1996_02 The Daily Collegian February 1996

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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Tuesday, February 13,1996
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Editor: Jevon Swanson
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Track team sets sights
on WAC championships
■    Led by long
jumper Moses Kearny
and thrower Staci
Darden, the Fresno State
track team has a strong
showing at the Holiday
Inn Classic as it pre¬
pares for the WAC
championships next
week.
By Jabari Lawrence
Sports Writer
After a lofty series of meets over
the past month, the Bulldog track
team heads into its final indoor
event of the 1996 season and cul¬
mination of rt.'tnt efforts—the
WAC Championsnip meet next
week.
The men's and women's squads
finished third and second in the
WAC Indoors/respectively in 1995.
Both look set to take conference
crowns at the meet held at the Air
Force Academy Feb. 22 through 24.
Fresno State had several strong
performances at the Holiday Inn
Classic in Reno, Nev. last week. The
meet was made up of more than 20
teams, including athletes from
UCLA, Oregon, Stanford^Wash-
ington State, Long Beach State and
Eastern Washington. The Bulldogs
performed well individually, as 27
men and 28 women athletes posted
season bests or personal bests at the
competition.
Senior Moses Kearney won the
high jump for the third straight
week. Kearney just missed on two
of his three attempts at 7-6 but did
clear 7-2 1/2 to win the event over
Thad Hathaway from the Univer¬
sity of Idaho.
Kearney leaped a school-record
7-4 1/2 a week earlier at the Bill
Cosby Invitational, also in Reno.
That mark automatically qualified
him for the NCAA Championships
and is the second-highest in the na¬
tion, according to last week's na¬
tional lists.
Also, senior Felecia Brown set
a personal best in the long jump
with a leap of 19-10 1/2. The win¬
ning jump provisionally qualified
her for the NCAA Championships.
Brown also set a personal record in
the 55-meter hurdles at 8.00.
The Bulldogs got strong perfor¬
mances from their distance runners
as well, as senior Israel Pose and
junior Nacho Flores both picked up
victories. Pose won the 5,000-meter
with a time of 16:00.74, while
Flores broke the tape in the 3,000-
meter in a personal-best 8:35.98.
Senior Lisa Collet made short
work of her old personal record of
8.12 in 55-meter hurdles this past
weekend. Her new personal record
of 7.90 was good enough to provi¬
sionally qualify for the NCAA
Championships in the event. Collet
also set a season best in the long
jump, finishing behind Brown with
a 19-7 1/2.
A week after she set a personal
best in the mile run, junior Danielle
Nelson, finished second in the event
behind Oregon's Rosy Gardner at
5:09.45. Nelson previously set her
personal best of 5:02.99 at the Bill
Cosby Invitational on Feb. 3.
Senior Staci Darden won the 20-
1b. weight throw for the fourth
straight meet. She won with a toss
of 56-11. Darden has already auto¬
matically qualified for the NCAA's
with a school record throw of 59-
10 1/2 set at the Wolf Pack Invita¬
tional.
Junior Melissa Bauermeister re¬
placed her provisional-qualifying
mark in the 20-lb. weight throw of
51-7 3/4 set earlier this year with a
53-0 3/4. % ..
Friday's Reno Air Games, the
featured meet of the weekend that
included some of track's biggest
stars put some Bulldogs in the spot¬
light and they made the most of the
opportunity. The team of Charlton
Jordan, Demetrius Snaer, Etroy
Nelson and Jamie Houston won the
4x200-meter relay in a time of
1:28.03.
Also, senior Jason Dossey took
third in the shot put with a season-
best throw of 52-6 1/2. Dossey was
fifth in the WAC in the shot put as
of last week.
Fresno State will host a youth
clinic this weekend, Feb. 16-17 at
the Fresno State Livestock Pavilion.
The event will consist of sepa¬
rate clinics for coaches and parents,
in addition to one for young ath¬
letes. It will conclude with a mini-
track meet on Saturday.
The cost of attending the clinic
is $5.00 each day for coaches and
parents and $1.00 for children. En¬
try into track meet for spectators
and athletes is $2.00.
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track by sending him to Houston
to live with his sister when he was
a sophomore in high school.
He was cut from the Madison
high varsity team as a sophomore,
then played only sparingly as a
junior. He blossomed his senior
year.
"I haven't been through the
worst, but I've seen what can hap¬
pen," Brooks said. "I can't afford
to hold anything back. I have to
go all out to accomplish my goals,
both in basketball and life."
His ultimate goal is making
it to the NBA.
'To get there, I have to work
hard on all aspects of my game,"
Brooks said. "Then I'll be the
kind of player I want to be-the
hardest player on the floor."
His mother makes it no secret
that she is ready to leave the
prdjects. With all of his respon-
sibilities-school, basketball, his
mother's expectations-Brooks
can't afford to be lax. That's the
reason he gives it his all, and is
committed to success.
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