Word: hogshead
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...that the code must be signed if a swimmer wants to be on a national team--there is no choice. "It (the suspension of Caulkins and the others at Austin) could just as easily have been two years, and that would have been it," said American team member Nancy Hogshead, underlining the helplessness of an athlete before a body whose rulings can be both absolute and arbitrary. The AAU seems to have been purposely harsh in enforcing the code for the first time since it was adopted in August 1977. "It is our contention that these kinds of things...
...realized that it was that big a deal," said Nancy Hogshead, who escaped that wrath. "If I wasn't so tired from the meet. I would have been there...
...major event--this weekend's meet. "It won't affect our training schedules, and there will still be some other fast meets this spring," said Caulkins, explaining why she decided not to pay her own way to Cambridge. The AAU customarily picks up travelling expenses for U.S. Team members. Hogshead agreed that "three months is zero," but both she and Woodhead expressed some mild disappointment that the strongest U.S. team wasn't present. AAU officials and U.S. team coach Jack Nelson tried to downplay the effect of the suspensions on the meet by keeping no running team scores and saying...
Last night the atmosphere at Blodgett was completely different. Led by 17-year-old workhorse Nancy Hogshead, who swam a phenomenal total of seven events during the two-day swimfest, American swimmers(including 4-year-old phenom Cvnthia Woodhead, who swam for Riverside Aquatic Association instead of the national team because she was under suspension) took all three of the individual high point scorer awards...
...Hogshead, the high school junior from Jacksonville, Fla., who holds the American record in the 200-yd. butterfly, led the way with a sixth in the 200 back, a silver medal in the 100 fly, a fourth in the 200 individual medley and a bronze medal with the American "B" team in the 400 freestyle relay on Saturday night; followed by a fourth in the 400 individual medley, a singularly impressive silver medal in the 200 fly, and then a climactic gold for her butterfly leg of the American 400 medley relay on Sunday night...