sports
Ducks host powerful Hoosiers
in swim meet
By MARK STEWART
Of the Emerald
The University of Oregon Men’s
“Aqua Duck” swim team could
look more like sitting ducks this
weekend as they face the highly
talented, highly-ranked Indiana
Hoosier swim team in the
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Oregon-Indiana Invitational meet
at Leighton Pool this weekend.
Dr. James Counsilman,
Hoosier coach since 1958, has
been very, very successful. Dur
ing his tenure, Counsilman’s
squads have lost but six dual
meets and only two since 1960.
His teams have not surrendered
the Big-10 swim title since 1961
and have won six national champ
ionships.
Anchoring the Hoosiers is
Brazilian sophomore Djan Mad
ruga, expected to be the next of a
long string of great swimmers out
of Indiana, that includes Mark
Spitz. Like Spitz, Madruga is an
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ex-Olympian, finishing fourth in
both the 400 and 1500 meter
freestyle events in the 1976
Montreal games.
Two juniors, Rick Hofstetter and
Brazilian Romulo Arantes, should
also score well. Hofstetter finished
fourth in the 200-meter breast
stroke at the national collegiate
meet last year and was a member
of the winning medley relay team.
Arantes also won the 100 back
stroke at the World University
Games last summer. Oregon
Coach Rich Schleicher calls the
two swimmers "tremendous.”
Indiana also has a high school
All-American in freshman Chuck
Sharpe, whom Schleicher noted
was the best high school sprinter
in the county last year.
Schleicher admits that the
Ducks have “no chance to beat
Indiana.” He added few teams in
the country have a chance of beat
ing Indiana.
According to Schleicher, the
only probably bright spot for the
Ducks will be senior Steve Hamil
ton.
“The backstroke and individual
medley events will be the closest
we can come to them with Hamil
ton,” Schleicher said. “He will give
it a championship try.”
Schleicher said qualifying entry
times for the events were set pur
posely high to attract a maximum
number of top-flight entrants.
Getting Indiana to come to
Eugene to compete with the
Ducks was Schleicher’s doing.
There was a method to his mad
ness, though.
“If we’re going to compete in
anything, we’ve got to prepare for
someone who’s good. We can al
ways pull ringers—the big names
— I want to expose the team to
good teams,” said Schleicher.
Help with recruiting and a top
flight schedule are the reasons
Schleicher wanted to bring In
diana out west.
The meet will begin Friday
evening at 6:30 p.m., and con
tinue Saturday at 1 p.m.
Women try to qualify
The University women s swim
team, behind its trio of nationally
ranked standouts, will set out in
hopes of AIAW qualifying times in
other events this weekend in the
Oregon-lndiana Invitational.
Led by Kathy Hemmer, Michelle
Menkens and Tama Cuddeback,
the women will be in search of top
times in the 200 medly and 200
freestyle relays. Coach Virginia
Van Rossen will be putting to
gether her top teams for those
races in hopes of qualifying for the
national meet, held later this year.
Hemmer’s time of 4:36.88 in the
400 individual medly was the
fourth fastest clocking by a col
legiate swimmer through the end
of the year. Cuddeback was
ranked sixth in the 200 breast
stroke and Menkens 12th in the
100 freestyle.
The women will compete in an
open meet against AAU swim
mers Friday night and will host
Central Washington on the sec
ond day.
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races are of five and 10 kilometers, with the course being over a
prepared track.
For more information contact Sugar Pine Ridge, 877 E. 13th
in Eugene or phone 345-5584. There is no entry fee and all are
welcome.
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