Randy Sturgeon Collection
Randy Sturgeon story
Picture from masterstrack.com
National Masters Newsletters (as searchable PDFs)
from the Al Sheahen Collection and Randy Sturgeon Collection:
December 2007 five Masters Track and Field Athletes (one being Randy Sturgeon, and another the Masters Chair) had the
idea of creating a Masters Track and Field History Sub-Committee, and hence the creation of an on-line museum and website
. . . which became this website: www.mastershistory.org
Per December 2006 National Masters News: “New Ownership” (Dec 2006 NMN, PDF: pg 1 & 7 of 24):
National Masters News Welcomes New Owner After over ten years in Eugene, Oregon, the last five under the ownership of publisher Suzy Hess, the National Masters News will be moving to Sacramento with a new owner. Randy Sturgeon, 54, has been a runner for 40 years and a coach for 30. Recently retired from the State of California Department of Toxic Substances Control, he will devote full time to the magazine. He is perhaps better known as the developer and head coach of the Sacramento-based Brooks Fleet Feet Racing Club, which has had tremendous success the last two years, winning the National Masters Team Outdoor Championships in Honolulu and Charlotte, N.C. His background include extensive experience in publishing, writing, advertising, broadcasting, race directing, and public relations. In the early ’80 , he was the editor of a small Northern California publication, The Running Scene, which was dropped when the owners found they could turn a better profit by concentrating on race . . . Continued on page 7
Special thanks to David Pain and Randy Sturgeon:
USA masters founder and pioneering meet director David Pain and National Masters News Publisher Randy Sturgeon have provided immense help with this archive site. David’s contributions include his vast memorabilia (from the 1970s and 1980s) and United States Masters International Track Team newsletters , and Randy has shared many results from back copies of his monthly newspaper (1977 to 2006). Both were instrumental in creation of this site, and the committee salutes them for their assistance in helping bring together extremely valuable documents and data.