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That face belongs to freshman Olympian Bobby Hackett. Hackett, silver medalist in the 1500 meters at Montreal, gold medalist at the 1975 Pan American games, and two-time A.A.U National champion, is the kind of blue-chip athlete and personality who can transform a fairly strong program into a great one, who can attract name swimmers from all over the country, who can catapult a team into the national rankings--in short, the kind of athlete who comes to Harvard very rarely...
...Hackett, who has his sights set on the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, could have attended one of the giants, like USC or Alabama, where he could train with the other superstars of the swimming world...
Freshman Bobby Hackett, silver medalist in the 1500 meter freestyle at the 1976 Olympics, however, is one member of the swim team who is interested in water polo but did not join the team this year...
...main reason I didn't join was that it was only a club sport and there was no coach," Hackett said...
...Fordham next year, says he realizes recruiting is not his job. "The committee made it quite clear it's their responsibility to do that end of it," he notes. Bernal, however, has already had a stroke of luck: the admissions committee last month accepted his star pupil, Robert W. Hackett '81--an Olympic silver medalist--a month after notifying the rest of the incoming freshmen...