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this year’s team will be keenly felt. Pentathlete Leslie Estwick is also an Ontario champion in her strongest event, th,e high jump, and is surely She can the bkmost countedversatile on to Athena.
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The outdoor track season is quite short, consisting of three meets, including the Ontario Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Association (OWIAA). finals on October 18 at Laurentian University. So while the season offers rather limited highfor opportunities calibre-competition, it gives the track and field Athenas -an excellent chance to become acquainted with one another and with the main opponents they will face in the more intense indoor season which follows. This is in keeping with the traditional use in track and field of autumn as a season for recuperation from the previous winter and summer competitions, and as a preparation for. those of the . next year. The University of Toronto won the OWIAA championships in 1979, and it seems unlikely that they will easily be dislodged from their first place position ,this year. Waterloo finished fourth last year; within striking distance of both Queen’s, in second place, and McMaster, in third. With a little luck, and a lot
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of. enthusiasm, the< Athenas should be able to improve their finishing position of I last year. The Athenas’ greatest strength lies in sprinting and hurdling. This is a consequence of the fact that the most prominent members of the team are members of the KW Track Club and are, coached by UW graduate Brent McFarlane, one j of Canada’s top hurdle coaches. This orientation should be even more pronounced during the outdoor season, as most of the distance runners will be primarily concerned with cross-country. -Among the K-W Track Club members involved with’ this year’s team are Sylvia Malgadey, Leslie Estwick, and Faye Blackwood, who formed the core of the Waterloo team that finished second in last year’s ‘OWIAA indoor championships. Sylvia -Malgaaey graduated from UW last spring and has,taken over coaching duties for this year’s Athena team. She is one of Canada’s top sprint hurdlers, the 1980
perform well in the sprint hurdles (fifth in the 1980 Ontario championships), the long jump (second in the 1979 OWIAA outdoors), as well as in relays. Faye Blackwood, the
is the reignin.g OWIAA champion in the 59m and 809m indoors, and the 400m outdoors. Furthermore, he;r 4OOm time of 55.1 and 300~71 time of 38.8 are OWIAA reCAqft;her Athena who trains with the K-W Tra‘ck Club, though a member of the South Windsor K of C, is Andrea Page, an excellent 499m hurdler and relay runner. It is not yet clear whether the pressure of her studies will prevent her -so-
From left to right, Leslie Estwick [Athena@, Rasenberg (Western) compete in &he Ontaro
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students Kathy Wilkinsland of Canada’s top vwnen’s distance clubs. Betty Ann Vanderkruk. The strongest The athletes above will Athena middle-dist&ce runner, Li- form the centre of Waterloo’s this fall. Coach sa Amsden, originates from team the ’ ’ Porcupine Malgadey emphasizes, howClub ?ZrnYZs currently ever, that tb$ean$;;en :: under the banner of the anyone Waterloo County AAA. The participate actively. Any 1979 OWIAA outdoor 800m .ru~ner, jumper, or thrower Amsden has who wants to exercise her champion, effectively this skill is encouraged to attend trained summer and lowered her the first team meeting *on best times in the 1599m and September 19 at 5 pm in PAC 1001. 8OOm to 4:35 and 2:11.6. Some further help in the * Alan Adamson
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