Word: gambrill
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NCAA swimming championships are always reunion-like affairs. Most of the top swimmers know each other from swimming together on California AAU teams each summer, age-group swimming, or post-meet parties, but this year should be an especially interesting get together for Don Gambril and the Harvard team...
...distance, winning handily in the 200-yd. I.M., the 200-yd. freestyle, and 200-yd. butterfly, and anchoring the victorious 800-yd. free relay. Teammate Tom Wolf came within a shade of winning the 100-yd. back, in the process breaking the only record left from the pre-Gambril-Essick era, and ran away from everybody in the 200-yd. version. Wolf's outstanding meet was a very pleasant surprise...
...Harvard's success is, of course, top quality personnel. The appointment of Don Gambril as coach three years ago and of Essick as his successor this year has attracted some world class swimmers. Freshman Peter Tetlow's best time in the 1000-yard freestyle ranks him with Olympians John Kinsella and Rick Demont. Sophomore Hess Yntema is nationally ranked in the 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual medley. And the list goes...
...Gambril resigned last spring to take over the head coaching duties at Alabama after taking Harvard from swimming mediocrity to a league championship and third place Eastern finish in just two years...
...Gambril's work should pay huge dividends this winter. With everyone back from an 8-1 team that set Harvard records in 17 of 18 events, plus a third consecutive crop of outstanding freshmen, a clean sweep of those records is quite probable...