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RALEIGH - That Phillip
Smith was even participating in
the state high school track and
field championships last Friday
night is a testimony to his.
That he anchored Glenn's gold
medal-winning 4x200 relay team,
helping the Bobcats to their firstever
state championship, attests
to his athletic ability.
As recently as his ninth-grade
year, Smith foresaw a career in
5 ipritebtfr lie arrivtdrat A.fHm
*10 High School with a nice set
shot that enabled him to make
the varsity basketball team.
"Four ninth-graders made the
team that year/' Smith said.
"They hadn't had that many
ninth-graders make the team in
10. years or so. Jeff Denny wai
one of the four.
"We had a good team, with
Jeff, Kenny Mickens and Chris
Christmas. We tied Carver for
the conference championship."
While Denny's basketball
career flourished at North Forsyth
and earned him a scholarship
to the University of North
Carolina, Smith has since civen
up basketball.
"Basketball just didn't work
out for me," said Smith, who
was a S-foot-6, 135-pound guard
at Atkins. "The transition from
Atkins to Glenn wasn't very
smooth. Most of the guys here
went to Hill. Only ConneU Surles
and I came from Atkins.
"J-wasn't familiar with the
tradition. Weil, this is a new
school and we didn't have much
of a; tradition yet. If I had gone to
East, I might have stuck with
basketball because 1 was familiar
witl Coach (Ken) Hayes and I
knew what to expect with him." 7
So Smith turned his attention
to weightlifting and gradually
began to make his once-skinny
frame into a powerful body. At
the same time, he decided to cast
his lot with track and footbalL
Pursuing that combination turn*
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Glenn Coach Steve Whicker said..
"He hat a food upper body,
Which is what you are looking for
in a quarter-miler."
I Smith, who finished third in
tjie 400 in last week's state meet
$t North Carolina State, found
track to be sweet stuff after a
soured basketball career. "
"I knew I had a little speed/*
he said. "I really didn't expect
much from track. But 1 really like
this sport. Nobody can blame
you if you lose and nobody else
can take the credit if you win."
Smith began his track career as
a hurdler, but Whicker decided to
, move him to the 400 last year.
"I was looking for a quartermiler,
and he had the strength
and drive," Whicker said. "1
didn't. put him in the open
quarter right away. He anchored
the 4x400 about the fourth meet
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everything I asked of them. You
know, I'm still on cloud nine, but
I hate to see them go. I couldn't
have had a better six years with
them." " -.j
Phifer also coached pogptt*
Ferguson and Stephanie Jessupat
Lincoln Junior High before going
to Dudley. ' ; .
"It's time for them to go,
though," he added. "It wouldn't
be fair for them to continue com*
peting at this level."
Prep Poop
West's Whitten 1m timed
with Georgia Tech, where sheH
run the 5,0009 10,000 and cross
country for Coach Dee Wood.
Whitten, the Chronicle's Female
Athlete of the Year for 1985, was
an all-America in cross country,
the only one from North
Carolina last ysar.^She alto was
the named the NCHSAA's top
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Glenn's Phillip Smith strstche
Winston-Salem State; th? quart
the state track championship las
of the season and we were in the
middle of the pack when he took
the baton. He took the lead on
the backstretch and took it on
home/'
The next week Smith ran the
open quarter in 52 seconds. He
followed that with a 50 flat.
''Phillip is consistent,"
Whicker added. "He knocked
Oiat down to 49 to start this
season, and he's been running
under ^ 49 ever since. In the
regionals, he knocked his time
down to a personal-best 48.4.
VAs a recruiter, you like
quarter-miters. You know they
Iff up to >00 and 1,600 or
down to 100 and 200, depending
on what type of runner they are.
You also like to see someone
who's awfully consistent like
Phillip. You know you can rely
on him for leadership."
Because he started running the
jffjrhian Stater* wren Has woi?
three straight Southern Conference
championships,
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Last week the Mountaineers signed
him to a scholarship.
''Coach (Robert) Pollock told
me that he's losing a few quartermOers,"
said Whicker, a former
all-America half- and quartermiler
at ASU. 14So he envisions
Phillip helping right away."
. Smith, who has an interest in
criminal Justice and political
science, had already been interested
in Appalachian State,
where his brother Tyrone is
enrolled. So much so that he applied
there after taking the
Scholastic Aptitude Test, and the
university accepted his application.
Last year, however, Smith
didn't pass two major tests: the
NCHSAA Regionals and the
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distance runner and West's
female Athlete of the Year as a
junior and senior ....
West boys sprinter RomcO
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showing well enough in those K
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Over the summer he enrolled in B
the Upward Bound program at
Winston-Salem State ami ran
competitively for the Roadrun- E
ners track club. R
"I wasn't really prepared-last K
year," Smith said. "But there's H
no doubt in my mind I should V*
have been in Seattle.
"Maybe I wasn't prepared
because I was too busy.. People M
told me 1 was doing too much
stuff. But you have to do the?C
things that make you happy." Rj
Smith and his Glenn team- M
mates worked long and hard to Rj
improve on last year.
"Some guys who could have H
benefited the team didn't come M
out last year," Smith said. "We
were hungry this year .^and go(tT fSj
some more guys out for the team.
.With this state championship,'
there should be even mor**giiy3
out next year." H
Whicker knows that it takes
athletes like Smith to capture
state championships.
"He has a whole lot of leader- I
ship, a lot of self-discipline," I
Whicker said. "He also has a lot
of pride in himself.
MYou have to have that in
track because you are out there
by yourself."
You also have to have talent H
and Smith showed he is among I
the best when he anchored the H
winning 4x200. When Smith took I
the baton, Olenn was in fourth I
place. It didn't take Smith long to H
take the lead, moving ahead on
the curve at the east end of the
N.C. State track. He brought the
baton home in 1:26.44, a halfsecond
faster than second-place
West Forsyth.
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eligibility. Tanner, who finished
fourth in the 100 last Friday, is
being recruited by St.
Augustine's and Hampton
University, who cannot enroll
him until the fall of 1987 .... _
West girls hurdler Sonya
Love has enrolled at Alabama
A&M, where she will try to make
the track and field team as a
walk-on ....
Dudley sprinter Stephanie
Jessup has narrowed her list to
Howard and North Carolina
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CXiebefl. The Watauga County
distance runner set a state record
(9:08.00) in the 3,200 meters,
winning by almost 10 seconds.
He looks like a future contestant
for a national championship and
perhaps a berth on the U.S.
Olympic team.
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