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With help from assistant coach Tony Veney, sprinter and long jumper Howard Moore is focused on achieveing faster times. Moore continued from page 9A “It stopped my training for about a month. With my injuries, doctors didn’t want me to exert too much energy.” According to sprinting coach Tony Veney, Moore’s training pro gram was delayed by five weeks. But despite the time off the track, Veney said Moore is exactly where he needs to be. “His PR is within reach,” Veney said. “Running in the 46-second range puts him in the top eight of the Pacific-10 Conference. Once he gets into the final, it’s any body’s race.” Moore’s personal best came in the first outdoor meet of his soph omore season, when he captivat ed Tracktown, U.S.A., with a time of 46.83 seconds in the 400-meter dash. Back then, Moore was content running for then-head-coach Bill Dellinger. But Dellinger, who’d planned on leaving his position after Moore’s senior season, an nounced his retirement from coaching due to health reasons. The new coach was Martin Smith — and assistant coach Veney. “It was kind of.a shock,” Moore said. “I was entering my junior year. It was like the halfway point, and I’d just started getting in my groove, and then a new coach comes. A new coach is like a new program.” Partly because ©f the coaching change, Moore said his junior out door season was his toughest yet. He was hampered by injuries and didn’t have a strong showing in the 400 until the opening round of the Pac-10 Championships. Since then, Moore has adjusted to his new coach, and his confi dence has returned. “I’m starting to get into my groove with Veney, and I’m start ing to come around,” Moore said. “Coach Veney knows me better than coach Dellinger knew me. “I’m the type of athlete where I’m the type of athlete where my coach needs to know me well for me to run well. Howard Moore U0 sprinter my coach needs to know me well for me to run well.” Eyes on the prize Moore credits his father, Thomas, for giving him the moti vation to keep his head up and compete, despite his struggles with injuries. The talent seems to run in the family — his father sprinted for Kentucky and had a PR of 9.5 seconds in the 100-yard dash. “My dad always stands 100 percent behind me, and he’s al ways trying to get me to push my self to the absolute edge,” Moore said. “I don’t worry about the lit tle things, I just keep my eyes on the ultimate goals. I want to get back in my groove faster because of my dad.” Teammate Nat Johnson, who runs with Moore on the 4x400 re lay team, believes that Moore has the heart to do so. Johnson and Moore have a friendly rivalry going. After he and Moore complete a workout, Johnson said they often talk about how they did. One will usually say it was tough. The other usual ly agrees, but adds, “Yeah, but I was only going at 75 percent.” “Our joking is a positive way for us to work harder,” Johnson said. “It’s my way of saying ‘good job,' but it’s also my way of letting him know that he can go faster and I can go faster.” Moore “has great confidence,” Veney said. “That’s an important quality, especially in track and field where you’re the only one out there, and you’ve got nowhere to hide. “He doesn’t run scared.” Moore is convinced that he’ll break his personal best before the end of the season. In doing so, he’d move up from No. 8 on the list of Oregon’s all-time fastest runners. But with just two meets re maining before the Pac-10 Cham pionships, Moore’s going to have to fire up all cylinders to better his sophomore-season time. No fear. “I have a lot more confidence with my health,” Moore said. “I have confidence in all the training I’ve done. 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