The USA Track & Field - Minnesota announced recently that Ralph Maxwell and Katie McGregor were its Athletes of the Month for April 2010. Maxwell, a 90-year-old masters athlete who lives in Richville, was recognized for setting an M90 age-group world record in the indoor heptathlon at the USA Masters Indoor Championships in Boston last month. Maxwell scored 4594 points in the five-event effort. Maxwell's time of 15.84 seconds in the 60 meter hurdle race of the pentathlon set a world age-group record as well.
McGregor, a member of Team USA Minnesota, was honored for winning the USA 15K Championship held in conjunction with the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, Florida in March. McGregor clocked 49 minutes, 51 seconds to win her first-ever USA title at the distance. McGregor, has now won national titles at 10,000 meters on the track and at 10K (twice), 15K, and 25K on the roads.
Edit: Boys long Jump.
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