Central Park Track Club

CPTC Sprint Coach and Lehman College Head Coach Lesleigh Hogg took his men’s and women’s teams to second place in this year’s CUNY indoor championship. Both teams were hoping to win their third straight conference titles but the men lost narrowly.  Irfan Anwar was expected to contribute big time by running four events and he [...]

The Royal Gazette wrote a story on Sid Howard’s 31st Bermuda race. Each year, Sid takes part in the Bermuda International Race Weekend, usually running the 10K and helping out at race registration. He’s been to Bermuda so many times,  almost nonstop for 31 years, that local runners consider him an honorary Bermudian.

New CPTC member Alfonso Paradinas took pictures at mile 26 in which some runners may be  more beautiful or handsome in the last mile than in Stuart Alexander’s album. In such case, please contact me. However, the following people may not have been photographed by Stuart: Michael Rennock: Sean Stewart Felice Kelly Rachel Berchtold and [...]

In a blitz of media coverage, Runner’s World and the NY Times describe long-time CPTC member George Hirsch’s recent NYC marathon after a five year retirement. And after running the Chicago Marathon last month. We may know Hirsch’s name as the chairman of NY Road Runners. But he was also the founder of Runner, a [...]

Jake Pearson of the NY Daily News follows up on Joanel Lopez after his return home from Taiwan. Some of his key experiences in Taiwan included the traffic getting to the stadium. Thanks to the Daily News and the generosity of its readers, Lopez’s fundraising efforts proved successful and enable him to win gold in [...]

As we get ready for the CPTC fundraiser in two weeks, it is nice to be recognized by our former sponsor, Nike. Over the last year, Inside Nike Running has run three articles about club athletes and the club itself. In March, they mentioned CPTC athletes Aileen Conlon, Natalie Gingerich, John Langhauser and Jodyann Raymond, [...]

Joanel Lopez just threw 16.26 meters to win gold in the shot put at the XXI Deaflympics in Taiwan this week. This also places him second on the Top 10 list.

GoJaspers.com, the Manhattan College athletics website, congratulates alum Lisa Daley for her performances at the 2009 World Masters Athletic Track and Field Championship.

DailyNews.com has another story on Joanel Lopez on June 15th about his fundraising efforts to compete at the Deaflympics in Taiwan.  The first story appeared on June 9th.