SPORTS
Still Running
Motor City Striders' race director
gets back into coaching.
Steve Stein
Special to The Jewish News
A
t age 65, Ed Kozloff is
embarking on a new adven-
ture in the world of run-
ning. Or, as he calls it, "a new link in
the chain."
Kozloff, president of the Motor
City Striders running club since 1975
and the race director for more than
900 running events, has been named
coach of the men's and women's cross
country teams at Schoolcraft College
in Livonia.
This isn't Kozloff's first coach-
ing experience. He coached cross
country and track at Highland Park
Community College in the 1970s
and at the University of Michigan-
Dearborn in the 1980s. But a call from
Schoolcraft Athletic Director Sid Fox,
who was the A.D. at U-M Dearborn
when Kozloff coached there, caught
Kozloff off guard.
"The call from Sid came out of the
blue. I don't think I'd talked to him
in 10 years:' Kozloff said. "He told me
about the opening at Schoolcraft and
asked if I was interested. It didn't take
long for me to say yes.
"I had very positive experiences
coaching at Highland Park and U-M
Dearborn, and I think Schoolcraft is
an attractive college choice for area
high school runners, considering the
price of gas these days:"
"We're very pleased to have Ed
Kozloff join Schoolcraft," Fox said.
"He brings integrity and tremendous
coaching experience to our cross
country programs. The college will
benefit academically and athletically
from his presence on our campus."
Schoolcraft has an outstanding
women's cross country program. The
team finished 18th in 2006 and 32nd
in 2007 at the National Junior College
Athletic Association Division I meet.
Last year's team had a combined 3.67
She's At Skidmore
Olivia Weiner is a freshman outfield-
er on the Skidmore College (Saratoga
Springs, N.Y.) softball team.
The Franklin resident and Detroit
County Day School grad went
to the plate just five times in the
Thoroughbreds' first 34 games this
grade-point average on a 4.0 scale,
the highest among NJCAA Division I
teams.
There hasn't been a men's cross
country team at Schoolcraft for years.
Kozloff will have to build that pro-
gram from the ground up. The men
will compete in NJCAA Division III,
which means no scholarship money
can be used.
Kozloff has been retired since 2005.
That's when he accepted a too-good-
to-pass-up buyout package from
Warren Consolidated Schools, where
he was a teacher, track and swimming
coach for 36 years.
Kozloff and the Striders are putting
on a limited number of races these
days. But the biggest is a huge one
— the Susan G. Komen Race for the
Cure will attract 25,000 participants
May 31 at Comerica Park.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s,
the Striders were the host club for
more than 30 races a year and there
were about 1,200 members. That
made it one of the five biggest run-
ning clubs in the country. In 2000,
there were more than 50,000 entrants
in Striders' races.
The Striders launched the Motor
City Marathon in 1963. That race is
now known as the Detroit Free Press
International Marathon. After serv-
ing as the marathon's race director
for several years, Kozloff is now the
course director.
Kozloff and his wife Sue, an enor-
mous help at many Striders races,
have lived in the same home in
Huntington Woods since 1971. They
have three grown children.
After serving in the U.S. Army Reserve
as a medical corpsman in the early
1960s, Kozloff earned a bachelor of
science degree from Wayne State
University, a master of science degree
from the University of Colorado,
and a doctorate from Florida State
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