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...members of the team compete to be elected "Ironman," a position considered to be of great honor, according to swimmer David O. Schwartz...
...after taking a first bite--perhaps because a human, especially one wearing a black wet suit and flippers, looks something like a seal--a great white will usually turn up its nose at whatever remains. Most other shark attacks are probably also cases of mistaken identity: a swimmer's flapping feet and hands may look like the movements of a fish darting through the water...
Reaction to the Supreme Court's non-decision was as swift as a Lisa Fernandez fastball, as dramatic as a Kerri Strug vault. "It's the greatest single legal action in the history of women's sports," said Donna de Varona, the Olympic swimmer and first president of the Women's Sports Foundation. "It's bad law," says Southern Cal athletic director Mike Garrett, voicing a concern that the Brown ruling will spur lawsuits against schools that are earnestly trying to upgrade women's sports...
After each swimmer took her turn speaking, Maura Costin Scalise, Harvard's coach for the past 13 years, stood up to deliver the shocking news--she is retiring to be with her four children and to run her family's nursing home on the North Shore...
Individually, Harvard's swimmers had to compete with the likes of Cristina Teuscher--a Columbia freshman who was an Olympian last summer and has been named the Eastern Swimmer of the Year and Brown's Kari Klassen and Katie Cowan, both of whom captured two events...