Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Consistency And Fastidiousness Are Nittany Lion Atrributes


Fastidiousness: a very careful attention to detail.

Despite Greg Frederick's aversion to Social Media, he became aware of the recent Facebook poll on whether he should grow his mustache back like he had in the 1970's.  Needless to say, quite a few of my hundreds of readers responded positively that he should, with some advocating for even more with a goatee!

In previous discussions with him, I knew that it wasn't ever going to happen. It was all in good fun.  Even his wonderful wife saw the humor in the situation.

One of the respondents advocating for a return of "the Magnum P.I. look" was 1969 teammate Howard Epstein.  Greg has responded by supplying us with a picture he took of Howard as he was leaving for the Penn Relays that year.  Coach Groves was a proponent of looking dapper when representing the team, and thus the fastidious look of Howard and teammate Joe Neibel.


 Consistency: reliability or uniformity.

When I first saw Darrell Hill in 2013 at an indoor meet at PSU, I was impressed with his consistency in technique.  Since then, I have been impressed with other consistencies he has demonstrated.

His consistency in yearly improvement:
2012  17.53   Houston, TX (USA) 24.03.2012
2013 19.13University Park, PA (USA) 03.05.2013
2014 20.57West Lafayette, IN (USA)18.05.2014
2015 20.86University Park, PA (USA)08.05.2015
2016 21.63Eugene, OR (USA)01.07.2016
2017 22.44Bruxelles (BEL)31.08.2017
2018 21.72Monaco (MON)19.07.2018

His consistency this season (2018) has been remarkable also:

Shot Put26.05Eugene Prefontaine Classic5.21.19
Shot Put07.06Oslo Bislett Games3.21.20
Shot Put23.06Des Moines USA Ch.1.21.57
Shot Put05.07Lausanne Athletissima4.21.04
Shot Put19.07Monaco Herculis2.21.72





And finally, his consistency of 6 throws (none of them a foul!) in the latest Diamond League meet was remarkabe.

21.09
21.21
20.81
21.65
21.72
21.49

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