DMSE Sports

Event and Race Production Experience

BAA BOSTON MARATHON – RACE DIRECTOR

Responsible for all the technical and logistical aspects of the oldest and most prestigious marathon in the world. Oversees an Organizing Committee of over seventy-five key experts, consultants and vendors. Partly responsible for the overwhelming success of the 100th running of the Boston Marathon in 1996 which attracted the largest marathon field in history, over 38,000 runners. Runs the entire marathon course alone and at night, once his duties as Race Director are complete. Has run at total of 125 marathons, 38 consecutive Boston Marathons, 21 at night.
 

1996 ATLANTA OLYMPICS – VENUE MANAGEMENT TEAM (1996)

Assisted ACOG in the area of Venue Management for all the road events in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games including the men’s and women’s marathon, road cycle events and race walking events. Instrumental in directing the very last Olympic Marathoner into the Olympic Stadium even after the stadium was closed to prepare for closing ceremonies, a scene which arguably was one of the most emotional highlights of the entire Olympic Games.
 

TRIATHLON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP – RACE DIRECTOR (1990)

Race director of the 2nd Triathlon World Championship ever held. Race was conducted at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. A dream came true when Karen Smyers, a US athlete who McGillivray represented, came from behind to win the race.

GOODWILL GAMES TRIATHLON – COMPETITION MANAGER (1998)

Selected by Turner Sports as the Competition Manager of the 1998 Goodwill Games Triathlon held in New York City. This triathlon was perhaps the most complex and difficult triathlon ever conducted in the world. The swim was in the Hudson River, the bike up FDR drive, through lower Manhattan and Times Square and the run was conducted in Central Park.

TD BANK BEACH TO BEACON 10K ROAD RACE – DIRECTOR (’98-present)

Founded by Olympic Gold Medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson in 1998, the TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race, held in Samuelson’s hometown of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, has become one of the top 10K road races in America. Samuelson retained McGillivray to serve as the event’s Race Director and has since called McGillivray "the most organized and gifted race director in the world." Organizers expanded the field size from 3,000 at its inception, to its current size of 6,000 runners in order to accomodate its popularity and reputation as one of the races to run. Elites from all over the world, as well as top US runners from New England and across the US all contribute to the fact that the TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race registration sells out in just one hour.
 

OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS / RACE DIRECTOR ACHIEVEMENTS

• Awarded the prestigious "Jimmy Award" by the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for his more than 30 years of contributing time and expertise that has translated into helping to raise millions of dollars for cancer research and treatment for this world-renowned Cancer Center.
• Named "Hero of Running" by Runner's World Magazine - 2007.
• Awarded the Lazarus House "Christ the Servant Award" in 2006 for continuous dedication to the "unloved and forgotten" who are served by the Lazarus House Ministries.
• Proclaimed "Honorary Citizen" of the Town of Hopkinton, Massachusetts - 2007
•  Chosen Race Director of the Year 2000 by Road Race Management
• Lifetime Achievement Award 2000 by Competitor Magazine
• Race Director – 2003 US Women’s Marathon National Championship
• Race Director – 2004 USA Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials
• Race Director – Monster Challenge: Tri Boston (2001 to present)
• Race Director – BAA Half Marathon (2001 to present)
• Race Director – 2002 Trigon Bay Bridge Marathon – Virginia Beach, VA
• Director – America’s Paradise Triathlon – St. Thomas, USVI (1993)
• Chancellor Challenge 100K Road Race – Boston, MA (1999, 2000)
• Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk – Boston, MA (raising over $5 million a year for the Jimmy Fund of Boston, McGillivray’s favorite charity; 10,000 walkers along the famous Boston Marathon course (1989 – present)
• Directed or consulted on over 900 mass-participatory athletic events since 1982
• Directed over 150 triathlons throughout the US and abroad
• Directed three ITU Triathlon World Cup races in Bermuda
• Directed Pan American Triathlon Championship
• Directed four National Ultra Distance Triathlon Championships
• Created the New England Triathlon Series in 1983, perhaps the oldest or one of the oldest ongoing triathlon series in the US
• Has raised millions of dollars personally and through DMSE for numerous worthwhile charities
• Agent to the Stars – has represented many of the world’s greatest triathletes including Dave Scott, Karen Smyers, Mike Pigg, Scott Molina, Erin Baker, Ken Glah, Jan Ripple, Harold Robinson