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...Essick, former coach of the Harvard swim team and now head swimming administrator for the AAU, claimed that "there was a lot of compassion and concern on the part of the committee. There was a complete hearing procedure," explained Essick, who guided the Crimson to a 29-1 dual meet record between 1973 and 1976. "All athletes were notified and given a chance to represent themselves...
...Essick claimed at last Thursday's pre-meet press conference that this was done at the request of the swimmers--although on Friday night Caulkins said that she, for one, had made no such request. So it remains unclear whether the request for secrecy was initiated by the swimmers or the AAU; Mike Troy, when pressed, would only state that it was done "with the approval" of those swimmers present at the hearing...
Former Harvard Head Swimming Coach Ray Essick, director of the National AAU Aquatic Administration helped land the meet for Harvard. "Ray Essick gives us a little bit of a head start since he knows the facility and the program we will put on here," Bernal added...
Orschiedt stepped in at a time when Harvard's until-then heavyweight program was nearing the crisis point. The supply of superstars that flooded the school during Don Gambril's tenure was just about running out. The previous spring, in what turned out to be Essick's last meet, a mediocre Yale team had thoroughly embarrassed the cocky Crimson. That 64-49 defeat, Harvard's first in three years, reflected the less-than-exemplary attitude of a team about to sink from the weight of its own internal problems...
...changes so manifest this season began with Pete Orschiedt. "Petie," as the swimmers affectionately called him because of his age (he graduated from the University of Florida in 1970), could communicate with the team where Essick could not. He was the prototype 'good ole boy'; Southern, funny, and refreshingly frank--he once called Yale "a bunch of chickenshits...