Our club, registered as an independent NC nonprofit organization in 1981, traces its roots to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill running club founded in the 1975-6 school year by an undergraduate Morehead Scholar, David Royle, from England. Its name was a whimsical tribute to a thriving cross-country club, the Coventry Godiva Harriers, established a century earlier (ca. 1879) in  David's homeland. That's how we became the Carolina Godiva Track Club.

Listed below are some special Godivans who have distinguished themselves by winning awards, serving as  club president, or volunteering as editor of our monthly newsletter.

Annual Awards

Year	Volunteer of the Year	Male Runner of the Year	Female Runner of the Year
1984	Joel Gempler	Dave Smith (open)	Janice High (open)
		Bill Hall (master)	Martha Klopfer (master)
1985	Margrid Krueger	Ed Daw	Janice High
1986	Rick Whaley	Ed Darken	Martha Klopfer
1987	Jim Reagan	Ole Holsti	Janice High
1988	Rob Montgomery	Dave Vandenbroek	Margie Stockton
	Margrid Krueger
1989	Fred Askin	Maurice McDonald	Gretchen Klopfer
1990	Margie Stockton	Brian Palmer	Lena Hollmann
1991	Martin Shipp	Owen Astrachan	Martha Klopfer
1992	Tom & Gail Fowler	Jim Clabuesch	Lynn Lashley
1993	Paul Naylor	Brian Palmer	Lena Hollmann
1994	Margrid Krueger	Ole Holsti	Sue Cullen
1995	Judy Thomson	Harvey Goldstein	Lena Hollmann
1996	Gordon Keeler	Curt Clausen	Betsy Kempter
1997	Patrick Bruer	Jim Clabuesch	Diane Vandenbroek
1998	Gordon Keeler	Paul Gronke	Missy Foy
1999	Charles Alden	Larry Miller	Missy Foy
2000	Tom Kirby	Jim Clabuesch	Cathy Wides
2001	Karla Henderson	Emil Ardelean	Rachel Toor
2002	Carolyn Huettel	Max Hamlyn	Ann Miller
2003	Bruce Koenig (posth.)	Paul Bloom	Denise Fry
2004	Barbara Hindenach	Kevin Nickodem	Shelly Bloom
2005	Chris Crowder	Paul Jones	Heather Yeowell
	Bob Nelson
2006	Chris Selvaggi	Ronnie Weed	Karen Murphy
2007	Jim Clabuesch	Mike Aldrink	Denise Larson
2008	Don Anthony	Paul Greene	Claudia Clarke
2009	Patrick Bruer	Abie Harris	Mary Szymkowski
		Paul Potorti
2010	Halle Amick	Ulf André	Yvonne Ou
2011	J. Mickey Fong	Anthony Corriveau	Shannon Johnstone
2012	Kevin Nickodem	Tim Meigs	Cathy Wides
2013	Aline Lloyd	Bart Bechard	Rietta Couper
2014	Shauna Griffin	Kevin Nickodem	Louise Guardino
2015	Richard Wolfe	Greg Sousa	Jess Broglie
2016	Denise Larson	Mike Kelley	Tina Clossick
2017	Doug Hensel	Kevin McCabe	Megan Sullivan
2018	Susie Hansley	William Harris	Ariana Bevilacqua
2019	Ethan Caldwell	Mark Manz	Roxanne Springer
2020	Patrick Bruer	Tom Griffin	Melissa Chiti
2021	Shannon Johnstone and Anthony Corriveau	Kevin McCabe	Kim Manturuk
2022	Bill Harris	Rees Stiles	Julie Messina
2023	Heiko Rath	Kevin Rumsey	Beth Steffens
2024	Patrick Gale Julie Messina	Chris Gould	Corrine McCarthy

 

Special Awards

Dave Smith Award for Meritorious Running and Service

1987	Rob Montgomery
1988	Tom Trent
1989	Margrid Krueger
2007	Ole Holsti

 

David Royle Award for Visionary Community Outreach

2001	Sam Griffith and Anne Marie Mulhern - founders of the Marathon Training Program
2016	Julie Messina and Martin Warters - founders of the Durham parkrun
2023	Gordon Keeler - to recognize years of exceptional service to the running community

 

 

True Grit Award for Inspirational Involvment

2020	Susan Hoerger
2022	Richard Wolfe

 

Presidents of Godiva Track Club

Year	President
1975-1978	David Royle
1978-1979	Roland Rust
1979-1980	Walter High “Director of Operations”
1981-2/1984	Walter High
3/1984-1986	Rob Montgomery
1987	Kim Anglin
1988	Martha Klopfer
1989	Paul Naylor
1990	Margie Stockton
1991	Owen Astrachan
1992	Tom Fowler
1/1993-4/1993	Martin Shipp
5/1993-8/1993	Tom Fowler
9/1993-12/1993	Owen Astrachan
1994	John Horton
1995	Brian Palmer
1996	Gene Casale
1997	Jim Thornton
1998	Mickey Lackey
1999	Chris Crowder
2000	Chris Shields
2001	Lisa Beck
2002	Sam Griffith
2003	Chris Selvaggi
2004	Paul Bloom
2005	Heather Sherrard
2006	Karla Henderson
2007	Patrick Bruer
2008	Tom Kirby
2009	Aline Lloyd
2010	Chris Gould
2011	Chris Boyce
2012	Halle Amick
2013	Doug Hensel
2014	Brandy Burns
2015	Jamie Lewis
2016	Jess Broglie
2017	Anthony Corriveau
2018	Bill Harris
2019	Heiko Rath
2020	Ariana Bevilacqua
2021	Susie Castellanos Hansley
2022	Kevin Rumsey
2023	Jo Chiti

 

Godiva Newsletter Editors

1977 (Issues 1 & 2)	David Royle
1978	Eloise Grathwohl
1979	Walter High
1980-2/1981	Gary Hansell
3/1981-9/1982	Bonnie Hanks
10/1982	Walter High
11/1982-6/1984	Ellen Covey
7/1984-9/1990	Margrid Krueger
10/1990-4/1992	Martin Brody
5/1992-12/1993	Margrid Krueger
1994-1/1995	Karla Henderson
2/1995-1/1996	Paul Gronke
2/1996-1998	Patrick Bruer
1999-5/2006	Tom Kirby
6/2006-7/2006	John Lloyd
8/2006	Tom Kirby
9/2006-12/2006	Patrick Bruer
2007-6/2008	Claudia Clarke
7/2008-10/2010	Jennifer (Mickey) Fong
11/2010-6/2012	Thomas Markham
7/2012-10/2012	Anthony Corriveau
11/2012-4/2014	Shauna Griffin
5/2014-6/2015	Ravi Kashyap
7/2015 -2/2019	Susie Hansley
3/2019-	Mark Manz