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Show Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday, October 9, 1991 Page 9 Inside the Vulcan Classic National Cross Country Championships By Amy Allen, Juliet Stone, and Kristen Nuttall The Orem Geneva Times recently caught up with National Champions Amy Allen, Juliet Stone, and Kristen Nuttall. Their victory was decisive and on the outside, seemed easy. But those familiar with athletic competition know otherwise. Here we present the inside story, from the ladies themselves. Traveling across the United States for a track meet is one thing, being the team that everyone is gunning for is another. As we began our journey to Alabama, the closer we got to our destination the more people knew about us. Southern hosDitalitv is for real and be were introduced as the National Champion cross country team on the plane, at the hotel, practically everywhere we went. Only after we arrived did we find out that Mountain View High School had been in the media tor a week before the meet. Later, we learned that In the south. Cross Country meets are big family affairs and people take picnic lunches and make a day of the event. Friday, on the wav to the meet. Coach Houle was iokincr and relaxed. By Saturday morning morn-ing it was evident that he was as nervous as we were. There were so many unknowns and we were battling with things that we naan t ever had to deal with like major media coverage. What if, after all the hype about Mountain View, we lost? We didn't know what to exDect about the humidity. How fast do eastern girls start? It seemed there were a million questions Cheryl Harper of Orem wins St. George Marathon Cheryl harper of Orem was the first woman to finish the 15th annual St. George Marathon held on Saturday, October 5, 1991. Cheryl finished with a time of 2:39:17. Her husband, Hawk Harper, won in his age division with a time of 2:38:36. Cheryl was honored as running the fastest marathon ever by a Utah woman and woman trip to Ibigawa, Japan where she will compete in the Ibigawa Marathon in November. Cheryl is on a roll! She broke the Utah 5Krecordjust two weeks ago proving she was ready for the big race. Cheryl hasn't run a marathon since 1988, after taking time off to have a baby. The win was her second in St George and the 15th marathon of her career. Five men and five women WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION Name: Time: Div. Place: Cheryl Harper 02:39:17 1 MEN'S DIVISION AGES 12 AND YOUNGER Name: Time: Div. Place: Jacob Sorber 04:51:26 4 MEN'S OPEN DIVISION AGES 19 Name: Time: Brian Clements 03:15:34 MEN'S OPEN DIVISION AGES 25 Name: Time: Gregory King 02:55:14 25 MEN'S MASTER DIVISION AGES 45-49 Name: Time: Div. Place: Ken Harper 02:38:36 1 WOMEN'S OPEN DIVISION AGES 15-18 Name: Time: Div. Place: Julie Cherrington 03:18:47 1 Chamber sponsors leadership conference at Sundance The most important issues facing Utah County will be addressed ad-dressed at the Third Annual Leadership Conference at Sundance Sun-dance on Thursday, October 10. The ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce sponsored seminar will highlight the leaders of Utah Valley discussing the progress of America's 1 Community, and plans for the future of our valley. "We want to give the members of the community an opportunity to keep abreast of all of, the progress that has been made, and about what we are doing to improve," im-prove," said Steve Densley, Chamber president. This seminar semi-nar will feature 20 leaders from the community who will preside over 15- to 30-minute discussions of what the Chamber considers to be the most important issues in Orem tennis The deterioration of the tennis ten-nis courts in Orem's seven community com-munity parks is being addressed by the Orem City Parks Department, Depart-ment, according to Manager Wayne Steele, Edman Tennis Court Construction Company has been given a contract by the City to make needed repairs on the tennis courts which will give them a new lease on life. The parks which include tennis ten-nis courts are Bonneville, Cas and very few answers. Th short two milecourse was also a concern. At home we're used to races of around three miles. The shorter distance makes for a faster race and there is less margin for an error in dudgement. With only a minute to the start, the realities set in and we started to think about race strategy. We all wanted