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Posted Dec. 8, 2002
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Pasco to keep state track/cross-country meets
TACOMA - A compromise has been reached that will keep the state track and cross country meets in Pasco, WIAA executive director Mike Colbrese announced Saturday morning.
The compromise also allows longtime cross country meet director John Crawford to remain involved with the meet, although in a lesser capacity.
Crawford was removed as director of both meets shortly after last month's state cross country meet at Sun Willows Golf Course for conflicts with WIAA staff and interference with WIAA corporate sponsorships.
The compromise, which was reached at a meeting Tuesday in the Tri-Cities, creates a management team that will run both meets. Crawford will be the competition coordinator of both meets, in charge of such items as setting up the cross country course and handing results.
"It was essentially the desire of the WIAA and the Tri-Cities to keep the events there," Colbrese said. "That's why we went with a management team. If we hadn't put that together, we'd already started to work to find other sites."
A facilities coordinator, who has yet to be named, will handle items such as ticketing, concessions and sponsorships, for both meets. A third individual will also help with the track meet, to be held the next two years at Edgar Brown Stadium before returning to Tacoma.
The facilities coordinator will be decided upon by the Tri-City schools, Colbrese said.
"We're trying to take some things off John's plate so he can focus on what he likes doing, which is running the competition," Colbrese said. "Our goal now is to keep (the cross country meet) in the Tri-Cities for as long as they want it."
Colbrese added that there had not been discussion about returning the
track meet to the Tri-Cities after the two-year contract expired.
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