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By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Staff
Randy Hall’s future is up in the air.
As a matter of fact, so are his past and
his present. Hall is a pole vaulter for
the Texas Aggies, the defending
Southwest Conference track cham
pions.
In 1978, Hall used his pole vault
ing skills to aid the Texas A&M track
team in its victory of the Southwest
Conference championship. This
year, the sophomore from Port
Lavaca hopes that his performance
can once again lead to an Aggie
victory at the SWC meet. And Hall
envisions a trip to Moscow in 1980.
“Everybody out here dreams of
going to the Olympics, ” Hall said as
rain clouds threatened his Tuesday
afternoon practice session. “It is the
ultimate thing to do.”
Hall, who last week set a personal
record and a meet record at the
Drake Relays with a vault of 17-5%,
figures that it will take a vault of at
least 18-6 to even qualify for the U. S.
Olympic team. But, according to
Hall, his first 18-foot vault is “right
around the corner.”
“I don’t think 18 is very far away,”
he said. “Even in high school I think
I was capable of 18. It’s just a matter
of technique and psych jobs and ev
erything else. My biggest barrier
was getting over the 17-foot mark.
Hall cleared 16-10 while vaulting
for Calhoun High in Port Lavaca, but
he did not pass the 17-foot mark until
last summer. Ironically, that vault,
made in Bloomington, Ill., qualified
him to compete with the AAU junior
team — in Russia.
“I can’t believe they’re having the
Olympics in Moscow; it’s so terri
ble,” Hall said. “They are technically
so far in the past. Their airports are
bad. Their hotels are bad.”
Hall said that he feels the Russian
government, which pays its athletes
to train for the Olympics, will do al
most anything to gain an advantage
in competition.
“They intentionally kept us away
from the (Olympic) stadium so we
wouldn’t know what it’s like,” he
said. “And I’m sure all their athletes
work out on the (stadium) track.
“Their athletes train year-round,
eight hours a day, just like a man
over here who has a job. That’s
another advantage for them. The
American athlete can’t train because
it costs so much money.”
This summer. Hall will participate
in the AAU senior meet, another
stepping stone towards the Olym
pics.
“If I can finish in the top six (in the
AAU senior meet). I’ll be ready for
the trials in ’80,” Hall said. “The
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Olympics would be such an accom
plishment. Once you’ve made it,
everyone knows how much you’ve
worked.”
Assistant track coach Ted Nelson
knows how hard Hall has worked and
he says that Randy’s Olympic dreams
can be fulfilled.
“He’s got a good shot,” Nelson
said. He s an up and coming young
jumper. And he’s hitting it at just the
right time. It will be his junior year.
He’ll still be in school and he’ll still
have a good team concept.
But the Olympics are in the fu
ture. Hall s present concern is the
SWC meet which takes place in Aus
tin May 11-12.
I think we 11 win, but it won’t be
by as big a margin as last year,” Hall
went into
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said. The Aggies won Wiiting. We
meet, in which Hall setai parents
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amazing 44-point margin. Nheir hoi
“Last year, the upper las well a
told us early in the year that®’
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vault of 16-4. Houston
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