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Three-Day Meet

New Natatorium Hosts State Meet

By BILL BERNO

Goliath will be surrounded
by a horde of little Davids this
afternoon when seven state swim
-ming teams will enter the U-Hall
natatorium in an attempt to
defeat the Cavalier tankers.

Coach Ron Good seems
unperturbed by his team's
competition, saying things like
"We've got a chance to win
every event", and "the ACC
meet is the big one".

But Mr. Good's arrogance is
justified. He has the best team
in the history of the University
to back up his claims. This
year's contingent has compiled
an 8-3 dual meet record, and
has rewritten the school record
books.

With more talent than ever
at his disposal, Mr. Good says,
"We'll spread our guys
around...swim them in their
good events. We'll try to
answer a few questions before
the ACC meet".

Although it appears the
swimmers are looking beyond
the State meet, the Cav coach
insists, "We're ready".

Everyone will find out if his
squad is ready this afternoon
when preliminary events begin
at 1 p.m. A three-day affair,
the meet will begin today with
the 500 freestyle, the 200-yard
individual medley, the 50
freestyle, preliminary rounds
of the one-meter diving event,
and the medley relay.

Tonight at 8 finals will be
held in those events.
Tomorrow it starts all over
again at 1 p.m. with the
400-yard individual medley,
the 200 freestyle, the 100
butterfly, 100 backstroke, 100
breaststroke preliminaries. In
addition, the heats of the

800-yard freestyle relay will be
swum, and the first five rounds
of the three-meter diving will
be held. Finals again at 8.

Saturday morning, things
will be slightly different. At
11, the preliminary heats of
the 100 freestyle, 200
backstroke, 200 breaststroke,
200 butterfly and 400-yard
freestyle relay will be run
off. The semifinal rounds of
the three-meter diving event
are also scheduled in the
morning, and all but the fastest
heat of the grueling 1650-yard
freestyle will be taken care of.

Saturday afternoon at 4:30,
the final heats of those events
will be swum, with the fastest
heat of the 1650(swimming's
longest event) and the final
rounds of three-meter diving
also held.

Virginia's tankers will be
heavy favorites to win the
meet, if not run away with it.
The Cavaliers captured the title
last year by almost doubling
the score of the second-place
team.

In that meet, Mark
Bernardino won three events
and was named the meet's
Outstanding Swimmer.
Bernardino wouldn't surprise
anyone if he won the honor
again this year.

He has repeatedly broken
the school record in the 1000
freestyle and 500 freestyle, and
has been swimming good times
in the 200 butterfly. Formerly
a butterfly specialist, the
third-year tanker has begun to
concentrate on distance

freestyle events this year.

Bernardino will swim in the
1650 Saturday evening and will
try to qualify for the NCAA
Championships. He must beat
the cutoff time of 16:45.0 to
earn a berth at the Nationals.

The team's other
co-captain, Gerry Rollins, will
attempt to go faster than
1:59.0 in his specialty, the
200-yard backstroke. He can
also qualify for the NCAA's.