Bobby Thomas…World Jr. XC Champ
Glendale HS / Glendale
CC / UCLA
Three national
records for GC
Glendale HS-1974: CIF 4A 2-mile 3rd
place; USA
Jr. XC Meet-last place
Glendale cross country-1974: Undefeated; Mt. SAC
Inv. 1st 19:33; So Cal Finals-1st
19:26; State small schools xc
champion-19:19.8 (59-second win margin) Mt.
SAC 4-mile course record; Glendale took the team
title with 40 points (46 pt. win margin). GC team total time was only one
second slower than large school winner Grossmont.
Glendale XC Coach-Mark Covert
1974 USA
Jr.XC-5000m: 1st 24:25.5 (Alameda,
Calif. host)
1975-March: World Jr. XC-Rabat, Morocco: Thomas (age-18) ran
20:59 to win by100 yards over the 8k (4.4 miles) course against runners from 34
nations. USA
men, women won the junior team titles.
1975-Track: Sunkist Indoor
2-mile 8:51; PRs: 3-miles 13:36.4 *national record;
*National record
Distance Medley…with Thomas anchoring Glendale
twice broke the DM *NJCR-once at meters and once at yards. Thomas ran 4:04.3y,
4:06.8m anchor legs.
Glendale was 1975 So Cal,
State T&F Champions (GC tied San Jose for
the state title -31 points, only tie in state history); Glendale T&F Coach John Tansley
1976 AAU National XC Championships: 8th 30:40
Ex-Laker Asst. Vaulted High for Compton... The Los Angeles Lakers were recently honored and
given their NBA Championship rings. One member of the Laker family has deep roots in our sport and California community
college track and field. Fred “Tex” Winter, 87, longtime Laker
assistant/consultant and creator of the triangle offense, was a pole vaulter at Compton
College and USC…and, he
was a good one. At Compton Winter, vaulting on a bamboo pole, won the 1941
Metro Conference and So Cal Finals at 13-3 and in 1942 he took the West Coast
Relays JC title with a 13-9 tie. In 1946, after apparently serving in WWII, Winter, then playing basketball and pole vaulting for USC,
vaulted 14-0 to tie for the Compton Invitational title. Winter was a Huntington
Park HS graduate.
Meb/ex-Grossmont coach=NYC Marathon win
Meb Keflezighi,coached
by Bob Larsen, former ultra-successful Grossmont
coach, became the first American citizen since 1982 to win Sunday's New York
Marathon. Meb has continued to train with Larsen
since their days at UCLA together. Meb was
silver medalist in the 2004 Athens Olympics marathon.
Ex-Mounti
Cortez Competes in PAC-10 Chps.
Crhistine Cortez, Mt.
SAC's 2008-9 State CC 1500-meter
Champion, placed 60th for USC in Friday's PAC-10 Cross Country Championships in
Long Beach.
Cortez ran 21:51.27 in her first big college 6k race. The USC