George Mason Meet Gets Off the Ground; Walker, Maree, Flynn to Run in Fairfax

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 8, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

Last summer, while attending a track meet in Zurich, George Mason University track coach John Cook bumped into world-class miler John Walker.

"Hey, John," Cook said, "why don't you come to a meet in Fairfax next winter?"

For a decade, since the death of the University of Maryland's CYO meet, Cook had dreamed of being able to invite world-class track and field athletes to a Washington-area meet. He got the chance last spring when his on-campus meet was granted Grand Prix status on a one-year trial basis.

As it turned out, that was the easy part. The hard part was Cook, with virtually no ...

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