Word: bernal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday's activities, reminiscent of the highly successful community-interest campaigns which placed recent swimming powerhouses Tennessee and Alabama on the aquatic map, are part of second-year coach Joe Bernal's effort to cultivate student interest in his attempt to create a national caliber swimming program at Harvard...
Only after a stable of horses has been assembled can a coach expect to pull along such a bandwagon. Against the Cadets, sophomore sensation Bobby Hackett proved once again that he is the thorough-bred of Bernal's annually-improved squad...
Neither Hackett nor Bernal was as impressed with the final time as they were with the success of Hackett's pace strategy. "He was trying to negative split (swim the second half of the race faster than the first)," explained Bernal afterwards. "If he can hold :50s for the last five 100s (the splits needed to go 9:00 in the event), then we think that with the excitement of a big meet he can break that barrier...
...Bernal's army of aquamen dumped the sailors, 68-45, but it wasn't that close. The Cantabs toyed with Navy--not a poor swim team by any standards--by letting them stay as close as 22-21 after five events (and taking first in the sixth), to go ahead...
...thing was evident from yesterday's strong showing at Annapolis, it was the Marine-like shape the visitors were in. Bernal, no longer burdened by the stigma of being a rookie coach, has been administering the dryland exercise programs that he is renowned for with full force this year. Morning nautilus workouts, stretching, isokinetics, and between 200 and 500 situps a day have left the team in near-perfect physical condition. It showed vs. the Navy...