v.85, no.2 (November) pg.10
In: North Dakota School for the Deaf, 1975
academicJournal
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Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. ; USA Victorious in Pan-Am Games of the Deaf The USA Pan-Am team won championships in all of the sports in which it participated at the FIRST Pan-American Games of the Deaf which were held in Venezula's second largest city— Maracaibo—November 15-22. Teams in basketball, volley ball, swimming, and track and field, both men and women, emerged as victors. The USA team returned home laden with 22 gold, 20 silver, and 9 bronze for a grand total of 51. Gracious host Venezuela, with the largest contingent of athletes, had 5 gold, 9 silver, and 14 bronze (28) to take the second highest medal aggregation over Canada which had 17, five being gold, from its small but dedicated team. Rounding out the medal totals were Mexico 11, Colombia 3, Argentina 2, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador one each. In sports in which the United States did not compete, Vene- tina took the soccer title, Costa Rica the chess title, and Venezula the table tennis gold. Thirty-five out of the 37 USA athletes won at least one medal. Six global marks for the deaf were set by USA swimmers. NDSD's Drexel Lawson, who was figured to win at least four golds, won fhe 100-meter dash in fine fashion in 10.7. Easily the favorite in the 200- and 400-meter dashes after three days of extensive workouts under his coach Dwight Rafferty, Lawson saw his dreams of Pan-Am glory evaporate midway in the 200 meter dash. A notoriously slow starrer, Lawson shot from his blocks like an arrow from a bow. Keeping up the pressure, he had a tremendous lead at the midway mark. Ironically, at this time, the hamstring muscle in his left leg let go! Gamely, he tried to maintain the pace, but slowly lost ground. South Dakota's fine all-around athlete, Lyle Grate, quickly assumed the load of winning for the USA. Time was 22.63. What would have been Lawson's time without the leg injury? His coach feels he was flirting wth a new world mark for the deaf since his finishing kick is without parallel. Lawson will have to wait for the 1977 World Games Tryouts in Washington, DC, in June 1976 to prove he is one of the nation's best sprinters up to 400 meters. Drexel and Coach Rafferty would like to take this time to thank again the wonderful people who donated so generously to make fhe Pan-Am trip possible. Drexel regrets mightily that through no fault of his own, he was able to bring home only a single gold. He would have done anything to have been able to have made it five which his coach believes he rightly deserved. 10 THE BANNER NOVEMBER 1975
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v.85, no.2 (November) pg.10
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Devils Lake (N.D.) |
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Zeitschrift: | North Dakota School for the Deaf, 1975 |
Veröffentlichung: | North Dakota School for the Deaf Library ; North Dakota State Library, 1975 |
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