Showing Concern. Ryan Tucker, cross country trainer , checks to see if Jon Partlow is okay after his first meet in which he has just run for the Bisons . - photo by Public Relations Office. Making the Turn. AI Bates .crosses over the bridge slightly ahead of Larry Wayne during the Bison Invitational Meet. - photo by Public Relations Of ice . 1984AIC Men's Cross Country Results HARDING UNIVERSITY 40 Ouachita Baptist University Arkansas College Arkansas Tech University University Arkansas-Monticello College of the Ozarks Henderson State University Hendrix College University of Central Arkansas Southern Arkansas University Commitment 51 74 84 100 177 210 233 260 290 A check of the cross country eligibility list over the years reveals a large number of athletes who have a GPA well above 3.00. A check of the alumni files reveals a large number of successful professional men, such as doctors, lawyers, accountants, schoel teachers, and businessmen. They have been men .of ability, determinatien, and cemmitment. Checking closer , one finds that, although some .outstanding high schoel cress country runners have been recruited, many .of the great runners have been develeped at Harding under the tutorage of Coach Ted Lloyd. The 1984 season was a typical year. Three of the top five runners in the AIC meet were freshman Jon Partlow and sophomores Eddie Neal and Darryl Halbert. Halbert enrolled at Harding in the fall of 1983 on an ACT scholarship, having earned a composite score of 29 on the ACT test. At Bear Creek High School in Lakewood , Colo. , near Denver, he had participated in soccer and track . During his senier year, he had run cress country on his own as a means of conditioning for the 1,500-meter run in track. At the beginning of the fall semester in 1983, he injured some tendons by running too long and too frequently before his legs were cenditi.oned, causing him te lese the development he normally would have obtained. Several weeks of complete rest from running were required f.or the tendons to heal. During the summer of 1984, Halbert began off-season preparation for the fall of 1984, his first year really to run cress ceuntry. He is just now learning how to pace himself and he is determined to be one of the top three Bison harriers in the fall of 1985. Halbert qualified for the NAIA national track meet in the 1,500-meter run, having placed third in the AIC meet. He is an accounting major who has achieved a 3.46 GPA on 63 hours and his GPA has improved each semester in college. On 12 hours of accounting he had 4.00. He typified the Bison harriers . t~~ - Dr. Joseph E. Pryor Men's Cross Country 135
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