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Dave McGillivray, Race Director of
the B.A.A. Boston Marathon and B.A.A. Half-Marathon,
manages and oversees all operational and logistical
aspects of these world-class events. McGillivray will
also direct the 2008 U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Trials
- Women's Marathon in Boston. In 1996, McGillivray established
himself as one of the world's premier race directors
with his successful coordination of the 100th Boston
Marathon which attracted a field size of nearly 40,000
participants, the largest in BAA history.
McGillivray is president of Dave McGillivray
Sports Enterprises (DMSE), Inc., an event management
company which creates, markets and produces mass-participatory
athletic events throughout the US. DMSE directed the
US Women's Olympic Marathon Trials in 2004, the 1990
ITU Triathlon World Championship; and consulted on the
1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. DMSE also directs the TD
Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10K, the Denver Marathon and
the Marathon of the Palm Beaches as well as numerous
other world-class events. (dmsesports.com)
Athletically, McGillivray, 53, first
gained national prominence in 1978 when he ran across
the US to raise money for the Jimmy Fund. In 2004, McGillivray
ran cross-country again as part of a relay team event
called TREK USA which he founded. He has run 122 marathons,
completed 8 Hawaii Ironman Triathlons, run up the East
Coast of the US, run for 24 hours, biked for 24 hours
and swam for 24 hours...all to raise money for numerous
worthwhile causes. In 2003, the DMSE Children's Fitness
Foundation was established with a focus on funding nonprofit
organizations that use running as a vehicle to promote
physical fitness in children.
In 2005 McGillivray was inducted into
Running USA's Hall of Champions. Among other recognitions
he has received are Competitor Magazine's Lifetime Achievement
Award for more than 20 years of service to the sport
of road racing and triathlons. In 2000, he was named
Race Director of the Year by the running industry's
Road Race Management, Inc., and in 2007 Runner's World
Magazine named him one of their Heroes of Running.
The Last Pick, (Rodale Press),
authored by McGillivray (with Linda Glass Fechter),
was published in April 2006. It chronicles his career
while motivating and inspiring the reader to never underestimate
their own ability to set and achieve goals.
McGillivray, resides in North Andover,
Mass. with wife Katie. He has four children, Max, Ryan,
Elle, and Luke.
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