Posted by Stephanie on November 26, 2009
I hope everyone is doing well on Thanksgiving weekend. I am blessed to be spending the weekend with my husband’s family up in beautiful Lake Tahoe. We had Jerry’s famous breakfast cassarole this morning and watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade on TV. It’s funny to watch all of the singers lip-syncing to thier pop tunes. [...]
Posted by Stephanie on November 11, 2009
Some cool happenings: Kiley, eighth grade discus thrower at Slinger Middle School in Wisconsin, threw 104 feet at the opening track meet, shattering the school record held for over twelve years. Her coach Rachel Womack presented her with a neat autographed collage at the end of year party last month. Cheers to the next generation of discus [...]
Posted by Stephanie on September 11, 2009
Here’s a great article that documents my visit to the St Albans Athletic Club. It was published earlier this week in the St Albans & Harpenden Review. * * * Olympic gold medallist visits St Albans If the athletes of St Albans AC needed inspiration ahead of this weekend’s Eastern Young Athletes League final, it [...]
Posted by Stephanie on August 31, 2009
I’ve been working hard and playing a bit too while visiting my family in England. Staying with Jonathan and Anne has been great, they are such a loving family and Anne cooks the best soups ever! Jon and Sarah, my cousin, have the same wacky spontaneous personality that I do and we could get into [...]
Posted by Stephanie on August 21, 2009
Have you ever read a Nicholas Sparks novel? Most are filled with drama and heartbreak yet are so inspirational and gripping. My particular story has taken a heartbreaking turn, hasn’t it? I did not come close to winning a medal tonight. I knew that this meet would be a turning point for me, either I would [...]
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Wow! I don’t think I could have come much closer to bombing at my first World Champs. And I don’t mean the good kind of bomb, like when I “dropped a bomb” in the first round in Beijing. This time I actually bombed in the qualifying meet and had my second worst throw of the [...]
Posted by Stephanie on August 18, 2009
It seems like the time has passed by so quickly but I have been here a week already. Over the last few days I have practiced according to my schedule and even had some time off to go to visit a standing section of the Berlin Wall (click here), cruise on the River Spree, and speak in [...]
Posted by Stephanie on August 17, 2009
Here’s an article we came across from UniversalSports.com: =============================================================== Stephanie Brown Trafton was among a delegation of American coaches and athletes invited to take an official walk-through of the Olympic Stadium here this morning, the first time Team USA has done so since the 1936 Games. The structure is, in a word, colossal. When you [...]
Posted by Stephanie on August 16, 2009
Today we walk to the accreditation center to get our credential. Credentials are like gold here; a passport to all things Championship. A credential will get you into the venue for all sessions, meals and entry to the hotels, official bus transportation and free travel on all the public transit in Berlin. I am in [...]
Posted by Stephanie on August 15, 2009
Getting settled into the hotel is the first order of business. The first night we eat at the hotel cafe under the atrium. Cozy and comfortable dining with dim light from mini candles and soft music from the piano in the lobby. The hotel room has two twin beds, just wide enough for me to lie down [...]
