Tracy Sundlun Competitor Group

Tracy is best known currently as the SVP of Global Events for the Competitor Group and one of the founders of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series in 1998, which now involves 29 events in 15 states, Washington DC, and 6 other countries, in which some 600,000 runners compete each year. He has over 4 decades of involvement in virtually every facet of the sports of track and field, long distance running, and race walking. His experience includes everything from coaching (including at Georgetown, Colorado and USC, and more than 100 men and women in just about every event, from 15 countries who have represented their country in the Olympic Games or other international competitions); to sports administration (in charge of the New York Metropolitan area’s association of The Athletics Congress / USA Track & Field as the sport’s 1st paid association Executive Director for 16 years); to event creation (as the founder of the National Scholastic [high school] Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships [now the New Balance Indoor and Outdoor Nationals] in addition to Rock ‘n’ Roll); to athlete representation and sponsorship sales and charity fundraising.

Tracy has been at the forefront of a number of the sports’ innovations and advances over the past 40 years, including as the original leader in 1974 of the effort to introduce and involve chiropractic in track & field and with the USOC and the various national sports governing bodies, and then later in 1980, he initiated the first test case which lead to open running as we know it today with prize money and above-the-table appearance money.

His actions, events, and programs have always epitomized his core belief that sport should impact all of society; be greater than the sum of its parts; is only as strong as its weakest link; and look to include as opposed to exclude, involving all constituencies and athletes of all ages and abilities. His most recent accolades include being Inducted into the Running USA Hall of Champions, being named “One of the 50 Most Influential People in Running” by Runner’s World Magazine, and being selected as the Head Manager of the United States Men’s Track & Field Team for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.