Word: jumped
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High on the wall facing the triple jump runway (or the backstretch, if you're of the running mindset) at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center is a large HEPS spelled out in red tape...
Erin Sugrue had a day that she'll probably never forget. In the high jump competition, she finished second--barely--to Jane Buchan of Yale. Both Sugrue and Buchan were the only jumpers left in the competition after clearing 5-ft., 9-in., and immediately tried to clear the NCAA qualifying height...
Neither could make that height, so meet officials declared a "jump-off." After several jumps, Sugrue missed at 5-ft., 7-in.--a height Buchan had cleared--giving Buchan...
...Sugrue had better luck in the triple jump. In only the second triple jump competition of her career, she soared 37-ft., 1.25-in, nearly a foot over the previous school record. To top the day off, she won the 55-meter hurdles...
...Rainey. Once again, Playwright Wilson heaps too much plot onto a slice-of-life structure, but he gives Jones one of the very best roles of his career. Troy Maxson is a frustrated man of 53, a former baseball player who was too old to have made the jump from the Negro leagues to the majors. A former lowlife who has lived for duty, respectability and the right of absolute authority at home, he destroys everything he achieved and leaves no one to mourn him. Jones revels in the malignity of the man while sustaining sympathy...