TAT - Tulsa Area TriAthletes

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Membership Application
Meetings—Time & Location

Mission Statement
History

2009 Board of Directors

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Tulsa Area Triathletes communicates most frequently through the TAT-OK Yahoo! Group. To sign up go to Yahoo Groups and enter TAT-OK in the search field.

Membership Application

Reasons why you should join TAT:

We will update this section as our membership benefits grow and change. For 2009 your membership includes:

* Access to our FREE weekly swim training (see website). Through at least April 30, 2009 this means swimming in a 50 meter indoor pool at ORU!!

* Club tri-gear (bike and tri kits) to be available for purchase (subsidized substantially by club sponsor), as it becomes available EARLY 2009. Info TBA at website.

* General Liability and Sport Accident policy: covers you during all TAT calendared activities, such as accidents during Wednesday Night Rides, Skiatook swims, club runs, and so forth.

* Also, since our races are USAT sanctioned you have coverage during races); other "races" that are not USAT sanctioned (e.g., a just-for-fun triathlon) will now have accident coverage. (e.g., Polar Bear Challenge)

* POSSIBLE DISCOUNT off entry fee for Fleet Feet's three multisport events in 2009. Details TBA.

* Discounts from area swim/bike/run merchants, including Core Multisport in Tulsa. SUBSTANTIAL members-only Rudy Project merchandise discounts.

* Social and training events for all ability levels. In the past we have had spin classes on Power Cranks stationary bikes, bike rides to area wineries.... and parties at local restaurants!

*A durable oval TAT car sticker (two if Family Membership level chosen). NEW LOGO 2009.
* Latex club swim caps included in membership.
* Working on adding more small club perks (gear bag membership/ID tag?)

* Temporary tattoos with TAT logo available for kids later in 2009

* Access to our lending library

* NEW 2009: CAMP TRI '09 Newbie program!

We're going paper-less, and you can sign-up only on-line: JOIN TAT NOW. New Logo and New Gear is just around the corner. Start your 2009 season with some cool stuff.

Meeting Times & Locations

TAT currently meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. The default location is the YWCA near 21st and Lewis--in the up-stairs conference room. Meetings are open to all members, and all interested multisport athletes.

Mission Statement

Tulsa Area Triathletes (TAT) is a non-profit Oklahoma corporation with a mission of promoting and providing fair and safe competitive multi-sport events and training opportunities for individuals of all ages and abilities in the South Midwest Region of USA Triathlon, the national governing body. The board of directors is charged with the responsibility of providing an environment that promotes social interaction between multi-sport athletes and cooperation between other sister clubs of “single” sport clubs in the area (i.e. swim, bike and running clubs).

History

TAT was organized in 1996 as way of bringing together multisports athletes in the Tulsa area. At the time, the only other options were to join the Tulsa Wheelman Multisport committee, or the Tulsa Running Club. With an initial cash sponsorship from the Doenges Brothers, Larry Krutka initiated the move toward forming a separate multisport organization and the Tulsa Area Triathletes club was born. The goal of the club was to provide a stable foundation for the multisport community, to help organize quality multisport events, and to offer a network for multisport athletes to ‘play’ together. (Keep in mind that at the time, the internet was not available as a viable resource.) Susie Evans designed the original club logo, which incorporated a rendition of the Tulsa skyline.

Verbal agreements were established among the local bike shops and a few athletic apparel stores for TAT members to receive a 10% discount for their purchases. Most of those agreements are still honored today. David Sexton was instated as the first club president (subsequent presidents were Janice Nicklas, Paul Wood, Jim Beach, Lisa Wei-Haas, Raton Parmain, Maureen Callahan, Clay Rahn and Trist Bycroft. Over the years, TAT membership has expanded and contracted, at one time reaching an all-time high of over 160 members. The club initially mailed monthly newsletters to its members until approached in 1999 by Jane Hawkins of the Oklahoma Runner magazine. At the time, she hoped to incorporate more multisports news into the publication and offered several pages in each issue for TAT to publish our club news, in addition to changing the name of the magazine to ‘Oklahoma Runner and Triathlete’.

TAT assumed leadership of or affiliation with the St. John’s Indoor Triathlon, the President’s Cup Triathlon (in Bixby; later rejuvenated and renamed the ‘Spring Fever Triathlon’ by Paul Wood and ultimately moved to Claremore), the Doenges Brothers Tulsa Triathlon (currently the ‘Tulsa Triathlon’, staged at Skiatook Lake), and the Tulsa Duathlon (now the Chris Brown Tulsa Duathlon, in honor of long-time race director, Chris Brown). Later, the club provided support (advisory and volunteers) for the St. John’s Splash ‘n Dash and the Tulsa Parks Department Kids’ Triathlon. For few years, the club also sponsored the McMurtry Offroad Duathlon, although that event is no longer in existence. In 2000, TAT began offering a free ‘Triathlon101 clinic’ to introduce interested newcomers to the ins and outs of multisports.

2009 Board Members