Person:Santee Brockman (1)

Orange County Register, The (Santa Ana, CA) -April 28, 1989

Deceased Name: Santee Brockman, half-miler in 1930s

Santee Brockman, one of the country's top half-milers in the mid-1930s and a longtime promotoer of athletics in the Detroit area, died Wednesday. He was 76.

Mr. Brockman had been living in Westminster with his daughter, Carmen Blake, since 1983.

Mr. Brockman, a graduate of Michigan Normal Colege (now Eastern Michigan University), won the Michigan Amateur Athletic Union half-mile championship three times. He took first place in teh 800-meter run in the 1936 Olympic trials Midwest preliminary meet. In the finals of the Olympic trials, he finished fourth in the 800 meters and missed by on place a trip to the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.

Mr. Brockman's contemporaries included sprinters Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe.

Mr. Brockman earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Michigan Normal and a master's in the same subject from Wayne State University.

After college, he taught physical education, organized youth track meets in the Detroit area and founded the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO track meet.

He is survived by his wife, Isabel, of Detroit, his brother, Earl, of Oklahoma City, two daughters, Carmen Blake of Westminster and Marcia Calhoun of Hawthorne, a son Santee Brockman Jr. of Los Angeles, and seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 1920 US Census, Oklahoma, Leflore County (1).
2. ↑ Deat Certificate of Santee Brockman.
3. ↑ California. Westminster. Obituary of Santee Brockman.