University Daily Kansan Wednesday, August 20, 1975 9 Conference titles multiply for Jayhawk swim team By ALLEN QUAKENBUSH Associate Sports Editor Swimming is one of the most successful athletic programs at the University of Kansas. For eight years in a row, Jayhawk were captured the league championship. "but that doesn't make coach Dick Reamon complacent. Far from it. He wants number nine just as much as he wanted number one. Last year's team lost its first meet to a Big Eight school in seven years, but the Jayhawks came back to win the Big Eight championship. Seven men graduated, including the nucleus of the sprint corps, and happened dominance in the Big Eight might be ending. REAMON WANTED TO make sure that didn't happen he hit the recruiting a little bit harder this year. That extra work paid off. Reamon signed 15 freshmen, a figure that surprised even him. In the past, he would have been happy with half that But Reamon is still worried. "I have two fears," he said. "You never know how you'll do with that many young swimmers. Some will do well as you hoped and some won't. Until you you've been through a pressure meet, you never know how they will respond. "My second fear is Iowa State. They lost only one swimmer, and I respect the fact that they have an equivalent or better team than we have more experience than they had last season." The Cyclones were good enough last year to end KU's seven year winning string against conference foes by defeating the Jayhawks at Ames, 74-39. This year the conference meet is at Iowa State, and Reamon expects another fight for the title. "KNEW WE HAD lost seven seniors so I thought we had better get some people to re-enroll." he did just that. Included among the recruits are: David Estes, swimmer of the year in Oklahoma last year; Ron Kerr of Hutchinson, who has his fathers, the 50- and 100-yard freestyles; Jed Blankenship of Salina, state champion for the last two years in the breaststroke; Rob Swenson of Salina, the state backstroke champion; Chris Flaska, Nebraska state breaststroke champion; Pat Blatt, Nebraska state backstroke champion; and Pat Brettrell, the Kansas diving champion two of the last three years. Leading the returnees from last year are Dick Reamon Gary Kempf, Tom Compton and Ben Wagoner, along with divar Mark Hill. Kempf has been a solid swimmer for KU for three years. As a freshman, he was selected as Big Eight Swimmer-of-the Year, and he established a conference at the league meet last year. Now in his season season, much is expected of him. Compton is another consistent performer for the Jayhawks, especially in the breaststroke. He improved greatly last season and will be a national AAU Swimming meet this summer. WAGONER AND HILL both did well last year, and Reamon expects them to pick up a lot of points for the Jayhawks. Hill finished second in both one and three-meter diving in the conference meet as a freshman last season. "We have much more depth this year," Reamon said. "We knew we had some acres and spaces last year. You've got to have the talent to start with, and I really feel like we can have 25-30 scorers in the Big Eight meet this year. "We have two or three freshmen who mike and we are going to have to depart here." Because of the great number of freshmen on the team, Reamon said, both he and the team members would have to work extra hard to help develop them. This year's recruiting was not just one year shot to Reamon. He is concerned about the fact that the state does not REAMON SAID HE was afraid that in a few years the whole scope of non-revenue sports would be curtailled by the NCAA. If that happens, Reamon wants to have as many good swimmers in the program as he possibly can. It's not easy to win eight straight championships. Every meet, the other team is out to get the winner, and any sort of winner has its streak. Reamon won't let that happen. "With a record like that comes a great deal of pride," Reasonam said. "Quite front and center, we just hold on to our promise. We just pollinate the championship, and things just kind of fell into place." "Our mental attitude was ahead of what we were capable of doing, and we just got it." BUT NO MATTER how the Jayhawks do this season, Reason has done an excellent job in developing the KU swimming program. In his 13 seasons as coach of the league titles, finished second three times and have never placed lower than fourth. To Reason, only hard work and dedication can produce a winner. There’s no easy way to do that. And for eight years, the KU swimming team has been a success. 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