Word: track
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Beckford clearly dominates New England cross country, she prefers the other two-thirds of the track season, although she says she doesn't know...
However, Harvard's assistant women's track coach John Babington, who has coached Beckford on the AAU Liberty Club since 1977, has an explanation: "Darlene's temperament is such that she'd rather concentrate her efforts over short, intense races than over 18 minutes. She just doesn't get as much spontaneous enjoyment out of running cross country...
...Beckford filled in at the last minute for an injured member of the Liberty track club's two-mile relay team at the indoor Senior Nationals in California where the team came in fifth--an impressive performance considering that all four Liberty runners were juniors...
After missing half a year, Beckford hit the track again, winning the 1500 at the summer Junior Nationals...
...assessing Beckford's athletic and personal attributes, women's track coach Pappy Hunt was not as subtle as Babington: "Kids like Beckford come down the pike only every 25 years...