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Those days in which he set the track world on fire have been deposited in memory in the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, a place usually reserved for the stiff of bone and slow of foot. Waldrop fits neither of those categories, bu the Hall has decided to immortalize him nevertheless. "I didn't know I was that old," Waldrop dead panned. Academics have now replaced running in Tony Waldrop's daily routine. After leaving a Masters degree in physical education incomplete, he has decided to go ahead with physiology and complete his degree there. No matter how hard he tries, however, the escape to a slower pace, so to speak, will not be easy. His room is dotted with various achievements attained during his track career at Carolina. Posters from foreign track meets and some awards are hanging as if his own Hall of Fame had been collected in his room all along, waiting for proper recognition. The accomplishments will not fade easily, either. 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North Cana 27514'99 929 5555 1 1 w n TO 9 Man. Sat. in iiiiii mi w a "Being on the top was not all that people imagined it to be. People think that once they get on the top, it's all that they'll ever really want," Waldrop said. "It was just a matter of competing and knowing that you can do something really well and going ahead and doing it." It 1$ ... l jVa Si Tony Waldrop He went out and did it, quite well in fact. He still holds the indoor record for the mile in 3:55.0. He won the NCAA indoor mile as a senior, and took the ACC miles, both indoor and outdoor. Waldrop went to Madison Square Garden and became the first miler to break four minutes there. . ' "Coach (Joe) H ilton did exactly what was needed to be done. He acted as if nothing real big was going on, and helped me keep a level . heaJ.Vi Waldrop's last runs came with the Philadelphia Pioneers track club. He participated in a four-mile relay at Dartmouth, and later ran a distance medley relay. But fearing that running would again interfere with his attempts to gain a degree, Waldrop gave up the track one last time. H is abandonment of the track includes his coaching duties with the Tar Heel track squad. "I spent more time with that than I guess 1 should have," he admits. "I knew I had to have a certain level of grades to gel into physiology. ! didn't quest ion w hether I could do that; it was whether or not I had the time to do that." H is last fling with coaching came this past spring when he helped the distance men. Most notable among his pupils were Gary Hofstetter and record-breaker Ralph King. "The thing about Ralph and Gary is that they have relaxed attitudes towards training. The biggest thing about coaching them was getting them started each day. "They were very determined and very serious about their running. The reasons, they were successful was they could stay relaxed, but still they believed in themselves and believed they could do something." King has been invited to join a group of American track stars for a European tour this summer. The traveling for Tony Waldrop is over, however. He says he has been to many places, and made many new friends. But the spikes have been put aside for the books. His dedication to graduate work stands as an example of the work that made him one of the top student-athletes by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1974. "I imagine the graduate program in physiology is going to take a lot of time. Running would be out of the question." But the graduate program in physiology shouldn't take long for Tony Waldrop. Running the mile surely didn't. ) I! n (V H; FOR THE Week of Sunday, June 19 through Saturday, June 2 Reg. 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