Each January, Mid Maryland Triathlon Club presents one of its club members with the
Volunteer of the Year Award. The club member must have shown outstanding dedication
and service to the club during the previous year. This award was first given in 2005
and the plaque with each name below is proudly displayed at Princeton Sports.
2009 - Dawn Rudolph
This awardee stands out above all others when it comes to volunteering. Remember
the 5am mid town Columbia Runs last winter or leading the Saturday morning bike rides?
How about the track workouts at Hammond High School last summer? Volunteering at trash
pick ups, the Columbia Triathlon tent, and 24 Hours of Booty - all the while
maintaining her training and racing throughout the year. She is one of a kind
with that great smile and heart of gold. If you need something, ask Dawn Rudolph.
She is always willing to step up to the plate and help out!
2008 - Michele Bull
It has been inspiring to track Michele's participation in the sport since she became a triathlete
and a Club member four years ago. Since then she has steadily increased her level of participation
and performance in the sport, moving from sprint to olympic to Half IM distances and is registered
for IM Florida in 2009. She has picked up a nice collection of hardware in the process. Over the
past year, she has taken an active leadership role in the Club. She has put a lot of time, effort
and commitment into our mentoring program and has held clinics for people new to triathlon before
the Tri to Win and Iron Girl races. In 2008, she started a new Iron Girl training group and made
herself available to lead rides and answer questions all summer while always making it a priority to
spend quality time with her family. Michele has also volunteered at many Club events: staffing the
rest stop at the first all-Club Howard County bike ride with her daughters,doing trash pick up on
our Adopt-a-Road project and just jumping in whenever help was needed. Michele personifies the ideal
of striving for personal excellence with the same passion she devotes to teaching and supporting those
who are just getting started. She is an outstanding example of the service and leadership our Club
values so highly.
2007 - Andrea Warfel
Andrea Warfel was selected for her outstanding service at monthly club meetings. She stepped up and
assumed the duties of overseeing the sales of club products when the officer who was previously in
charge vacated the position. Andrea arrived early for every meeting, set up the display, answered
members' questions, devised a system to keep track of inventory and very responsibly collected and
tallied all the sales then turned the proceeds over to the Club Treasurer. Her warm and welcoming
manner personified the image that is the hallmark of our Club.
2006 - Arnat Vale
Arnat put in many hours volunteering at our club tent throughout the 2006 season, running our
Run-Bike-Run workouts and generally pitching in wherever help was needed and without waiting to be
asked. Arnat contributed generously to MMTC through time and effort and the plaque he received cannot
really measure up to everything he did for our club. His achievement was particularly noteworthy because
while he was busy helping he managed to keep an extremely full race schedule, doing something nearly
every week! This was not an easy decision and we thank all the other folks who contributed to make our
club so succesful. Thanks, Arnat, thanks for being there for us, taking care of us and keeping
our spirits high!
2005 - Dave Jordan
Dave was the original "run-bike-run guy". Dave showed up each week at the Gateway loop with the bike racks and
timing equipment. He is credited with starting this tradition which now boasts a large following. He
received a plaque and his name is added as the first volunteer of the year for the
Mid Maryland Triathlon Club.
