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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
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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
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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.
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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? "Frankly, I hope to clear 16
feet," Hyder answered.
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Carolina's Danny Traylor demonstrates the advantage
his 7-0 height gives him against opponents, as a pack of
DePaul Blue Demons surround the USC giant.
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opens at Princeton
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