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...exhilaration comes in part, from the release of cerebral tension. At the starting , you're afraid, but not really afraid," Hale says because the mind is busy scanning the course that takes the racer down a mountain in two minutes. "You're going over it, finding little places, and looking for extra speed...
...Hale know how to find the fast lane. The Coloradan look her speed to the United States Ski Association's Junior Nationals four times. She also deferred entry to Harvard a year, became one of the eight best downhill-ers in the Rockies, and last year competed on the North American Cup circuit with other Olyimpic-class skiers...
...wonders why Hale choose to come to Harvard. After you've been on Wide World of Sports, why race for a learn that has no coach, has no training facilities, and couldn't even field a full squad at three of the five AIAW Division II ski carnivals it managed to attend. Why not University of Utab or Wyoming or Vermont...
...Hale had two reasons. The education advantages and prestige of Harvard was one. The other was her apparent liability to reach the pinnacle-to make the Olympic team. "I was too old to be looked at," Hale says. Last year the U.S. Development Team coaches were only looking for prospective stars 14 to 16 years old, she adds...
...Jenny says she enjoys racing here, "The team has more fun..because its not up against the big guns." So Jenny Hale goes out and races confidently with alpine captain Betsy Gillis and fellow freshman Liz Light-foot. Hale hasn't placed less than fourth in any race she finished this season...