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	19.13	University Park, PA (USA)	03.05.2013
2014	20.57	West Lafayette, IN (USA)	18.05.2014
2015	20.86	University Park, PA (USA)	08.05.2015
2016	21.63	Eugene, OR (USA)	01.07.2016
2017	22.44	Bruxelles (BEL)	31.08.2017
2018	21.72	Monaco (MON)	19.07.2018

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

Shot Put	26.05	Eugene Prefontaine Classic	5.	21.19
Shot Put	07.06	Oslo Bislett Games	3.	21.20
Shot Put	23.06	Des Moines USA Ch.	1.	21.57
Shot Put	05.07	Lausanne Athletissima	4.	21.04
Shot Put	19.07	Monaco Herculis	2.	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