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...doubts remained, freshmen phenom Greg Olson dispelled them when he backhanded a loose puck past Moffett at 6:35 in the final stanza. Lau & Co. added insult to injury by denying two UNH power plays as the clock would down...
Disappointment was nowhere to be found after Crimson British sophomore phenom Mike Coglin ripped to a blazing 1:52.80 in the 200-yd. individual medley to bring home the gold. Coglin's record-setting time, which earned him a trip to scenic Cleveland State (site of NCAAs later this month), left everyone else in the race in his wake by almost a full two seconds. Princeton managed to hold on to a tenuous 79-71 lead, but the Tigers were hurt again by the fact that senior captain Bruce Kone, after missing a month of the season because...
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...
Summing up the meet, Andrea Pollack, East Germany's former world record holder in the butterfly, said: "They trained hard. We trained hard. But they were just better." Indeed, Pollack herself was beaten by another Nashville phenom, 18-year-old Joan Pennington. Next big test: the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, where the outcome may be far different from what it was in Montreal. The American water sprites have come back...
...Secret Self is a natural extension of Fiedler's concern with the "other." Only now he confronts not society's but nature's own outsiders. He would prefer a term less offensive than freaks, though he defends it against such euphemisms as mistakes of nature and phenomènes on the grounds that they "lack the resonance necessary to represent the sense of quasi-religious awe which we experience first and most strongly as children: face to face with fellow humans more marginal than the poorest sharecroppers or black convicts on a Mississippi chain gang...