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Few Stories by Kevin Smith
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Joe Wroblewski was the first runner I met when I transferred to Trenton fro Glassboro...we became friends. I roomed with Joe his last year and a half a TSC. I had talked him into coming out for XC for the 86 season and into training with me the summer before (which I spent at Trenton), but Notre Dame offered him a job early that summer after he had coached their track team successfully as a student teacher in the spring. Joe Wroblewski was famous for going up to the ugliest girl in a bar and saying," I'm the best you're going to do tonight, so why don't we just save ourselves a lot of time and go back to my place.". He felt he was doing them a favor. At an indoor meet at City College of NY, Joe Wroblewski walked up to the favored 800m runner from Stony Brook and said, "Hey, I'm gonna kick your ass today, you little !@#$%.". He then went out and kicked his butt. Later that meet in a relay, Joe made a 400m sprinter from another college pay when the runner took a turn too wide and Joe blew by him on the inside, nearly knocking him over to win the race. Joe Wroblewski was one of a kind. I had lost touch with him as I did with all my old teammates and did not know of his death till 2 works afterwards. I talked to Metzie about the funeral when I saw him at a Corporate Challenge in Morristown later on, but still wish I could find out where his grave is to pay a visit. I have regretted not keeping in touch with him as he was one of my running mentors. I remember Don Matoush crapping on the small, 4-foot wide bridge at '85 Regionals at Allentown and McCorkle saying "What idiot would do something disgusting like that.", just before the horde of women trampled through his majestic, snow-capped Mt.Matoush masterpiece (a fitting monument to his last college xc meet). Don Matoush also did the Nude 100 after an indoor track meet at Stony Brook in LIwhere high school girls were warming up for their meet after ours. Matoush did a half lap with his shorts at his ankles and his over-sized Italiansausage flopping every which way as he ran out the back door that I washolding for him. We were laughing hard as we jumped on the team van as itwas leaving, with McCorkle asking us why some high school coaches wererunning after us and calling us perverts. The '86 season was the best season I ever had and I am trying not to lose the memories as I get further and further from my old team. |
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