Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Junior Sue Harper is the team's only hurdler. Hunt says he expects her to carry the load successfully; but the lack of depth in this event will hurt his team...
Jumbo Elliott calls Nehemiah the smoothest hurdler he has ever seen and, indeed, Nehemiah visualizes his event as a nearly unimpeded run down a straightaway. "I try to run right through the hurdle, as though it's not even there," he says. "A lot of hurdlers, you can see the jump when they run. With me, it's more or less running, then an exaggerated stride for the hurdle...
...world record of 13.21 sec. for the 110-yd. hurdles now held by Cuba's Alejandro Casanas. "Within the next year or two," predicts Bob Hersh, men's records chairman for the Amateur Athletic Union, "he's going to establish himself as the greatest high hurdler who ever lived." Coaches like Elliott and San Diego State's Dick Hill think Nehemiah will take the record below 13 sec., a feat that would be as remarkable as breaking 9 flat in the 100-yd. dash...
...ready: "The only thing that will hurt me will be an injury." Very much his own man at 19, Nehemiah is frank enough to say that he likes the adulation and attention that have distracted so many young athletes on the way to the Olympics. Says the finest hurdler in the world: "I'm going to take advantage of it while I have it, because it's going to hurt the day it leaves...
Junior Kat Taylor in the two-mile and captain Sarah Linsley in the 880 join miler Karla Amble and hurdler Sue Harper at the heart of the running strength. Men's Varsity Hockey [5-10] at Dartmouth* 2-7L at RPI (OT)5-6L at Providence 5-2W Boston University 5-8L at Bowdoin 6-4W at Brown* 1-2L New Hampshire 8-4W at Vermont 4-7L Notre Dame 9-5W at Minnesota (Mpls) 4-5L at Minnesota-Duluth 3-8L at Northeastern 3-5L Brown...