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Six weeks ago, Sue Abkowitz was getting that third place point in the diving events either because there were only three divers, or because of this no shut-out rule. But things have started to change.
"I used to watch divers in high school," she said, "and I would think about how I'd really like to do that, but no one ever encouraged me." Sue asked diving Coach John Walker at the start of the season about becoming a diver. But he told her then...
Well, the Radcliffe divers rapidly disappeared due to injury and academic problems; so on December 2, two meets into the season, Walker started teaching Sue the basics of competitive diving.
With only two months experience, Sue has already defeated divers from Tufts, Dartmouth and Wellesley. She has learned all 21 different dives necessary to compete, and has overcome the fear of hitting the board on reverse and inward dives, a fear which she said originally hampered her performance.
The swimmers were under pressure to produce because two of their divers were unable to compete. Sophomore Kathy Lindenthal is currently on academic probation, and freshman Molly Munch also had to sit out the meet.