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Strong Nucleus Back
For X-Country Team

Cross-Country Coach Lou
Onesty proudly boasts "eight of
our top ten cross-country runners
are on the Dean's list". Mr. Onesty
hopes that his runners can
distinguish themselves on the
course this year as they have in the
classroom.

A whole bevy of runners returns
from last year's squad, which
floundered to a 3-4 record and a
sixth-place finish in the ACC meet.
Leading the returnees will be
fourth-year co-captains "Brew"
Barron and Mike DeCamps, both of
whom are superb students.

The only other fourth-year
runner will be Greg Lane, school
mile-run record holder, out for
cross-country for the first time
since his first year.

The top runner for the Cavaliers
this year should be Phil Meyer, a
two-year letterman. Meyer is the
Virginia record-holder in the two
and three mile and Coach Onesty
rates him "a surprise who should be
the top fifteen in the conference"
During the summer Meyer trained
by running 108 miles each week.

Supporting Meyer and his
fourth-year teammates are lettermen
Mayo Tabb, James Wood, Gerry
Hart and Joe Cacclapaglia. "Depth
is our strength". Remarks Coach
Onesty and these lettermen, plus
second-year lettermen, plus
second-yearman Leland Payton
form the nucleus of a well-balanced
team.

The team will compete in only
three tri-meets before entering a
series of big meets, including the
NCAA Regional Meet, October 23;
the State Championship, November
6 and the ACC Championship,
November 8. A tri-meet with North
Carolina and N.C. State starts the
regular season on October 1. Coach
Onesty asserts that the "conference
should be red hot this year",
leaving the Cavaliers' fate for this
season undetermined.

No meets are currently
scheduled for Virginia's 5.0-mile
Faulkner Course, but practices are
conducted daily. Prospects for the
1971 season are good but Mr.
Onesty's program could greatly
improve if some of the twenty-odd
high-school cross-country captains
presently enrolled at the University
tried out for the team.