good position. With over forty teams in the race, getting bunched back in the pack would be a disaster. We wanted to go out fast (some would say too fast) and stay in front. After a wait that seemed like an eternity the gun finally went off and all we could think about was running as fast as we could go! (Editors note: Almost immediately immedi-ately Amy heard the crowd cheering cheer-ing for someone named "Margaret". "Mar-garet". "At first, all I wanted to do was stay with Margaret - whoever she was," said Allen, "then I decided to run my own race. Once she made the decision she never saw - or heard - from "Margaret" again. Juliet concentrated on getting good position and it worked. Stone slid in behind Allen and followed her through the entire race. A girl from Huntsville, Alabama managed to slide into third and Kristen was on her trail in fourth.) One half mile into the race we hit a steep downhill section of the course and it shook us up a little because it was all we could do to keep from falling. At first we didn't think that the pace was that fast until we started climbing the hills. That's when we started to feel the effects. qualified for January's Olympic trials in Houston. Cheryl was one of these ten. Tracy Fifield of Ogden won the men's championship with a time of 2:16:50. This is the second best winning time ever recorded in the local marathon. Fifield was a previous winner in 1988. He chopped almost six minutes off his winning time of three years ago. The wheelchair division was won by Brandon Harris of Ogden with a time of 1:28:14. He broke the course record which was 1:33:50. Sharon Frenette of Salt Lake City won the women's wheelchair division with a time of 1:47:45. There were 2,461 runners in this year;s race. 2,126 runners finished and 71 were from Orem. Overall Place: 47 Overall Place: 1905 Overall Place: 460 Overall Place: 154 Overall Place: 41 Overall Place: 507 - 24 Div. . Place: 23 - 29 Div. . Place: Provo and Orem. Community members are invited in-vited to attend this annual retreat. Registration and breakfast break-fast begins at 7:30 a.m. in the rehearsal hall at Sundance. Cost for the retreat will be $25 which includes breakfast, lunch, and retreat materials. Reservation is necessary. Some of the topics of discussion discus-sion include: Economic Development Develop-ment in Utah Valley, future development in Provo and Orem, the housing shortage the crime rate, and County Projects of the '90s. "Anyone who is in a leadership leader-ship position should attend, so they can be updated on a variety of subjects by people most knowledgeable in these areas," said Densley. courts now being repaired cade, Cherry Hill, Community, Geneva, Hillcrest and Windsor. Hillcrest and Geneva are the only tennis courts which are not lighted for nighttime play. RESTORE PLAYING SURFACES Depending on the degree of damage which each tennis court has sustained over the years, appropriate ap-propriate repairs are being made to restore the playing surfaces. First, the existing cracks in the asphalt surface of the court are sealed. Black tar is then placed (Ed. At the mile mark Nuttall set her sights on third and started chasing down her competitor from Alabama. "I just picked up the pace a little bit," said Nuttall. She had accellerated to a near six minute mile. A short distance later Nuttall passed her competition. competi-tion. "I kept telling myself to stay with my teammates. I was determined deter-mined to stay in front of the girl I had just passed." The runner stayed with Kristen for a short while then dropped off the six minute mile pace.) We were going hard, at least for the course. In a race thi8 big there are always footsteps behind you but you don't want to drop your concentration to see who it is. But we got a break. On one section of the course there was a sharp turn and as we each rounded the corner we took a look in back of us. Much to our surprise, all we could see leading the pack were Mountain View runners. The sight gave us a great psychological boost and at that point we knew we were going to finish well. The crowd started getting into our sweep of the race and as we ran the home stretch the crowd started clapping and chanting "Mountain View, Mountain View." One by one we crossed the finish line. Almost immediately after finishing we turned around to see who else was coming. It gave us chills to see Jenny Bybee and Heather Frushour