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...outdoor pool at Independence Park. It is 7:15 or so, and Janet Evans, the slight, frail-looking 16-year-old swimmer he coaches, has been churning up and down since 5:30. McAllister glances at his stopwatch. Evans, he says, looking a bit startled, has just swum an exhausting set of 20 400-meter freestyle segments, one after another. "That's a real big, tough set." What jolts him is that her last 400, done after 7,600 meters of swimming at race speed, is fast enough by several seconds to qualify for the U.S. Olympic swim team...
...really thrilled for Lisa," said Suhs, who embraced O'Dell on the victory stand. "I could not have swum my time if she hadn't pushed us so hard...
...happy with my medley split time [of:48.90]," Bird said, "but the whole team couldhave swum a little bit better...
...very happy with my times since I had swum so many events in the meet," Costello said. "If you're able to swim well against the clock, it will help your performance against the better swimmers...
After the 200-yd. butterfly, with seven of the 13 races swum, the Explorers managed to take a one-point lead, 31-30. But consecutive Harvard victories--highlighted by a one-two-three sweep in the 200 backstroke--wrapped up the meet just before the final event...