I had to make a run to Sam’s Club this evening for some items, so I did not accomplish nearly as much as I would have liked with e-mail contacts. I hope that with tomorrow’s Zoom meeting and the upcoming weekend, I will be able to gain a little more ground. Fortunately, I managed to gather over two hundred e-mails for track and field delegations worldwide in such a short amount of time. World Athletics, which oversees the sport, made it pretty simple to do by assigning a three-letter code to each country, much like what is used to identify airports. If you fly into Los Angeles International, for instance, the tags that airlines print and attach to your luggage will direct it to LAX.
Even better, World Athletics uses the three-letter code as the format for its e-mails. The United States federation has the appropriate code of “USA” and if one was so inclined to contact them, they can do so at usa@mf.worldathletics.org (World Athletics, n.d.). Based on the previous research I did, USA Track & Field has its own e-mail format as well, which can be found on their website. Olympic-affiliated organizations are a lot more open to contact from the public than the major NCAA conferences. With Athletics out of the way, I have now gone through four sports and working in alphabetical order, I am still in the A’s. A lot more work to do on this front, but it is not a top priority and we shall see what comes out of the Zoom meeting tomorrow.
Reference
World Athletics. (n.d.). USA Track & Field. Retrieved from https://www.worldathletics.org/about-iaaf/structure/member-federations/northcentral-americac