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Hill: He's another Duck distance great
Jim Hill, an Olympic track hopeful in three events, has his mind
on cross country and Saturday's District 8 Championships.
By Rich Skeen
Of the Emerald
The list of great Oregon
distance runners is packed with
names like Steve Prefontaine,
Alberto Salazar, Paul Geis, Bill Mc
Chesney and Rudy Chapa. But
those greats of the past need to
make room for a current runner
who's sure to add his name to the
list by graduation time.
Senior Jim Hill seems destined
to join other Oregon greats. Hill
already has gained All-American
status in track with a seventh
place finish in the 1981 National
Collegiate Athletic Association
5,000 meters and a fifth at the 1982
NCAA 1,500.
But Hill also has won Pac-10
Cross Country Championship in
1982 and this year (his 28:50 in
1982 at Fresno, Calif., was a course
record), and it is cross country
which is on his mind this fall.
Hill, 32nd in the 1982 NCAA
Cross Country meet, leads the
Ducks into Saturday's District 8
Championships at Lane Com
munity College, where both he
and the Ducks will defend 1982
crowns.
Besides starring for two years on
the race course. Hill has been a
star off it.
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"He's very much a team leader,"
says Oregon assistant coach John
Gillespie. "There's no doubt that
if either the team or coach Dell
inger picked a team captain, it
would be Jim."
Hill admits he is somewhat of a
team leader, but he says he
depends on teammates as much
as they depend on him.
"I'd go bannanas if I had to train
by myself," says the native of
Vienna, Va.
"I enjoy cross country." says
Hill, and he explains why. "I'm do
ing it for myself — I enjoy the dif
ferent variables that cross country
offers and I'm not trying to reach
certain times like I do in track.”
Not trying to reach times
doesn't mean Hill lets up in his
training.
" I have to be ready to run every
race 110 percent," says Hill.
"Training makes me happy. If I'm
consistently improving and I stay
healthy, then I feel good."
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Consistent improvement has
been a Hill trademark since he
came to Oregon from the
Washington, D.C., area. After
running in just one meet his
freshman year. Hill has become a
legitimate Olympic hopeful in
either the 1,500, 5,000 or 10,000,
where he has bests of 3:39.84,
13:19.73, and 27:55.23.
He should be a factor come
NCAA Cross Country time too, ac
cording to Oregon coach Bill Dell
inger, who says "Jim is a potential
top 10 finisher."
Like several other Oregon
distance runners. Hill would like
to stay in Eugene after graduation
and continue to train.
"I'd like to stay close to coach
Dellinger — he's really been the
key to my success," Hill says.
The Olympics, the American
track circuit and the European cir
cuit are all in Hill's plans. But with
this weekend on his mind,
everything else can wait.
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Oregon, Arizona teams
to beat at District 8 meet
After losing its Pac-10 crown
to University of Arizona two
weeks ago, Oregon’s men's
cross country team will have a
t hance to redeem itself when it
hosts the NCAA District 8
Championships at Lane Com
munity College Saturday.
The Ducks, who won this
meet last year, hope to im
prove on their Pac-10 showing,
where they finished second
behind Arizona despite a 1-2
finish by Jim Hill and Mike
Blackmore.
The team race should come
down to a battle between the
Ducks and Arizona, with UCLA
and Stanford University next.
The top three teams will
receive NCAA berths.
The Wildcats return six of
seven runners from 1982, in
cluding Tommy Ansberry, who
finished third at Pat-10s. UCLA
and Stanford finished third and
fourth at the conference meet.
Oregon coach Bill Dellinger
likes his team's chances Satur
day, but he fears Arizona's
strength.
"Arizona has an excellent
team — their victory in the
Pac-10 was no fluke." says Dell
inger. "We'll have to run closer
together as a group and let Jim
Hill lead us."
Leading the Ducks is exactly
what All-American Hill has
done this year, but he notes
that his efforts alone won't win
the meet.
"It doesn't do any good to go
1-2 if the other guys don't
come through," says Hill.
"Arizona whipped our butts,
and the only way we re going
to beat them is to put our
three, four and five guys with
theirs."
At the conference meet in
Stanford, Calif., Arizona beat
the Ducks by packing live run
ners into the first 11 finishers.
The meet begins at 11 a.m.,
with women's competition get
ting underway at 10:30 a.m.
Student tickets are $2 for the
22-team affair.
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