Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hendricks is the only 'Cliffe swimmer who will pick up a sheepskin in the spring, and a promising freshman class is scheduled to arrive in the fall to join the bevy of returnees...
...practice; his firm has offices in Dallas and Washington. Strauss, who is already wealthy, liked to crack that he "looked forward to getting rich-a poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns to survive." Strauss made his fortune in law, banking and television stations. Though not an avid swimmer, Strauss built a large pool at his luxurious Dallas home so that he could look out and, as he puts it, say to himself: "Strauss, you are a rich sumbitch...
Courtside and poolside were both emotionally charged. While the individual nature of swimming prompted personal responses to success and failure, the hoopsters reacted en masse. If a swimmer's time was abnormally slow, dejection and a determination to do better would show visibly on her face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel...
Injury also struck the Harvard teams. Guard Ellen Hart spent the second half of the Brown game with ice on a strained ankle. After nursing it that night, she returned to action the next day, but could not play her best. Swimmer Maura Costin left the pool after her heat of the 100-yd. butterfly shaking from the pain of a muscle spasm in her injury-riddled back. She also competed after the injury, with the help of massages from assistant coach Paula Newman, but Costin, like Hart, could not perform...
...they all punish themselves when the personal glory was so far away? Costin, medal-winning Crimson swimmer, said it was because they understood "the most important thing is being a part of the team...