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Although Gyorffy’s chances of victory looked solid based on the performance list, she had yet to jump better than 1.95 meters in any meet where she had faced strong competition, and she jumped no better than 1.90 meters on average. The best jumps of her season—a 1.96-meter clearance at Princeton and the record-breaking height at Hungarian Nationals—all came against fields where the next-best competitor failed to clear even 1.80 meters...
...eight Heptagonal high jump titles and seven Heptagonal triple jump titles. She was the second Harvard athlete to place respectably at the World Championships within the past two weeks. Harvard track co-captain Brenda Taylor ’01 placed sixth in her semifinal heat in the 400-meter hurdles...
Last Sunday a national television audience of nearly 2.5 million watched two-year Harvard track co-captain Brenda Taylor ‘01 place third in her preliminary heat of the 400-meter intermediate hurdles at the 2001 IAAF World Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Edmonton. After the race, an interview given by ABC reporter Todd Harris gave the general public its first close look at Taylor, collegiate track and field’s athlete of the year...
...every championship meet. She was not afraid to put herself at great personal risk for her team, as she proved in the 2000 Outdoor Heptagonal meet, where she ran the 400 hurdles despite reinjuring her hamstring earlier in the day. A year later, she would run in the 200-meter dash instead of the 400 hurdles to strategically maximize her team’s chance of winning the Heptagonal meet, even though it meant graduating without the meet record in her feature event...
Harvard Coach Frank Haggerty ’68 compared Taylor’s dedication, outlook and determination to that off Meredith Rainey-Valmon ’90, the renowned Crimson walk-on runner who won two NCAA titles and made two U.S. Olympic teams in the 800-meter run before retiring last year. Rainey and Taylor between themselves own all of the women’s teams’ records in the sprints and hurdles...