Rowing: (Nov. 4) USRowing has named Martin Crotty (Buffalo, N.Y.) as its new junior men’s national team head coach. Crotty, who serves as the executive director of the Princeton International Regatta Association and the varsity men’s head coach at Mercer Junior Rowing Club, will oversee the selection process with assistant coach Colin Campbell at the Caspersen Olympic Training site at Mercer Lake in New Jersey.

Table Tennis: (Nov. 3) The 2004 USA Table Tennis National Championships will roll into Las Vegas, Nev., Dec. 15-18, to determine who will have bragging rights for the upcoming year as the 2004 USA National Champions. The five-star tournament will be held in Hall S2 of the Las Vegas Convention Center with approximately 600-800 competitors.

Track and Field: (Nov. 5) The 2004 USA Men's 10K Championship will be contested Nov. 6 on the roads of Mobile, Ala., as part of the Food World Senior Bowl Charity Run. The Men's 10K Championship is the concluding event on the 2004 USA Running Circuit, a USA Track & Field road racing series featuring U.S. championships from 5K to the marathon. (Nov. 6) Chad Pearson (Raleigh, N.C.) ran away with his first U.S. title at the 2004 USA Men's 10K Championship. His winning time of 28:33 was a personal record, and easily ahead of second-place Adam Tenforde’s (Palo Alto, Calif.) time of 28:50, and Jason Hubbard’s (Alamosa, N.M.) time of 28:57. (Nov. 7) American record holder Deena Kastor (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.) suffered from extensive cramps in her legs during the ING New York City Marathon, as well as knee pain, which forced her to drop out at the 16-mile mark.

She also described extreme fatigue in her legs and vastly reduced training mileage in recent weeks, the effect of running 140-mile weeks in training as she prepared for the Olympic marathon, where she won a bronze medal. (Nov.7) Two athletes who dropped out of the Olympic marathon in Athens proved their mettle by winning the men’s and women’s titles at the ING New York City Marathon, while Meb Keflezighi (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.) posted the best finish by an American in the race since 1993. 

World record holder Paula Radcliffe of Britain won the closest women’s race in ING New York City Marathon history to re-assert her position atop the women’s distance-running world with a time of 2:23:10. Hendrik Ramaala of South Africa broke free of a three-man race to win the men’s title in 2:09:24, with Olympic silver medalist Keflezighi second in a personal-best time of 2:09:53. (Nov. 8) The 2004 USA Masters 8K Cross Country Championships took place in Boston, Mass., with champions determined in a variety of age groups. The New England Association of USA Track & Field hosted the event. (Nov. 8) USA Track & Field announced the "Class of 2004" inductees for the National Track & Field Hall of Fame. The Class of 2004 will be inducted Dec. 3, during the Jesse Owens Awards and Xerox Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony held in conjunction with USATF's 2004 Annual Meeting in Portland, Ore., at the Tiger Woods Center on the Nike World Campus in Beaverton, Ore. (Nov. 9) Meb Keflezighi has been named USA Track & Field's Athlete of the Week after posting the best finish by an American in 11 years at the 2004 ING New York City Marathon. The American record holder at 10,000 meters and 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the marathon, Keflezighi finished second in New York with a personal-best time of 2:09:53. His run marked the highest finish for an American in New York since Bob Kempainen (Minneapolis, Minn.) placed second in 1993. (Nov. 9) At 58, two-time Olympic sprint medalist Lennox Miller died of cancer in Pasadena, Calif. An Olympic sprinter who won a silver medal in 1968 and a bronze in 1972 in the 100-meters for Jamaica, Miller was a member of two University of Southern California track and field NCAA championship teams and a part of the reigning world-record 440-yard relay squad. (Nov. 9) 2004 Olympic men's 200m gold medalist Shawn Crawford (Van Wyck, S.C.) and two-time Olympic 110m hurdles silver medalist Terrence Trammell (Atlanta, Ga.) will be featured on upcoming television programs. Crawford, who ran the lead leg on Team USA's silver medal-winning 4x100m relay squad, will be joined by Trammell on BET's Madd Sports, Nov. 20. The program will be shown again Nov. 21.

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