Garden City’s Doug Escher, left, accepted his award from Dan Badalament, who was the club’s champion in the 60-64 age group the preceding two years. The December 20th open meeting of the Greater Long Island Running Club was the club’s annual Awards Night, and two Garden City athletes were honored for their accomplishments this year.

Doug Escher was the club’s 2005 champion in the 60-64 age group. An outstanding athlete who has scored first or second in the age group in virtually every Long Island race in which he participated this year. Doug’s accomplishments on the roads in 2005 proved once again that he’s “getting better, not older.”

Katie Di Camillo scored as the club’s woman’s champion for 2005 in the 15-19 age group. One of Long Island’s must successful cross country and track runners as a high school star at Holy Trinity High School, she now is one of the mainstays of the Providence College track team, where she continues to excel.

“Doug and Katie are two outstanding athletes as well as two very nice people,” observed GLIRC President Mike Polansky, “so it is a special pleasure for us to present these prestigious awards to them. We look for both Kathy and Victor to be even better than ever in 2006!”