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Post by frojoe23 on Sept 26, 2006 15:02:15 GMT -5
I don't know if any of you have ever met Bill Anderson of Cumberland, but I just found some interesting stuff from when he ran at the University of Tennessee. You can usually see Bill at Allegany XC meets or with his kids at the Junior Striders meets. I was relatively unaware of the caliber of runner that he was while at Tennessee. Unfortunately, he is unable to run now because of various knee injuries. He lives at the end of my street in Cumberland and was telling me about doing half-mile repeats from Shriver Avenue up to the Plastics plant on Will's Mountain (crazy)!
So while at Tennessee (1972-1975), Bill recorded times of 2:10.14 for 1000 yds, 4:03.3 for the mile, and was a member of the 4x800m relay team that ran 7:29.2 indoors.
I think that is pretty darn impressive and just another to add to the list of great runners in our area.
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Post by frojoe23 on Sept 26, 2006 15:02:43 GMT -5
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Post by marc on Sept 29, 2006 11:35:29 GMT -5
Speaking of great runners in our area, who else has had a great running career? I know there are people like Bill Anderson, Jeff Smith and Coach Lowe who have all had success at a very high level, but who else in the circuit has had a great career?
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Post by Justin on Sept 29, 2006 12:12:53 GMT -5
You all may have heard of Kate Gall, who ran for Allegany and graduated in 1998. She dominated the 400 and 800 for the area like no other girl probably in the area. She went on to have a very good career at regularly nationally ranked Providence College. Kate's dad, Mr. Gene Gall, who I believe still lives in Cumberland, ran for UCLA as a very established middle distance runner. I believe he was a leg on UCLA's NCAA championship 4x400 team in 1966. So he is an NCAA Div 1 national champion. Link Here: www.ncaa.org/library/records/track_outdoor/2005/2005_m_odtrack_record.pdf#search=%22Gene%20Gall%20UCLA%20track%22Page 8.
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