Eastern Connecticut State University - Sustinet Yearbook (Willimantic, CT)

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CROSS COUNTRY Women Join Team Eastern's new X-country coach, Ken Gankofskie, sees next year's team looking a lot better with a full year of running under their belts. The 1979 Warrior's had a young team, all of which will be returning next year. The team stuck together very well, getting beat badly but still kept their spirits up , said Gankofskie. The highpoint of the season came at the Eatern Regionals, held in Franklin Park, Boston, where four of the top seven runners ran their best times. Coach Gankofskie cited junior Capt. Mike Woltag's performance of 26:08 for the tive mile course and labeled Mike the most consistent runner on the team. The team also traveled to Boston for two other races, the Codfish Bowl Invitational and the New England's. At the Codfish Bowl, Eastern ran ASH- COHCTI Pete NYSUOHI against such teams as UConn, Central, Keene, and SMU to name a few. The New Englands were probably the Warrior's most unforgetable. race. C113 Two hundred runners, representing thirty teams, ran in six inches of mud on a cold rainy day. Every finisher was covered with mud from head to toe. This year was the first year that Eastern fielded a women's x-country team. According to Coach Gankofskie, the girls did very well, gained alot of experience and the very young team steadily improved . The team improved so much that they only lost by five points to Trinity in the last meet of the season. Looking forward to next years season Coach Gankofskie thinks the team needs work on accepting challenging conditions. He says most U.S. teams expect x-country to be a track race on flat grass, roads, etc .... . Again, the entire team will be back to run next season. .X S 5 'lu . lla -N. . fl ' 3 ' ' ' '- . f' 4 f xg Ar,'jlLQi':i',. Standing on Hoor I-r: Bill Pedace, Capt. Mike Woltag, Cindy Blackstone, Gwen Jones, Coach Ken Gankofskie. First step I-t: Brian Taylor, Frank Bercik, Ed Manfredi, Anne Pennington, Gretchen Hein. Third step I-r: Larry Leidke, Mike Mannix, Cathy Brett. Missing Asst. Coach Pete Nystrom.

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