University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

w. swimming 66 ... Orange-White . . .47 83 UT-Texas Tech 21 79 UT-Stanford 70 79 70 73 UT-Texas A M 29 53 51 53 ... UT-Miami . . .. .60 61 UT-Florida 52 62 ... UT-S. Carolina 42 86 ... UT-SMU 53 TAIAW 1st AIAW 1st It Looks Like We Made If ..; ' - :: : .- The impact was the thing. Last year ' s six point separation between champion Stanford and runner-up Texas in the AIAW national meet was fantastic, unbelievable but this was the best. Nine returning All-Americans and their Broderick Award winner team captain Jill Sterkel had come back. What Texas had known and hoped for since Paul Ber- gen had come to coach at the university was finally here The UT women ' s swim team was first in the nation. Though the team lost three swimmers to graduation and one to ' lack of motivation (Penning- ton) " Bergen was set to make another stab at the title with a young but strong team. " We had to conteract the loss of these girls with improved performances from our veterans and our freshmen, Bergen said. ' Last year we had good balance but we just didn ' t have the depth like Stanford. We had a lot of quality and not enough quantity. " This year ' s team proved they both as they went up against the Texas Red Raiders in Lub-j bock. Hoping to showcase some of hisf team ' s nationally known talent, Bergen ' placed some of his swimmers in events they were not accustomed to swimming! in order to " measure (them) against local talent. " Evidently not thrown off pace by| the reorganization, the No. 3 ranked Longhorns outdistanced the Raiders 84- 14 sweeping all individual events and relays to completely dominate their first| dual meet of the season. " It was really| good to win a dual meet going away like; that, " Sterkel said. But it couldn ' t compare to the second): meet. Defeating top-ranked Stanford 79- j 70 gave Texas the added incentive they needed. After trailing Stanford until al one-two finish in the three-meter diving gave Texas the lead, a come-from-l behind win in the 400 freestyle relay - ; . , : -ID FIRST ROW: Cheryl Ann Pierse. Kimberly Ann Linehan, Kimberly Sue Block, Mary Jennifer Baron, Carol Fran- ces Borgman, Suzanne Eva Wetteskog. SECOND ROW: John Struck, Huddle Clark, Dian Kathryn Girard, Paul Bergen, Laura Ann Dockerty. THIRD ROW: Mike Brown. Denyse Marie Senechal. Jann Leslie Girard, Dorthy Jean Girardeau. Julia Emily Medick. FOURTH ROW: Tenley Ann Fisher, Rebecca Ella Kast. Jill Ann Sterksl.f Cynthia Lee Graham. Wendy Lynn Wells. the lap counter for teammate. I 62 W. Swimming