1984_09 The Daily Collegian September 1984

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September 26,1984
The Daily Collegian
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Dot Jones Olympic hopeful
Bulldog athlete good shot for 88
Ten and one half inches. Not a terribly
great distance to either you or me, but to
an athlete those few inches-can be the
longest distance in the world. Especially
when those ten and one half inches cost
you a trip to the 1984 Olympic trials.
Dorothy Jones, or Dot as everyone
knows her, never thought that her partici¬
pation in high school track and field
would bring her as far as it has.
Litllc did Dot realize that when she
started throwing a shot put in junior high
with her older sister Carolyn, who was
then a member of the high school track
team, that she would go on to become one
of the mosi outstanding athletes ever to
come out of Hilmar High School.
A person could best describe Hilmar as
a small farming community twenty miles
south of Modesto The people of Hilmar
make up an extremely close-knit com¬
munity They are always there to help,
whether it be supporting a needy family,
or an aspiring athlete
i high school student. Dot j
all-around athlete. Participating in bas¬
ketball and volleyball, as well as vanity
track for four years, she went on to be a
member of the all-league teams in all three
sports. At the culmination of her senior
year, Dot was honored for athletic ac¬
complishments by receiving the Yellow-
jacket of the Year award.
Did Doteverdreamof beingsosuccess¬
ful? Probably not.
"1 never thought I'd make it this far. It
wasn't until I was a junior (in high school),
when 1 made it to the state meet, when 1
thought about going on to college. Then
Ihe letters started coming. Then 1 really
started thinking."
Dot's excellence in high school took her
to a second state track meet during her
senior year in high school, where she fin¬
ished second.
The letters she was referring to were
college offers. All were seeking the same
thing, a well-rounded athlete to aid in fil¬
ling the gap on their own track and field
teams, and in some instances, their wom¬
en's basketball team.
The offers came from both far and near.        Dot's junior college career enabled het,
Arizona and Washington offered her full to set her tights on the possibiliivvof
scholarships to play basketball. Oregon, attending the 1984 Olympic trials, bufher
Fresno State and UCLA each guaranteed dreams were shattered when she failed to
her a full scholarship if she would accept reach the required mark of 52 feet,
their offer to represent them in track.        "I missed the Olympic trials by ten and
Other offers came from Berkeley, Sun- one half inches. I guess I was thinking too
ford and West Point. muchabout what I had to do al the meet.J
With so many choices. Dot chose just got too tense and didn't throw as far
another alternative.   Upon  graduation as 1 should have. I hit 55 feet in practice,
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ipated on the school's track team.
Competing in both the discus and the
shot put, she set a personal best in the
discus of 158 feet, 6 inches, and a Junior
College National Record in the shot put of
51 feet, one-and-a-half inches, a record
which still stands.
Dot's choice of first attending a junior
college proved beneficial in the long run.
According to her, "I would better my
GPA, better my distance qnd get better
offers by going to a JC first."
During Dot. two-year span at MJC,
she was invited to compete internation¬
ally.
"I was invited by the International
Sports Exchange to compete in Taiwan in
1982'and then Japan in 1983.1 met a lot of
fun people, but I could have done without
the raw fish. I had a good time."
Dot captured the gold medal in Taiwan
and the silver medal in Japan when the
United States team competed against
Canada, Japan and China.
When in junior college, the offers front
various schools to participate in theif
sports programs continued to come. Oof
of the choices, Fresno State was the ooj
who would benefit.
Why Fresno when there wire so maim*
other seemingly better offers? Dot's ret;
roning was simple. "Fresno is far enough
from home, but yet close enough to go
back. Plus I still got a full scholarship. I
came here because the people and coaches'
were totally hot."
Dot is not only an accomplished discus
thrower and shot putler. She also holds the.
World Wrist Wrestling title in women*
unlimited (145 lbs. and over) category.
Dot began wrist wrestling for fun by
entering a tournament held during (he
Newman Fall Festival in Newman, Calif.!
It was there that she won her first tourna¬
ment and met a fellow wrist-wrestler
named Lori Cole, who asked her to gp to
Petaluma to compete in the World Chara-
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pion'.hips because she had a good chance
Pcialuma was Dot's second tournament.
She d id no special training for it other than
her normal weight workout for track.
1 devised on the Wide World of Sports.
Dot beat four opponents, including a
female bouncer from Washington named
Nora Hoffman, to win the title. Former
champion, Pam Carter, had retired after
holding the title for six years. After seeing
Doi beat Hoffman, she came out of
renrcment to seek the title once again in
Petaluma on October 13.
How did Dot feel after winning the title
wuh relatively no work at all? "I was
ecstatic. I wat really excited."
Dot has since won the Newman tour¬
nament for the second consecutive year
and is going to Petaluma in October to
defend her title. She's more than ready.
According to Dot, community support
from her home town has helped her out a
lot. "1 think it's great. I probably wouldn't
have gotten as much support from another
community that has meant as much to
me."
"I'm hoping to place well in NCAA.
Training is going to be great and IVe hit 55
feet in practice. IVe gotten to know throw¬
ers and weight people. They're great, girls
and guys alike. You gotta love them."
Dot's ultimate goal is the 1988 Olym¬
pics in Seoul, South Korea. As she puts it,
"If the qualifying distance is around 52
feet, the chances are hopeful."
Rocky Balboa had the "eye of the
tiger,"Dot has something even more val¬
uable than that. Community Support, self
determination and pride. How can you
tell? You can see it in her eyes.
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Sports Editor
With Fresno Slate courting the big time
with both iu football and basketball pro¬
grams, it's easy to overlook the progress
that's being made in some of the lets vis¬
ible sports. Such at water polo.
This years edition of Harold Zane's
Waterdogs is ranked higher than any pre¬
vious FSU squad, moving up one notch
this week to sixth in the nation. That's
higher than either tbe football or basket¬
ball  team  hat ever been  ranked.
The 'Dogt' showing in this week't
American Water Polo Coaches' Associa¬
tion poll comet on the heels of a 7-4 victory
over number five Stanford oh Saturday,
and a 10-6 loss to fourth-rated USC on
Sunday.
Goalie Steve Coupland was the key
player in both Bulldog efforts and was
named the Fresno Bee's Athlete of the
Week on the university level.
Pepperdine, an 11-10 winner against
Irvine last weekend, is listed as number
one in the AWPCA poll. The Waves are
followed by Irvine, California. USC and
Stanford in the top five. Fresno State,
UCLA, Brown, Long Beach State and
Loyola of Chicago round out the top ten.
The Bulldogs' opponents on Thursday,
UC-Santa Barbara Gauchos are rete¬
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