Word: swimming
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When people first meet Maureen Murphy, they hardly suspect such a soft-spoken woman could be the driving force behind the Radcliffe swim team's climb into the ranks of top notch Harvard varsity sports. But anyone who has watched Murphy in swim practice can sense her energy, strength, and enthusiasm...
Murphy's first experience on a swim team came at Wellesley High School where she swam for three years. When she entered Radcliffe, Murphy couldn't decide which sport to participate in. Because few Radcliffe swimmers had much experience at the time she decided to join the team...
Murphy's development paralleled the progress of the women's swim team, Murphy said last week. She found the program at first "unorganized, with very little sense of a team spirit." "No one came to practice more than three times a week and we never saw the IAB except at meets," she said. "Swimming was an experience I felt I wasn't gaining that much from so I probably didn't give' enough...
Paget said the Athletic Department tried to help both groups concerned, but found it wasn't "the practical thing for this time period" to have the non-Harvard students swim at the pool...
Although the Radcliffe swim team made waves Saturday at URI, the Harvard cross country team did not even make a ripple in the outcome of yesterday's NCAA championships at Penn State...