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Keen, Yet Relaxed

Thinclads Go Easy

By Bob Niles

Offering top flight competition,
but not the pressures of scholarship
sports, the track squads at the
University are just the activities
which the athletic-minded first-year
man should look into.

Coach Lou Onesty is now
seeking interested first-year men
who are considering serving their
University on the athletic field.
"We get many boys here at the
University who have participated in
track in high school, but for reasons
of study or anxiety over the level of
competition, they fail to sign up for
a sport."

But such fears are not warranted
in his opinion. "Due to the set-up
of our track program, very little
burden is placed on the student.
Freshman teams as a rule have only
three or four meets in a season, and
with a maximum of two hours a
day for practice, no undue hardship
is placed on the student's studies."

Virginia offers no scholarships
in this sport, and considering the
fact that all Atlantic Coast
Conference teams including former
national track and field champion
Maryland do pay their runners, the
lack of glory requires that you
really love the sport.

Past performance should be of
no concern to prospective athletes.
Latent talents have a way of
budding under Coach Onesty's
direction, and with the proposed
expansion of track facilities,
including an eight lane 440 grasstex
track and a new cross country
course, this tradition cannot help
but continue.

Track is growing at Virginia, and
if you have any interest whatsoever
in the sports, you would be doing
yourself and your University a
service by contacting Coach Lou
Onesty at University Hall. There
can be no finer way to build a
college track career than here at the
University.