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Wednesday, October 20, 1982The Daily Tar Heel5
Harriers optimistic after loss
D
iver comes to terms
with serious injury
after freak accident
By TRACY YOUNG
Staff Writer
Until Labor Day weekend, John
Dameron's world revolved around diving.
Dameron, a junior from St. Petersburg,
Fla., spent two years sharing the No. 1 and
2 spots on the UNC diving team with
Barry Thomas, and he was coming off his
best summer of practice and competition.
Then, at 3 a.m. one morning, Dameron
was involved in a freak accident. Dameron
broke the tibia bone in his right leg and
crushed his right heel bone after falling
down the ladder of his loft.
"I'm sure that if I hadn't hit the bottom
rung (of the ladder), I would have been in
jured less," Dameron said. "I just slipped
it was freaky. It was just one of those
things."
"The combination of injuries he has is
extremely uncommon," said Dr. Timothy
Taft, orthopedic surgeon for UNC athletic
teams.
"To combine the heel with the ankle
fracture that's the thing that's par
ticularly uncommon," Taft said.
Because Dameron's injury was such a
rare one (Taft said he sees between six and
eight broken heels a year), Taft chose to
operate. He said that he used a fairly
straightforward procedure to repair
Dameron's ankle, but that an open reduc
tion was performed on the heel fracture.
"This is one of the areas there may well
have been differing opinions," Taft said.
"Our feeling is that it's best to have the
chance to let the joints remain as normal
Craig
as possible, with all of us realizing this may
fail."
Taft added that people tended to react
poorly to this type of injury, regardless of
the repair procedure used.
"I was really impressed with the medical
technique and Dr. Taft," Dameron said.
"He said that in most parts of the country
they would have fused the three joints in
my heel together and I would have lost
lateral movement."
As it stands right now, Dameron has
been red-shirted for the 1982-83 diving
season, and he cannot put weight on his
right foot until December. He will be lucky
if he can dive before June. Taft said there
was also a 30 to 40 percent chance that
Dameron would continue to. have a
substantial amount of pain in his leg once
he put weight on it again.
Dameron is currently undergoing
physical therapy in the whirlpool with the
goal of increasing his range of motion.
"The first week it happened, L realized
what the ramifications would be,"
Dameron said. "I was pretty upset because
I'd had an excellent summer diving.
"1 can't put any weight on it until
December," he said. "Then it's just a mat
ter of time to see if I can walk on it without
pain. I'm confident I'll be back. With a lot
of work I can do it."
Head swimming coach Frank Comfort
has been Impressed with Dameron's
positive attitude about the possible out
come of his injury.
"I know that all of us are impressed
with his attitude," he said. "I believe that
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in 1959 and did graduate work in both the
business and law schools. Craig has served
Chapel Hill as a realtor and businessman,
chairing the Chapel Hill Board of Realtors in
1980 and the Orange County Heart Fund
1978-80.
Having worked closely with both rural
aspects of Orange County as well as the Town
of Chapel Hill and municipal government,
Craig said he could represent all of the 16th
District. "I think I can be everybody's
senator," he said.
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For UNCs women's cross country team, Sunday proved to
be both unsuccessful and successful. Carolina did not expect
to beat 1981 national titlist and No. 1 -ranked Virginia, and
they didn't. Virginia won 18-41, but Coach Don Lockerbie
was still somewhat pleased.
"We've never run against U.Va. and scored as little as 41
points," Lockerbie said. ' .
The team had anticipated better results against No. 16 Perm
State. Ironically, Carolina did better against Virginia than
Penn State did (15-45), but the Nittany Lions beat Carolina
26-33.
Joan Nesbit placed fourth overall, was third in the scoring
because one runner raced unattached and set a personal record
on the most difficult course in the South. Neither the cold,
windy weather nor the tough, hilly course posed a problem for
the junior.
In contrast to last year's time of 18:09, Nesbit, who had
hoped to break 18:00, finished in 17:29, cutting 40 seconds off
her previous best. Her time was the sixth fastest recorded on
that course, and was better than last year's 17:32 finish by Bet
ty Jo Springs, the 1981 national champion from N.C. State.
"Usually this course is 30 seconds slower than any other.
course," Lockerbie said. .
"Until now I wasn't sure if I was a cross country runner or
only a track runner," Nesbit said. "We have such a great
region before, I thought I could get to the Nationals if I was
lucky. Now I can be competitive; I have just' as much of a
chance as anyone else.
"I couldn't have done it without Madlyn (Morreale) those
first two miles. We were like a machine. I was pleased and sur
prised when I went through the two-mile mark at 11:06,"
Nesbit said.
Freshman' Morreale finished ninth overall, beating Penn
State's first runner with a time of 18:05.
Holly Murray, who is usually right up with Morreale, was
-sick, but still finished 14th in 18:43.
UNCs other runners crossed the line within a few seconds
of each other, with steadily improving Laura Whitney 19th,
Kemper Knight 20th, Valerie Roback 21st, Katie Merten 22nd
and Bridget Thompson 23rd.
Nesbit's impressive finish should make her an ail-American
candidate, a title reserved for the top 25 runners in the coun
try. She beat five of last year's all-Americans last weekend.
"After the race, the Virginia coach came up to me and said
that I had an awesome race. That was the biggest compliment
he's the coach of the national champions,"- Nesbit said.
"Sometimes you feel you can go with them."
John Dameron
John-will figure out a way to recover.
Wher there's a will, there's a way.
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"The thing we're sorry about is that he
spent, the whole summer training and was
doing so well. The person it's hardest on is
John."
Dameron worked as a counselor at John
Candler's (NCSU diving coach) diving
camp in Raleigh.
Dameron cited assistant coach Cameron
Nims with helping him gain his posi
tive attitude. Nims, who, among other
things; helps the swim team mentally
prepare for meets, helped Dameron "get a
mental image of my bone being healed."
Another thing Dameron said helped
him through the initial stages of his
recovery was that, with the exception of
one doctor, no one expressed any negative
thoughts concerning his recovery.
"The most I've ever been out of diving
is 2Vz to three months," he said. "Then it
takes about two to three weeks to get a de
cent consistency. A year is a different
story."
Backgammon
tourney tonight
Backgammon fiends beware. You will
have a chance to exhibit your skills in the
Carolina Union's all-campus backgam
mon tournament beginning tonight. The
tournament will be held from 7 to TO
tonight in rooms 207 and 200 of the
Union, and in rooms 213 and 215 at the
same time Thursday night. No sign-ups
are required, but students mustering
their own boards.
; Players will draw for partners tonight,
and the competition will be single-or
double-elimination, depending on the
number of players, said Peggy Reed,
Union Recreation Committee chairper
son. ' .
' The winner will represent UNC at the
Region Five Association of College
Unions International Games Tournament
in Knoxville this February, Reed said.
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville
will host the regional tournament, and all
expenses for the UNC representative will
be paid by the Union.
Walker
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Walker, a native of Asheboro in Randolph
County, has served as a senator for the 16th
District for four terms. In the 1981 senatorial
session he chaired the Appropriations Commit
tee of Human Resources and was vice chairman
of the Human Resources Committee. He also
sat on committees including Appropriations,
Economy, Election Laws, Transportation, and
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