My Goddaughter, a junior at UW, invited me to go to the first big track meet of the season at Dempsey Indoor facility, which is one of the best facilities and indoor track surface on the west coast. She has a high school friend that runs for Stanford. Over 1000 athletes, the competition was impressive and some of the athletes may be on the next Olympic team. If you're a fan of track and field, there's another big meet in two weeks.
Here's a link to the UW story about the meet: http://www.gohuskies.com/sports/c-track/recaps/011710aaa.html

hankster, i would ask parker about your great-grandfather

Hey, sorry I was misleading in my initial post-My Goddaughter, Miz B, athough a runner, doesn't compete. Her friend has a scholarship to run at Stanford. Miz B and I went to watch, talk to her bud and watch the competition. Miz B is too focused on studying to compete. She studies on Friday nd Saturday nights! I made her watch 'Animal House' as a training film before she off to UW but it didn't take.