headed right for us. We gave each other hugs and felt a thousand different emotions all at once. We were numb, ecstatic, excited, and tired. Oh, Coach Houle? He was jumping up and down with excitement. excite-ment. Orem Women's Bowling Association high scores, series SUPERBOWL Tues. Alley Cats, Oct. 1 - Terri Brandon 206522, Gwen Rawlings 206565 Tues. Night Men, Oct. 1 - Ron Sorenson 201512, Duane Hillam 207521, Mel Ward 513, Britt Koeven 201500 Thurs. Early Birds, Oct. 3 - Joyce Collings 572, Iva Brzenk 563, Karen Ford 509 Friday Night Mixed, Sept. 27 - Iva Brzenk 203567, John Hastings 213597, Terry Smith 220514, Jon Carpenter 522, Randy House 234, Terri Brandon 501, Glenn Dean 547, LaRon Stevens 222586 PB MAPLE LANES Orem King Pins, Oct. 3 - Rich Harvey Har-vey 258-209-227694, Ron Karren 243605, Buzz Ross 200572, Doug Sitton 203-211613, Mike Holdaway 236-231-226693 Hi-Spot Mixed, Oct. 4 - Dean Atkinson Atkin-son 222582, Rick Bishop 208531, Joyce Collings 515, Marty Hansen 246585, Ron Hansen 255582, Doug Sitton 255-204640, Joy Brown 521 MIRACLE BOWL Guys & Dolls, Oct. 1 - Mike Ruiz 219574, Brett Frampton 210574, Julie Kruitmocs 550, Grant Shum-way Shum-way 201, Alan Navez 212558, Matt Brimhall 201533, Randy Johnson 523, Sandy Harward 209 Miracle Ladies, Oct. 2 - MaryAnn Morgan 531, Shirce Jensen 205508, Roni Lynn Jenkins 211573, Ada Faz-zio Faz-zio 534, Marlene Bott-White 202, Gayle Johnson 2 15534 Mixed Masters, Sept. 26 - Gaynol Spillncr 222542, Randy Adamson 533, Laura Adamson 519, Richard Spillncr 233575, Julie Bird 505, Finn Christcnscn 566, Karen Hansen 2 10548, Scott Perci val 205, Kaye Mc-Danicl Mc-Danicl 554, Merta Anderson 216574, Cindy CHilds 526, Joan Davis 218-256-204678, Don Kimble II 224552, Mike Kitchcll 557, Ken Jones 214 Oct. 3 - Nita Doyal 530, Mike Mitchell 254-204635, Joan Davis 215539, Sandy Harward 200511, Ed Underwood 232-219630, Elvin Harward Har-ward 224566, Jane Christcnscn 222560, Cindy Childs 558, Finn Christcnscn 213566, Kent Childs 202-203583, Don Kimble II 220-207612, 220-207612, Dave Boutler 206-226624, Karl Bowers 246-203-2657 14, TIPS We want the scoop on what's happening in Orem. Call in news tips. Orem-Geneva Times 225-1340 over the surface which is covered by a petro mat. On the court at Bonneville Park two inches of asphalt as-phalt will then be placed on top. 5 Work is underway on both Bonneville and Windsor, including includ-ing painting the courts with two shades of green on completion of the repairs. Wayne Steele said that work on the tennis courts at the Windsor Park is expected to be completed by Friday of this week. Repairs on the balance of the courts will be completed by November 1, Steele said. , tt Ride a horse? Of by Dawn Avalon Carolyn Puckett Accomplished Horse-Woman Carolyn Scobie Puckett, the number one radio personality in Utah Valley, is known for her popular morning show, "Talk of the Town." She is less well known but no less accomplished in a totally to-tally different arena as well. The slogan, "Ride a Horse? Of Course!" glued on the outside of Carolyn's car is certainly an indicator in-dicator as to what this skill might be. Carolyn Puckett is an accomplished ac-complished horsewoman with great sensitivity to and understanding under-standing of horses as well as a unique riding teacher. She teaches horsemanship at the C Bar C Ranch located on 400 North in Orem. Once a rural setting, but now totally surrounded by homes, the C Bar C Ranch serves as a haven for horse and rider alike. Just walking onto the ranch is an uplifting experience. Problem horses seem to be transformed by simply setting "hoof on the grounds. When questioned about this phenomena, Carolyn says, "That's because they don't see anyone getting hurt here." Carolyn teaches the skill of riding. She also uses it as a vehicle where she shares her understanding un-derstanding of nature with others. Johanah, long-time friend and student says, "Carolyn transfers trans-fers her communications abilities from radio broadcasting over into an entirely new dimension. She communicates and teaches principles prin-ciples between GodNatureMan, enabling the student to develop a heart-felt relationship with hisher horse which opens up whole new horizons into sensitive experiences with nature." CAROLYN GREW UP WITH HORSES Carolyn Scobie Puckett's high level of awareness and expertise isn't without some background. Carolyn says, "I grew up in the subject