CLUB NODs
2013 2nd at USA Triathlon National Club
Championship
2012 2nd at ITU World Triathlon San
Diego – Global Club Challenge
2001-2011 Wildflower Club Champions
2008 USAT National Club Champions
2010 USAT Regional Club Champions
2000-2008 USAT Regional Club Champions
2006 2nd at USAT National Club Championships
INDIVIDUAL, ANNUAL MEMBER AWARD WINNERS. These
titles are handed out at the end of each year at our annual YEP - Year End
Party & awards banquet.
MEMBER OF THE YEAR
The LA Tri Club is known as the largest, best and
coolest triathlon club in the world. And we have the members to prove it. Think
about the person that absolutely says "I am the LA Tri Club." They
come to every event, always "fly the colors", and races to their best
ability. You don’t need to be a winner, just a person who loves the tri club
and shows that first and foremost.
2013 Mo Geller
2012 Lou Briones and Cheryl Rose
2011 Holger Beckmann
2010 Shiggy Ichinomiya
2009 Fory Horio
2008 Alan Morelli
2007 Renata D’Angelo
2006 Liz Kollar
2005 Tim Bomba
2004 Liz Oakes Hamm
2003 Ken Carrington
JOHN BOLAND SPIRIT AWARD
This award is honor of John Boland, a member of the
LA Tri Club who tragically perished while competing at the 2002 Ironman Utah.
The Spirit Award will go to the person who, like John, has exhibited the most
enthusiasm and dedication to the Club, the members, and the sport during the
year.
2013 Wayne Fong
2012 Amy Berkin-Chavez
2011 Glenn Mantel
2010 Liana Lehua
2009 Shiggy Ichinomiya
2008 Anna Wills
2007 Stella Tong
2006 Heather Richards
2005 Konrad Ribeiro
2004 Matt Miller
2003 Tracy Luebbers
2002 Julie Silber
2001 Matt Miller
2002 Jason Berkowitz
2001 Pat Abe
NEWBIE OF THE YEAR
For those of you new to triathlon, let me explain
to you what a Newbie is. Is this your first year in the LA Tri Club? Is this
your first year doing triathlon? Then you are a Newbie. Next season you are not
a Newbie. Got it? Anyway, did you or some Newbie you know have an awesome,
terrific, marvelous year? Then you are the Newbie of the Year.
2013 Master Cruz
2012 Deb Carabet
2011 Vanessa Pineda
2010 Dusty Nabor
2009 Lizzy Brenkus
2008 Jeff Ku
2007 Carly Chamberlin
2006 Steve Hebert
2005 Riptide Ray Barrios
2004 Eric Davis
2003 Erika Aklufi
VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
This individual who says I want to help. I want to be
involved. You don’t have to volunteer at every event (although it might help),
but you want to help the club be successful. Maybe you race every event and
still are there to hand out the race packets. Maybe you come to every club
meeting and instead of just attending you get there early to help set up. To
win this one you have to put the club ahead of your own stuff (or at least let
the club members think so).
2013 Tina Sathoff
2012 William Robinson
2011 Melanie Webber & Roberta Silverman
2010 Patti Paul
2009 Lyle Kan
2008 Fory Horio
2007 Tim Bomba
2006 Renata D’Angelo
2005 Julie Miller
2004 Rosalind Jarrett
2003 Julie Talbert
TRI NIGHTMARE
This award makes the hair on the back of your neck
stand tall. It could be your bike falling into the water prior to Escape from
Alcatraz. It could be arriving at your first race set and ready to go, only to
realize that you are a week late for the event. Have you had a horrible,
terrible experience at a triathlon? Then you want this award. At least if you
lived the nightmare, you might as well earn an award for it.
2013 Nikki Mueller (flatted in final miles of IM Cozumel bike,
off and run barefoot severely burning her feet on the hot pavement - still
donned her shoes and finished the race)
2012 Michael Wimer
2011 Mark Anderson (hit on a decent by a
Firetruck!)
2010 Hunter Temple (bike accident on course at Kona
which derailed his race)
2009 Michael Avon
2008 Steven Spitz (hit by a car & severely
injured in Santa Monica a week before he was to race at Kona as part of a
charity slot his firm purchased from CAF)
2007 Aaron Borough (hit by car at mi 24 @ IM World
Championships, just knocked down)
2006 Rikako Takai (raced IMCDA w/full blown flu)
2005 Samantha Gross (car, bike, gear stolen before
LA Triathlon out of car)
2004 Neva Day (hit by car before on Kona before the
race, still raced)
2003 Evan Bartelheim
2002 Raoul van Kirk (Bonelli Crash)
2001 Ken Shishido (Topanga Crash)
PERFORMANCE AWARDS >> aka SPEEDSTERS
The Performance awards, aka the Speedster awards,
acknowledges the LA Tri Clubbers who routinely finished well ahead of the pack
in Sprint, Olympic and Non-Traditional or Single Sport Distance races. You
know, the person who is finishing around the same time that most of us are
starting the run!
