Word: strickers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stricker's love affair with track in general started in ninth grade of Colorado's Pamona High School. She began with the hurdles her father's event when he competed for Kalamazoo University. Eventually she rose to become the women's junior national champion in the 1500 and a member of the junior Pan American team. Stricker attributes much of her success to her family. "We never had a sedentary family," she says, "we were always backpacking or other things athletic." Though she didn't remain with her father's old event. Stricker does concode that it was a paternal...
...Stricker's dedication can best be seen in her devotion to the team. While she laments that her personal goals often interfere with those of the team, Fikes says. "Winning for herself and the team if very important for her." Adds Hunt, "It's sometimes hard to keep her down, you don't get kids like that too often...
...discussing her role on the Crimson squad and her future. Stricker likes to think of the movie "Chariots of Fire." She sees the Harvard system as being similar to the '20s Cambridge system depicted in the film. Both require the athlete to reach his potential on his own. "The coaches are there if you want to make the best of them you can, but you have to make your own effort. Harvard forces you to be independent, to fight to be good...
...Stricker has continually improved her times and posted a school record 4:36.37 mile at the Penn Relays last weekend. The Winthrop House sophomore looks forward to competing on the combined Harvard-Yale squad that will travel to England for meets with Cambridge and Oxford...
Unfortunately, Stricker may have a problem--the nationals at Houston may conflict with the England trip, leaving her to choose between meets. As the sophomore says, Harvard forces you to make decisions, and this may be the hardest of her young career...