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Show Oimig-llpent Earas Honors By DAVE VVTGHAM Honors continue to roll in this week for a couple of well known Davis County athletes. The two awards have nothing to do with each other except that they go to two well deserving deserv-ing athletes that have given the fans in these parts a lot of cheer about in past years. IT ALSO proves that right here in good old Davis County we have the programs and coaches that can get national recognition. The awards came in football and in track and field. The two involved were Mark Way-ment, Way-ment, a freshman at Weber State College bvia Clearfield High, and Dave Burke, who could have been honored in any one of thre sports. A EAR ago there was a very likeable senior named Mark Wayment doing his thing for the track program at Clearfield High. Very few paid attention to him, he was a distance dis-tance runner who enjoyed his sport despite the lack of publicity pub-licity or recognition. Coach John Flint of Clearfield Clear-field called him such things as "dedicated" and "hard working" work-ing" and noted that he had a good future in running. THIS PAST season as a first year runner for the Wildcats of Weber, young Mark began to improve with each week and each race he ran in. He took up the steeplechase event, which is not offered in high school competition and soon found it to his liking. Last week Mark ran in the 3000 meter steeplechase event at the National Junior meet in Knoxville, Tenn. All Mark did was run his personal best time of 9:02.71 to claim third place in the race. Keep in mind this was all the top runners in the age group from the country. ALL HIS time and efforts are starting to pay off for him although he. did barely miss making the National Junior team. He just keeps on improving impro-ving so keep an eye on his name. Awards are nothing new to Dave Burke, the Mr. Everything Every-thing at Layton High this past year, but none of them seem to rattle this level-headed young man. This past week Dave was named the recipient of the number one award by the Hertz Corp. THE HERTZ No. 1 award recognizes the top athletic per formance during a school year by a high school athlete in eh of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto RjCo Burke was elected f0r his efforts in the football playoffs where he rushed for 235 yards and four touchdowns in their win over Alta. He is scheduled to join the 51 other winners at the cere mony in New York City 0n July 2. |