"I'm still dealing with my hamstring," said Taylor, with respect to the injury that limited her during that Yale meet.

The decision to preserve Taylor for that meet will pay off, if she can come through with a performance like she put together at Indoor Heps, in which she won the 55-meter hurdle, the 55-meter run, and the 200-meter run.

In this weekend's Outdoor Heps at Penn's Franklin Field, Taylor will run in three individual events and two relays: the 100-meter run, the 100-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter intermediate hurdles, the 4x100 relay, and the 4x400 relay.

The Crimson will need another big performance from Taylor to have any chance of winning this meet.

The team suffered a big loss when it learned that junior Mary Unsworth, the team's top distance runner would be unable to compete this weekend.

"Mary's a tragedy," Taylor said "She has problems with her hamstring."

Unsworth placed in the 800-meter and the mile run to score 10 of Harvard's 109 points at the Indoor Heps. Since the Crimson defeated Brown by 17 points that meet, the loss of Unsworth will clearly make an Outdoor championship harder to come by.

Junior Dora Gyorffy--the NCAA Indoor champion in the high jump-- should be able to earn a guaranteed 20 points. She has won the high jump and triple jump championship at each of the recent Heptagonal meets, without any competition.