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...dual meet competition, Fayer did not drop an individual event in the Yale contest. She also won a gold medal in the Eastern Championships with a time of 25.5 in the 50-yard freestyle...
...Fayer has continued these vacation work-outs in Puerto Rico, but she said Harvard's program has helped her because she can swim every day here. She added, "The continual swimming has helped to build up my endurance, the part of my swimming that is the weakest...
...Fayer may be short in the endurance department, but she is certainly not lacking speed--she's a natural sprinter. Her "instinctive quickness" blossomed from the start. After swimming seriously for just six months, she said, she had beaten most of the people in Puerto Rico who had "been swimming for years...
...However, Fayer added that her quick success was largely a bad reflection on the Puerto Rican women's swimming program. She said, "Puerto Rico's program for women was quite poor, and as a result, many of the swimmers quit by the time they were 16. I came in at a time when many of the women were quitting...
That propitious timing may have helped Fayer win recognition, but it certainly was not the only reason for her success. Her recently completed season here has proved she is extremely talented...