their careers: Sojourner in 1968-1971; Watts 1974-1976; and Collins 1978-1980. Seven have been honored two times: Gene Visscher 1965-1966; Jerry Trice 1965-1966; Sessions Harlan 1969-1970; Justus Thigpen 1968-1969; Bob Davis 1971-1972; David Johnson 1979-1980; and Todd Harper 1981-1982. Eleven Wildcats have been selected to the All-Conference team once. Four of Webers coaches have been chosen as the Conferences Coach of the Year: Motta in 1965; Johnson in 1969, 1970, and 1971; Visscher in 1972 and 1973; and McCarthy in 1978, 1980, and 1983. Webers running programs have provided competitive teams in cross-country, track and field, and indoor track and produced a number of outstanding individual performers. Both track and cross-country competed in the College Division in 1967-1968 and have run in Division One ever since. Weber first entered indoor track meets in 1965-1966 but the sport did not become an official program of the Big Sky until 1979-1980. Indoor conference competition ceased during 1984-1985 and 1985-1986 but was re-established as one of the official six sports of the conference in 1986-87. Weber has had three coaches of these sports since 1962-63: Marv Peterson from 1962-1963 to 1966-1967; Ed Garvanian in 1967-1968 and 1968-1969; and Chick His-lop from 1969-1970 to the present. Weber has never won the conference outdoor meet but finished second in 1980 and has placed third on five occasions. Its teams produced two College Division All-Ameri-cans. Steve Blood finished third in the triple jump in the College Division NCAA meet in 1966 and Darrel White won the javelin in 1968 to become Webers first national track champion. Weber also hosted this meet in 1967 although the Wildcats did not place in it. Several Wildcats have become Division One All-Americans in outdoor or indoor track by being among the top eight American finishers in their event at the NCAA National Meet. In addition to being one of Webers most outstanding basketball players, Willie Sojourner won the conference high jump in 1968, 1969, and 1970. He qualified for the NCAA Division One Track Meet in both 1969 and 1970, tying for third with a leap of 7-0 in the latter year. Dan Dean won the conference 880-yard run in both 1973 and 1975 and tied for sixth in the 1975 NCAA meet. Jeff Swanger established himself as one of the nations leading competitors in the decathlon during the late 1970s. He qualified for the NCAA meet as a freshman in 1978 and placed third in the NCAA meet in both 1979 and 1980. Swanger also finished sixth in the prestigious Texas Relays in 1979 and established an American Junior record for the event with 7564 points the same year. During the last decade many of Webers individual track accomplishments have been associated with the steeplechase, an event in which Hislop has come to be regarded as an authority. Weber runners who have qualified for the NCAA meet in this event include Lynn Strong in 1978, Doug Friedli 1980 and 1981, Doug Appell 1981, Rex Hohnholt 1981 and 1982, Farley Gerber 1983 and 1984, Mark Wayment 1985 and 1986, Paul Henderson 1986, and Darin Williams and Kris Cary 1988. Farley Gerber won the event in the conference meet in both 1983 and 1984, placed fourth in the 1983 NCAA meet and in the 1984 NCAA meet Gerber won the steeplechase with a time of 8:19.27, the fastest American Collegiate time ever to that point. Three other Wildcat runners, Wayment in 1985 and 1986, Henderson in 1986, and Darin Williams in 1988, have also become All-Americans by placing in the NCAA steeplechase finals. Four Weber athletes have also participated in the U.S. Olympic trials in their event. Swanger did so in the 1980 decathlon trials, Gerber and Hohnholt in the 1984 steeplechase, and Paul Henderson in the 1988 steeplechase. Gerber placed fourth in the 1984 U.S. Olympic trials, missing by one place the opportunity to run in the Los Angeles Olympics.Webers cross-country team has won the Big Sky Championship on three occasions and finished second five times. The Wildcats tied for first with Idaho State in 1968 and tied with Boise State in 1973. Dan Price led the Wildcats in 1973 by finishing second in the race, with Al Yardley third, Jerry Miller sixth, Dan Dean 13th and Pat Bennett 23rd. Weber won the conference meet again in 1978 when Jorge Ruiz finished first, Javier Chavez second, Lynn Strong sixth, Robert Whetton eighth and Steve Scharmann twelfth. The Wildcats have participated as a team in the NCAA national meet on two occasions as at-large entries from District VII. In 1978 Weber finished 17th in the meet. In 1984 Weber finished eleventh in the NCAA meet through the efforts of Mark Wayment, Farley Gerber, Clark Roberts, Dave Griffin, Chris Weicks, Bob Durtschi, and Paul Henderson. Doug Friedli participated in the 1980 NCAA meet as an individual, placing 19th, and thereby earning All-American honors as one of the top 25 Americans to compete. Kris Cary has run in the meet on the same basis in 1986 and 1987. Weber has had particular difficulty preparing for its indoor track season because it has not possessed an indoor track upon which to train since the college abandoned its downtown gymnasium in 1962. Nevertheless, it has produced competitive teams, won the Big Sky indoor championship in 1980, and qualified several performers for the NCAA Indoor Track Meet. Strength in the distance runs was a major factor in Webers conference victory. Weber won the two-mile relay and placed second in the distance medley. Noberto Segura won the three-mile run and Jorge Ruiz placed third. In the two-mile run Weber took the first three places as Segura, Javier Chavez, and Ruiz swept the medals for the Wildcats and in the 880-yard run Weber took second, third, and fourth through the work of Allen Godfrey, Doug Friedli and Terry Elton. Hislop was also named the conferences Coach of the Year as a result of his teams victory. Six individuals and two Wildcat relay teams have qualified for the NCAA indoor meet. In 1979-1980 the distance relay team of Craig Fletcher (880), Bruce Perry (440), Rex Hohnholt (1320), and Friedli (mile) placed sixth in the NCAA finals and earned All-American honors. Webers tennis team was first organized in 1966-1967 when a make-shift team finished fifth among the six teams entered in the conference meet. A regular team was organized the following season, taking third in the conference and remaining competitive in the league meet until it was dropped as a conference sport at the end of the 1973-1974 season. Team members garnered three individual and two doubles titles during these eight years of competition. Mac Madsen was the teams first