Flotrack should broaden their coverage for the Big Ten. Heck come to MSU that would be sweet! But that PSU dude does need to chill on his own school...thats a lil messed up. Congrats Ty.FLOTRACK....Come see the Spartans Track House. lolOnelove y'all
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RS Senior Tyler McCandless takes us on a tour of Penn State's rich athletics' history. The two story, on campus museum covers every sport's team PSU has fielded in its over a century old athletics annals...and the admission is free to students!
Thought I would share this inspiring story I read in the book "Run for the Diamonds" by Mark Will-Weber. Curt Stone was a Penn State great who made three Olympic teams (1948, 1952, 1956), won numerous AAU titles on the track, and won a US cross country title in 1947. At the Olympic Trials in 1952 Stone won both the 5k and 10k. In a recent interview he said, "I have a hard time believing how I could have done all that racing in November of 1942. We raced at the IC4A cross country championships. Then we won the NCAA cross country championships, which was Penn State's First national title in ANY sport. Then I ran Berwick Run for the Diamonds (a 9-mile hilly thanksgiving day race). And then I ran for Philly's Shanahan Catholic Club at national AAU where we won the team title 48 hours after Berwick." Obviously seemingly everyone has been complaining about the regional system, but imagine how much harder it would have been for Curt Stone to pull off that quadruple...he definitely has the "heart of a lion."Another side note: Ashenfelter gave the Olympic gold medal to the museum with the stipulation that if his grandchildren wanted to take it in to school for show-and-tell they could. I got the opportunity to talk to Ashenfelter at a PSU football game once. He was asked about his college days and he said something about how he lived in a small cottage on a farm and worked 20+ a week on the farm doing manual labor, took 20 credits, and ran competitively... he was surprised that people complain about how "hard" they have it now. (I could be wrong with the exact details, but it was something close to that). His gold medal winning race is on youtube as well, although not in english... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74DINxsh-MIf guys like that don't motivate and inspire you, I'm not sure what will.Thanks for the comments...not sure when PSU's last 10k qualifier was...I know Eric Carter was the last 10k all-american (7th place) in 1987 and our school record is by Greg Fredericks of 28:08 in 1972 - which was the American Record at the time.
I would be totally up for a weekly Penn State series. The Happy Valley Weekly, or the Penn State Post, or the Nittnay Lion News. I can't get enough of it. Bring it on...........
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