Dick Booth, Dean of Jumps Coaches, Leaves Arkansas, Takes position at Florida, by Larry Eder

Dick Booth, the Field event coach at the University of Arkansas for twenty-seven years, has just accepted a position as Assistant Track & Field Coach at the University of Florida, under coach Mike Holloway.
Booth, as Field event coach for Arkansas, had 45 NCAA champions and 137 All Americans while at Arkansas. His international athletes included Mike Conley, Erick Walder, Robert Howard, Edrick Floreal, Brian Wellman, Jerome Romain, Ray Doakes, Matt Hemingway, Melvin Lister and Kenny Evans.
Dick Booth is one of the most successful field event coaches in NCAA history during his storied career at Arkansas. For the complete story, please read: http://www.wctv.tv/sports/headlines/50722302.html
Coach Booth has been a contributor to American Track & Field magazine in the past, and we wish him well on his new endeavor! One of the true class acts in our sport.
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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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