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...this season, Crimson swimming coach Ray Essick has played the role of the diplomat. While most coaches fret about devising a winning strategy, Essick has had to contrive ways of keeping his team's margin of victory within reason. The opposition has to score some points. Shutting out your opponent in a swimming meet is analogous to keeping your basketball regulars in the game to pad a 50 point fourth quarter lead. It's an unnecessary show of strength. Besides, it's bad for public relations...
Crimson coach Ray Essick said afterwards he used the meet primarily to evaluate the team's progress after three weeks of rigorous training in Puerto Rico over the Christmas holiday...
...Essick's bursting at the seams...
...many people as possible in the meet," Essick said. "The trouble is that our second line of swimmers was so anxious in their first meet in front of a home crowd that they ran up the score even more...
...felt badly about how high the score was," Essick said, "but I'm certainly not ashamed...