1972 Houston Marathon Winner to Speak for HARRA
Saturday night's HARRA Summer Celebration, which will recognize the Spring Runner of the Season money winners, will feature 1972 Houston Marathon winner Dan Green, who currently serves as the highly successful boys cross country and track coach at The Woodlands High School.
Green, a 14-year veteran of the Chevron Houston Marathon, won the inaugural event on Saturday, December 30, 1972 in Memorial Park with a time of 2:32:33.
The Houston Area Road Runners Association (HARRA) Summer Celebration will be held at Sokol Houston, located at 1415 W. Patton near Main Street, from 6 to 9 p.m. More information can be found on HARRA's website at http://www.harra.org/.
The 13-time state champion cross country coach will be speaking earlier in the day in Dallas on "Motivating Runners" at the annual summer clinic of the Cross Country Coaches Association of Texas (CCCAT).
HARRA had also invited Dan's pastor to join him at the Summer Celebration, which, to some, might seem to be a bit of an odd request.
His pastor, though not at that time, finished tied for fourth at the inaugural Houston Marathon just six minutes and 11 seconds (in 2:38:44) behind Green with his Rice University teammate.
The fourth-place finisher would later go on to win both the Houston and Dallas White Rock Marathons before coming in second to Bill Rodgers by just two seconds at the 1978 Boston Marathon.
That, of course, was Jeff Wells, who is now the pastor of Woods Edge Church in The Woodlands.
Wells said via e-mail that he "would count it an honor to speak to the group (with Green)," but a prior commitment that day would keep him from the Houston area.
In April, both Wells and Green spoke to Boston-bound runners from Montgomery County and far north Harris County at a function in The Woodlands directed by The Woodlands Running Club.
Wells' daughter, Callie, a junior at Rice University, was named Tuesday as the recipient of Conference USA's 2006-07 Scholar Athlete of the Year Award, as approved by the Board of Directors. C-USA Scholar Athlete of the Year awards are presented to the top student-athletes in each conference-sponsored sport.
Wells was third in the mile at the C-USA indoor championships, and added a fourth-place finish in the 3000 to help the Owls to their first conference indoor title. She was named as the Joyce Pounds Hardy award winner as Rice's top female student-athlete earlier this year.
Green, a 14-year veteran of the Chevron Houston Marathon, won the inaugural event on Saturday, December 30, 1972 in Memorial Park with a time of 2:32:33.
The Houston Area Road Runners Association (HARRA) Summer Celebration will be held at Sokol Houston, located at 1415 W. Patton near Main Street, from 6 to 9 p.m. More information can be found on HARRA's website at http://www.harra.org/.
The 13-time state champion cross country coach will be speaking earlier in the day in Dallas on "Motivating Runners" at the annual summer clinic of the Cross Country Coaches Association of Texas (CCCAT).
HARRA had also invited Dan's pastor to join him at the Summer Celebration, which, to some, might seem to be a bit of an odd request.
His pastor, though not at that time, finished tied for fourth at the inaugural Houston Marathon just six minutes and 11 seconds (in 2:38:44) behind Green with his Rice University teammate.
The fourth-place finisher would later go on to win both the Houston and Dallas White Rock Marathons before coming in second to Bill Rodgers by just two seconds at the 1978 Boston Marathon.
That, of course, was Jeff Wells, who is now the pastor of Woods Edge Church in The Woodlands.
Wells said via e-mail that he "would count it an honor to speak to the group (with Green)," but a prior commitment that day would keep him from the Houston area.
In April, both Wells and Green spoke to Boston-bound runners from Montgomery County and far north Harris County at a function in The Woodlands directed by The Woodlands Running Club.
Wells' daughter, Callie, a junior at Rice University, was named Tuesday as the recipient of Conference USA's 2006-07 Scholar Athlete of the Year Award, as approved by the Board of Directors. C-USA Scholar Athlete of the Year awards are presented to the top student-athletes in each conference-sponsored sport.
Wells was third in the mile at the C-USA indoor championships, and added a fourth-place finish in the 3000 to help the Owls to their first conference indoor title. She was named as the Joyce Pounds Hardy award winner as Rice's top female student-athlete earlier this year.
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