Tulsa Area Triathletes (TAT) is a non-profit Oklahoma corporation with a mission of promoting and providing fair and safe competitive multi-sport events and training opportunities for individuals of all ages and abilities. This page is for triathletes and friends in our area, not just paid members in TAT, but you must be a paid member to join in our open-water swimming, or at our club ORU pool swims. Please check us out here, at socials, rides and runs-- then we think you will want to join in real life too!
2017 Board:
Scott Suurmeyer-- President
Julie Adelson-- President-elect
Tommy WIlliams-- Membership
Barbara Pinkerton-- Secretary
Robert Broaddus-- Treasurer
Jana Rugg, Frank Holdsclaw, Melissa Powell, Chris Lowers and Hallie Green-- members-at-large
All paid club members are welcomed at monthly board meetings. Currently meeting at Lefty's on Greenwood, 10 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK
TAT is a non-profit Oklahoma corporation with a mission of promoting and providing fair and safe competitive multi-sport events and training opportunities for individuals of all ages and abilities in the South Midwest Region of USA Triathlon, the national governing body. The board of directors is charged with the responsibility of providing an environment that promotes social interaction between multi-sport athletes and cooperation between other sister clubs of “single” sport clubs in the area (i.e. TAT was organized in 1996 as way of bringing together multisports athletes in the Tulsa area. At the time, the only other options were to join the Tulsa Wheelman Multisport committee, or the Tulsa Running Club. With an initial cash sponsorship from the Doenges Brothers, Larry Krutka initiated the move toward forming a separate multisport organization and the Tulsa Area Triathletes club was born. The goal of the club was to provide a stable foundation for the multisport community, to help organize quality multisport events, and to offer a network for multisport athletes to ‘play’ together. (Keep in mind that at the time, the internet was not available as a viable resource.) John’s Indoor Triathlon, the President’s Cup Triathlon (in Bixby; later rejuvenated and renamed the ‘Spring Fever Triathlon’ by Paul Wood and ultimately moved to Claremore, and moved to Jenks for 2016.), the Doenges Brothers Tulsa Triathlon (currently the 'Tri Tulsa Triathlon Festival' ), and the Tulsa Duathlon (now the 'Chris Brown Tulsa Duathlon', in honor of the now-deceased long-time race director, Chris Brown). Later, the club provided support (advisory and volunteers) for the St. John’s Splash ‘n Dash and the Tulsa Parks Department Kids’ Triathlon. For few years, the club also sponsored the McMurtry Offroad Duathlon, although that event is no longer in existence. In 2000, TAT began offering a free ‘Triathlon101 clinic’ to introduce interested newcomers to the ins and outs of multisports. Recently, the club has offered informational ‘mini-clinics’ prior to the monthly club meetings.
