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...another experiment designed to pay its dividends later during the championship season, Bernal entered freshman ace Ron Raikula in three consecutive events--the 200 backstroke, 500 freestyle and 200 breaststroke. "My event is the 400 individual medley, which isn't swum in dual meets," Raikula said afterward. "Swimming that triple with almost no rest creates a good simulation of the stress encountered during...
Team captain Maura Costin swam strongly in spite of a troublesome shoulder injury, winning the 50-yd. freestyle and the 100-yd. individual medley, and placing second in the 50-yd. freestyle...
...pace of the meet was set early on as BU opened with a win in the 400-yd. medley relay, posting their quickest time this year...
...usual, Harvard's best performance yesterday in Annapolis came from sophomore whiz Bobby Hackett. After Navy had swamped the Crimson's medley relay to jump out to a 7-0 lead, Hackett stepped up to the blocks for his specialty, the 1000-yd. freestyle. As the swimmers left the blocks, one jumped the gun, but--unable to hear the recall shots--they continued into the first turn. When one of the lap counters made a valiant attempt to stop Hackett, he cut the Olympian's foot open in the process. The meet stopped while Hackett was taped...
Raikula's eighth-place finish in August's National AAU 400-meter Individual Medley championship earned him the 16th position in the 1978 world rankings and a position on the United States squad which traveled to Montreal for a dual meet with the Canadian national team two weeks later...