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...cared about me as Amy--all I ever heard was Tracy. Tracy, Tracy," the older sister says. "Coach Bergen was putting pressure on me, and the media were all asking why I had the same genes and I wasn't doing as well as Tracy...
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...
Maybe the California programs are slipping. Maybe the rest of the country is gaining. According to Longhorn Coach Paul Bergen. "In California there are so many good clubs that it splinters the pool of good swimmers." But Nashville Aquatics Coach Ron Young sees this trend in reverse. "In California, with Proposition 13, some of the smaller programs are being forced out financially. Rental on the pools has gone up, and some of the high schools have shut down and their pools along with them...
Whether or not California's talent pool is being diluted, however, the general consensus holds that the secret lies not so much in the West Coast's decline as in the rise of the rest of the country. And both Bergen and Young agree that a large part of this improvement is due to the improved caliber of coaching available in widely scattered areas...
...Coaches are running good programs throughout the United States now," Bergen said. "There are more regionally oriented real good senior programs...