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Wednesday, August 21, 1974
University Daily Kansan
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Forward Norm Cook
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Center Rick Suttle
Guard Dale Greenlee
Swimming Competition Tough
The University of Kansas swimming team last year had a difficult time in winning their seventh consecutive Big Eight Championship, but it did manage to outscore the first runner-up, Oklahoma, by more than 100 points.
Coach Dick Reasonam said the team should have a much more difficult time this year in Albany. "We're going to play," he said.
By MIKE FITZGERALD Kansan Sports Reporter
"We had to bite, scratch and claw for every point last year," he said recently, "and next year the competition should even be better."
Rearman said that next year the teams to beat would be Oklahoma and Iowa State.
"They have both numbers and talent," he said. "Okahama has seven top-notch recruits that I know of and Iowa State has three super kids."
In fact, Reasonam thinks Oklahoma and Iowa State are so good that he would pick Iowa State best in the league, on paper, followed by KU and Oklahoma.
"We will have to work very hard to be as good as last year," he said. "We need continued performance from returning lettermen and improvement from leaving us. We work hard we can win it, but I also believe we can work just as hard and take third."
Recruiting didn't go as well as Reamon had hoped. KU lost several excellent out-of-state swimmers who could have further boosted the team.
"I am disappointed with recruiting," he said. "But we went as far as we could with our finances. We just don't have the budget to get the out-of-state person."
"Recruiting is kind of unusual. You may get an imbalance by recruiting in a certain event, but if it constitutes real talent, you take it."
Reamon may not have recruited great numbers of swimmers, but the three divers had a commanding advantage.
Included is Topeka High School standout Craig Perman, who Reason thought was the outstanding senior in last year's Kansas State High School meet. In that meet, Perman won the 100-yard backstroke and placed second in the 200-yard freestyle.
Parman also holds several Murray Valley regional records. His best mark in the 10-year period was 87.
Mark Hill, a diver, is from Burke High School in Omaha, and was the 1974 Nebraska state one-meter diving champion. He was also an outstanding breaststroke runner-up in runners-up in the 100-meter breaststroke at this year's state meet with a 1:02.7 time.
A well-rounded athlete, Hill also performed well in track and placed second in the high jump at the state meet with a 6' 7" leap.
Paul Sweeney, a second diver, is from
White High School in Dallas, and like, him was the state diving champion this past season. Last year was the second year that Sweeney had won the state championship and he received All-America honors in diving in 1973.
Rocky Vizzari, a third diver, is from Greenwich, Conn., where he competed for St. Mary High School. This past season he was champion and placed ninth in the National High School Catholic Championships.
Reasonan told he wished he had several of next year's high school seniors in Kansas. He said that when they were graduated in 1962, he was so impressed by the swimmers ever to swim from Kansas.
Although the last seven championships have seemingly come easily for KU.
Reamon said that next year "would be no cake-walk."
"Last year (in the Big Eight Championship Meet), we placed first in only five out of 18 events," he said. "We had the depth and balance to do a very good job. I can't name a single event or person that will be a solid choice for first."
Here is a tentative Kansas Swimming schedule for 1974-75;
University of Miami Swimming Schedule
Dec. 6 - Big 8 Regions, Ames, Iowa. Prelims: 7:00 p.m.
Dec. 12 - Big 8 Regions, Ames, Iowa.
Dec. 6-12 Holiday, American University 90 p.m.
Jan. 1-5 Boise Cowboy Invitation University, Winkler, Oklahoma 90 p.m.
Jan. 1-5 Boise Cowboy Invitation University, Winkler, Oklahoma 90 p.m.
Jan. 1-5 Boise Cowboy Invitation University, Winkler, Oklahoma 90 p.m.
Feb. 1-8 Oklahoma State University, 2 o.p. Mon.-Mon.
Feb. 1-8 Oklahoma State University, 2 o.p. Mon.-Mon.
Feb. 1-8 Oklahoma State University, 2 o.p. Mon.-Mon.
Oklahoma State University, Colorado
March 6-Big Elephant Championship, Winkler, Oklahoma
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