The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1991 Page: 11 of 14
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is "the greatest opportunity for young ath-
signed as representatives of the USOC, and
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benched 180 pounds in last year's
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"Paul was my varsity tennis coach
By Calvin Cooper
Staff Writer
By Ron Simmons Jr.
Staff Writer
Pruitt benched 160 pounds in prac-
tice.
in the men's 125-139-weight class
and won that class even though his
By Charles Rodriguez
Staff Writer
By Charles Rodriguez
Staff Writer
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One of three women in her class, Glucho wski
often practices with men who are bigger in size
and wear advanced belts.
While they do not fight her as they would
other black belts, they often throw in an ad-
vanced technique or two.
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from one wall of the Dragonfoot Karate Insti-
tute.
Above a row of about 10 trophies, a poster
with the word "can't" in black letters circled
and slashed with a red line tells customers,
"Don't use 4-letter words."
As rap music pumps in through speakers, a
petite 18-year-old woman who can't suppress a
Under threatening skies on a
squeegied McFarlin Tennis Center
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Jackie Gluchowski applies a lethal kick to an opponent's midsection.
Citing the cooperation of people and re-
sources, the executive director of the U.S.
Olympic Committee signed an agreement
Tuesday to bring the 1993 Olympic Festival Mayor Nelson Wolfe, former Mayor Lila
e Cockrell, City Council member Frank Wing,
former City Council member and present
Bexar County Commissioner Helen Dutmer.
Also attending were Alamo Community
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Freshman Richard Cantu strains to lift a 200-pound bar in Tuesday's intramural weightlifting competition.
years ago as an act of self preserva- and-over weight class for the best
lift in the women's division.
Chaplinski, who is recovering
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About 4,200 athletes, coaches and staff
will participate in 34 summer and three
winter games during the festival, Coleman
said.
Although San Antonio failed in its efforts
to get the festival in 1991, the failure spawned
efforts for funding and building of the
Alamodome, the natatorium and other
sports facilities costing about $241 million,
Coleman said.
The natatorium complex, scheduled to
open Jan. 10,1992, will host diving, swim-
ming, synchronized swimming, water polo,
fencing and modern pentathlon competi-
tions during the festival.
McFarlin Tennis Center, across San Pedro
Avenue from this college, will also be a
festival site.
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And what does this pint-sized martial arts
buff think about when fighting?
"I just hope I don't get hurt," she admitted.
"I feel pretty good. The adrenalin's pump-
Anything's possible."
After class Gluchowski calls out to Moreno,
"Will I have to fight a black belt for a green
belt?"
"Yes you will," he answers.
But fighting black belts and the fear of inju-
ries will not stand in this feisty student's way.
For Gluchowski, who plans to have her own
black belt in at least three years, anything is
indeed possible.
Perhaps inspired by the poster that hangs in
in tournaments. the studio, the four-letter word "can't" is not in
"Fighting the guys makes it so much easier her vocabulary.
my routine," Ruiz said.
The diminutive Ruiz said some
of his friends and he were using
the telephone at a gas station when
a car drove by and fired shots at
them.
"I don't think they'll ever find
when I go to tournaments and fight girls," she
said after class.
And Gluchowski has the trophies to prove it.
She has competed in four tournaments and won
eight trophies, most first or second place.
Gluchowski started lessons in second grade.
"I grew up around boys. They all fought and
I wanted to beat them up."
She quit after a year to devote time to school.
Trainers expect students who are in school to
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"I beat this kid up when we were
in the sixth grade, and he began
lifting weights so he could get me
back," he said.
"I started working ou t a t the same
gym so I could keep up with him,
and in the process we became best
friends," Koenig recalled with a
smile.
Koenig has set a goal to reach 400
pounds in the bench press.
The heaviest lift of the competi-
tion was produced by Michael
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and-over weight class.
Sanchez benched 380 pounds,
surpassing his expectations for a lift
in the competition.
"I would have been happy with
370," Sanchez said. He has benched
400 pounds.
ChristineChaplinski benched 160
pounds in the women's 150-pound-
almost twice her size.
Jackie Gluchowski, a business major here,
has been attending self-defense classes in Tang
Soo Do at the institute for nearly a year.
