U.S. OLYMPIC FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES 1991 : NOTEBOOK

Mayor Tom Bradley will pass the U.S. Olympic Festival torch to San Antonio’s mayor, Nelson Wolf, in tonight’s 7:15 p.m. closing ceremony at Loyola Marymount’s Gersten Pavilion. San Antonio is the site of the 1993 Festival. There is no Festival in Olympic years.

The ceremony also will include closing statements from the local organizing committee’s chairman of the board, Harry Usher, executive director Elizabeth Primrose-Smith and Bradley.

Her profession takes 94-pound Sherry Getchman into combat with psychopaths, drug dealers and street gangs.

For a break from the tension, Getchman goes in for a foot in the face and a fist in the chest.

By day and a lot of nights, the 5-foot-4 Getchman is a member of the vice squad with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept. Otherwise, she is a single parent with a teen-age son and one of the country’s best in her weight class in the martial arts sport of taekwando.

Getchman, 34, who lost a decision Friday in the finweight division (95 pounds or less) at the Festival, said that she discovered taekwando when she signed her son up for lessons in the sport seven years ago.

“Watching my son’s classes, I couldn’t sit there anymore,” Getchman said. “I had to do it.”