USATF New York will hold its 6th annual USATF New York Awards Banquet on Sunday, December 20.  The event will be held virtualy via Zoom.  The event was orginally sechedule to take place on March 29 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
The awards banquet will recognize athletes, administrators, coaches, and officials for their 2019 accomplishments and life-long service and dedication to the sport.  The lists of award recipients are presented below.

The Athletes of the Year who will be recognized for their outstanding performances in 2019 are:

RACE WALKING
Open Women: Maria Garcia (Park Racewalkers, USA) 
Open Men: Vyacheslav Troshkin (Park Racewalkers, USA) 
 
LONG DISTANCE RUNNING
Open Women: Roberta Groner (NYAC)
Open Men: Matt Rand (Central Park TC)
Masters Women: Fiona Bayly (Urban Athletics)  
Masters Men: Gerry O’Hara (Central Park TC)
 
TRACK & FIELD
Open Women: Ce'Aira Brown (Hoka NJNYTC)
Open Men: Rai Benjamin (Nike) 
Masters Women: Lisa Daley (Central Park TC)
Masters Men: Clinton Aurelien (unattached)
 
YOUTH CROSS COUNTRY
Overall Girls: Rose Coats (unattached)
Overall Boys: Alexander Riley (VO2Max Track Club)
8 & Under Girls: Briscella McAuliffe (Westchester Striders)
8 & Under Boys: Lionel Donlon (Prospect Park Youth Running Club)
9-10 Girls: Lauren Rodriguez (Ocean Breeze Wave Runners)
9-10 Boys: Konstantin MacKinnon    (Westchester Wolves)
11-12 Girls: Lily Day    (Westchester Striders)
11-12 Boys: Aaron Keller (Unattached)
13-14 Girls: Juliette Salazar (The Camp)
13-14 Boys: Nate Boutin (Prospect Park Youth Running Club)
15-16 Girls: Elizabeth Mauro (Unattached) 
15-16 Boys: Sebastian Margetts    (Prospect Park Youth Running Club)
17-18 Girls: Isabel Stronski (White Plains Future Stars)
17-18 Boys: Steven Struk (unattached)
High School Girls: Katelyn Tuohy North (Rockland HS) 
High School Boys: Behailu Bekele-Arcuri (Warwick Valley HS)
 
YOUTH TRACK & FIELD
Girls Overall - Field Events: Kaeli Thompson (Hudson Valley Flying Circus)
Boys Overall - Field Events: Michael Pinckney (Eclipse Track & Field)
Girls Overall - Track Events: Sahar Victoria (The Camp)
Boys Overall - Track Events: Nathaniel Johnson (Notre Dame TC)
8 & Under Girls: Cameron Joseph (Velocity TC)
8 & Under Boys: Alpha Harrison (unattached)
9-10 Girls: Amelia Defrietas (Metro Eagles)
9-10 Boys: Wilem Wikstrom (Chelsea Greyhounds)
11-12 Girls: Brianna Lindo (New York Novas T.C.)
11-12 Boys: Christian Walker (Metro Eagles)
13-14 Girls: Anissa Moore (Moore Acceleration)
13-14 Boys: Wesley Noble, Jr. (Metro Eagles)
15-16 Girls: Katie Altierie (Island Express)
15-16 Boys: Itamar Pres (Chelsea Greyhounds)
17-18 Girls: Brianna White (Chelsea Greyhounds)
17-18 Boys: Tobias Wolfson (MHC)
High School Girls: Sarah Trainor (FDR High School)
High School Boys:  Matthew Rizzo (Bronxville High School)
Race Walking Girls: Tiarra Jackson (Velocity TFC New York)
Race Walking Boys: Nathaniel Samson (VO2Max Track Club)

Receiving the Lauren F. Primerano Award, the association's most prestigous administrative award, will be Philip Greenwald.

President's awards will be presented to Peter Ciaccia, retired CEO of the New York Road Runners, and Alex Gometz, principal owner of PreFab.

Each year three awards are presented to officials who have served the sport and their communities at the highest level in recent years.  The awards are named after three of the local pioneers in the officials committee - Jake Korn, Louis Vazquez, Jr., and Warren Ring.  Winning the awards this year are Stephen Zimmermann​ (Jake Korn Officials Committee Service Award), Randy Savitt​ (Louis Vazquez, Jr. Officials Committee Humanitarian Award), and Augustus Young​ (Warren Ring Officials Committee Lifetime Achievement Award).
 
The recipients of this year’s Coaching Lifetime Award are James Wilkerson and Rhanda Hopkins; both of the Metro Eagles TF Club.  

The recipient of the Media Contributor award is John Nepolitan.  Nepolitan is a local photogragher who provides photos to USATF-NY and is an affiliated photographer with Dyestat and The Armory.
 
Ticket and information about supporting the event can be found here.