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GBTC Names Margaret Bradley Award Winner The Greater Boston Track Club and Chicagos Universal Sole announce that Adrien Ricci is the first recipient of the Margaret L. Bradley award. The award will be given annually in memory of Margaret L. Bradley, a long-distance runner who was a member of each club, who died tragically in the summer of 2004 at age 24. Her two clubs, GBTC and Universal Sole, joined to create the Margaret L. Bradley Award. The award is intended for a young woman from Chicagos Universal Sole Club, who is about the age that Bradley was when she died and about her ability, to compete in the Boston Marathon, and for a similar young women racer from the Greater Boston Track Club to compete in the Chicago Marathon in the fall. Adrien Ricci is 24 years old. Ricci said, Ive known of Margaret since my freshman year in college.Ü University of Chicago and Elmhurst College competed at numerous meets together.Ü After college, I joined Universal Sole and learned that Margaret and I shared the same level of passion for running.Ü It didnt take long to know that she was a true competitor and enjoyed every aspect of the sport.Ü Margaret was a very talented young woman.Ü A true fighter. Margaret Bradley, a top finisher at the 108th Boston Marathon in April and a University of Chicago medical student, died while trail running in the Grand Canyon on July 8, 2004. Bradley was originally from Falmouth, MA, graduated from the University of Chicago in 2001, and according to the Chicago Sun Times, still ran up to 90 miles per week after being an All-America cross-country runner while in college. According to a press release from Grand Canyon National Park, Bradley was separated from her running partner and was eventually found by park officials in a drainage area near the Colorado River, dead from dehydration due to environmental heat exposure. Bradley, 24, was a member of both Universal Sole Racing Team in the Chicagoland area and the Greater Boston Track Club, where she trained under Tom Derderian, veteran marathon journalist, runner, and coach. Chicago Athlete magazine had recently highlighted her as the June 2004 "Athlete of the Month." She finished the 2004 Boston Marathon as the 13th American female (31st woman overall), in an official time of 3:04:54. At the 2003 Chicago Marathon, Bradley finished in a time of 2:59:30 (2:58:52 net time). In August 2004, the Greater Boston Track Club board of directors approved the establishment of the Margaret L. Bradley Award to be given yearly to a female member of the Universal Sole Track Club in Chicago to pay expenses to race in the Boston Marathon. Similarly, the Universal Sole Track Club has approved a Margaret L. Bradley Award to be given yearly to a member of the Greater Boston Track Club to race in the Chicago Marathon. The program seeks to remember Bradley, who was a member of both clubs, but who was GBTCs first scorer on its winning open (18 years of age and older) team at the 2004 Boston Marathon. Later in the spring, she ran on the Universal Sole team which placed second in the USATF National 5K Championship (Freihofers Run for Women) in Albany, New York. The two clubs intend for the award to continue in perpetuity for the purpose of recognizing and aiding aspiring, young, female marathoners who are of similar ability to that of Bradley. The award will go to postcollegiate women marathoners who have a reasonable chance to run the times that Bradley ran, writes Derderian. Runners from both clubs conceived the idea when they met at Bradleys funeral in her home town of Falmouth, Mass. The Greater Boston Track Club will host a reception for Adrien Ricci on the Saturday evening before the marathon. See the GBTC web site for details: www.gbtc.org. Cross Country from 1999-2002 3-time All-Conference 2-time All-Region 3-time National Qualifier 2002 All-American Indoor Track from 2000-2003 3-time All-Conference 5000 meters 2-time Provisional National qualifier 5000 meters Outdoor Track from 2000-2003 3-time All-Conference for both 5000 and 10000 2003 All-Conference 1500 2-time Provisional National qualifier 5000 meters 3-time Automatic National qualifier 10000 meters Post Collegiate 09/01/03 Runners Edge Half Marathon, 1st 1:23:38 10/12/03 Chicago Marathon, 102nd female 3:02:43 06/12/04 Steamboat Classic 15k, 4th - 64:33.8 09/06/04 Runner's Edge Half Marathon, 2nd - 1:27:50
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