Word: pottetti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something I don't really want anymore," Dave Pottetti said Wednesday night. That afternoon, Pottetti, probably the best distance runner ever to come to Harvard, had told coach Bill McCurdy that he would not be running any more cross country...
Last spring he worked hard at his running with an eye on the steeplechase at the Penn Relays. Pottetti won the race, but the great feeling of satisfaction which he expected just wasn't there...
Late this summer Pottetti decided that he would not attend Harvard's cross country camp in Groton. he call McCurdy from the West, where Pottetti had spent most of he summer, and explained his absence. There was no mension of what would happen the rest of the fall...
Through all of this, McCurdy has not tried to put pressure on the former star, an All-American in cross country as a sophomore. "I don't want to pester him." McCurdy said Wednesday before Pottetti came to talk to him. "It's not in me to tell him he owes the team something...
...Pottetti says he has found other interests and that now he is busier than when he was running competitively. He has become somewhat absorbed in. Hunduism and Buddhism, but mainly the change in his life has been a new ability to appreciate other persons, he said...