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Show i ( Thursday, May 6, 1976 Sun Chronicle Roy goes after region championship No. 2 on Thursday at Weber State College as Region One schools knock heads together in the annual by anyone in Region One in either of these two races. Greg Panfiloff will be showing his stuff in the javelin event where he has thrown region be a track meet. The 1976 event will day long affair, starting with the events early in the morning finishing with the finals at 6 pm. 186 feet this season. Greg has a good chance to take first in both the javelin and discus. Kevin Thompson has been excelling for Roy the past few weeks Page 5 ana could be the Region's next discus Mike Fosmark will be champion Roy's hope in the shot put along with Thompson Mike McCoy should have muc UUUUIC mark Howes 111 LtfMllg lung will have trouble from Jeff Sw anger in the high jump, but Howes is junior. to It will be a see Coach Jim sight long-awaite- d march around the oval with a trophy in hand after a ready to take the title as only a celebrated Region one track cham- Maw trail and Roy was ousted from the Region One track and field championship last season by the eventual state champions, the Bonneville Lakers. This season however, Roy is playin favorites" role amount Region One track and field contenders. Coach Jim Maw was cautious entering the meet by saying, A lot of people are taking schools in this region for granted. I know w'e have a good bunch of athletes this season but anything can happen when you enter a region meet." Roy is hoping for a clean sweep in the. dash where Carl Bastian, Mike McCoy and Jon Hanson run. Bastian has been clocked under 10 ds this season and he always seems to rise to the occation in big meets. In the 220 it will be will be the same story with Bastian being the top favorite. Other hopefuls will be Dave Westmoreland, Kurt Kurt Bennington, Lon Hansen and Rick More. Carl Hufstettler, a capable senior, will be making a bid for the 440 yard dash championship. Doug Porter, Larry Levindofske, and numerous others could make strong bids for the title here. Nick Wilson has been strong in the 880 mile and two mile and dont bet against him taking one of these event-s- . A sure bet for Roy will be Bruce Lyman who should have little trouble in taking the 330 intermediate title and another good shot at taking the 120 high hurdle title. Bruce has yet to be beaten 100-yar- d BYU meet complete Roy High, a long time power in northern Utah track and field, has never captured a state title. Coach Jim Maw, however, feels the Royals have the best chance to claim that coveted title here in 1976. The Royals have competed in several large state qualifying meets this season and each time they compete, Coach Maw seems to be just a little more satisfied. Last weekend at Provo, Roy finished fourth among Invitational. m m K 4-- a 45 and 3-- a schools in the BYU w a...: By Keith Duncan Recent Roy High track and field owes itself to Coach Jim Maw and then again, Coach Maw has owed a great deal to Roy track itself. It works either way and benefits derived from there have been the major factors in making Roy High a powerhouse among other Region One schools. From the day Coach Maw first competed for the Royals, his love and appreciation for Roy High athletics has increased in leaps and bounds. Presently he is leading his Royal participants into another Region One Track and field meet. This year may possibly be the best year of overall track and field that Roy High has ever witnessed. Certainly their chances for the state title have never been so bright. Roy has always been abundant with excellent speed, additional power and unmatched strength. But moreover, the Royals may have one of the finest head coaches in the entire state. Every athlete at Roy has a good word or two for their favorite mentor. Coach Maw has quickly gained the respect of incoming and highly talented sophomores. Over the three years they spent with Maw and others in heated competition, they began to somehow realize the true importance of a serious competitive mental mind. Track always came easy for Maw At his home in central Roy, Coach Maw has several scrapbooks that are neatly aligned with past awards and countless articles that tell the tale of this truely remarkable athlete. From the first AAU meet he ran in Montana until the final event in college, Coach Maw was never to be taken lightly. In eighth grade, many a moon ago, Coach Maw won his first personal track and field awards in an AAU meet staged in Montana. Coach Maw, born in Ontario, Ore., moved with his family to Montana at the age of nine. He captured a first place in the discus, 440, 75 yard dash, softball throw, and high jump. Quite a performance for the initial try. At Whitehall High School in Montana, Coach Maw was a freshman who won varisty letters in cross country, basketball, football and track. In that year he captured the long jump event with a measure of 218. My sophomore season was just as successful. somewhat and My dad had been involved in track was a really good jumper. Things just came easy for me and my desire to compete competitively really helped my cause. Jims father sold the ranch the family had lived on while in Montana and it was off to the state of a Washington. There Mr. Maw purchased no wasted little and Jimmy company, machinery time in getting involved in track and field at Othlello ran on High School. In that sophomore season Jim the 440 relay and was involved in the long jump event where he was measured at 22-- in one meet. With that jump, Coach Maw took second in the 5 state. Maw tries for Olympics in Decathlon Still in his sophomore year at Othello, Coach Maw took a giant step forward that year and tried out for the Olympic decathlon event. This grueling event involves ten events, all of which are college events. Five events were conducted in two consecutive days for the Northwestern AAU Olympic tryouts. action will most likely be typical of the Region One track and field meet this Weber State College. Here Mike McCoy hands off to Bruce Lyman and Jon Hanat Thursday son hands off to his brother, Lon, in a 440 relay race. THIS KIND of Biriinig.so..u4 4h8 At the time, Maw weighed only 120 pounds and He turned in a breathtaking perwas just formance however as he finished second in the high school division and just ipissed qualifying for the summer Olympics by 288 points.Over 7,000 points were possible in the 10 events. While participating in the Olympic trials, Coach Maw had his first introduction to the high hurdle races. This event proved to be the favorite in his 5-- later years. As a junior in Washington, .bsf.iifl Jrackstejrs youngster as far as my track and field went. I guess I proved them wrong, said Coach Maw. Earns Scholarship to BYU The next four years at Brigham Young University were probably some of the most eventful that Coach Maw