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Replacing Costin Scalise is her assistant coach Stephanie Wriede '92. Wriede, who swam at Harvard and made it to the NCAA Championships, should have little problem slipping in at the head coach position...
...father was a diplomat, so most of my upbringing was outside the U.S. But every two years my family spent summers back home. When I was seven, we stayed on my grandparents' farm outside Springfield, Mo. My brothers, sister and I ran through the fields and swam in the creek. We competed to see who could dig up the biggest potato, who could pick the biggest peach. We built huge forts from bales of hay. We barbecued. Everyone was relaxed--even my father, which was unusual. One day, at summer's end, I sat on my father's lap, grabbed...
...biologists at what is now Allegheny University of the Health Sciences came tantalizingly close. From the red blood cells of an adult frog, they raised a crop of lively tadpoles. These tadpoles were impressive creatures, remembers University of Minnesota cell biologist Robert McKinnell, who followed the work closely. "They swam and ate and developed beautiful eyes and hind limbs," he says. But then, halfway through metamorphosis, they died...
...mixed feelings after the meet," said junior Matt Cornue. "I was excited about the way people performed in the middle of training season. This was Princeton's season, they shaved and were rested. We just basically swam through the meet. However, we should have won, it just kind of slipped out of our hands...
Long before there were aerobics classes and juice bars, there was Jack LaLanne. His California health spa (started in 1936) was the country's first, and on his TV program, which aired from 1952 until 1986, he was a buoyant evangelist for fitness. At 60 he swam, handcuffed, 1 1/2 miles from Alcatraz to San Francisco's shore, towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. He still maintains a rugged regimen; up at 5 every morning, he works out an hour with weights before swimming for another hour. "My conscience is terrific," he says. "If I missed...