Track and Field
The Fighting Camels track team is in the middle of having a new track facility constructed.
The team has had some successful athletes and has had three athletes earn NCAA Division I All-America status:
- Orville Peterson-decathlon (1980)
- Ernie White-decathlon
- Eric Bergemann-indoor high jump (2003)
Along with the above athletes, more have qualified for the Division I national championships:
- Heather Lee-cross country, 5000m (2007)
- Alicia Valtin-3000m Steeplechase (2007)
- Sam Tilly-outdoor long jump (2007,2008)
- Adoniss Jones-110m high hurdles (2010)
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Famous quotes containing the words track and, track and/or field:
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
—Harriet Tubman (1821–1913)
“Commit a crime and the world is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Vigil strange I kept on the field one night;
When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
One look I but gave which your dear eyes return’d with a look I
shall never forget,
One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach’d up as you lay on the ground,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)