Education
University of Southern California.
University of Southern California.
Her reel is posted on youtube. While still at Mills High School, she set the still standing World Youth Best of 55.20 in the 400 metre hurdles on June 9, 1984 while finishing second at the 1984 TAC United States of America Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held at nearby San Jose City College. Maxie competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, running 56.10 to finish a non-qualifying 5th place in the heat of the 400 hurdles.
Maxie was coached by the legendary Editor Parker.
As a freshman at the 1982 CIF California State Meet, she was in the top four in three events. 1984 was her first year to experiment with the long hurdles race.
A week before her World record saw her winning the state meet in meet record time. As a senior, she repeated her 300 hurdle championship.
See the race A week before the 1984 state meet, in Berkeley, California she set the National High School record in the 300 hurdles at 40.18 That performance is still ranked as the number three mark of all time.
She was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1984. After high school, she studied Public Policy and Planning at the University of Southern California, where she is still ranked as the #2 400 hurdler of all time (school record holder for 13 years until surpassed by future Olympic bronze medalist Tasha Danvers). She was team captain in 1990.
Over her career, she was ranked in the United States. top ten in the 400 hurdles four times.
As a young athlete she was selected to work on the children"s programming show Kidwatch on KRON which led to her interest in journalism. Maxie returned to television in the mid 1990s.
She purposefully did not cover track and field until she was established as a general correspondent which allowed her to cover the Super Bowl, World Series, National Basketball Association All Star Games, Tour de France, championship boxing and tennis for Fox, Columbia Broadcasting System, Oxygen Media and National Broadcasting Company. When she did cover track it was in support of Carol Lewis on events she did not cover. Maxie’s insightful commentary and intelligent interviewing skills made her look like a shining star.
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network took notice and Maxie was the first member hired for the morning talk show, “Cold Pizza” in 2003.
When talk began of moving the show to Bristol, Connecticut Maxie opted out of her contract and began freelancing for the network and she established her own television production company, LeMax Productions Limited Liability Company in 2005. LeMax Production"s first client was Red Bulletin energy drink based in Austria. LeMax went on to contract with Madison Square Garden Network, American Broadcasting Company, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network amongst others
Maxie has also done work as a motivational speaker
In 2009, Maxie joined National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing as Manager of Communications for East Regional Media Outreach.
She"s wrote episodes for the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Black Entertainment Television show called Changing Lanes.
As a member of the Millbrae Lions Track Club, a team which encouraged young athletes to try multiple events, Maxie competed in the High Jump, Triple Jump 400 metres and 100 metre hurdles.