Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That meet marked Jesse's first swim in his native land since his family had left it seven years previously. Sporting yellow "Vassallo" t-shirts, friends and relatives led the crowd in "Viva Vassallo" cheers, while Jesse rode the waves to a world-record 2:03.29 in the 200-meter...
...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...
...Jenny, a top-flight individual medleyist and backstroker, is Stanford-bound this fall; she is one of four woman swimmers who have accepted Stanford's offer of a full, four-year scholarship. And Susan, at 15, has recently rocketed to world fame in the 100- and 200-meter breast-strokes--finishing a close third place to Tracy Caulkins and Terri Baxter in both contests at last summer's AAU Nationals...
Betsy was the first to take flight into stardom, making her first Nationals in 1975 in the 100 fly. By the next summer she had dropped enough time to take 8th place in the same event, and then she went on to cop fourth place in the 200-meter fly a month later at the Olympic Trials...
...make it Susan did, much to she astonishment of her family and teammates. She has since gone to earn spots on the Holland/France. Hawaii and Utah trips, and her times of 1:12.93 and 2:35.08 in the 100- and 200-meter breaststrokes at Irvine last summer rank her 20th and 12th in the world, respectively...