V O L U N T E E R

Volunteer Coordinator:
Robin Hopkins

updated 9.4.2023

Opportunities

Volunteers are the foundation for creating an active, fun, and productive club, and are hugely appreciated for their contributions to the running community. Each year, the Club recognizes the many hours spent by our member volunteers with an invitation to the ARR Volunteer Appreciation Banquet, held at a local restaurant.

Albuquerque Road Runners Club welcomes volunteers to assist with:

• staging Club Races and Fun Runs
• making our Women in Training Program happen - be a mentor!
• helping with Trail Cleanup
• helping at other community races, such as Duke City Marathon as pace group leaders and Bag Drop staff
• representing the Club at local health fairs and race expo events​
• and anything else that may come up!

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Volunteer Hall of Fame Inductees are listed at the bottom of page.

VOLUNTEER BANQUET for 2022 - Held on February 1, 2023

Forty ARR members and guests attended our Club's Volunteer Banquet, enjoying a buffet meal of pizza and assorted Italian foods and visiting with old friends and new. President Tom Besson welcomed and thanked our volunteers for their invaluable service to the club in 2022, and then announced the two newest honorees to the Volunteer Hall of Fame:  Dina Hammad, for her four years serving as the Club's Treasurer, and Norm Gagne, attorney, for his ongoing advocacy for the return of the La Luz Trail Run, an ARR Club race.

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Norm Gagne and Dina Hammad, newly inducted into the Volunteer Hall of Fame

VOLUNTEER BANQUET for 2019 - HELD ON JANUARY 25, 2020

Albuquerque Road Runners Club is pleased to announce our newest inductee into the ARR Volunteer Hall of Fame:

Tom Besson 
Tom has been with the club for many years, is a member of the ARR Board of Directors, and is the Director of the club's Women's Distance Festival 5K Run and Walk. He also directed the race in 2018 and 2019.
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Tom was congratulated by ARR President Kurt Coonrod, and received a rousing round of applause for his work on behalf of the club. Additionally, Tom presented a book The Crash of TWA Flight 260 to Rodger Sack, now-retired La Luz Race Director, and to Jeff and Cheryl Williams, the Club's newest race directors for La Luz.

The banquet took place at Standard Diner on Central Avenue. Forty club members and family attended and enjoyed a three-course meal. Again this year, Volunteer Coordinator Kelley Garcia and husband Joaquin presented attendees with a gift bottle of wine, delivered in a reusable ARR tote bag.
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Congratulations to Tom, and thank you to all our volunteers for their service to the club in 2019.

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Volunteer Hall of Fame

Eric C. and Cathy Pearce
Kurt Coonrod
Matt Vaive
John and Barbara McHaffie
Rodger Sack
Will Steinberg
Paul Grosvenor
Terry Bisbee
Victor Nemudrov
Kennalee Nemudrov
Larry Mounger
Patrice Leddy
Mary Ann Bosworth
John Farrow
Ken Vernon
Bill Nebe
Rolf and Donna Engleman
Ed Heller
Roxanne Miller
Jean Herbert
Marcel Hesch
Kathy McDonald
Rick and Jean Garlie
Connie Sack
Stephanie Eras
Cece Niemczyk
Alan Overmier
Holly Palmer

​   2010
Richard Knapp
Karen Shackleford
Jane Thompson
Kelley Garcia
Joaquin Garcia

​   2011
Nicole Buerger
Richard Harris
Glenda Muirhead
Shannon Zanelli

​   2012
Ed Zanelli
Ken Gordon
Donald K Porter

   2013
Philip Blong
Jane and Charles Fuller
Martha Porter
Tammy Remiker

   2014
Eric Biedermann
Kathy Kirsling
Wendy Wiggins

   2015
Gwen Walker
Margaret Gordon
​Anna Williamson

   2016
Laura Biedermann
Joyce Fafard
Richard and Mary Overmier

   2017
Nicholas Juskiewicz
​Ian Maddieson

   2018
Jane Cudney-Black
Dennis Muirhead

   2019
​Tom Besson

   2022
Norm Gagne
​Dina Hammad