Press Release - USATF - 10/12/10

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                          USATF Begins CEO search 

INDIANAPOLIS - USA Track & Field's board of directors has officially begun 
its search for a new CEO after forming a search committee and engaging the 
services of an executive search firm.  

Agassi Foundation CEO Steve Miller chairs the board's CEO search committee, 
which also consists of fellow board members Dr. Evie Dennis, Jeff Darman, 
Elizabeth Phillips, Deena Kastor and Steve Holman. 

Since mid-September, the search committee evaluated no fewer than six 
search firms and extensively interviewed three nationally known firms in 
person. The board voted during its meeting last weekend in Indianapolis to 
engage the services of California-based executive search firm Bialla & 
Associates. 

"Our search committee represents and has experience with all segments of 
the USATF family, and many are veterans of high-level executive searches in 
their professional lives," USATF President and Chairman of the Board 
Stephanie Hightower said. "We are extremely confident that this process 
will yield the best available candidate for our organization's top 
professional leadership position." 

The search committee and Bialla will work in concert to solicit input from 
USATF stakeholders in assessing the organization's leadership needs, then 
will develop a comprehensive job description. Creating an initial pool of 
candidates will begin immediately, with interviews likely to start after 
January 1. The search committee anticipates submitting two to three 
finalists to the full board for consideration in early 2011. No current 
USATF board members are candidates for the position.  

Bialla is a nationally recognized, retained executive search and management 
consulting firm with a proven ability to identify and deliver A-list 
leaders across a variety of industries and functions. Recent clients 
include Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Ski 
and Snowboard Association.  

For full biographies of CEO search committee members and the USATF board of 
directors, visit http://www.usatf.org/about/committees/BoardOfDirectors/.   

For questions about USATF's CEO search, or to provide information or 
feedback, email president@usatf.org.    

For more on Bialla, visit http://www.bialla.com/.   

About USA Track & Field
USA Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track & field, 
long-distance running and race walking in the United States. USATF 
encompasses the world's oldest organized sports, the World's #1 Track & 
Field Team, the most-watched events at the Olympics, the #1 high school and 
junior high school participatory sport, and more than 30 million adult 
runners in the United States: www.usatf.org. 

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