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Randy Hall basks in the glow of victory after vaulting to the
NCAA outdoor title last May in Austin. Hall comes back again
this year to lead the defending SWC Champion Texas Aggie
track team.
By ANN DUFFY
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University track star
Randy Hall will be hard up to im
prove on his 1980 record as he enters
this track season.
Last year’s All-Southwest Confer
ence Indoor and Outdoor pole vault
ing champion also holds the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) meet record of 18-21/2 feet.
His record-setting performance at
the SWC Outdoor Championships
was a prime factor in the Aggies
meet-winning effort.
But his accomplishments last
spring don’t end there. Hall won the
NCAA pole vault championship in
both the indoor and outdoor com
petitions, and broke the SWC record
at the Rice Invitational in Houston
with an \ S-OV2 effort and jumped the
same height in the non-conference
Bruce Jenner Invitational. That
jump tied him for the title. He also
won his event at the Florida State
Invitational in Tallahassee.
“My most memorable jump was
my first 18-foot jump last year, ’’ Hall
said. “It was a goal I’d been wanting
to achieve all along.”
Hall, 21, is a finance major and has
been vaulting since he was 10 years
old. His father vaulted in high school
and at Southwest Texas State Uni
versity in San Marcos.
“My dad’s really my coach,” said
Hall.
Hall’s father now coaches track at
Calhoun County High School in Port
Lavaca.
“I ran hurdles and did the high
jump in junior high, ” Hall said, “but
to really excel in vaulting I had to
devote all my time to it ”
)OM
J
Borg shoots
for elusive
Open crown
United Press International
NEW YORK — Now that he’s
learned the secret of winning in New
lork, Bjorn Borg is looking to
achieve the single major prize that
has eluded him in tennis.
Five years in a row he has won
Wimbledon, and five times he has
raptured the French Open. Yet the
young man who already is consi
dered by many as the greatest player
ever has been stopped short in his
quest to capture the U.S. Open.
The last three years Borg went to
the Open with his hopes alive to
achieve the Grand Slam, a feat
accomplished by only two men, and
each time he failed.
So it was little wonder that when
Borg was asked his hopes for the new
year on Sunday, he replied, “I want
to do well in the big tournaments,
hutprobably my biggest mission is to
do well in the U.S. Open. ”
Until the Masters last year, Borg
had failed in nine tries to win a tour
nament in New York. But he finally
made the breakthrough, and on Sun-
he completed a successful de
fense of the $400,000 Masters Cham
pionship with a surprisingly easy 6-4,
6-2,6-2 rout of Ivan Lendl.
t only does the Super Swede
continue to win, but at 24 he claims
| he has yet to reach his peak.
“I’m still continuing to improve
my game,” Borg said. “Over the last
couple of years I’ve been improving
my serve a little bit, also I’ve been
very consistent.
Even Borg, who hadn’t played
competitively for six weeks coming
into this tournament, was surprised
at how easily he handled Lendl,
earning him top prize of $100,000.
“1 expected a very tough match, ”
he said. “The last time I played Ivan
he beat me in five sets in Basel (Swit
zerland).’’
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The track star is now a senior as far
as his track eligibility, but is only a
junior at A&M because he stayed
home from school last fall.
“I thought I had a chance for the
Olympics, but they boycotted it, ” he
said. “I wanted to stay home and
prepare for it.”
Hall was one of eight Aggies to
qualify for the Olympic Trials in
Eugene, Ore. June 21-July 1. He
said several of his friends thought he
wouldn’t return to Texas A&M if he
stayed out a semester.
At those Trials, Hall succumbed to
bad track conditions and failed to
make the team.
“It (staying home a semester)
helped me out a lot,” he said. “I
found out how far I wanted to go with
my vaulting and my career. I’m
going to keep doing it as long as I
can, and I’m good at it, so why not?
I like being in shape.”
Hall’s workouts include running,
gymnastics, trampoline ,(for body
coordination in the air) and weight
lifting. He works out six days a week.
Still, Hall said he developed most
of his techniques from what his dad
taught him.
“Pole vaulting requires a more
specialized workout with gymnas
tics. We also have to watch the food
we eat.”
The training is not all physical,
however. When a person is falling 18
feet, he must depend on quick men
tal reactions.
During the off-season (September
and October), Hall runs cross coun
try to keep in shape and lifts weight
October through May. He starts
vaulting in November with a short
pole, not for height. SWC track and
field competition begins in mid-
February.
Last summer, Hall traveled
through Europe with the NIKE
track team, which took 15 people
from all over the nation. Texas A&M
shot put star Tim Scott was also
chosen to accompany the team.
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