of horses. My father, an excellent horseman and my half-breed half-breed Cherokee great uncle started my riding at the age of seven and would not let me ride with a saddle until I was 15. Uncle Art was a native American horse trainer and a true, honest-to-goodness cowboy. We herded cattle together in the Lost River country of Idaho, and I watched him gentle outlaw horses hor-ses that no one else could touch. These two men, Carl and Art Scobie made me aware of the harmonies har-monies that can exist in the horse and rider relationship." As a child, Carolyn studied the Berry School of Horsemanship, Horseman-ship, an old, very established school of horse training. "My father," explains Carolyn, "bought the program for me and guided me through it. Throughout my life it also fell to me to become acquainted with three other marvelous horse people who taught me much. I continue to read and study techniques tech-niques of fine trainers made available in respected publications publica-tions and videos. However, I feel the school of your own experience with horses can't be replaced by anyone else's text." "As my own children came along, I was really blessed as we shared an interest with horses and nature." Carolyn's two daughters, Claire Willard and Corinne Clayton are expert instructors in-structors and trainers at the C Bar C. TEACHING PROGRAM GRADUALLY FORMED Carolyn's teaching program gradually took form. "Through the years, we found ourselves teaching our style of horsemanship horseman-ship to others who were seeking us out. Then, about 14 years ago, we decided to do it in a more businesslike way. I wanted to do what I loved and help support my family. I borrowed money and built the barn with its indoor arena. I structured my information informa-tion and the years of accumulated knowledge into programs. We have beer successful, and I feel this is because we are not motivated by money, but by love of the work." HORSE AND RIDER PROGRAM BASED ON RELATIONSHIP The horse and rider clinic programs and equitation programs at C Bar C are based upon the relationship between horse and rider. They also employ principles of horsemanship accepted ac-cepted the world around and which work in every style of riding. "We are most proud of our horse and rider clinic program," says Carolyn. "Here, after having taught good riding and handling techniques to the horse owner, we help him teach his own horse. Horse training done in this way places the rapport where it should be, with the rains in the owner's hands, not in the hands of a separate trainer. Sometimes, my daughters or I have to get on a student's horse to help solve a problem, but this is kept to a minimum. min-imum. We have tremendous respect for the horserider bond and don't want to interfere with its development." "Our parade group is an extension ex-tension of our horse training group. It's purpose is for a bond-ingof bond-ingof horse and rider under pressure. pres-sure. All former students are invited, in-vited, and they have all trained their own horses. It is a prestigious pres-tigious group to be in. We are the large, flag carrying, horse battalion bat-talion featured in the Freedom Festival Parade every year. We feel by being in this parade we are making a contribution to the tradition of America and the West." In addition to balance riding, three levels of Western technique, techni-que, reining, and preparation rodeo queening, C Bar C now includes in-cludes basic dressage and ' English taught by Shauna White. C Bar C's Suzanne Lutz offers specialized programs for kinder-gartners kinder-gartners and handicapped riders. C Bar C programs are open to people of all ages. Recently a lady of 80 called and asked, "I'm the little girl who never got the horse. Is your program for me?" Carolyn answered, "Eight or eighty, these experiences in nature are for you." KEY WORD AT C BAR C IS BALANCE The C Bar C Ranch turns out good riders and fine horse handlers. hand-lers. Carolyn feels the pressure to excel in the show ring should never take the joy out of riding, when joy in riding should be the main goal. "Of course," she says, "the accomplished rider often seeks the validation of competing and winning in the show ring, which is fine and appropriate. We help a lot of children into the show ring and young women into rodeo queen competition." We often think we should have called it Harmony Ranch," says Carolyn when speaking