Word: pam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goodwill among members of the diving corps has been characteristic of the group during Coach Walker's highly successful seven-year tenure here. It didn't take long this year for a strong bond of friendship and mutual admiration to be formed between Pam and other members of the crew...
During the first week of practice (almost immediately after school began), Walker suggested to veterans Jamie Greacen and Steve Schramm that it was time they called a team meeting. "It was great," Pam recalled. "You know, it was the kind of meeting you have at Charlie's Kitchen...
...this time, Pam's diving peers were already impressed, not only with her talent but with her eager attitude toward diving and her ever-cheerful nature. These attributes fit in beautifully with the corps' group motivational and self-reinforcing character...
Indicative of Pam's perserverance and willpower has been her experience with a certain dive--a forward dive with one- and one-half somersaults in pike position--this year...
When she arrived in Cambridge, Pam could perform a front two-and-one-half off the three-meter board, but could only do it in tuck (legs bent and tucked tightly against the body during the somersaults) position. To learn to do it in pike (legs straight throughout) would add .2 (the difference between 2.1 and 2.3) to the dive...