In choosing the winners, we’ll weigh overall wins
higher than age group wins, but we’ll also factor in consistency (i.e., the
more winning performances the better), race difficulty (i.e., age group win at
Wildflower is more impressive than an age group win at the Bud Light reverse
super-sprint triathlon in San Bernardino.).
SHORT COURSE TRADITIONAL
FEMALE
2013 Kim Nakamaru
2012 Megan Severa
2011 Libby Bradley
2010 Emily Berkin
2009 Jenny Fletcher
2008 Gricelda Gamboa
2007 Nina Greenberg
2006 Rachel Dunbabin
MALE
2013
2012 Eric Burnett
2011 Eddy Roche
2010 Andrew Haberkorn
2009 Henry Hagenbuch
2008 Andrew Haberkorn
2007 Justin Park
2006 Carlos Vizcarra
LONG COURSE TRADITIONAL
FEMALE
2013 Lynne Fiedler
2012 Stacey Stern
2011 Nell Stephenson
2010 Cherryl Rose
2009 Lynne Fielder
2008 Cherie Gruenfeld
2007 Rikako Takei
2006 Claudia Campos
MALE
2013 Brad Austin
2012 Tom Wood
2011 Jeff Ku
2010 Scott Chaney
2009 Erich Van Stralen
2008 Lou Briones
2007 Oliver Martin
2006 Holger Beckmann
NON-TRADITIONAL MULTISPORT - Outstanding
Performance
2013 Eric Burnett
2012 Todd Gottfried
2011 Tina Geller - Leadville 100, IM St. George
2010 John Brenkus (finished Kona and a week later
finished a 12.1 mile ocean swim)
2008 Lamar Sepulveda: Swam, biked and ran to AZ,
then competed in IM AZ
2007 Evan Hyde - Switzerland 7-day 24-hour AR
2006 Kalyn English
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These Member Award Categories were dropped in 2006
due to the growth of the club and the category relevance. Please enjoy a bit of
LATC History:
BEST BONK
We have all seen them. We have all heard about
them. We have all experienced them. What story have you heard (or for that
matter experienced yourself) this year about that best bonk. We’re not talking
about just not finishing a race, we’re talking about the blood, guts and gore
story. On the flip side, if your version of Tri.
2005 Aparna Srinivasan (Malibu Tri)
2004 Matt Dixon
2002 Chris Stephenson (Mr. Nutrition goes down)
2001 Matt Armstrong (first overall ... in the med
tent)
BEST TRI ATTIRE
Ok for all you fashionistas out there. This one is
for you. To win this one you have to be up to date with the latest in tri
clothing. Matching helmet to your socks to your shorts and jersey. You wouldn’t
even think about going out training or racing without the Gucci of tri attire.
Gear causes others to double over in laugher, you may find yourself walking
home with this award... just because.
2005 Jeri Dye Lynch
2004 Babak Azad
2003 Claudia Rivas
2002 Carlos Vizcarra (no one looks better in the
triskin)
2001 Monica Auler/Claudia Campos (S. Amer. style)
TRIGEEK
Who is that person out there who has the newest,
the coolest, and the most high tech tri gear? The one who can’t just put on
their tri suit and go. The one who has to put on their GPS system, hook up that
nuclear heart monitor, fill their body with the correct enzymes and vitamins,
just to come to a club meeting.
2005 Warren Selko
2004 Evan Bartelheim
2003 Bernie Nazari
2002 Tom Long (first to get the Timex GPS watch)
2001 Bernard Baski (carbon this, titanium that)
SINGLE SPORT - Outstanding Performance
2013 Stella Tong
2012 Lamar Sepulveda
2010 Swim: Marcelus Wiley, Bike: Anna Wills, Run:
Amy Chavez
2009 Ray Barrios
2008 Lamar Sepulveda
2007 Swim Loren Uscliowski
Bike Rich Reffener
Run Bill Lockton
2006 Babak Azad, Furnace Creek 508
JR. ELITE TRADITIONAL
FEMALE
2006 Esme Levy
MALE
2013 Dillon Nobbs
2012 Duncan Reid
2006 Jared Brown
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