asics Greenville Track Club-ELITE - a post-collegiate, Olympic-development program
established 2012
established 2012
Cristina McKnight became the second ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE athlete to post a qualifying time for the 2020 USATF Olympic Team Marathon Trials as she debuted over the 26.2 mile distance with a time of 2:40:42. Her time was well under the 2:45:00 qualifying standard as she placed 11th overall in the women's field and was the 8th American finisher. This year's California International Marathon once again lived up to its excellent reputation for presenting the opportunity for multiple qualifiers over the course from Folsom to the California State Capitol in downtown Sacramento.
Running with a large pack of Olympic Trials Qualifier hopefuls, McKnight ran splits of 18:48 at 5K, 37:33 at 10K, 56:42 at 15K, 1:15:34 at 20K, 1:19:36 at 13.1 miles (halfway), 1:34:29 at 25K, 1:53:24 at 30K, 2:12:39 at 35K and 2:32:07 at 40K. Cristina relocated to Greenville to join the post-collegiate, Olympic-development program in March 2019 with a half-marathon personal best of 1:18:21 and has seen steady improvement under the direction of Coach Laura Caldwell. They set a goal of qualifying for 2020 USA OT Marathon in Atlanta on February 29 and achieved that goal in spectacular fashion. Eduardo Garcia had previously qualified back in January at the Chevon Houston Marathon, with a time of 2:18:50, but opted to represent the US Virgin Islands in last summer's Pan American Games in Lima, Peru and will not compete in Atlanta. GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.
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 ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Joe Niemiec ran 24:35 to place second in the TreesUpstate Turkey Day 8K in downtown Greenville, SC. The event, which also conducted a 5K, had well over 4,000 finishers between the two races on a cold, sunny Thanksgiving morning. Greenville's James Quattlebaum, who recently qualified for the 2020 USATF Olympic Team Trials marathon (with a half-marathon qualifying time), was the overall winner with a time of 24:15. Those were the only two runners to break 25:00 minutes on the hilly route, which starts and finishes near iconic Fluor Field on S. Main Street. Quattlebaum is currently ranked first in the South Carolina Road Race Rankings while Niemiec is third.  Early leaders: James Quattlebaum (1171) and Joe Niemiec (2100). GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.
ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Annie Rodenfels ran 26:53 to place fifth among women at the VCU Health Richmond Marathon's Allianz Partners 8K in Virginia's capitol city on Saturday morning. It was her debut attempt at the distance and she earned $100 for her placing and also broke a long-standing ASICS GTC-ELITE program record. The previous program best was 27:11 by Kimberly Ruck in 2014. Teammate Ryan Bugler ran a personal best of 23:56 to place seventh overall, which was a 24 second improvement over his previous best at this distance. Avery Martin placed 12th with a time of 24:29, which was only nine seconds off his personal best.  Ryan Bugler, Annie Rodenfels & Avery Martin GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.
 McKnight during her pre-race shakeout on Friday before her race. ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Cristina McKnight ran a personal best of 1:16:04 to place 14th in the CNO Financial Indianapolis Monumental Half Marathon in Indiana's capital city. She averaged 5:48 per mile over the 13.1-mile course on a cold Saturday morning. Her finishing time was 36 seconds faster than her previous best, which she ran in Eugene, OR in April. Cristina ran negative splits as she passed 10K at 36:28 (5:52 pace). McKnight joined the post-collegiate, Olympic-development program in March and had not competed as a collegiate athlete while studying at Michigan State University. She graduated in 2018 with a degree in Statistics and is employed by GE. GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.  Ryan Bugler, Annie Rodenfels, Avery Martin, Victor Pataky, Joe Niemiec and Cristina McKnight Four male and one female ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE athletes were among the top ten, respectively, in the most recent South Carolina Road Race Rankings. The rankings, which were through November 2, 2019, have Joe Niemiec ranked third. First place is Greenville's James Quattlebaum. Former ASICS GTC-ELITE athlete and now triathloner Ricky Flynn is now ranked second.
Niemiec's teammate, Ryan Bugler is ranked fifth, while the program's Victor Pataky and Avery Martin are ninth and tenth. In the women's rankings, Cristina McKnight is ranked second, although not recently focusing on South Carolina events. Her most recent competition was placing ninth in the Great Cow Harbor 10K in Northport (Long Island), NY). She is ranked behind former Clemson standout and 2012 USA Olympic Trials qualifier (Steeplechase) Alyssa Bloomquist of Simpsonville, SC, who recently qualified for the 2020 USATF Olympic Trials Marathon. GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.  Joe Niemiec (striped singlet). photo credit @ Michael Scott On a cool, sunny and windy (9-10 mph) Sunday morning, ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Joe Niemiec placed 106th in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. In his initial attempt at the 42.195 kilometer distance, Niemiec's goal was to run under 2:19:00 and qualify for the 2020 USATF Olympic Team Marathon Trials to be conducted in Atlanta, GA on February 29. He ran the first 25K (15.5 miles) at sub-2:20 pace, after passing 21.1K (half marathon) at 1:09:52. However, as is often the case in the marathon, he began to feel the effects of the effort between 25 and 30K. After slowing considerably over the final half of the race he finished with a time of 2:26:46.
GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, ScanSource, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.  Ryan Bugler, Cristina McKnight, Annie Rodenfels, Eddie Garcia, Avery Martin, Victor Pataky & Joe Niemiec Three male and one female ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE athletes were among the top ten, respectively, in the most recent South Carolina Road Race Rankings. The rankings, which were through October 6, 2019, had Eduardo Garcia ranked second to overall leader James Quattlebaum, also of Greenville. Garcia's teammates Ryan Bugler and Joe Niemiec were ranked 7th and 8th. Garcia has not competed since he placed 12th in the Pan American Games marathon in Lima, Peru in late July.
In the women's rankings, Cristina McKnight is ranked second. She is ranked behind former Clemson standout and 2012 USA Olympic Trials qualifier (Steeplechase) Alyssa Bloomquist of Simpsonville. Also, in the men's rankings ASICS GTC-ELITE's Zach Mains at 11th, Victor Pataky (13th) and Avery Martin 14th. Niemiec is scheduled for his debut at the marathon distance in Chicago on Sunday and Pataky will be running the Columbus Marathon the following week. GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, ScanSource, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.
ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Annie Rodenfels won the BMW Performance Classic 2-Mile at BMW's Test Track in Greer, SC. On a cloudy and cooler Saturday afternoon she just missed the course record by a mere two seconds as she recorded a time of 10:30. The record was set in 2015 by ASICS GTC-ELITE athlete Alison Parris. It was Rodenfels', who also represented her employer Joy Real Estate in the Corporate Shield competition, second win in two races since moving to Greenville. The 2019 NCAA DIII national champion in the both the 5,000 meters and 3000-meter Steeplechase joined the post-collegiate, Olympic-development program in August.
GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, ScanSource, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.
ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Cristina McKnight ran a personal best of 35:37 to place ninth in a talented field at the 42nd edition of The Great Cow Harbor Run 10K in Northport, NY. It was just McKnight's second attempt at the 10K distance. She previously ran Atlanta's Peachtree Road Race 10K in July. She earned $300 for her placing on a beautiful Saturday morning on Long Island. Victor Pataky ran in the pack of frontrunners for much of the race over the undulating terrain, which included the infamous James Street Hill, before finishing in 30:52 to place 11th overall. It was 35-second improvement from 2018, when he placed 15th here. This was the deepest field in the race's long and storied history as six men ran under 30:00 and ten under 30:33. Futsum Zienasellassie of Flagstaff, AZ won the race with a time of 29:35 as he sprinted away from two-time Olympian and two-time defending champion Don Cabral of Hartford, CT. Ann-Marie Blaney of Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project (33:42) bested 2017 champion and new teammate Natosha Rogers for the women's title. Both winners earned $5000 and the runner-ups $2000.  Women's Top Ten at the Great Cow Harbor Run 10K GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, ScanSource, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF.
 Bugler, Mains, Martin, Niemiec, Garcia and Pataky (l to r).  McKnight Three male and one female ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE athletes were among the top ten, respectively, in the most recent South Carolina Road Race Rankings. The rankings, which were through September 2, 2019, had Eduardo Garcia ranked second to overall leader James Quattlebaum, also of Greenville. Garcia's teammates Joe Niemiec and Ryan Bugler were ranked 7th and 9th. Those two placed first and second in the recent Edouard Michelin Memorial 5K with Bugler first and Niemiec two seconds behind. Garcia did not compete in that race as he recently placed 12th in the Pan American Games marathon in Lima, Peru.
In the women's rankings, Cristina McKnight is ranked second. She is ranked behind Alyssa Bloomquist (Simpsonville) and Kathryn Lazarchick (Charleston). OG Gardner, a training partner of McKnight's and who is also coached by Laura Caldwell, ranks sixth. Also, in the men's rankings ASICS GTC-ELITE's Zach Mains, Victor Pataky and Avery Martin rank 12th, 13th and 14th. GTC-ELITE was established in 2012. The program produced four qualifiers for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon in Los Angeles and one qualifier/participant for the 2019 Pam American Games Marathon in. Lima, Peru. The post-collegiate, Olympic development program is sponsored by ASICS, the 47-year-old Greenville Track Club, ScanSource, Joy Real Estate, generous individual contributors and partnerships with Performance Therapy, Carolina Spine and Rehab, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Roll Recovery products, FinalSurge (on-line training log), The ATI Running Academy, ElliptiGO, NormaTec Recovery Boots, Cocoa Elite recovery products, Stryd Running, Coach Bob Williams Pace Calculator, DorsiFlex and Synergy Performance (mental performance). The club is a proud and active member of both the Road Runners Club of America and USATF. |
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