Hurd’s jumping for joy — finally
By Steve Turcotte
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It’s amazing how one jump affected
LaMar Hurd.
Hurd, who injured his hamstring in
pre-season training last spring, was
able to take just one long jump for the
Oregon track team last year — and it
proved to be a costly one for him and
the Ducks.
Instead of sitting out the season and
redshirting after injuring his hamstr
ing, Hurd and Oregon head coach Bill
Dellinger decided to take a gamble and
have the Duck junior leap in the long
jump in last year’s Oregon State dual
meet.
Hurd took one jump, a 22-8 attempt,
and was forced to stop because of the
fear that he would further damage his
hamstring.
But little did Dellinger and Hurd
know that the NCAA rule on redshir
ting in track stated that if a performer
takes part in the second half of the
track season, then he is ineligible to
redshirt. Hurd’s jump against the
Beavers actually was in the second
half of the season and therefore, lost a
year of eligibility.
‘‘It was a dumb mistake on my part,”
says Dellinger. "I really didn’t know
that it was the second half of the
season. I'll have to be more careful in
the future about things like that.”
But in three years in a Duck track
uniform, that has been really Hurd’s
only bad break. And he is taking up
where he left off.
Already this season, Hurd has re set
his own school record in the triple
jump with a 51-11V* effort in the
Oregon Invitational.
"It was kind of surprising to jump
that well so soon in the season,” ad
mitted Hurd. “I didn’t expect anything
like that to happen. The jump itself felt
terrible. I thought it was in the 40’s.”
Hurd is the Ducks’ jumping
specialist, leading Oregon in both
jumps. Although he has only leaped
23-9 in the long jump this season, his
jumping coach John Gillespie feels
that bigger marks should arrive soon.
“We just haven’t had good enough
weather to see what he can actually
do,” says Gillespie. “As soon as we get
some warmer weather we will have a
better idea of how he stands.
In addition to his jumping duties,
Hurd has taken on a third event this
season — the 110 high hurdles.
The event is not new to him, though.
Hurd was the Washington prep high
hurdle champion his senior year at Gar
field High School in Seattle.
“I really like the hurdles, it’s a nice
switch from the jumps," Hurd says. "I
was going to run the hurdles last year
until I got hurt. It's fun to be able to
help the team in three events.”
“LaMar was awfully good at running
the hurdles in high school and I
thought he missed them his freshman
year,” Gillespie says. “He has a lot of
potential in the hurdles.”
The soft-spoken Hurd could be one
of the important figures this Saturday
when the Ducks take on the powerful
Washington State Cougars in Pullman.
“If somebody is going to be a key for
us against Washington State he is,”
admitted Gillespie. “He could really
help break up some of their points in
the jumps and hurdles.”
The Cougars have three long
jumpers over 24-feet and a pair of triple
jumpers over 52-feet.
“Going against guys with the good
marks like that only makes me com
pete that much harder," says Hurd. “I
have never been in a dual meet like that
with that much compeition. It should
be interesting.”
But interestingly enough, Hurd
almost never donned a Duck track
uniform. Instead, he spent most his
four college years playing basketball.
Hurd was a starting guard on Gar
field’s basketball team, which won the
Washington prep basketball crown two
years in a row. During his senior
season, Hurd was named to the All
State team and the letters began pour
ing in.
“I got offers from places like Gon
zaga and Washington,” says Hurd.
"Washington wanted me to come out
to play basketall and give me a track
scholarship.
“It really crossed my mind to play
college basketball but track was pretty
much my first love.”
Emerald Photo
LaMar Hurd got plenty of air on this jump, but he also got plenty of grief. This was
Hurd's only leap last year because of the fear he would reinjure his hamstring.
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