Word: ezeji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most costly injuries occurred at the Penn relays of Friday, when a Harvard team of Bennet Midlo, Brad Bunney. Steve Ezeji-Okoye and Dwayne Jones took second in the Heps Mile Relay behind the squad from Penn. While running the third leg. Ezeji-Okoye--the star freshman hurdler and middle-distance man--pulled his hamstring, putting him out of commission for the weekend...
...most courageous performance of the afternoon, however, came from freshman Steve Ezeji-Okoye. He got off to a poor start at the beginning of the high hurdles and lost his stride trying to overcompensate. As he leapt over the eighth hurdle, struggling for the lead with Brown's Kelly Brothers, his trail foot caught on the hurdle and both Ezeji-Okoye and the hurdle went crashing to the ground...
...Ezeji-Okoye lay on the ground writhing in pain and had to be helped off the track. Yet after only two minutes on the sideline to recover, he was standing at the starting line, ready to run the intermediate hurdles...
...upset with myself because I felt that if I hadn't hit the hurdle I could have won Brothers [the high hurdles winner] was running the intermediates and I wanted to beat him," Ezeji-Okoye explained...
Beat him he did, as well as the other hurdlers. The hobbled hurdler just grabbed the lead and held on to win by well over a second. "My heel and groin were a bit sore, but when you really get into a race you can forget about the soreness," Ezeji-Okoye said...