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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1978
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road to Moscow is a long one
BY DAVID BOGGAN
The Southwest Conference was
well represented in the 1976 Sum
mer Olympics when Johnny “Lam’
Jones from the University of Texas
returned to Austin with a gold
medal as a member of the United
States relay team.
Now there is talk of SVVC repre
sentation in Moscow in 1980. And
the person that has been mentioned
as a possible Olympian is a Texas
A&M track star named Linda Cor-
neilus.
If everything goes as expected in
the next two years, Corneilus, a
junior from Ft. Worth, hopes to
represent the United States in the
pentathlon in the 1980 Olympics.
“I think it would be really neat to
represent the United States in the
Olympics,” Corneilus said with a
smile. “If I go, I’m sure going to
take my camera. It would be great
to go to Moscow.
“Of course, it would be a long
haul to get there. I would have to do
well in the Collegiate Nationals.
Then, I would have to place well in
the AAU outdoor meet in the year of
the Olympics. They take the top
eight or the top six from that meet to
the Olympic trials. The top three
Americans from the trials, if they
can meet Olympic standards, go to
Moscow.
Obviously, qualifying for the
games is no easy process. But Cor
neilus has already won the AAU
meet last year in Xenia, Ohio.
“If I didn t qualify for the Olym
pics, I don’t think it would ruin my
life, like it might for some people,”
Corneilus speculated. “For exam
ple, people like Bruce Jenner. He
trained 10 hours a day for the 1976
Olympics. That was like his job. I
don’t think I can do that.
“I can’t totally dedicate my life or
my time to training. I think I train
hard enough right now. At least I
train as much as I think my legs can
stand.”
“What I could really train harder
on is weights,” the pentathlete said.
The pentathlon consists of five
events: the high jump, the long
jump, the 100-meter hurdles, the
800-meter run and the shot put.
“Linda’s weakest event is the shot
put,” said her coach, David
Williams. “You could tell that just
from her body frame.’ Corneilus
does not have the bulky arms and
shoulders that one associates with a
shot putter.
“I am definitely weak in the shot
put,” Corneilus admitted. “That’s
where working more with the
weights would help me.
“I could win the other four events
and get beat in the shot put and I
would still lose the pentathlon be
cause I did so poorly in the shot put.
But I’ve got the time to work on it. I
think I can do it, I just have to prac
tice. ”
Corneilus said she started run
ning track in elementary school and
continued to compete at Paschal
High School in Ft. Worth.
“I took it step by step,” she said.
“My dad coached me on the side. I
started getting serious about track
when I thought about getting a
scholarship. ”
And she did get a scholarship, to
the University of Nevada at Las
Vegas. But she was only there for a
year.
“I hated it out there. There’s too
much desert out there,” Corneilus
said with a laugh. “My performance
went downhill from high school out
in Nevada. I was even considering
quitting track.”
“Then I came to A&M where we
have a close knit team, I’m close to
home and my fiancee goes here. I
have broken personal records at
every meet here. Maybe it’s the
Texas air.
Whatever it is, it works. Cor
neilus will compete with the A&M
women’s track team in the Texas
A&M Relays at Kyle Field tomor
row, a meet that will feature 20 uni
versity and numerous high school
teams.
And hopefully, we will see Linda
Corneilus in 1980, up close and per
sonal — the Moscow Olympics way.
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