Netters: While waiting for a hot chocolate at the end of the Northeast Regionals Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park, I had an interesting conversation with the most remarkble (not the best,but certainly the most remarakble) college weight thrower in the country.
Lauren primerano, who will be closing out her career at Manhattan College this year, fit right into the picture at van Cortlandt that day. She looks like a cross-country runner and looks youing enough to have been a competitor in the meet. But she is something else again, a multiple conference champion in the weight last sporing and looking to bigger thins this year She told me that she had recently thrown the hammer 172 feet in the fall competition, not a bad throw for anyone, but something really special for a girl who weight 124 pounds. She said that her goal this year is 190 feet and she also hopes to get the javelin---her primary event in HS--close to the 180 foot mark. Lauren plans to go into coaching after finbishing her college career, first at her alma mater. But any college (or high school) looking for a dedicated young woman with an obvious mastery of her event, could not do better than to contact here. (She didn't ask me to post this, but I know there are always schools looking for weight coaches and thought I would pass this along for the benefit of everyone concerned.) Ed Grant