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L The Lone Tree Reporter, Thursday, May 19, 2005 S P O RT S Page7 Local athlete qualifies for State Championships . Miekey Zueker Contributing Writer Seventh grader Jackie Moore can't seem to get enough of Track & Field. In addition to participating fully in the Junior High Season at Lone Tree, he also attended a qualifier for the Junior Olympics State Championships through the USA Track & Field Organization on Sunday May 1, 2OO5. Despite being 12 years old, Moore is competing in the 13-14 year old division this year. Last Year, he made it all the way to the National Championships in the 11-12 year old division. He Placed nationally 27th in long Jump and 35th in the 100-meter dash, even while suffering from a serious hip injury that required three months of phys- ical therapy rehabilitation. Because of his injury, he was not able to compete in the 200- raeter dash at Nationals, though he did qualify for that event as well. Against stiff competition at Des Moines East High School on May 1, 2005, Moore placed first in the long jump. He came Submitted Photos Lone Tree's Jackie Moore competes in the long jump at the State Championship on May I. in third place in the 100-meter dash, with a time of 13.1 sec- onds. In the 200-meter dash, he came in fifth with a time of 28.54 seconds. The top six ath- letes in each event qualify for the State championships. Run- ning and jumping against wind chill factors in the 20's, the boys and girls ages 8-18 worked hard to achieve times and distances that did not match their best results under normal circum- stances. Moore runs with the Velocity Track Team of Des Moines, Iowa, coached by former New York Mets player Ray Lewis. Local athl s sought for ,- new track club. in, Lone Tree _ Miekey Zueker Contributing Writer Runners ages 8-18 are invited to participate in a brand new Track Club (which will also need a name) for the 2005 spring/summer Track & Field Season. All skill levels welcome. Participation will NOT be limited to Lone Tree residents and stu- dents, though practices will be held on the Lone Tree track. Organizational and coaching assistance is also needed, especially for field events, and equip- raent. The club will be taking part in AAU, Hershey, Junior Olympics and USA Track & Field events, but it is not necessary to participate in these events to be part of the club. By AAU and USATF rules, athletes will com- Pete only with other athletes who share their year of birth. Cost will include valid, current AAU and USATF cards, athlete admission to all meets, and a uniform. Uniform cost will be dictated by the wants and needs of athletes and parents. Transportation will be by carpool. Anyone who qualifies for States, Dis- tricts, or Nationals will need to handle his or her own airfare or accommoda- tions, if neces- sary. Interest- ed people please call Mickey at 723- 4579. 2005 ar.,ty/JV Baseball -May 23 Regina JV/V 5:30 p.m. May 24 West Branch JV/V 5:30 p.m. May 26 @ Springville JV/V 5:30 p.m. May 27 L-M JVDH 5:30 p.m. May 31 @ IMS VDH 5:30 p.m. June 1 @ Mid-Prairie JV/V 5:30 p.m. June 2 @ Muscatine FSDH 5:30 p.m. June 3 IMS FSDH 5:30 p.m. June 4 Tipton Tourney V TBA June 6 Columbus VDH 5:30 p.m. June 8 Columbus FSDH 5:30 p.m. June 9 @ New London JV/V 5:30 p.m. June 10 @ WMU VDH 5:30 p.m. June 14 @ WACO VDH 5:30 p.m. June 16 Lisbon JV/V TBA June 17 WACO FSDH 5:30 p.m. June 18 Williamsburg Tourney TBA June 20 Wapello VDH 5:30 p.m. June 21 @ WapeUo FSDH 5:30 p.m. June 22 West Liberty VDH 5:30 p.m. June 24 Highland VDH 5:30 p.m. June 27 @ Highland FSDH 5:30 p.m. June 28 @ Pekin VDH 5:30 p.m. July 1 Pekin FSDH 5:30 p.m. July 5 L&M VDH 5:30 p.m. July 7 @ Mediapolis FSDH 5:30 p.m. July 8 Mediapolis VDH 5:30 p.m. July 11 Districts TBA E.mail is a great way to send your news, letters to the editor and comments to us' Itnews@iowatelecom.net [Splinters From the Bench This week's Splinters deals with sports in a rather round- about way. Awhile back, in the Gazette, some of you may have read an article about a man named Don Lund. For those of you haven't read about him, I'm going to tell you a little bit about him. Some of what fol- lows is information lifted from the article by Marlene J. Per- rin. A lot of it is my own impression of a remarkable person. At age 50 he has published his autobiography. What's the big deal about that, you say? Well, the title ought to get your attention right away. It is "No Hands, No Feet, No Problem." You see, Don was born without hands and feet. I first met him about six years ago when I started hav- ing time on Tuesdays to go to Kirk Ferentz's regular weekly press conferences. He is a very personable person, usually with a smile on his face. He was pleasant to talk to while wait- ing for the Coach to come into the room so we got started sit- ting together and doing just that. It was obvious right from the start that he had no hands, but I didn't know about the no feet for quite awhile. I was pretty sure, from the way he walked, that he had one artificial leg or, at least, something wrong with one of them. Turned out he had two artificial legs. His left arm ends in a stump right below the elbow. His right arm is longer and he has what you might call two claws at the end of it instead of hand. His youth was spent in northwest Iowa at Moville. It took me a couple of years of getting to know him to fmal- ly screw up the courage to ask if he was a Thalidomide baby. I'm sure many of you remem- ber that drug was responsible for a lot of birth defects back in the 1950's. He said he wasn't. He said his mother never even took aspirin. His case was just 'one of those things'. When he was six he went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, for some surgery. Doctors there separated the bones in his lower right arm and rearranged the muscles so he could grasp things between the 'claws' as you would grab some- thing from a tray with a pair of tongs. By Ron Rife The Lone Tree Repro tcr As he grew older, did he let is physical problems keep him from doing things? Not on your life. He played Little League baseball and junior high foot- ball. He can shoot baskets and, also, a rifle. Even though he had been admitted to the Uni- versity of Iowa he went to com- munity college in Estherville first. Before he came to Iowa he wrote to then football coach, Bob Commings, to inquire about the possibilities of becoming a football student manager. Commings took him on. He didn't whiz right through college. He says he was on the 'nine-year-no-pressure' plan. He is able to drive his own car. He walks up and down steps, admittedly with a little hitch in his git-along, but he makes it. He writes weekly for the Solon Economist and the North Liberty Leader. He bakes cookies. He does the play-by- play for the cablecasts of Prime Time League games during the summer in North Liberty. While he says there are a lot of things he'll never be able to do, he certainly has done a lot, all things considered. One • thing that has always impressed me about Don is his positive attitude. I've never heard him say anything bemoaning his condition. He talks about it, of course. But it's not the "Oh, look at poor me and all I've had to endure." Mostly, he talks about the way his life and physical problems have gone just about the same way normally healthy people talk about having had an appendectomy or something like that. I haven't seen him since bas- ketball season ended, but I'm looking forward to getting back together for some 'sports analysis' during Prime Time League this summer or press conferences this fall. He is an incredible person and I think of him as more than an acquain- tance. I think of him as a friend. 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