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By MIKE BERARDINO
Sports Editor
For the thousands of amateur
athletes adopting various corners
of the Triangle as their temporary
home over these next two weeks,
a certain amount of transition and
acclimation will be necessary.
But for a small, yet highly
visible group of UNC athletes
competing in the U.S. Olympic
Festival, no such transition stage
will be needed.
The highest profile Tar Heels at
the Festival will be a trio of Dean
Smith's hoopsters. Rising sopho
more J.R. Reid, redshirt freshman
Peter Chilcutt and incoming
recruit King Rice will join forces
on the South team at the Smith
Center, site of the men's basketball
competition, July 18-20 and 22.
After getting cut earlier this
summer from the Pan American
Games team which UNC team
mate Jeff Lebo made Reid was
considered a shoo-in as the top
draw for the Festival. For a while
Reid, though, vacillated over his
to-play-or-not-to-play dilemma.
But in the end, the 6-9 forward
opted to play for South coach
Eddie Sutton, of the University of
Festival began
as a national
sports event
From staff reports
Although today it is the nation's
largest multi-sport event, the U.S.
Olympic Festival began in 1978
under a different name. For its first
six years, the event was known as
the National Sports Festival.
The Festival came into being
through the ideas of former U.S.
Olympic Committee President
Robert Kane, who noticed as early
as 1963 that the U.S. needed a
multi-sport event. He felt that
America's athletes needed the
experience of Olympic-style com
petition during non-Olympic and
non-Pan American years.
Kane created the Festival when
he became USOC President in
1977, with the goal of showcasing
America's Olympic-caliber ath
letes in an Olympic-style
competition.
The Festival is organized to
mirror the Olympic games in both
format and content. Many Olym
pic heroes, including Greg Louga
nis, Mary Lou Retton, Edwin
Moses, Steve Lundquist, Peter
Vidmar and Mike Eruzione, either
received their first big breaks or
continued successful athletic
careers at the Festival.
The Festival is held every non
Olympic year in different cities
across the country. It was held in
Colorado Springs in 1978, 79 and
3; Syracuse in 1; Indianapolis
in 2; Baton Rouge in 5; and
Houston in 1986.
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Reid's reasoning? "Coach Smith
told me," he said.
Sounds like a good enough
reason, all right.
Reid put forth a strong showing
at last year's Houston Festival,
and should do so again this year.
Chilcutt, a 6-9 forward from
Tuscaloosa, Ala., will finally get
an opportunity to strut his stuff
in front of a Smith Center crowd.
He was academically eligible to
play last year, but sat out the
season due in part to the Tar Heels'
front-court depth.
Rice, a 6-foot point guard from
Binghamton, N.Y., is the heir
apparent to Kenny Smith's floor
leader role. A fine passer and a
capable shooter, Rice will share
Festival time at the point with
N.C. State recruit Chris
Corchiani.
Another Tar Heel basketballer
roaming the Smith Center at the
Festival will be Liza Donnell, of
coach Sylvia Hatchell's women's
basketball team. Donnell, a rising
junior from Newark, N.J.. will
play for the North team. The
speedy 5-6 guard plays with reck
less abandon and should be a treat
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In the women's field hockey
competition at AstroTurf Field
(July 19-25), record-setting for
ward Louise Hines will return to
her old stomping grounds. Hinesv
a 1986 graduate who assisted
coach Karen Shelton last season,
will join current Tar Heel Tracey
Yurgin on the West team.
Hines is in preparation for the
Pan Am Games in August. Yur
gin, a fine sweeper at UNC for the
past two years, figures to gain
valuable experience against top
level competition. Shelton will be
an assistant coach for the West
team.
The other Tar Heel stick
wielder at the Festival will be rising
senior Lori Bruney. An All
America midfielder last season,
Bruney is a member of the 15
player U.S. Junior National team,
which makes its debut as a unit
as the Olympic Festival's East
team.
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