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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman phenom, Derrick Horner, swept the 100 and 200 meters, and took third in the long jump. Horner's time of 10.6 seconds in the 100 ties his personal best. His 200-meter time of 22.1 seconds, and long jump of 21-ft., 2-in., marked strong performances for a season-opener...
...heavies led off setting to a 35-stroke rating and racing the majority of the regatta at 33 1/2. By the 500-meter mark, Radcliffe was a length ahead of the Engineers and was able to continuously move away from the other two crews in the remaining 1500 meters to finish five lengths ahead of the UMass boat...
Radcliffe was two seats ahead of MIT after the first 10 strokes of the race, quickly opening up and gaining open water by the 500-meter mark. From that point on, the lights were basically racing against the clock...
...told them that if they started to open up, they better open up every 500," lightweight Coach Holly Metcalf said. "The goal if they were ahead was to follow the race plan, move consistently and not get lulled. Only between the 500- and 750-meter mark did it get a little jellylike. I was happy with the race...
Complicating matters further, Fay decided to race the U.S. in a 132-ft. monohull, instead of a 12-meter (65-ft.) boat like those used since 1958. With time running out, Conner and his team knew they could not design a sufficiently speedy monohull vessel of their own. So Conner opted for a smaller, swifter, multihulled catamaran. Justice Ciparick decided to wait to see the outcome of the race before ruling on the legitimacy of the U.S. entry...