Indoors Pic and Quote #5: DESTINY

DESTINY: “You have no destiny other than that which you earn by your decisions and by your labors. You make your own destiny.” – Jeff Johnson

Photo – John Goegel

WHEN      January 8, 1971
WHERE    CYO Invitational, Cole Field House, University of Maryland
WHAT       60 yard (~ 55m) dash – final

WHO (L-R) 6th place (6.2) – Wilbur Smith (American Univ.); 1st place (6.0) – Dr. Del Meriwether (Baltimore OC) (wearing his medical scrubs top); 4th place (6.1) – Don Quarrie (Jamaica) [200m Gold & 100m Silver – ’76 Olympics; 200m Bronze – ’80 Olympics]; 3rd place (6.1) – Ivory Crockett (So. Illinois U.) [’69 & ’70 100y US National Champion; 100y world record (9.0) (1974)]; 2nd place (6.0) – CPT Mel Pender (US Army) [400m Relay Gold – ’68 Olympics; combat veteran, served two tours in Vietnam]; 5th place (6.2) – Kent Merritt (Univ. of Virginia).

Pender tied the world record of 5.9 in the prelims; Ben Vaughn (US Army) and Charlie Greene (US Army), ranked 3rd and 4th (respectively) in the World in the 100m/100y event in 1970 , did not make it out of the prelims.

 

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SCHEDULE CHANGES TO BOTH STATE MEETS

8:00am D1 schools arrive (Buses drop off and then park at Plymouth Elementary school)

9:00 Field Events start

10:30 Running Events start

1:15ish D1 meet ends

1:15-2:15 D1 buses pick up teams in the circle 

3:15pm D2 schools arrive (Do not arrive early. Buses drop off and then park at Plymouth Elementary school)

4:15 Field Events start

5:45 Running Events start

8:30ish D2 meet ends

8:30 D2 buses pick up teams in the circle

A gap has been included between sessions in case of a delay of some kind during the D1 meet. Incoming / Outgoing Buses can NOT be allowed to overlap like last year.