Wynia looks for
more national marks
By Doug Vaughan
Of The Print
This season will be the
last time the women’s track
team will be able to compete at
the national meet. Coach
Marilyn Wynia wants to make
their last time memorable.
“We are just trying to
qualify as many for nationals
as possible. That is our biggest
goal for this year,” Wynia
said.
The last trip to the na­
tional meet came with the
Cougars’ decision to join a
league
comprised
of
Washington junior colleges
next season.
Last year, Wynia’s team
only qualified three women
for the national meet. Surpris­
ingly, the trio brought home a
ninth-place finish.
“Last year we only
qualified three, but fortunate­
ly all three were All-
Americans,” Wynia said.
“This year we have a much
more complete team, so we are
hoping to qualify a lot more.”
Of the three that qualified
for the national meet last
season, two have transferred
to four-year schools. The re­
maining All-American, Shari
Hilton, is back fpr the
Cougars, and has impressed
Wynia.
Hilton placed second at
nationals last year in the
javelin and also finished
fourth in the heptathlon. She
is also an academic All-
American, and earlier this year
was awarded the Dale Murphy
Scholarship at the 36th annual
ON STRIDE—Sophomore Vicki Anderson back in form after year long slump.
Photo by Joel Miller
“Even though academ­
Siler, a Gold Beach pro­
Bill Hayward Banquet of
duct, placed seventh in the ically she is a sophomore, she
Champions.
regional cross country meet has freshman eligibility,”
Also strengthening the
and will run the 800 and Wynia said. “She has been out
Cougars will be the duo of
1,500-meters for Wynia. Gon­ of training so L don’t know
runners who represented the
zalez, from local Milwaukie how far she can go. Possibly,
women’s cross country team at
High, placed sixth at the she can help us out at na­
nationals this past year, Julie
regional meet and will run the tionals.”
Siler and Maria Gonzalez.
3,000-meters for the Cougars.
Last year, the women
“Maria is a constant run­ Cougars went into the regional
ner. She doesn’t have the meet with several vacancies in
speed of other runners, but she
events. This year, Wynia is
runs a steady race, and that is pleased with her team’s ability
how she wins,” Wynia said.
to fill every spot.
Wynia is also optimistic
“Last season we had a lot
about Suzy Thompson, a
sophomore from Silverton. of holes so we were limited to
Thompson switched events the amount of points we could
half way through last season score,” Wynia explained.
and ended up placing fifth at “With a full team this year, I
regionals in the 800. Wynia am expecting us to do very
thinks that Thompson has na­ good.”
There’ll be no surprises at
tional possibilities both in the
800-meter and two-mile relays. regionals. North and South
easily played three more years
Idaho will be the teams putting
Vicki Anderson and pressure on Clackamas. But
and put his record far out of
Debbie Koffel, from Tigard the team to beat, as usual, is
reach.
Being called the greatest and Glencoe respectively, are Ricks College, from Rexburg,
goes beyond just statistics in also looked on to add depth to Idaho.
some record book. “The the Cougars. Anderson recent­
Wynia doesn’t have any
greatest” is a title which has to ly qualified for nationals in the
be taken off the field or court 400-meter hurdles, and Koffel predictions, just goals. “We
are really concerned with try­
and into the real world. The qualified in the javelin.
A sleeper amidst the pack ing to qualify as many as we
world is not only 90 feet or 100
is Rex Putnam graduate Bobbi can for the national meet. It is
yards long.
People like Franco Harris Haley in the throws. Haley has the last year we can attend, so
and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar been out of competition for we want to make a memory
may well be remembered as two years, but Wynia has been that will last,” Wynia con­
cluded.
the greatest of all time even impressed with her progress.
though they played longer
than Wilt Chamberlain or Jim
Brown. Harris and Jabbar are
involved with helping the
underprivileged and don’t try
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All-time greats
tarnish reputations
criticizing others
By Rob Conner
Sports Editor
Let’s face it, records are
made to be broken.
Even the most seemingly
insurpassible marks, i.e. Bob
Beamon’s record long jump
and O.J. Simpson’s single­
season rushing record will
someday undoubtably be sur­
passed.
Last week Kareem Abdul-
Jabbar
eclipsed
Wilt
Chamberlain’s all-time scoring
mark. Abdul-Jabbar dropped
in the 31,420th and 31,421st
points of his career with what
else, but his patented sky
hook.
Was the 7-foot-2-inch
Chamberlain in attendance to
offer his congratulations? No.
Instead the “Stilt” opted Io
remain in the shadows and
play down the milestone by
taking cheap shots at Abdul-
Jabbar through the press.
Next season Franco Har­
ris will almost surely break
Jim Brown’s National Foot­
ball League career rushing
record. And we all know how
Brown feels about that.
The former Cleveland
Brown fullback, at 47, has
threatened to return to profes­
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Wilt Chamberlain and
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this, again.
The biggest complaint
that the likes of Brown and
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are hanging around for the
sole purpose of breaking their
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