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Such statistics are impressive, but they merely reinforce the most significant aspect of the explosive growth of women's sport: the new, refreshingly unapologetic pride of the female athlete. Atlanta's Carolyn Luesing, 36 and the mother of two, has been running seriously since 1973, and the sport has become an indispensable part of her life. "I have this compulsion to see what my potential is. I don't do it for anyone else. I do it for myself." Luesing will never make the Olympics, but her feelings, and those of thousands like her, parallel the thoughts of someone...
...every recalcitrant administrator, there are thousands of women like Connecticut Housewife Carolyn Bravakis?women discovering that, years after organized athletics have failed them, the world of sport can still be theirs. Until 1975, Bravakis' closest encounter with athletics was leading cheers for the high school football team. "All my life, I never did anything," she says. "The only time I went outside was to hang wash." Then her brother organized a local 10,000-meter road race, and she decided to enter. When she managed to complete only half of the course, recalls Bravakis, "I was so disgusted with myself...
...Carolyn Bell, winner of the women's under 115-lbs, division, attributed her success to strength developed playing tennis. Sarah Fisk, who repeated as the women's heavyweight champion, says her strength comes from milking cows...
...equal advantage from any angle. There is no hierarchy of dancers, either: they interact, in critic McDonagh's phrase, with "molecular individuality." As with Cunningham's approach to decor and music, this too is essentially a respect for the integrity of individual elements rather than a surrender to anarchy. Carolyn Brown, long an outstanding Cunningham dancer, points out that "the dancers are treated more as puzzles than works of art: the pieces are space and time, shape and rhythm The rest is up to us [the dancers] We put the puzzle together, making of it what we can, bringing...
...Crimson swimmers face an uphill battle against Princeton and Yale, who boast swimmers with top-five Ivy League times in several events. Yale's Helen and Carolyn Hyde and Princeton's Beth Mauer, Mary Sykes and Nancy Conroy are swimmers to watch...