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...accept anyone who can handle the workouts. If a kid does all four strokes and makes an honest attempt for two hours then we will accept them. Usually they realize for themselves if they are in over their heads. We almost never have to cut a swimmer: he or she will ordinarily do that without being told," Gordon says...
After the resignation of Harvard women's swim coach Stephanie Walsh last year, members of the team gathered in their captain's dormitory room to discuss those qualities they felt important in their future coach. One former swimmer remembers several girls expressing interest in training under a male coach. They believed from their pre-collegiate experience, which consisted of all male coaching, they "could simply swim better...
...freestyle at the Florida high school championships his junior year. Gaines stroked to American records in the 100- and 200-yd. freestyles at 42.38 and 1:33.80 and to the world mark in the 200-meter freestyle at 1:49.16. For his efforts he was named World Swimmer of the Year...
Gaines calls the 200-meter world record his greatest accomplishment as a swimmer. "I set it a year ago and it still hasn't sunk in--I think about when it will be broken sometimes. It'll probably go this summer, or in the spring when the Russians have their big meet...
...Every swimmer who lasts through the grueling miles, the bleary stinging eyes and the ripped suits, develops some type of basic philosophy, Boglioli is no exception. "I love to win and hate to lose. I look at coaching the same way," she says with conviction...