Word: pursley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Warden Jack Pursley posed the traditional question, and Brooks, 40, did indeed have some last words. He turned to his friend Vanessa Sapp, 27, and said he loved her, prayed aloud to Allah, turned again to Sapp and told her, "Be strong." At that, Warden Pursley gave the cue ("We are ready") to a technician hidden in the next room, and a fast-acting barbiturate came flowing through one of the IV tubes. Brooks yawned, shut his eyes and wheezed. Within minutes, Brooks, who had been a heroin user, was dead from a drug overdose meted out by the Texas...
...Because it was an Olympic year last year there were a number of swimmers willing to make the sacrifice to come here to train," Pursley said. This year Mary T. Meagher and Lisa Buese have moved back to Louisville, Stephanie Elkins is in Indianapolis, and Barrett has joined Mission Viejo...
...write off the Pepsi Marlins completely. Pursley still has Olympic backstroker Kim Carlisle, last year's 200-meter breaststroker winner Glenn Mills, and perhaps the only girl in the country capable of challenging Tracy Caulkins in the 100-yd. breaststroke--Kim Rhodenbaugh. His corps of young swimmers making their first appearance at a senior national meet may turn as many heads as the youngsters from the Nadadores. And the unbridled enthusiasm that carried Cincinnati to the overall title last summer seems unabated...
Cincinnati Coach Dennis Pursley also holds to this view. "There are many more coaches now that are good enough to train world-class swimmers," he said recently. And Pursley himself is one of the best examples of this around. Coming to Cincinnati from Louisville's Lakeside club in September, 1979, Pursley guided the Pepsi Marlins to a national championship in less than a year, with what many feel was the best coaching job in the country...
...California's magic spell really completely broken? Cincinnati's Pursley doesn't think so: "Given a choice between spending the summer swimming outdoors in California or indoors at Cincinnati's Natatorium, all other things being equal. California still looks pretty attractive...