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USA Triathlon has announced that the 2019 Toyota USA Triathlon Paratriathlon National Championships will be held in Long Beach, California, July 20. The championships will take place at Alamitos Beach, the proposed site of the triathlon competitions at the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. The race is part of the inaugural Legacy Triathlon, a […]
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In the early 1990s—years after the passage of Title IX was supposed to guarantee an equal playing field for women student-athletes—the numbers were still not adding up at NCAA headquarters. While student enrollment at most universities was split fairly evenly between the sexes, women made up only 30 percent of all student-athletes on campus. Faced […]
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Toyota has announced partnerships with six national governing bodies in the lead-up to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Tokyo, including two sports (skateboarding and surfing) that will make their Olympic debuts. As part of the deals, the auto manufacturer will partner with the National Wheelchair Basketball Association, USA Skateboarding, USA Surfing, USA Swimming, USA Track & […]
Continue ReadingUSA Triathlon has announced a partnership with HotelPlanner, an online provider of group hotel bookings and individual hotel stays worldwide, to serve as the national governing body’s official booking partner through 2022. “Travel is at the heart of the multisport lifestyle and being able to easily reserve a comfortable, affordable and conveniently located hotel is […]
Continue ReadingUSA Triathlon has selected Tempe, Arizona, to host the 2019 and 2020 USA Triathlon Collegiate Club and High School National Championships. Home to Arizona State University, Tempe last hosted the collegiate club national championships in 2013 and 2014. This will be the first time the city will host the high school national championships. The 2019 event will […]
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Major League Triathlon has partnered with USA Triathlon to launch the Major League Triathlon Super Sprint Series at two of the four MLT events…
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Jennifer Lee: On Assignment
Hosts of the Olympic and Paralympic Games typically plan for the legacy…
USA Triathlon has renewed its partnership with Ashworth Awards through 2022. The manufacturer and supplier of custom awards, trophies and medallions…
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Rocky Harris is one of a new wave of national governing body executives with no prior background working in Olympic sports before he was named CEO of USA Triathlon in August. But what he did have was a solid background in professional and collegiate sports, most recently serving as chief operating officer of the Athletic Department at Arizona State University. There, his role included direct oversight of strategic planning and day-to-day operations of the department, a role that included adding triathlon as a sport at the university. Prior to that he worked for the MLS Houston Dynamo and AEG Global Partnerships as chief marketing officer and senior vice-president…
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David Deschenes has been appointed executive director of the USA Triathlon Foundation. As the foundation’s first executive director, Deschenes…
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