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Meet the women in the Rapp family--Betsy, a junior at the University of Florida in Gainesville, is the women's swim team captain and has been nationally and internationally ranked in the 100- and 200-butterfly distances since she first rose to prominence in 1975. 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...
...wait--that's not all. Thirteen-year-old Krissie has sprinted to times that are faster than any of her older sisters at their comparable stages of swimming development, and Mama Rapp--not content to rest after her own successful swimming career--is now ranked as one of the finest, if not the finest, over-40 Masters runners in the country...
...surprise that the family's awesome talent and phenomenal successes have attracted hordes of journalists to their Alexandria, Va., home, in the hopes of discovering the root of the Rapp's athletic prowess, as well as some sensational tidbits about, say, sibling rivalry. Washington Post reporters even went to the lengths of asking to move in for a few days so that they could observe the family in depth...
Swelled heads are certainly one feature the Rapp family lacks, however. Former coach of their Starlit Aquatic Club team and present Stanford women's coach Holger Dietz says, "The Rapps are perfect role models for young swimmers. I can point them out as being people with the right approach and attitude towards swimming and never be afraid of being wrong...
...Square to pay then- respects to the Pope. At the bier two nuns in blue, overcome, rushed through a gap in the wooden barrier to kiss the dead Pope's hands. White-tied Vatican ushers rushed forward, hissing, "Perfavore, suore!" (Sisters, please!). In the line, New Jerseyite Diane Rapp, 23, remarked, "He was a young people's Pope. He died too soon." In a Saturday-night procession, the body was carried into St. Peter's Basilica to lie in state there...