Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Seeing Ingari practicing some of the maneuvers he learned in one lone year of high school competition diving, coach John Walker invited him to tryout for the third slot behind Mule and Karl Illig. After making, the squad, Ingari then managed to learn a full list of collegiate dives in just five weeks--even the twists, which he'd never tried before...
...Oberg, who is also president of the Pi Eta Speakers Club, plans eventually to attend business school but adds, "there's a lot of time to go to work.," Meanwhile, he'll spendnext summer in New Zealand to fine tune his rugby skills, then return to California for a tryout with the Pacific Coast team, and--if things go right--the U.S. National squad...
Reflecting on the tryout, Oberg says, "After six years, I'm ready to give the game a shot at a higher level," adding, "I'd always wonder if I didn...
...Durgin gets an offer for a pro tryout, he'll give it a shot. He thinks the Harvard football program has prepared him well. "We've been taught to play a game of controlled aggression--you have to button down your helmet and hit, but you've got to be thinking...
...night a few months ago, a record executive heard him in the cafe, and offered him a tryout in Chicago. Something out of the blue and tenuous at best, but it gave Collucci an excuse to leave the boring, if secure job at the cafe. He wanted to get some publicity pictures before he took off. "Train stations are cool," he said, and so we went there and another day to his dark, movie poster-filled apartment, and he posed his one pose. It said it all: all the depression, the anger, the disappointment. One day later he left...