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GARNET SPORTS By Cigus Vanni ' 72 Swarthmore College: One Swimmer, One Coach, One Fan. Draped over the gleaming rail of the University of Miami pool, the banner struck terror and fear in the hearts of the grants-in-aid from Ari- zona and the scholarships from USC. Jackie Heineman ' 76 was back. Last spring Heineman, daughter of Richard ' 48 and Joan Adams Heine- man 48, had placed among the top sixteen women in the country in the national collegiate swimming finals to become the first Swarthmore woman to receive All American laurels. Dog- gedly pursuing the much-improved times for championship qualification, He ineman wrote record after record in her favorite breaststroke event, all without training tables and the Olym- pic-size pools accorded to her na- tional competition. Women ' s sports do not divide into small college or university championships, explained Heineman ' s mentor, Coach Sue Davis, a major factor in the success of women ' s swimming at Swarthmore. Jackie was in with the best college swimmers in the country. You just really have to want it, said Heineman, to put in the work you need for qualifying. Coach Davis was a great help, and so were my teammates, giving me encouragement when I needed it. And since her pre- teen days as a championship swim club stroker, Heineman has indeed desired to be the best, and to dedicate her time to — well, her times. Teammate LeBris Smith ' 7G is a similar story. Smith last spring qualified with Heineman and two other women on a relay squad that ventured to Arizona for the nationals and also took individual honors her- self in several butterfly events in the Eastern Intercollegiate Champion- ships. A Connecticut state champion for her age group while in high school, Smith has parlayed determination and dedication into a successful swimming career at Swarthmore. Some weeks ago, there was some question over whether Smith would qualify for the Easterns again this year. Only one meet was left in which she could race, and even then her In 1976 event was not scheduled as a regular part of the match. Undaunted, Smith took her place at the starting blocks for the 200-yard freestyle, against West Chester State ' s already-qualified pair of premier swimmers. But wait — this was not the event for which Smith needed to match her best time ever; she swims the butterfly stroke, doesn ' t she? Yes, she does, and she did. Churning up a tremendous wake, Smith took off after the West Chester freestylists swimming butterfly. Work- ing on sheer determination. Smith actually led the race at the halfway point before slipping back in the final laps. To the tumultuous cheers of her proud teammates and an amazed West Chester contingent, Smith learned that she had topped her previous best time and was on her way to the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh pool for a repeat show at the Easterns. How good are Heineman and Smith? The women ' s swimming record board at Sharpies Pool lists sixteen events for women ranging from relays to in- dividual strokes. The names of Smith and Heineman appear beside all but two of those sixteen records. Starting with the football squad ' s legendary win back in the fall, it has been a successful year for Swarthmore athletics. Several teams maintained winning traditions, and a few others began some of their own. This was typified by the outstanding success of the baseball nine, which came up a winner for the first time since 1951. Not coinciden tally, 1951 was the last season for Dick Hall ' 53, who went on to major league stardom with several clubs. The wrestling squad continued its string of excellent seasons with a 9-2-1 mark, including a first-place finish in the Lebanon Valley Invitational Tournament and a new season ' s rec- ord for team points, 392. Andy D ' Amico ' 78 swept through twelve matches undefeated and placed second individually in his weight class at the Middle Atlantic Conference cham- pionships, while Dennis Dacey ' 76 also picked up a second-place at the MAC meet and finished his career with a 21-6-2 personal record. Basketball and swimming for the men did not fare so well: The hoop- sters could manage but one victory in the year despite a 15.0 average from Captain Bracken Rourke ' 77, while the swimmers could look with pride on Mark Tomsho ' 78, who competed in the NCAA Division III diving championships and upped his own Swarthmore diving records. Women ' s sports in the winter showed two plus ledgers at the end, with Eleanor Hess ' s badminton squad post- ing its eighteenth winning season in the nineteen years Hess has been coach. In fact, for Swarthmore sports trivia buffs, the badminton team has suffered but two losing campaigns in its forty years of intercollegiate com- petition! A 20.4 points-per-game aver- age from Wilma Lewis ' 78 and 10.6 from B. J. Entwisle ' 78 sparked the women ' s basketball five to five con- secutive victories at season ' s end to chalk up a 6-4 marU. Speedy guard Lewis had a high game of 29 points in that skein, while Entwisle, who was also the team ' s leading rebounder, pumped in 18 for her high tally. In celebration of the national women ' s lacrosse tournament held here over Alumni Weekend, the women ' s lacrosse squad swept to its 29th straight winning slate, topping Penn and Bryn Mawr on the way to a 6-3 mark. Liz Gilbert ' 77, who had a better-than-five-goals-per-game aver- age, topped all scorers and earned her- self a place on the Philadelphia All College first team at center attack. The coed archery squad won its first meet in two years, edging out Bryn 18
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