Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jump five-and-a-half feet, you can play basketball without worrying about being stuffed. You can look over crowds at parades and reach the top shelf at grocery stores...
Sugrue is coming off perhaps her finest meet, the Greater Boston Indoor Track and Field Championships, in which she won the high jump, the triple jump and the 60-yd. hurdles. She also set new Harvard and meet records for the pentathlon with a whopping 3428 points...
...presently holds, in addition to the pentathlon mark, Harvard records in the triple and high jump. She set a new triple jump record of 38-ft., 1/2-in. against Northeastern on January 10, which she broke six days later against B.C. and B.U. with a jump...
...high jump record, however, of which she is most proud...
...That [record] will stay a lot longer than the triple jump. Six feet is a barrier line. There are a lot of women who can do 5-ft., 8-in., but six feet is a barrier that not many people will get to," Sugrue says...