, Greenville) 2 Jason Weitzel (28, Greenville) 3 James Quattlebaum (29, Greenville) 4 Ricky Flynn (37, Greenville) 5 Hunter Jarvis (26, Columbia) 6 Ryan Drew (26, Greenville) 7 Sergio Cuartas (21, Greenville) 8 Roland Hakes (31, Irmo) 9 Caleb Chistiansen (23, Cayce) 10 Alex Marchek (27, West Union) |
11/6/2024