{"id":2112,"date":"2008-07-05T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2012-01-25T12:35:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:35:52","slug":"choppa-flight-648-cleared-for-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/post\/choppa-flight-648-cleared-for-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Choppa, Flight 648, Cleared for Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\"\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Contol Tower this is Choppa Flight #648 cleared for takeoff!”, says the Empire State Liberty Tour Track & Field Series Record Holder in the Master’s (45 – 49) Long Jump.\u00a0 In fact, Rick holds all of the Liberty Tour\u00a0meet records in the Long Jump for this age group.\u00a0 But, Rick wasn’t the only athlete that came to play at the USATF East Region Open & Club Championships at Ichabod Crane High School in Kinderhook, NY.\u00a0<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The weather, though cloudy and at times a bit of a drizzle, was an athletes dream day for competition.\u00a0 There were plenty of outstanding individual performances, but this was not a day for individualism, it was a day for the\u00a0nearly\u00a020 teams from the Northeast to the Mid Atlantic Coast, to score every point possible in order for their team to take home a share of the almost $1,500.00 of Prize Money being offered to the top three (3) teams.\u00a0 “This is certainly a credit to the athletes, their coaches, and the USATF Associations from which they hail”, said Executive Producer of the meet, Anthony Mills.\u00a0 He explains, “It is difficult to train, work, manage a home, and still compete at such a high level.\u00a0 I tip my hat to the effort each of these athletes and their teams gave here today.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the end, it was Greater Boston that took 1st Place with 297 team points, ConnQuest was 2nd with 258 points, and U.S. Elite was 3rd with 211 points.\u00a0 For a photographic display of some of the performances, just scroll down.\u00a0 For all of the results from the activities of the day, click “Results” from the main menu, then click on “East Region Championships”.\n\t\t