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Dietz of course, is elated that his prodigy will be joining other stellar incoming freshman like Marybeth Linzmeier and Stephanie Elkins at Stanford next year, and he hopes that this new blood will help propel the Cardinals past the Texas Longhorns next year in the AIAW Championships. Hurt by the mid-season retirement of backstroke queen Linda Jezek, and the physical ailments of Janet Buchan, the Stanford aquawomen just missed regaining their national title in Columbia. South Carolina last month...
While most coaches are fielding teams decimated by the effects of a post-Olympic year and letdowns after last month's NCAA and AIAW meets, the Nadadores return the likes of Steve Barnicoat, Brian Goodell, and Marybeth Linzmeier from last spring's championship squad. Building on this base, Schubert has added Cynthia Woodhead. Bill Barrett, and David McCagg, and has Jesse Vassallo returning from last spring's back problems...
Besides Sterkel and Linehan, Longhorn Coach Paul Bergen expects top performances from distance freestyler Linda Irish, butterflyer Carol Borgmann (who finished second behind Sterkel in both the 50- and 100-yd. butterfly at last month's AIAW championships), and IMer Karen Werth. Werth has never been to Nationals before but already has the third fastest 200-IM in the country this year to her credit...
...good showing for us is to get the girls in AIAW programs to come back and to pull together as a team." Industry Hills Coach Ed Spencer said, and, with seven returning finalists on the women's team and a group of promising high schoolers coming up from the team that won junior Nationals at Fort Lauderdale last year. Industry Hills looks like a team that may well be pulling itself up in the standings...
...good news came from Darlene Beckford, who won the 800-meter race at the AIAW championships in Pocatello, Idaho, Saturday, establishing herself as the top female collegiate half-miler in the country and becoming the first-ever Ivy League All-American in women's track. Meanwhile, in Detroit, Adam Dixon, fresh from a 1500-meter victory at the IC4As the previous weekend, supplied the bad news in placing an anti-climactic fifth at the NCAA Indoor Championships...