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Swimmer upcom inj Carolina swimming coach Alan Gentry led his Gamecock aquatic squad to its second straight highly successful dual meet season during 1972 and now has to prepare his team for the important championship meets coming up during the next several weeks. The Gamecocks finished the year 7-2 in dual meet competition after defeating Clemson and Georgia Southern, 84-28 and 85-27, respectively, last week and have% now racked up a dual meet record of 14-5 during Gentry's first two seasons as head coach. Against the above mentioned foes, Paul Gray Paul Gray highlighted the meet with a school record of 10:31.0 in the 1000 yard freestyle, while the freshman freestyle relay team added a new frosh mark to the record books-in the 400 yard event. The two USC losses came to Southern powerhouses N. C. State and Alabama, while the biggest of the seven wins was an upset triumph over North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first victory over the Tar Heels in Carolina swim ming history. "We feel we had a good year in dual meets," said Gentry, "but now we have to get ready for the big meets we have coming up. We were fortunate to get through the year with no real health problems and our swimmers' outstanding spirit and attitude made a great deal of difference. We also got a big boost from the way our AND REEF Wednesday Student Special Our Regular $1.85 Barbecue P1 . $1 Old fashioned hickory Chopped Barbecue, H4 steaming rice, Cole Slaw, Beans and Roll & P.MA. di 010811 AND 409 s prepare champio students, faculty and fans sup ported us at home meets." The Gamecock swimmers are entered in the Southern In tercollegiate Championships at Athens, Ga., this weekend, then are slated to compete in the Southern Independent Cham pionship meet in Miami, Fla. on March 3 and 4. Those individuals and relay teams that better the qualifying times will compete in the NCAA Championships, to be Pole-vaulte sets goal at By JIM HERSH Sports Writer Carolina's track team has participated in only three meets this winter but already one of the school records has been broken. Brian Hyder established a Gamecock pole vault record when he vaulted 15'1%" to finish second in the TIAC meet at Knoxville, Saturday. Hyder's record effort was an improvement of more than four inches over his previous personal best of 14'9", reached in the ACC Indoor Championships last winter. "I've been on a stringent weight program," the record-setting vaulter said, "and I'm stronger than I was last year. I am also doing a lot of sprint work and that has helped, too," Hyder said, trying to pinpoint the reason for his improvement. "A pole-vaulter has to be in real good shape," he said explaining the reasoning behind his training program. "He has to be well developed in the upper part of his body, the biceps and chest. But the legs should be real light; most of ate DAh-Ii AND flavored ish over Bar- B-Q tB1ossom~ St. for nships held at West Point, N. Y. on March 23 and 24. Freshman backstroker Casey Claflin has already qualified for the NCAA meet, while classmate Chip Newman has gone fast enough to make the national AAU meet and could go under the NCAA standard during the next two big meets. The Gamecocks' foursome of Glen Spears, Roger Rice, John Poole and Newman qualified for the AAU meet also in the 400 yard freestyle relay event. r Hyder 16 feet the best pole-vaulters in the world look like a moose," Hyder said. The 15-foot vault did not happen overnight. "I started pole-vaulting when I was in seventh or eighth grade in North Carolina," the senior from Hendersonville, N.C. said. In high school Hyder cleared 13'6" and finished second in the state meet. "I was hurt as a freshman (at Carolina) so I could not vault," Hyder said, "and I guess I'm just starting to come into my own." Hyder credits Mike Boseman, a graduate assistant track coach, who is in charge of the vaulters, with helping him in the pole-vault. "He was a pole-vaulter at The Citadel and he has helped me a lot," Hyder said. The arrival of new head coach Bil McClure at Carolina figures to aid Hyder. "Coach McClure has already spoken to me and has offered me a lot of advice. He left a vaulter at Abilene Christian at about the same stage as I am and he coached a pole-vaulter that was in the Olympics. So he knows what he's talking about," Hyder remarked. What does the Carolina pole vault record holder hope to ac complish the remainder of the year? 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