MEMBER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Gillis Bowden has run in every marathon in Ohio and completed a marathon in each state in the union getting number 50 in April 2014.

Elizabeth Brown has completed the prestigious Boston Marathon four times, 1993, 1994, 2005 and 2006. She has completed marathons in Paris and Pauillac, France Amsterdam, Holland Lisbon, Portugal Quebec City, Calgary, and Montreal in Canada Lausanne, Switzerland, Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Vienna Austria. Natalie Graves has Lisbon, Portugal Quebec City, Calgary, and Montreal Canada Lausanne, Switzerland and Belo Horizonte, Brazil in her international race calendar of events.

Frances Gilbert has participated in each of the NBMA target annual events. Frances Gilbert, Elizabeth Brown, Kim Zellars and Najiyyah Duncan have all scored awards at the women’s only Fleet Feet Lady Distance Classic. Frances Gilbert was inducted in the inaugural class of the NBMA Hall of Fame at the Richmond, Virginia event on November 16, 2014.

At the December 2015, Dallas Texas, Elizabeth Brown was inducted into the NBMA Hall of Fame as a distance runner while the Avondale Running Club was inducted into the NBMA Hall of Fame as the oldest organized African American running club in the nation.

Over the years the club has accumulated finishers medals and awards too numerous to count.