A Swimming Revolution
U.S. INDOOR SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS STORY AND PHOTOS BY BOB AND ANN INGRAM A SWIMMING REVOLUTION Listen, my children, and you shall hear, Nashville teammates have set four American relay Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. records as well as four club records. On the eighth through eleventh of April, in Eighty-one, Add them up, and it's 41 wins, 35 American records, It was a sight to behold, just what had been done. four club records, one world record and still going They called it a Swimming Revolution at Harvard's pool. strong. Wow! There was no exception--outstanding swims were the rule. The people came to see American records fall. When the waves had subsided, there were I2 in all. And then there was Coach Mark Schubert's Mission Tracy Caulkins led the parade with four. Viejo Nadadores. Mission Viejo relays added three more. The women's team scored the second highest number One American record was set by Linehan, Sterkel and Brian Goodell, of points in Nationals history with 608 to win the team One, too, by Meagher and Carey as well. title. Only Santa Clara's 1972 Indoor team, coached by History was made at this historical site, George Haines, has scored more--649. By Mission Viejo and Nashville's "Mighty Mite." Mission's men demolished the previous high by a Her name is Tracy Caulkins, and she did something that's never men's team. USC scored 666 points at the 1973 Indoors; been done, this year, Mission Viejo rolled up 910 points.
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