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Relays to open swim schedule
With the return of an All-America freestyle champion, Don Pennington, and encouragement from a 1965-66 second place Big Eight finish, KU swimming coach Dick Reamon is "guaranteeing an exciting season."
Pennington, who won national honors in the 1,650-yard freestyle, has captured four Big Eight individual championships within the past two years.
The Kansas City, Kan., senior holds five KU and three conference records—the 500 and 1,350 freestyle and the 400-yard medley. He has the distinction of being the only Jayhawker to score in a national meet.
IN ADDITION to Pennington, KU will receive solid support from sophomores Jim Kent, Wichita, and Ray O'Connor, Lawrence. Last season, they broke 14 of 18 freshman swimming records.
Recognized by the NCAA, AAU, interscholastic or any swimming federation rules committee, it is a short-course standard pool measuring 25 yards by 25 meters.
KU's first meet is the Big Eight Relays here, Dec. 9-10, the first ever held in the conference. It will open KU's new six-lane, 25-yard pool in Robinson Gymnasium.
"Many people think this is an Olympic size swimming pool," Reamon says, "but it isn't. An Olympic standard measures 50 meters. People should be more interested in that this pool meets regulations than bears the name Olympic."
THE NEW KU natatorium has a
Rugby meet
KU's rugby team, which has won one and lost three, will play St. Louis University this weekend at Quigley Field, directly behind Oliver Hall.
Saturday, KU's B team will meet St. Louis' B team at 1:30 p.m.
Both A teams will then play at 3.
seating capacity of 700 spectators, an increase of more than 500 from last season in old Robinson Gymnasium.
"The bleachers provide plenty of knee room and with the new dehumidifier, spectators, while watching meets, won't feel as though they're sitting in a sweat box." Reamon says.
"I will be disappointed, along with members of the team, if capacity crowds are not in attendance this year."
BECAUSE OF the luxurious natterium which cost $424,000, there is a future possibility KU will host the annual NCAA, AAU or any federation meets. Sites for national events are set three years in advance.
A recent visitor to the natatorium, Adolph Kiefer, who is regarded as the biggest swimming equipment official in the country, says the only equipment preventing KU from hosting these meets is (1) electronic timers; (2) electronic system costing between $5,000 and $10,000; and (3) a warm up and down pool for swimmers to use before and after each event.
Nevertheless, two prominent NCAA swimming coaches recently spoke with Reamon indicating they were highly pleased with the facilities. The coaches said KU is centrally located and there would be no great expense preventing top teams coming from the East and West Coasts.
The varsity schedule:
Dec. 9-10—Big Eight Relays;
Jan. 6—Missouri; 7—Colorado; 11
-Southern Methodist; 13—Air
Force; 14—at Nebraska; 21—Kansas
State; 28—Hendrix; 31—at
Oklahoma State; Feb. 4—Oklahoma;
18—at Iowa State; 25—
Texas Tech; March 2-3-4—Big
Eight at Missouri; and 23-24-25—NCAA at Michigan State.
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Daily Kansan Friday, October 21, 1966
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