Tough competition may sink Ducks
Emerald photo
Jamie Dull
By Mark Johnson
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Nothing short of the Southwest's
secession from the Union will give the
Oregon men s swimming team a shot at
the Pacific 10 Conference title this week
in Los Angeles
In fact, the Ducks will probably bring
up the rear
UCLA. California, USC. Stanford and
Arizona all finished within the top 11
spots at the NCAA championships last
year while Arizona State finished 16th
It's not hard to see why the Pac-10 is
regarded as the toughest conference in
the nation for swimming competition
California will be defending its 1981
Pac-10 title while Oregon, which took
eighth last year out of eight teams will try
to rack up more points than last year's
39 California rolled to 351 points last
year
Budget problems almost eliminated
Oregon swimming last spring and the
lack of money will keep most of the team,
including potential scorers, in Eugene
Duck swimming coach Dan Cole said
Erik Hughes and Mark Bernett will com
pete in the butterfly and individual med
ley events. Jeff Zeller and Jamie Dull will
concentrate on various freestyle events,
and Jeff Morgan will pull freestyle and
butterfly duty
Significant times include Bernett s
51 20 in the 100-yards butterfly and.
Morgan's 1.43.92 in the 200-yards
freestyle and 1:53 66 in the 200-yards
butterfly
Momentum should also help to carry
the Ducks as they are coming off a 13-1
dual meet season record, the only loss
was a 82-29 drubbing by Washington,
and a tally of 48 personal bests out of 51
individual swims to take third at the
recent North Pacific Conference swim
ming championships in Seattle
However Oregon hasn't fielded a na
tional swimming power since the early
1970 s when they were ranked in the
top-10, and a limited budget has given
the program only enough money to deal
with the bare essentials
The Ducks won t be competing on an
even keel with the Califormas or UCLAs
for a long while — if ever But Cole said he
can competently rebuild through
recruiting in the next few years to
challenge perennial Northwest power
Washington
Swimming at Oregon has faced many
changes over the past year, such as a
limited budget, a new coach and the
combination of the men and women into
a coed program, but most of the athletes
agree that the greatest change has been
the atmosphere created by Cole's char
ismatic approach to coaching
Jamie Dull, a junior in telecommun
ications and film, was named an all
American for his efforts on Cres
centa Valley (Calif ) High School's
water polo team — "my main sport, says
Dull
I was encouraged by the new pro
gram change, and I thought Dan was
doing the really instrumental things in
promoting a good club — he has charis
ma. Dull said
Cole s charisma may not keep him
from turning out the lights and being the
last to leave the East Los Angeles Com
munity College pool this weekend, but it
may provide the base to attract the talent,
and eventually the money, that will keep
him from being the last to leave in the
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Women meet
MSU; ready
for regionals
The Oregon women's gym
nastics team will see its first
action in the last two weeks
when the lady flyers face Mon
tana State in Bozeman tonight
The meet should be a warmup
for the women before regionals
next week according to coach
Gary Vanderhoef Montana
State, an AIAW team, has been
scoring about 133 points a
meet, while the Ducks have
been in the 136-138 range
"They're not a real strong
team as I understand." Vander
hoef said "We ll try some new
things, but we re looking right
through this meet
Oregon will have Sara Gus
tafson competing in the all
around Gustafson is healthy
now after suffering from a finger
injury earlier
Montana State will be the last
regular-season meet for the
Ducks before the NCAA region
al March 12-13 in Corvallis
Oregon will be one of four teams
in the region, along with the
University of Washington.
Oregon State University and the
University of Utah
Oregon's goal will be to take
third in the region and score 140
points, which would be an all
time scoring record for
women s gymnastics at Oregon
However, the Ducks will be
hard-pressed to take third in the
region Top-ranked Utah and
2nd-ranked Oregon State
should battle it out for the
regional title, and Washington
has already defeated Oregon
earlier this year The Huskies
have consistently been scoring
in the 140-point range
Women s nationals will be
held March 26-27 in Salt Lake
City, Utah
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