will ever witness. During those years he made friends and memories that will last a lifetime and the places and travels he exploited will live in his mind forever. He earned a scholarship to BYU, the powerhouse of Utah track and field and one of the best overall schools in the nation. He was acquainted with such names as Keishimar Cosic, Ralph Mann and numerous others. In his freshman season, Maw was making the transformation for high school to college track which can be trying in itself. I finally found my groove in my sophomore season. The intermediate hurdles were my main event, but I usually got involved in just about everything. My teammates used to call me the garbage man because I could pick up points in just about any event. One memorable event that I can recall was running in the West Coast Relays where the worlds and best were assembled. I ran a 9.4 100 yard-dasfinished last in my heat that day. It was a blow to me because the winner, John Carlos, had tied the worlds mark at 9.1 in the same race. Maw long jumped 24 feet and 9 inches and high jumped 6 on several occasions. The team was privileged to travel the world over and while in Europe one year the team even went through some missionary exercises for the LDS church. Of his four years at BYU, the team never failed to finish seventh or above. When he was a sophomore, he was a member of the BYU shuttle hurdle relay team that held the national record for two years. Meets wife in Ro Jim met his wife while attending Roy. At that time she was the Girl's Association and they were married just before Jim entered college. Now they are the proud parents of four fast growing children. James Todd is 8, Jamie 6, Jomca 2, and Jearon 9 months. Soon after Jim graduated from BYU with a BS degree in Physical Education, the family set off for far away Alaska. Jim explains the familys move, My father had always wanted to go to Alaska before he was hurt. He died while I was a freshman at BYU, so I just decided to take up his dream. I taught school in Alaska for two years, worked as a forest fighter and even worked in a salmon factory. After my track and field coaching responsibilities are over with. Id still like to be a genuine forest fighter. Coaching career begins in Alaska Coach Maws first coaching experience started in Alaska with a junior high basketball team. In three record. years the team compiled a 33-- 1 win-los- s One day, Jim received a call from Darrell White, the principal at Roy High to come back to Utah to help guide the track and field team. Maw had won the Loyal Royal award and just missed being named the winner of the gold watch froih the full-rig- Jim lettered in five sports with gymnastics being the newly invited sport. As a gymnast, Coach Maw performed in floor exercises, trampoline and a number of other things. On the grid iron he was named outstanding football player for several games, mostly because of his superb speed and talent for bringing back kickoff and punt returns. Even on the cage court he was a leaper. He at one point could touch his elbow on the rim. In 2 years of football, Coach Maw returned 13 pickups for touchdowns, including three in one game. That same season, Coach Maw established a new state record in the high hurdles at 13:8, the lows at 19:2, second in the long jump at 239 and the 880 relay. The school won the state title. That summer, Coach Maw was involved in the Northwester junior Olympics. He bettered every one of his previous high school marks in the meet. He also participated on the 880 relay team which recorded the fourth fastest time in the nation at that time. Today Coach Maw still holds the Washington (state) marks in the 120 highs and 180 low hurdle races. He also is the present record holder of the long jump for Othello High School. Just before his senior year of schooling, Jims dad was hurt seriously in an automobile wreck. Having grown up in the Roy area in his youth, Jims father though it best to attend the Weber County Memorial Hospital in Roy. Jim arrived a week late for football tryouts, but it dindt take the newly formed Royals long to realize they have a speedster on their hands. Maw arrived a first year the school opened and with Ted Campbell as head coach, the season was set. Maw sustained a serious ankle sprain in the early going and he never did let his coaches know of the injury. I wanted to play really bad and I did pretty good with the sprain and all, said Coach Maw. Track was his bag, though, and the injured ankle took its toll at times in the track season. He completed the season unbeaten in the highs and lows. He won the BYU Invitational and immediately the Cougars began to take notice of Jims progress. In the decathlon Jim ws the victor and he compiled more points than anyone else in the history of the event, except for Niel Roberts, now the head basketball coach at Skyline High School. Roy High Grabbed a third place in state that season, but Maw swept the high and low hurdle races in state competition. Coach Maw believes the most trying time in athletics came when he was stricken with rheumatic fever as an eight year old. Doctors told Jim that he would never be able to participate in sports again. I just wanted to prove that I could do it. Everyone thought 1 was all washed up as a h Am jjVNsS No. 2. Coach Maw has a specific philosophy towards sports and he always stresses four things while coaching. The first is to instill in the kids the desire to win. Secondly, you must give the kids a fighting spirit and an attitude that even though there are others bigger and stronger, you can have more hustle and determination. Third is that he wants the athlete to work for perfection, and lastly, Coach Maw feels that there must be a good feeling among coaching staffs to get anywhere at all. He feels the Royals have the best coaching staff in the state and not many can be found that work better together. Coach Maw has stated, In this sports year we have had some super talented kids. The juniors and sophomores coming up are just as good or better. They are setting goals and planning for the future now. These kids want the state track title more than anything else at this point. 1975-7- 6 I feel another big point for our success in 1975-7- 6 has been through the principal we have this year. Dr. White is not afraid to step out of his office to attend our meets and help on tough decisions. And last, but not least, it has taken a special wife to be the companion to this sports freak. Standard Examiner. e his not brilliant coaching career at Roy. He has only served as the head track coach but has heen the - sophomore football coach for the past years having compiled a 31-- 5 record in 4 years. His first year with the Royals, Coach Maw directed the track team to the region championship and on Thursday of this week, he will be gunning for 6-- So in 1972, Coach Maw began V soon-to-b- Coach Jim Maw Royal Track |