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Tankers Christen New Pool,
Good Hopes For Best Season

By BILL BERNO

Coach Ron Good's swim
team, with a large group of
returning lettermen and a
brand new natatorium, is
looking forward to its best
season ever this year.

Led by distance freestyler
and butterflier Mark
Bernardino, the tankers should
be much improved in all events.
The swim team lost only two
members by graduation, and
the squad possesses a strong
nucleus of underclassmen.

An important factor in the
team's performance should be
the sparkling new pool
completed last spring at U-Hall.
Long awaited to replace the
antiquated facility in Memorial
Gym, the new natatorium can
surely be counted among the
finest in the country. The pool
is eight lanes wide, with the
latest electronic timing and
modern wave-killing lane
markers.

Mr. Good's goal this year, as
in the past, is to place a
swimmer in the NCAA
championships, to be held at
the University of Tennessee in
March.

That swimmer could very
well be Bernardino, who came
close the past two years and
has a third opportunity this
year. His best event is the
200-yard butterfly, although he
can be called on to swim the
500 and 1000-yard freestyles.

Other swimmers to watch
are Bill Carvell, Gerry Rolns,
Mark Creighton, Jim Wilson,
Allan Ettenger and Bill LePard.
They are backed up by a good
group of first-yearmen, who
could make this a banner year
in Cavalier swimming.