of the C Bar C, "because this is the underlying philosophy at work on the 3.5 acre equestrian center. Balance is intregal to everything we do. Horses and people learn better in an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This is evident when you walk in our gate." Carolyn continues. "There is a balance in good horse handling between being masterful and kind. The fine horseman achieves this balance as he learns balance and synchrony in riding." RIDING EXPERIENCE EFFECTS OTHER AREAS OF LIFE "We like to think we turn out nicer people as well as well-trained well-trained horses. I had a student who used to have a real short fuse. Impatience was in her. Her parents bought her a lovely horse. The problem was that this horse had the very same problems. This mare was flighty, impatient, and easily provoked. The two even resembled each other in looks. I find that horses resemble their riders, but this was too good a match. j One day, in fit of temper, when the horse was malfunctioning, malfunction-ing, the realization came to this young woman that somebody here had to act like an adult and since it probably wouldn't be the horse, she decided to take on that role. Since that day, this girl has become a much more mature person, per-son, and the horse happily does her bidding." "A nine year old boy who was our student a few summers ago was out of sync. He had outstanding outstand-ing older brothers and some up-and-coming younger brothers. Somewhere along the way he got stuck and didn't seem to be able course!! to function in anything, human relationships or school. His parents took him to a local remedial school. The counselors in that school sent him to us, because be-cause they knew that everybody succeeds in our program. Here, in one summer, this boy got back into step with nature. This carried car-ried through to the family and his school work. He now excels in sports and most everything else." GOOD HEALTH RELATED TO HARMONY WITH NATURE "More and more we are coming com-ing to know that dealing with nature na-ture and animals leads us on a path of good health," says Carolyn. "I ran an ad one year that said, 'Stress? We can help. Ride for your life!' Several ladies that were about to put themselves into psychiatric counseling coun-seling signed up to ride. They found at C Bar C the stress relief they needed." Carolyn says that you can't ride with balance unless you step into harmony with nature. A local corporate businesswoman and student at C Bar C says, "When laden with heavy responsibilities and weighty business decisions, I can walk out of that world and into Carolyn's barn. It's a doorway door-way into a world of softness, gentleness, and closeness to nature na-ture that I can't experience any other place. It bring balance and harmony in my life." Students at the C Bar C get more than riding lessons. They are also given the opportunity for personal growth. As w all know, someone can not teach what they do not know themselves. Carolyn Scobie Puckett knows horses, possesses harmony within herself, her-self, and understands the harmony har-mony of nature. She brings this together joyfully at the C Bar C Ranch for the benefit of others. You too can ride at the C Bar C and display the slogan, "Ride a Horse? Of Course! " Comments sought on new land exchange rules The USDA Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are seeking public comment com-ment regarding proposed rules designed to streamline and expedite ex-pedite exchanges involving Federal and non-federal land and implement the Federal Land Exchange Ex-change Facilitation Act of 1988. Rules mainly regard exchange ex-change agreements, assembled land exchanges, segregation, compensation for costs assumed, appraisal standards, bargaining, arbitration, approximately equal value exchanges, value equalization, equaliza-tion, cash equalization waiver, and simultaneous transfer of title. The public may submit one set of comments to the BLM or the USDA Forest Service. Comments are due by December Decem-ber 2 and should be sent to Chief: USDA Forest Service, 14th and Independence Ave. N.W., Washington D.C. 20090-6090; or the Director, Bureau of Land Management, Room 5555, Main Interior building, 1849 C Street, N.W., Washington D.C. 20210. The proposed rules appeared in the Oct. 2 issue of the Federal Register. Copies are available at all U.S. Forest Service Regional Offices and BLM State Offices. |
