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Wednesday, February 25, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Call's afraid she's over the hill
By KEN STONE
Associate Sports Editor
At 19, Catty Call is in her twelfth years of aquatic swimming threat—or so she claims.
In swimming, national caliber performers begin as early as age 13. American record holders often haven't reached ninth place, and that's why their country's national anthems at 17.
BY THE AGE OF 15, many swimmers
consider themselves burn-out, has been.
Call, a member of the University of Kansas women's swimming team, wouldn't like to have herself placed in that forlorn category yet.
But to listen to Call, who helped KU score 149 of its winning total of 489 points in the Big Eight championship laurels last season, harks somewhere around the corner.
"I like to do it, but there are those younger girls coming up all the time," Call said. "I feel like I'm getting kind of old for swimming."
THAT'S A STATEMENT with which Call's competition would undoubtedly agree.
In the third annual championship meet last Friday and Saturday, Call
--deafened the best swimmers in the conference in the 500 freestyle, 200 freestyle, 200 individual medley and 100 freestyle.
- helped her teammates take second and a fourth in the midfield relay, and a fourth in the midfield relay, and
--took fourth in an event she rarely swims, the 100 butterfly.
In all, Call swarm nine times—the she'd place in the 50 butterfly—and set two league records, one in the 200 freestyle (6:10.7) and two in the 200 individual medley (2:18.5).
"I WAS SURPRISED," Call said of her Big Eight success. "I didn't even realize that I had won that many until Friday night I was going to bed, so I felt like me. So much was going on all the time."
As in football, where many times split ends have one personality and linemen another, swimming has its own set of personality types.
Breaststrokers, Call said, are a bit clammy. They stick to themselves, and don't flirt with them.
"ALL THE BREASTSTROKERS that were on the team that I used to swim with (the Santa Fe Trailblazers in Prairie Village) were all kind of crazy," she said. "Most butterflyers seem kind of intelligent."
If Call is a typical freestyle, then assistance in measuring and pestling to seek publicity.
They also prefer to concentrate on one race and season—at a time.
"It's hard to look far abear." Call aid.
That's the most I like to look at in one time.
NEXT FOR CALL is a chance to qualify for the AIAW national swimming championships in mid-March at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Along with some of her teammates, Call will attempt to lower her best times in the 290 individual medley and 250 freestyle, as well as the 180 individual long jump. The distance is less than a second away from qualifying.
"I think I'm close," said Call, whose best time of 1:50 and 1:00 in the 200 freezing is fractions away from the AIAW standard. "I wasn't, I couldn't try again. But I think I have a chance."
CALL'S LAST ATTEMPT to qualify for nationalists will come in an intrasquid exhibition during the men's dual swim meet at the State State Saturday in Robinson Natoratium.
If Call does make the trip to Florida, she won't be swimming in uncharted waters.
Swimming for a private club team in 1972, 1973 and 1974, Calip competed in the AAU national championships. In her first two years she was a member of a relay team, and in 1974 she swam in the 200 freestyle and the relay.
FOR CALL, "QUALIFYING individually
(street) was the biggest thing
I’ve ever done."
That is, until last weekend.
A swimmer and racer since she was born, who can say her peak years as a swimmer were
"Iused to think they were younger," she said, "but you can always still improve, I."
What is the prime age for a swimmer?
"Twenty years old." Call offered.
Ask her the same question five years from now and she'd probably say 25.
Changes made at KU Relays
High school track athletes from Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma and Nebraska, and women basketball players prominently in plans for the 1921 championship (1921 1924) by meet director Bob Timmons, yesterday.
Timmons said the Relays will drop 16 events, and add eight others to last year's
Among the events canceled are the Jim Bausch decathalon, two college division and two junior college division relay, three women's events, five high school events and three open division events, including the shot put and mile walk.
By dropping the decathlon, the Kansas
team lost its April 15-17, will last
three days instead.
But instead of limiting high school competition to Kansas, the Relays have received permission from neighboring state football teams and are awarded tickets to athletes in states bordering Kansas.
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