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Swimmers Prepare As
Conference Meet Nears

By Ernest Dempsey
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Coach Ron Good and his Virginia
swimmers depart today for
Chapel Hill and the Atlantic Coast
Conference Swimming Championship
meet, to be held tomorrow,
Friday, and Saturday.

According to Coach Good, N.C.
State, UNC, and Maryland are the
three teams that will be battling for
first place, with Maryland the
favorite for top honors.

The University of South Carolina
is picked to finish fourth out of
eight teams competing.

Wake Forest is rated fifth and
Virginia sixth. However, Coach
Good feels that the Deacons are
picked above the Cavaliers only
because of their questionable early
season win over Virginia. The
Coach is out to prove that he has
the better crop of swimmers.

Although meet regulations allow
each team to bring eighteen men
Virginia has only fifteen available,
eleven swimmers and four divers.
However, this shortage of swimmers
has not dampened Cavalier spirits in
the least.

"Our big goal is to beat Wake
Forest," says Coach Good. His
attitude has carried over to the
tankers, who are not only enthusiastic,
but very anxious for the
ACC meet.

Backstrokers Don Farmer and
Gerry Rollins have a good chance
of getting into the finals. This has
been difficult for Virginia in the
past, and last year, only four
Cavalier swimmers made it as far as
the consolations.

Virginia also has several strong
relays entering in the competition.
The team of John Shrum, Joel
Curtis, Gary Chewning, and Jack
Martin should do well in both the
400 and 800-yard freestyle relays.

Coach Good feels the 400-yard
medley relay team of Farmer, Brian
Fuller, Rollins, and Curtis can
break the Virginia school record in
that event by four or five seconds.
This team is considered a strong
entry.

Thus, Virginia is out to top
Wake Forest for fifth place in the
ACC meet. The Cavaliers undoubtedly
have the swimming force
as well as the will to win, and have
been working towards this meet
since their first workout in October.