Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other record-setting swims last night included former Olympian Jill Sterkel's 1:46.13 in the women's 200-yard freestyle. Swimming against a fast field, Sterkel held off a challenge from American record holder Sippy Woodhead to touch first with a new Blodgett record...
...first item Caulkins addressed was the well-publicized conversation she had with a reporter after she beat world record-holder and Olympic gold medalist Petra Schneider at Gainesville in the 400 meter individual medley. "I didn't say I was the best, I said I was one of the best." Caulkins explains, adding apologetically. "It was just hard not to feel good after I beat the world's champion...
...really rugged assignment for the college kids to come back this soon after NCAA's." Concord-Pleasant Hill Coach Nort Thornton said. Many aren't coming at all. For Thornton this means that his top freestyler. Pelle Holmertz, and world record holder Par Arvidsson are going to Sweden for the Swedish Nationals. Add to this the retirement of last year's double winner in the backstroker. Peter Rocca, and you'll know what led Thornton to say. "We're certainly not the team we were last year...
...obvious strength, certain individual races are already looking good. If both Longhorn and Mission Viejo enter their two stars in the race, the women's 200-yd. freestyle will be a classic. And the men's 400-yd. individual medley could coneivably include Alex Bauman (the current world record holder in the 400 meter event), Jesse Vassallo (the man whose record Baumann broke last month). Brian Goodell (the three-time NCAA champion in this event), and Djan Madruga (last year's winner...
...INEXORABLE FORCES of history have finally caught up with that inexorable force of the past, the Harvard English Department. Some anonymous and mischievious benefactor has offered the University $1 million for a professorship in those rarefied precincts, provided the holder is a woman. Harvard's last sanctuary is about to be violated, and there are inhabitants thereof who do not wish to see it happen...