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Santiago Lorenzo wants to score 7,700 at the Pac-10 or NCAA Championships and represent Argentina in the 2000 Olympics.
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start at 12:15 p.m.
Both meets take place at Hay
ward Field.
“Track is about the individual,
but there are specific meets
where everything is based on the
team,” Lorenzo said. “I would
like to get a Pac-10 title and score
some points for the team. It
would also help me to score
high. Thinking of the team al
ways makes you go hard and
score as many points as you
can.”
Lorenzo has a number to
match his goal. “I’m shooting for
77 in every single meet,” he said.
Seventy-seven, or 7,700 points, is
the qualifying standard Lorenzo
must meet to represent his coun
try in the 2000 Olympic Games.
And for someone who has
done so much at age 22, an
Olympic berth now or later
seems inevitable as the next
chapter of Lorenzo’s athletic sto
ry, which began at age 3 when he
taught himself how to ride a bike.
“There were no helping
wheels,” Lorenzo said. “I just got
on top of the bike and started rid
ing until I finally didn’t fall.”
“My family is sports,” Lorenzo
said. His father, Gerardo, was a
two-time Pan-Am Games Cham
pion and competed in the 1972
and 1978 Olympics. His 6-foot
tall mother, Mariana, was a tal
ented volleyball player. His
grandma ran the 80-meter dash
holding the South American
record in the 1950s.
So given his genetic back
ground, is it really that surprising
Lorenzo also taught himself hi w
to swim? His self-teaching me h
ods were simple — drop a stone
into the deep end of the swim
ming pool, and go get it.
“That’s what makes us tough,”
Lorenzo said. “Decathlons are
very tough because you have to
do ten events. Even if 10 people
are better than you, you have to
say, ‘Hey, watch out for me, I’m
going to go hard.’”
His sink-or-swim mentality
carried him through high school.
Lorenzo immersed himself in
sports, including tennis, rugby,
field hockey, golf, soccer and
cross country.
He joined his local track club
in 1994 and competed in the pole
vault in javelin. He once filled an
open spot on a relay team, intro
ducing him to sprinting events.
Two years later, Lorenzo tried
out his first-ever decathlon and
broke the South American record
for 15 through 18 year olds. The
record hadn’t been touched since
1975.
Everything else has fallen into
place.
Lorenzo left behind the sunny
weather of his home in Buenos
Aires, Argentina to come to the
less warm, more-often-than-not
rainy Eugene. Last season, he fin
ished ranked No. 33 among colle
gians after finishing second in
the Pac-10 with a score of 7,150.
Since then, Lorenzo has oblit
erated his mark from last season.
He scored 7,580 points in April
at the Texas Relays in Austin,
beating his personal best by more
than 200 points.
“Santiago is still young in the
event of decathloning,” de
cathlon coach Bill Lawson said.
“I’m not sure how many de
cathlons he’s done in South
America, however, I do know
that his developmental curve is
continuing to grow. We fully ex
pect Santiago to go to another
level. He made a big jump this
year, but our expectations will be
for him to jump to another level
next year.”
He may not be King of the Hill
anymore, but he is better than
ever.
“It’s nice to have people better
than, or equal to you, to push
yourself to get better and better,”
Lorenzo said. “Here I have more
motivation than I had in Argenti
na, and motivation is key.”
The other Ducks should have
plenty to do in the Oregon Twi
light, including senior Steve
Fein.
The Ducks officially an
nounced Thursday that Fein,
who has missed most of the out
door season due to sinus and
training problems, will be the
13th runner in the Oregon Twi
light mile.
Fein is the only entrant in the
field who hasn’t cracked a four
minute mile. His personal best is
4 minutes, 1.65 seconds last sea
son.
Other Oregon athletes are close
to earning Pac-10 berths.
In the sprints, Jermaine
Hanspard is .06 seconds slow of
the 100 meters and Howard
Moore is .13 seconds off of the
200 meters.
In the middle-distance 1,500,
Todd Humcke and Adam
Bergquist are .06 and .17 seconds
from qualifying, respectively.