The Mid Maryland Triathlon Club presents one of it's club members with the Volunteer of the Year award each January. The club member must have shown outstanding dedication and service to the club during the previous year. This honor was first awarded in 2005. Below is the list of awardees.
2008
Michele Bull was selected as the 2008 Mid Maryland Triathlon Club Volunteer of the Year.
It has been inspiring to track Michele's participation in the sport since she became a triathlete
and a Club member four years ago. Since then she has steadily increased her level of participation
and performance in the sport, moving from sprint to olympic to Half IM distances and is registered
for IM Florida in 2009. She has picked up a nice collection of hardware in the process. Over the
past year, she has taken an active leadership role in the Club. She has put a lot of time, effort
and commitment into our mentoring program and has held clinics for people new to triathlon before
the Tri to Win and Iron Girl races. In 2008, she started a new Iron Girl training group and made
herself available to lead rides and answer questions all summer while always making it a priority to
spend quality time with her family. Michele has also volunteered at many Club events: staffing the
rest stop at the first all-Club Howard County bike ride with her daughters,doing trash pick up on
our Adopt-a-Road project and just jumping in whenever help was needed. Michele personifies the ideal
of striving for personal excellence with the same passion she devotes to teaching and supporting those
who are just getting started. She is an outstanding example of the service and leadership our Club
values so highly.
2007
Andrea Warfel was selected as 2007 Mid Maryland Triathlon Club Volunteer of the Year for her
outstanding service at monthly club meetings. She stepped up and assumed the duties of
overseeing the sales of club products when the officer who was previously in charge vacated the position.
Andrea arrived early for every meeting, set up the display, answered members' questions, devised a system
to keep track of inventory and very responsibly collected and tallied all the sales then turned the proceeds
over to the Club treasurer. Her warm and welcoming manner personified the image that is the hallmark
of our Club.
2006
Amid fierce debate and thoughtful thought, Arnat Vale was selected Mid Maryland
Triathlon Club's Volunteer of the Year. Arnat put in many hours volunteering at our club tent throughout
the 2006 season, he ran our Run-Bike-Run's and generally pitched in wherever help was needed and without
waiting to be asked. Arnat contributed generously to MMTC through time and effort and the plaque he
received doesn't really measure up everything he did for our club. His achievement was particularly
noteworthy because while he was busy helping he managed to keep an extremely full race schedule, doing
something nearly every week! This wasn't an easy decision and we thank all the other folks who contributed
to make our club so succesful. Thanks, Arnat, thanks for being there for us, taking care of us and keeping
our spirits high! Arnat received a plaque and his name was added to the MMTC plaque displayed at
Princeton Sports.
2005
Dave Jordan was the original "run-bike-run guy". Dave showed up each week at the Gateway loop with the bike racks and timing equipment. He is credited with starting this tradition which now boasts a large following. He received a plaque and his name is added as the first volunteer of the year for the Mid Maryland Triathlon Club.
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