2006 Margaret L. Bradley Award Winner Announced
Posted Sunday, 9 April, 2006
Universal Sole Track Club of Chicago selected Bridget Montgomery to receive the 2006 Margaret L. Bradley Award for transportation expenses from Chicago to Boston to race in this year's Boston Marathon on Monday, April 17. Montgomery ran a 3:04:33 marathon at Chicago in 2002. She was a teammate of Margaret Bradley's on the Universal Sole team.
The Greater Boston Track Club and Universal Sole TC jointly established the Margaret L. Bradley Award in honor of Margaret, a member of GBTC, who died in the Grand Canyon on July 10, 2004, at the age of 24. Margaret ran the 2003 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon in 2:58:52 and led the GBTC women's team to victory in the 2004 Boston Marathon with a time of 3:04:54, finishing 31st. Margaret lived in Chicago in 2003-04, and while living there, she competed with the Universal Sole track club.
The award sends one runner annually from GBTC to compete in the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon and to bring one runner annually from Universal Sole to compete in the Boston Marathon. The two clubs plan to continue the award in perpetuity for the purpose of recognizing and aiding aspiring, young, female marathoners who are of similar ability to that of Bradley.
Montgomery is currently pursuing her masters in English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where she also works in the writing center and occasionally teaches freshman composition. Along with her graduate work, she is working as an editor and writer at a new magazine that recently launched in the city of Chicago: For Her Information Chicago.
Katie Wales of Universal Sole received the first award and ran the 2005 Boston Marathon under similarly hot conditions to those in which Margaret ran in the previous year. Amazingly, she ran exactly the same time, 3:04:54, as Margaret had run. Katie Famous of GBTC received the reciprocal award to run the 2005 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, where she debuted in 3:10:06.
For more information or to make a donation, go to: GBTC.org
Contact: Tom Derderian, tderderi@ix.netcom.com or call (617) 846-2902.
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