W. track’s Scott to miss rest of season

Wednesday, May 8, 1996

Foot injury prompts decision to redshirt remainder of yearBy
Scott Yamaguchi

Daily Bruin Staff

With the Pacific 10 Conference championships just more than a
week away, and having yet to compete this season, UCLA sprinter
Cicely Scott decided last week to sit out the rest of the year as a
redshirt, leaving the women’s track and field team without her
All-American services.

Scott, who anchored the Bruins 1,600 meter relay to a
fourth-place national finish last year but spent most of this
season battling a nagging foot injury, still has two years of
eligibility remaining.

"Cicely’s a true competitor ­ she wants to compete," said
UCLA head coach Jeanette Bolden. "But she wants to compete at her
best, and she knows that the foot injury that she has hasn’t gone
away, and it’s hindering her from practicing the way she knows she
should to be at this level."

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UCLA freshman Andrea Anderson was named the Pac-10 women’s track
athlete of the week Tuesday for her efforts in last weekend’s meet
against USC.

Anderson, who hails from Long Beach, won the 100 in an NCAA
provisionally qualifying time of 11.51, then led a critical 1-2
UCLA sweep in the 200 with a time of 23.32, also a provisional
qualifier.

Both times were season bests for Anderson, who also ran on the
winning 1,600 relay (3:36.56) and the second-place 400 relay
(44.82), both of which set season-best times.

Anderson is the third Bruin, and first of UCLA’s track athletes,
to win the award this season, as discus thrower Suzy Powell was
given the honor April 8 and high jumper Amy Acuff on April 22.

This week’s women’s field honors went to USC’s Leslie Coons, who
broke her own American record in the hammer throw Saturday with a
toss of 198-feet, 7-inches.

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Opponents across the country might want to be stuck in the same
rut, but the UCLA throwers seem to be stuck in a rut
nonetheless.

Defending NCAA shot put champion Valeyta Althouse threw 59-feet
for the fourth consecutive week in winning her event Saturday,
while Powell went for 189-7 in the discus.

"After practice last week, I thought we would have thrown
further," said UCLA throwing coach Art Venegas. "It seems like what
we need is somebody to say, ‘Here it is, let’s go for it, we can
beat you if you don’t get going.’"

Sophomore Nada Kawar did, in fact, receive such a message
Saturday, courtesy of Brigham Young’s Amy Christiansen, who was
second to Althouse in the shot put with a heave of 54-10.

Kawar, who was second in the discus at 177-0, was third in the
shot at 52-5 1/2.

"Nada pressed a little harder than she should have," Venegas
said. "She still had a nice double, but Christiansen’s the one
she’s gotta beat at nationals, so she’s got some payback to do in
that shot."

* * *

Venegas will bring his squad to the Modesto Invitational this
weekend, where it will face some of the top invitational
competition in the nation.

Bolden might send some of her 800-meter runners to the
Occidental Invitational, but most of the team will continue to
nurse injuries or train through the weekend in preparation for the
conference meet.

Among the recovering will be Bisa Grant, who aggravated a
hamstring injury two weeks ago and did not compete against USC.

"Bisa’s leg is doing a lot better," Bolden said. "One of the
reasons we didn’t run Bisa against USC was to make sure she’s ready
for Pac-10s."

FRED HE/Daily Bruin

After her triple-win performance against USC and BYU Tuesday,
UCLA freshman Andrea Anderson was named the Pacific 10 Conference’s
women’s track athlete of the week.