Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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Leroy Overstreet, MSG swml team coach Dr. Overstreet has been the swimming rzoffers noxscholars ipsrfdr' swimmers, and thus it i Leroy Overstree MSU's cpach said team members have; ' 09 gains Diane Dohayre, and Marisa Virzi. Theyomen' 3 team will lose two seniors Tlm Conn FINISHING third at the Kentucky lntercollegiat Swimming Conference, MSU's men's swim team pu a lot of hard work and dedication into practices. Swimming

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TlmConn .aid. iiItIs just something I never do. Bill Wietmarschen of the football Eagles aid, IIIf we play well one week, IIII try to -at the same meals and dupIicate the same hings I did that week before the next -ame. Another football player, Orville yttle always listens to his Walkman before : game. HPhiI Collins is the only tape I isten to e it relaxes me, he explained. He Iso tries to wear his wristband a certain way each game. Whether or not these superstitions ac- tually make the athletes play better or not, here is no question that they are given a nsychological boost by practicing them. 3y LISA HOPKINS EFT or right? For Talbert Turner, the left shoe is Iways the first to go on. He then ties it in a certain ay; if he messes up, he simply starts all over again. E

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in Tim Conn RACTICE is long and tiring for members of the omen's swimming team. Coach Overstreet was leased with the dedication of the team which finish- d third in the state meet. Tim Conn DIVING is an important part of a swimmer's training. MSU's swimming facility has three diving boards, a diving pool and an Olympic-sized pool with under- water observation windows.