Word: hacketts
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CLEVELAND, Ohio--Bobby Hackett knocked four seconds off his personal best time to finish second in the 500-yd. freestyle (4:19.41) and boost the Crimson to 12th place after the first day of competition in the NCAA Championships here yesterday...
...Even if Hackett is less than 100 per cent physically, he figures to be a major factor in at least two individual events, the 500-and 1650-yd. freestyles. He is not, however, the Crimson's only hope...
Goodell outsprinted Hackett at the end of the grueling 1500-meter freestyle for the gold medal at Montreal in 1976 and whipped him in a two-man dual for the 1650-yd. freestyle crown at the NCAAs last year. Hackett won the most recent skirmishes between the two this past summer though, touching ahead of the UCLA sophomore in the 200, 400, and 1500-meter freestyles at the outdoor national championships...
...Crimson freestyle relay entries, in both the 400 and 800, are darkhorse candidates at best. But, if Hackett can withstand the physical stress of swimming five events, and Coglin, Jack Gauthier, and Julian Mack are as sharp as they were at the Easterns, anything could happen. The 800 quartet surprised many in the swimming world last year when they finished 12th...
...Hackett is well and the others rise to the occasion, Seelen's prediction seems realistic. That is, if coach Joe Bernal can sway his charges from the temptation of warming up in the Cuyahoga...