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...might ask. Was he injured? On probation? No. The saga of Joe Pellegrini's layoff begins at the end of his junior year, when Pellegrini--who also competed in track and field at Harvard--started throwing the discus at a world-class standard. He was invited to work out under the tutelage of a German coach for the next year. Pellegrini began to entertain thoughts of making a trip to Moscow for the 1980 Olympics. He decided to accept the offer to train in Europe...
Representing Harvard in the field events were senior co-captain Kim Johnson and freshman Maric Acacia, who completed in the shot put and discus. Johnson equaled her best throw--44 ft.--to take seventh in the shot, and she also notched a personal best in the discus with a 127-ft. loss, just one inch shy of Acacia's school record...
Hammer--1 Karanikolas (N) 192-1: 2. Dawson (N) 169-10: 3. Alec Quintero (H) 167-6. Shot put--1 Dawson (N) 58-5 1/4; -2. Battistini (N) 52-7; 3. Karanikolas (N) 51-8 3/4. Discus--1. White (N) 167-6 1/2; 2. Dawson (N) 157-6 1/2; 3. Tom Schuler (H) 145-4 1/2. Javelin--1. Garth Andrade (H) 209-0; 2. Joe Bowen (H) 208-11; 3. Quitzau (N) 188-10. Long jump--1. Jim Johnson (H) 7 45; 2. Shinsky (N) 7. 12; 3. Mark Henry...
...corps in the field events. Senior Co-Captain Kim Johnson, who won the Treasurer's Cup four years ago, led a sweep of the shot put with a new school record of 44'1 1/4". Freshman Marie Acacia also set a new school mark hurling 128 to win the discus...
...biggest exceptions was senior co-Captain Kim Johnson, who competed with a pulled hamstring muscle yet managed to place second in both the discus and the shot-put with tosses of 124-ft. 11-in, and 43-ft, 3/4 in., respectively. Nationally ranked Sandy Burke of Northeastern was out of reach in both events, especially in the discus, where she set an amazing new meet record...