Dr.Tommie Smith with Berkeley High students

Olympic Gold Medalist Dr. Tommie Smith with Berkeley High School students after his speaking engagement at the school, May 2009.

Dr.Tommie & Dolores Smith

Olympic Gold Medalist Tommie Smith, with his wife Dolores (at right), talk with a Berkeley High School faculty member.

Coach White & Coach Walker

Former Berkeley High Track Coach, and Berkeley East Bay Track Club founder (1975), Coach Willie White. On right, present Head Coach of BEBTC Ralph Walker.Coach White was Coach Walker high school Coach He also is one of the best high school coaches ever He is the only coach to win both Girls and Boys high school sate meets at the same time

Dini Chandra & Tanni Ogunmayin

Dini, mother of Anna & Manjula, Kuriyan, and Tanni, mother of Tayo & Tunji Ogunmayin, at track club practice Berkeley High 2009.

Coach John Boston

Coach John Boston at track practice, Berkeley High 2009

Coach Walker running 1st leg 440 Relay Team Berkeley High 1971

Coach Walker's 440 Relay Team at Berkeley High School were the North Coast Champions in 1971. The winning time was 42.1 seconds. The Berkeley High Track Team were also the Northern California Team Champions.

Tayo Ogunmayin winning 200m. Tommie Smith Track Meet May 2009

Team Captain Tayo Ogunmayin seen here winning the 200 meters dash at the Tommie Smith Track Meet at UC Berkeley in May 2009. She went on to take Gold Medals in the 100 and 200 meter dash at the West Coast Junior Olympics in Reno in July 2009.

Gifford Hartman (L) and Coach Walker

Gifford Hartman, Computer Lab Coordinator at the Berkeley Reads Adult Literacy Program at the West Branch of the Berkeley Public Library, helping Coach Walker with computer work for the track club. (Any adult interested in literacy tutoring at Berkeley Reads can come into the West Branch at 1125 University Ave. or give the program a call: 510-981-6299)

Olympic Gold Medalist John Carlos (L) with Coach Walker

Photo from Olympic Dinner in February 2009 honoring both Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold medalists from the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.

Anna Kuriyan long jump Tommie Smith Track Meet 2009

Eddie Hart with kids at his Olympic Clinic June, 2008

Manjula and former team member Jackson at Tommie Smith Track Meet 2007

Berkeley East Bay Track Club team practice 2009

(From left to right) Coach Ronell, Ricky Bonds, Natanee Collins, and Coach Walker.

Stop the Violence Track Meet, Vallejo CA, August 2008

400 meter relay team -- 1st place! (Front left to right) Quenton Boyette, Robert Smith, Hyram Jacob, and Tunji Ogunmayin.

Berkeley East Bay Track Club team picture at Tommie Smith Youth Track Meet May 2009

Ron Dellum Track Meet Relay

400 rely team -- 1st place! Robert Smith (right) running anchor leg and overtaking runner.