Tribute To The Mother Eagle

 

 

     Long, Long Ago, In A Township Far, Far Away, lived a young girl that was not  allowed to compete on the Track & Field team, because she wasn’t a boy, and there was not a Girl’s Track & Field Team. She was faster than all of the boys on the team, but will never be remembered in the record books. Her name was Mary Elizabeth Razzano (later Mary E. Mills), and she is the Mother of Country Mills Eagles Head Coach, Anthony Mills. It was Knox Field in Johnstown, NY at a time when only cinder tracks were the latest innovation, and 3″ spikes held the Starting Blocks in place. Now some 55 years later, with a recently installed rubber surface track, and every marking on the track for every conceivable event, Knox Field was the host for the 2009 Adirondack Junior Olympic Championships.

 

     With overcast skies, the looming threat of rain; and for the first time in Empire State Liberty Tour history, no Music Man, as he was checked into the hospital that morning for the Swine Flu, the first born daughter of the Mills Clan, Mary Beth Mills (Longcoy) traverrsed more than 1,000 miles from her sunny warm Florida residence to pay tribute to the Mother of six (6) Eagles and two (2) Eaglettes, and to celebrate in her honor the Inaugural Mary E. Mills Youth Athlete of the Year Award, which will be presented for the first time in 2010.  Both Courtney Richardson and Tim Holzhauer have been nominated from the Country Mills Eagles.

     For more Country Mills Eagles performances, scroll down the page and witness all of the excitement of the 2009 Adirondack Junior Olympics. To view the Results from the Adirondack Junior Olympic Championships, click “Results” from the navigation bar. For all of the current Records for the Adirondack JO’s, or the Empire State Liberty Tour Track & Field Series, click “Records”.