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Subject: Re: collings.....

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Rudy

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Date Posted: 17:09:27 05/22/01 Tue
In reply to: bomba 's message, "collings....." on 22:42:52 05/21/01 Mon

I dont disagree. Ian Collings could not have made these improvements if he was not a huge talent. The point is he was 4 years out of highschool and had not done anything. it is a tribute to his and the work he has done at his new school to have come this far. lets hope he continues to improve and mixes it up with the big dogs up in the great white north.

Rudy

>This not a slight against the WVU peogram or Collings,
>but those of us on the west coast who had been
>following HS when collings ran at that time knew/saw
>that he had huge potential.....IMHO he was the
>'silent' one in a handful of very good HS runners who
>were in BC at that time (Osadiuk, Kiauka, Milne,
>Mazzotta, Hayden, etc...) but since he was just behind
>those guys (just barely)he never got the recognition
>he deserved. I worked with Mazzotta at that time and
>Ian's name always came up as the guy who could beat
>everyone if the race went his way. Those guys would
>duke it out and he would be there, just not always in
>the medals....but the talent was very evident given
>the right circumstnaces/environment and i don't think
>O.R. was the best way to go for running....

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