Saturday, November 8, 1975 The Daily Tar Heel 7
losses hurt
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by Kevin Barris
Staff Writer
Beside her desk is a poster which reads,
"Tennis is not a life and death matter it's
more important than that."
Taped to the bottom of her bookshelf,
where many people have history notes or
chemical equations, is a paper containing in
big block letters "CJ". Notes on how to play
tennis against Cindy Johnson (CJ) are
written across the letters.
Coming to Carolina last year as the first
woman to ever receive an athletic
scholarship at UNC, Carney Timberlake has
been the personification of a dedicated
athlete.
"You just take things for granted
sometimes," she says, "and you never really
think about how important things are, but I
guess just the fact that I've spent so much
time playing it (tennis) and enjoying it, that it
must be pretty high on the list for me."
She says she enjoys the physical part of the
game, the exertion and the strain, but it's the
mental aspect she finds the most interesting,
and the hardest to cope with.
"I guess the major part of it is attitude,"
Timberlake said. "I'm sure I have the desire,
and I want to play and I want to win, but 1
guess it has a lot to do with confidence in that
there's a barrier there that effects the way I
play sometimes.
"There are just a lot of things involved in
preparing yourself mentally for a match, like
knowing you can beat somebody, and being
ready to play each individual point one at a
time, and that's the hardest part."
Timberlake's confidence has suffered
recently. After a highly successful season last
fall, she injured her shoulder and couldn't
play for three months, and last spring she
was unable to regain her earlier form.
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UNC scholarship-holder Carney Timberlake
During the summer, she suffered on and
off from minor ailments and could not play
as much as she wanted, something which she
says has affected her play this season.
Her record during the recently concluded
fall season was an uncharacteristic 1-6.
Fencers host foil
show promise at
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Cornell
Although her competition was tough, in all
but one of those six losses she was defeated
by people she has beaten before.
"When you don't play a lot of matches,"
she says, "like 1 didn't all summer, then you
lose a certain sharpness for playing different
people, as well as losing a sense of exactly
what to do in certain situations."
Besides being unable to prepare as well as
she would like, Timberlake has been playing
under the pressure of being the only
scholarship athlete on the team. Along with
this has been the expectation of many people
that she must be the best.
"1 don't think it should necessarily mean
I'm supposed to be :io. 1 on the tennis team
just because I'm the only one who has a
scholarship," she says, "because there are
definitely some other good players on the
team, any of whom could play no. I.
"I don't know what people expect, really.
J ust the fact I know people are expecting me '
to win, or really do great, or something, does"
make a difference. I don't get discouraged,
but sometimes I get frustrated at the fact
people do expect me to win all the time. I
don't think they should be unrealistic about
it.
"I don't really know how it (her having a
scholarship) affects the team. Sometimes I
wish I did know. I hope it doesn't really make
any difference so far as their attitude towards
me, because the way I look at it I was just
lucky. I happened to be in the right place at
the right time."
Timberlake now faces a winter in which
she must prepare for a spring season which
promises to be as tough as this past season.
More tournaments, new opponents as well
as the challenge by some of her teammates
for no. 1 singles spot await her in the
upcoming year.
Despite the setbacks of the past year, she
says she is eager to work on her game, and is
optimistic she can do what is necessary to
improve it.
"I think just by the fact that I've gone
through something like this past year, not
really being able to cope with the situation,"
she says, "that I've learned a lot of what I
can't do, and what 1 have to expect of myself.
"Now, I'll know next time what I'll have to
avoid and what I'll have to put up with."
The U NC fencing team hosts a foil open in
men and women's competition of the North
Carolina division of the Amateur Fencers
League of America Sunday at 9 a.m. in
Woollen Gym.
The field will include 20 women and 30
men representing most colleges in North
Carolina and South Carolina.
UNC won nine of 12 medals in the last
local open.
For the sixth year the UNC team took part
in the Cornell International Invitational
meet, the largest pre-season open in the
country-, last weekend.
For the first time since the UNC team has
been participating in the Cornell meet, it did
not win any medals. UNC Head Coach Ron
M iller said that this was due to the improved
competition, which included the entire
Canadian pre-Olympic team and most of the
U.S. pre-Olympic team.
UNC's All-American Jim Krauss pulled a
ligament in the Cornell "meet and will be out
for two to three weeks.
Miller said that many of the questions
about the men's team were answered at the
Cornell meet. He said that the foil and saber
teams had an outstanding weekend, but that
the epee team's performance remained
sporadic. "The men have the promise for
another excellent season," Miller said. He
added that the women's team has yet to live
up to its potential, but that the match
Sunday should show a turnabout in its favor.
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