WAVES BENEFIT FROM T.O. TITLE.Byline: KEVIN CONNELLY Kevin Connelly was born in Middlesbrough, England. He is an impressionist comedian, and after dinner speaker and is probably most famous for his role on the popular BBC television programme 'Dead Ringers'. Special to the Daily News It was early last November when tension began to rise for Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. High's girls' cross country team. The Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. were just weeks from the biggest meet of the season. Coach Robert Radnoti knew his team had talent, and he believed they would be legitimate contenders for the Div. I title at the state meet in Fresno, but he needed his girls to relax, forget about the sport for a while, bond as a team. Radnoti turned a scheduled seven-mile practice run into a scavenger hunt scavenger hunt n. A game in which individuals or teams try to locate and bring back miscellaneous items on a list. at Wildwood Wildwood, city (1990 pop. 4,484), Cape May co., SE N.J., on an island off Cape May; settled 1882, inc. as a city 1911. It has large commercial fisheries and is a popular summer seaside resort with many vintage motels and other buildings from the 1940s–60s. Park in Thousand Oaks, then treated the team to dinner at his house. Nearly nine months later, the Lancers are defending state champions, and Radnoti is preparing for his first year as cross country and track and field coach at Pepperdine. ``I haven't been able to wipe the smile off of my face since I got the Pepperdine job,'' said Radnoti, who replaced Dick Kampmann this summer after eight years at Thousand Oaks. ``Next to getting married and having kids, this is one of the greatest things to happen to me. ... I was eventually looking to move on to college, and several doors opened when we won (the state title).'' Pepperdine's men have never finished better than third in the West Coast Conference and its women never better than second, but Radnoti plans to build a winner. Recruiting will be a hurdle -- Pepperdine does not offer cross country or track scholarships, making it difficult to lure elite athletes elite athlete Sports medicine An athlete with potential for competing in the Olympics or as a professional athlete; EAs are at ↑ risk for injuries, given the amount of training, for psychological abuse by coaches and parents, and self abuse. . Pepperdine is looking to finish in the top half of the eight-team WCC WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → COE m (Conseil œcuménique des Églises) WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → Weltkirchenrat m , men and women. The men - sixth place finishers last year - are led by junior Sam Hudson, and junior Sarah Camp and the women's team will try to improve upon their seventh-place finish last year. ``I'm happy here,'' Radnoti said. `` I tell people that I live in Malibu now and sleep in Thousand Oaks.'' kevin.connelly@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: RADNOTI Box: COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY PREVIEW |
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