A purple belt now, Gluchowski will test for
her green belt Monday.
Tang Soo Do, a Korean form of self-defense,
offers its practitioners five belts, white and
purple for beginners, green for intermediate
students and red and black for advanced prac-
titioners.
Standing 5-feet-4 and weighing little more
than 110 pounds, Gluchowski smirks and hops
on both feet sparring with trainer Robert D.
Moreno. Each dons the traditional "gi," a black
martial arts outfit with the word "Korea" in
Melissa Ramirez won in the
women's 105-119-pound weight
class lifting 100 pounds.
Rungfa Phorjai in the men's
104-pound-and-under weight
class also lifted 100 pounds to post
a victory.
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would not give up.
On the strength of Gillenwater's
well-placed ground strokes the duo
pulled back to 3-4.
However, Torres' net attacking
style proved too much for Pesthy
court, Alann Torres and Ralph Christ and Gillenwater.
Torres and Christ captured the
tie-breaker and the title 7-4.
Gillenwater and Pesthy started
slow in the first set, dropping four
early games to go down 1-4.
But with their backs to the wall
they battled back to tie the set 4-4.
"Paul hasan advantage; he knows
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defeated Paul Pesthy and Mike
Gillenwater 6-4, 7-6 Tuesday In the
intramural tennis doubles tourna-
ment.
Tied 6-6 in the second set, the
match went to a seven-point tie-
breaker.
Torresand Christ lobbed and fore-
handed their way to a commanding how I play," Christ said of Pesthy.
4-2 lead early in the tic-breaker. "n^.,1 .............---
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bounces and her green eyes shine as
she prances much like a boxer on the studio's
gray rug.
Moreno moves more slowly, skillfully cir-
A huge green and red painted dragon glares cling Gluchowski as a panther might its prey.
Olympic committee signs agreement with city at district natatorium
and President Robert Marbut Jr.
Speaking to about 600 people in the gym-
nasium after a catered,lunch, Schiller con-
gratulated everyone for their "magnificent
efforts" to bring the festival to San Antonio.
"This a great city," Schiller said.
Community leaders present included
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For the second time this year,
sophomore business major Alann
Torres won an intramural tennis
tournament.
Torres defeated Professor Charles
Malesky 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 on Nov. 18 in
the Tennis Challenge at McFarlin
Tennis Center.
In a pre-game interview Torres
proved prophetic.
"I feel good; I've beaten Malesky
before, and I can do it again," he
said.
For Malesky, winning the first set
was not easy as he was down 4-1
before climbing to a come-from-be-
hind 6-4 victory.
"I'm missing shots I should
rhake," Torres said at the end of the
first set.
In the second set, the 20-year-old
student and his 58-year-old adver-
sary battled it out on the court.
Torres had to work his backhand
hard to overcome Malesky's well-
placed ground strokes.
Torres came back to tie the match
1-1 with a 6-2 decision in the set.
"I was playing his weak spots,
but he doesn't have too many,"
Malesky said of the loss.
Torres, who switched to his re-
serve racket after breaking a string
on his other one, said he planned to
attack the net in the final set.
Malesky played calmly, placed
his ground strokes well and man-
aged to get as close as 2-3 in the final
set.
But Torres' hard-hitting style
pulled him ahead on a deuce with a
hard volley off a Malesky lob.
Torres went on to close out the
match easily 6-2.
"Torres played well, but I'm fa-
tigued," Malesky said. "The heat
gets to you on a day like this."
Teams with Christ for doubles crown
to San Antonio
' The luncheon signing at Palo Alto
College's new $10.5 million natatorium/
gymnasium complex was the first in a series
of events that will span the next two years to College District Chancellor Ivory Nelson,
the opening cererhonies July 23,1993. this college's President Max Castillo and
Dr. Harvey Schiller and Gary Alexander board Chairman Doug Harlan.
signed as representatives of the USOC, and San Antonio demonstrated more enthu-
signing for the San Antonio local organizing siasm and commitment than the 50 cities
committee were Chairman Bob Coleman vying for the festival, Schiller said
Schiller, who helped organize the first cooperation between the San Antonio
Olympic Festival at the Air Force Academy Greater Chamber of Commerce and the San
in Colorado Springs, Colo., said this festival Antonio Sports Foundation, Wing said.
