Congratulations to David Payne and Mary Wineberg, former University of Cincinnati Track & Field athletes on their qualifying for the US Olympic team in Beijing.
Payne made the team with a third place finish in the 110 hurdles making the team by .02 of a second.
Wineberg qualified with a second place in the women's 400 meters.
To give this some perspective. I ran track at UC in the early '80's. The track was in such bad condition, we never had a home meet, let alone an Olympic hopeful. Bill Schnier has been the coach since those days and he's built the program up to where Olympic qualifiers is no longer just a dream for athletes going to school there.
So congrats to Wineberg, Payne and Schnier for a job well done. You made us old track alums proud.
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