Robby Andrews Signs With adidas
By David Monti
(c) 2012 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved
May 30, 2012
(30-May) -- Officials from adidas announced today that USA 800 meter runner Robby Andrews had been signed to an endorsement contract. The 21
year-old, originally from Manalapan, N.J., but now living and training
in Charlottesville, Va., was the 2011 NCAA 800m champion and the 2010
IAAF World Junior Championships bronze medalist.
Adidas officials said that Andrews had received a "long-term deal," but no specifics were announced.
"I'm really excited to have signed with adidas," Andrews said in a brief
telephone interview with Race Results Weekly. "I can't wait to
represent the company. I'm just really excited. A lot of running to
do, obviously, but I hope that this sponsorship will help me achieve the
results I want to achieve."
Last March, Andrews signed a professional management contract with Flynn
Sports Management of Gray, Tenn., forgoing his remaining NCAA
eligibility. He said at the time that leaving the NCAA ranks would give
him his best chance of making the 2012 USA Olympic Team.
"When you boil it all down, I have a goal," Andrews told Race Results
Weekly last March. "I still have it, to make the Olympic team. I just
didn't feel my situation at the University of Virginia was going to help
in that process."
Andrews said today that he would still be coached by his former
university coach, Jason Vigilante, and that his first race in adidas kit
would be a low-key 800m in New Jersey this weekend, before competing in
the adidas Grand Prix in New York on June 9. There he will face the
world's two best 800m runners, Kenya's David Rudisha and Sudan's
Abubaker Kaki, who won gold and silver, respectively, at last summer's
IAAF World Championships in Athletics.
On the boards: ROBBY ANDREWS SIGNS WITH ADIDAS!!!
Full disclosure: The adidas Grand Prix is an advertiser on letsrun.com.
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