is "the greatest opportunity for young ath- Wing said raising the city's $2.9 million
letes to be the best they can be." share of building for the natatorium com-
Speakers Harlan, Wing and Coleman all plex was difficult, and he praised Wolfe and
sounded the same theme. City Councilman Weir Labatt's efforts in
Harlan, referring to Greek history and its raising the funds.
relationship to the Olympic Festival, said Coleman, chairman of the San Antonio
the festival is "the product of working to a Sports Foundation and responsible forbring-
greater good," calling the natatorium the ing more than 40 major sporting events to
product of a "unique partnership" between thecity, called thefestivalhis "crown jewel."
the ACCD and the City of San Antonio to He said the festival's 10 days of television
build a world-class facility. coverage will bring "tremendous exposure"
Wing said, "This is an emotional day for to San Antonio.
me." The event will be covered by about 1,500
The signing of the agreement was the journalists, and it is expected to generate
1 $25 million in revenue for the area.
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"Some days you have good lifts week before I got shot, and my
and others you have bad," Pruitt max would've been around 315 if
_ said, explaining her inability to I would've been able to keep up
from a mysterious shoulder injury, match Chaplinski's press. ’ ‘
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competition but failed at an attempt class crown went to Refugio Herrera
to lift 165 pounds this year. who benched 310 pounds
"I'm not sure how I hurt my shoul- Donald Salci to had the best press
der. I must have strained it doing in the men's 140-154-pound weight
„ r-i i . class with a lift of 305 pounds.
RomanRuizbenched275pounds who did it," Ruiz said.
The 124-pound-and-under
weight class was won by Genaro
Orona who benched 180 pounds.
In the women's 120-134-pound
weight class, Jennifer Humlicek
benched 135 pounds to take first
Mark Koenig began lifting
weights in the sixth grade to avoid
getting beat up by his arch enemy.
Little did Koenig know that one
day he would be a record-setting
weightlifter and that his grade
i school arch enemy would become
his best friend.
Koenig bench-pressed 370
pounds in the intramural
weightlifting competition in the gym
of the health building Tuesday to
winthemen'sl80-199-pound weight
class, beating the old record in that
class by 10 pounds.
Koenig began lifting weights nine
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Her long, brown hair make good grades.
Although she believes her martial arts train-
ing has taught her to defend herself, Gluchowski
fortunately has not had to use her skills outside.
But practicing Tang Soo Do for almost a year
has helped her become more disciplined. She
even studies harder now.
Training also keeps her in shape.
Gluchowski practices Monday through
Thursday for an hour and a half each day and
three hours on Saturday.
She takes 12 hours at this college and works
One trainer stops fighting her and simply at Sears Catalog Center two days a week.
wide smile prepares to fight a male black belt her coldly. Gluchowski, unsure of what to do
i next, shrinks back a bit.
Moreno jumps in, showing her how to ex-
ecute a controlled kick that stops just short of ing. If I get in there, I can hurt a black belt,
the other trainer's face.
"But I'll hit him in the face," Gluchowski
protests.
"No you won't," Moreno replies. "Did I?"
"No, but I will."
Gluchowski later says she lacks control when
it comes to kicks.
"I don't think I can control my kicks yet well
enough to kick toward the face," she said.
Gluchowski believes practicing with men
helps her when she tests for bel ts and competes
something," Chaplinski said.
Chaplinski entered the competi-
tion "for fun" and didn't expect to
win her weight class.
"1 thought there were six or seven lift of 290 pounds was disallowed.
men s 200-pound- pounds, and I hadn't worked with
weights in more than a year," she
said.
Cindy Pruitt was Chaplinski's competitors may not move their feet
weight class with a press of 155 bench.
pounds. Ruiz is on the comeback trail after
A day before the competition being the victim of a shooting inci-
Pruitt benched 160 pounds in prac- dent over the summer.
"I used to work out six days-a-
"I got the weight up, but the
judge said I moved my foot," Ruiz
said.
Therulesof thecompetition state place.
closest competition in the same after they take their position on the
weight class with a press of 155
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