CLUB NODs

2008 USAT National Club Champions
2001-2009 Wildflower Club Champions
2000-2008 USAT Regional Club Champions
2006 2nd at USAT National Club Championships

INDIVIDUAL, ANNUAL MEMBER AWARD WINNERS. These titles are handed out at the end of each year at our annual YEP - Year End Party & Awards Banquet.

MEMBER OF THE YEAR
The LA Tri Club is known as the largest, best and coolest triathlon club in the world. And we have the members to prove it. Think about the person that absolutely says "I am the LA Tri Club." They come to every event, always "fly the colors", and races to their best ability. You don't need to be a winner, just a person who loves the tri club and shows that first and foremost.

2009 Fory Horio
2008 Alan Morelli
2007 Renata D'Angelo
2006 Liz Kollar
2005 Tim Bomba
2004 Liz Oakes Hamm
2003 Ken Carrington

JOHN BOLAND SPIRIT AWARD
This award is honor of John Boland, a member of the LA Tri Club who tragically perished while competing at the 2002 Ironman Utah. The Spirit Award will go to the person who, like John, has exhibited the most enthusiasm and dedication to the Club, the members, and the sport during the year.

2009 Shiggy Ichinomiya
2008 Anna Wills
2007 Stella Tong
2006 Heather Richards
2005 Konrad Ribeiro
2004 Matt Miller
2003 Tracy Luebbers
2002 Julie Silber
2001 Matt Miller
2002 Jason Berkowitz
2001 Pat Abe

NEWBIE OF THE YEAR
For those of you new to triathlon, let me explain to you what a Newbie is. Is this your first year in the LA Tri Club? Is this your first year doing triathlon? Then you are a Newbie. Next season you are not a Newbie. Got it? Anyway, did you or some Newbie you know have an awesome, terrific, marvelous year? Then you are the Newbie of the Year.

2009 Lizzy Brenkus
2008 Jeff Ku
2007 Carly Chamberlin
2006 Steve Hebert
2005 Riptide Ray Barrios
2004 Eric Davis
2003 Erika Aklufi

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
This individual who says I want to help. I want to be involved. You don't have to volunteer at every event (although it might help), but you want to help the club be successful. Maybe you race every event and still are there to hand out the race packets. Maybe you come to every club meeting and instead of just attending you get there early to help set up. To win this one you have to put the club ahead of your own stuff (or at least let the club members think so).

2009 Lyle Kan
2008 Fory Horio
2007 Tim Bomba
2006 Renata D'Angelo
2005 Julie Miller
2004 Rosalind Jarrett
2003 Julie Talbert

TRI NIGHTMARE
This award makes the hair on the back of your neck stand tall. It could be your bike falling into the water prior to Escape from Alcatraz. It could be arriving at your first race set and ready to go, only to realize that you are a week late for the event. Have you had a horrible, terrible experience at a triathlon? Then you want this award. At least if you lived the nightmare, you might as well earn an award for it.

2009 Michael Avon
2008 Steven Spitz (hit by a car & severely injured in Santa Monica a week before he was to race at Kona as part of a charity slot his firm purchased from CAF)
2007 Aaron Borough (hit by car at mi 24 @ IM World Championships, just knocked down)
2006 Rikako Takai (raced IMCDA w/full blown flu)
2005 Samantha Gross (car, bike, gear stolen before LA Triathlon out of car)
2004 Neva Day (hit by car before on Kona before the race, still raced)
2003 Evan Bartelheim
2002 Raoul van Kirk (Bonelli Crash)
2001 Ken Shishido (Topanga Crash)

PERFORMANCE AWARDS >> aka SPEEDSTERS

The Performance awards, aka the Speedster awards, acknowledges the LA Tri Clubbers who routinely finished well ahead of the pack in Sprint, Olympic and Non-Traditional or Single Sport Distance races. You know, the person who is finishing around the same time that most of us are starting the run!

In choosing the winners, we'll weigh overall wins higher than age group wins, but we'll also factor in consistency (i.e., the more winning performances the better), race difficulty (i.e., age group win at Wildflower is more impressive than an age group win at the Bud Light reverse super-sprint triathlon in San Bernardino.).

SHORT COURSE TRADITIONAL

FEMALE
2009 Jenny Fletcher
2008 Gricelda Gamboa
2007 Nina Greenberg
2006 Rachel Dunbabin

MALE
2009 Henry Hagenbuch
2008 Andrew Haberkorn
2007 Justin Park
2006 Carlos Vizcarra

LONG COURSE TRADITIONAL

FEMALE
2009 Lynne Fielder
2008 Cherie Gruenfeld
2007 Rikako Takei
2006 Claudia Campos

MALE
2009 Erich Van Stralen
2008 Lou Briones
2007 Oliver Martin
2006 Holger Beckmann

NON-TRADITIONAL MULTISPORT - Outstanding Performance

2008 Lamar Sepulveda: Swam, biked and ran to AZ, then competed in IM AZ
2007 Evan Hyde - Switzerland 7-day 24-hour AR
2006 Kalyn English

SINGLE SPORT - Outstanding Performance

2009 Ray Barrios

2008 Lamar Sepulveda

2007 Swim Loren Uscliowski
Bike Rich Reffener
Run Bill Lockton

2006 Babak Azad, Furnace Creek 508

JR. ELITE TRADITIONAL

FEMALE
2006 Esme Levy

MALE
2006 Jared Brown
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These Member Award Categories were dropped in 2006 due to the growth of the club and the category relevance. Please enjoy a bit of LATC History:

BEST BONK
We have all seen them. We have all heard about them. We have all experienced them. What story have you heard (or for that matter experienced yourself) this year about that best bonk. We're not talking about just not finishing a race, we're talking about the blood, guts and gore story. On the flip side, if your version of Tri.

2005 Aparna Srinivasan (Malibu Tri)
2004 Matt Dixon
2002 Chris Stephenson (Mr. Nutrition goes down)
2001 Matt Armstrong (first overall ... in the med tent)

BEST TRI ATTIRE
Ok for all you fashionistas out there. This one is for you. To win this one you have to be up to date with the latest in tri clothing. Matching helmet to your socks to your shorts and jersey. You wouldn’t even think about going out training or racing without the Gucci of tri attire. Gear causes others to double over in laugher, you may find yourself walking home with this award... just because.

2005 Jeri Dye Lynch
2004 Babak Azad
2003 Claudia Rivas
2002 Carlos Vizcarra (no one looks better in the triskin)
2001 Monica Auler/Claudia Campos (S. Amer. style)

TRIGEEK
Who is that person out there who has the newest, the coolest, and the most high tech tri gear? The one who can't just put on their tri suit and go. The one who has to put on their GPS system, hook up that nuclear heart monitor, fill their body with the correct enzymes and vitamins, just to come to a club meeting.

2005 Warren Selko
2004 Evan Bartelheim
2003 Bernie Nazari
2002 Tom Long (first to get the Timex GPS watch)
2001 Bernard Baski (carbon this, titanium that)

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