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TH? GAMECOCK Sports July 25, 1984 - Page 7 ;'^4 '$$%\ m t,.. Settled Former head football coach Jim Carlen settled his breach of contract lawsuit with USC out of court Monday. Two Gamecoc By Joseph Foley Two swimmers familiar to USC waters will be among the competitors in the XXIII Olmpiad in Los Angeles beginning July 28. RisinP iiinior Snrpn Osthpre will represent his native Denmark, and Shelly Cramer, a recent USC graduate, will swim for the Virgin Islands. Both Ostberg and Cramer will swim in the butterfly events starting Sunday. Ostberg holds the USC men's 100and 200-meter fly records, while Student has intei with Columbia bal By Barbara Kiemi A public relations position with a baseball club is the only career Beth Ga seriously considered. Gar has not advanced that far yet, bul she's on her way, thanks to an intern Pnlnmhia Mptc lpist snrinp. A senior advertising/public relation: said her internship with the Mets was USC student. "It was fantastic," she said. "I real and it was something I wanted to do. I re lot." A NATIVE of Lauren, Gar said sne soj wrote press releases and prepared directory for visiting league teams. She said she also performed othei duties when help was needed. The three-credit internship was for week, but Gar said she worked 20 hours "It's a lot of work and late hours," involves so much that the public doesn't METS' GENERAL Manager Bill Bla was pleased with Gar's work. 4'She did an excellent iob for us." I worked in a lot of different areas and sh extra time that she didn't have to." But Gar said the work was familiar." I did in class and labs," she said. "I h I from class." In addition, Gar said her father, I^ai relations work for the Greenwood Brav Braves' former Class-A club. SHE SAID he still helps the organization, now located in An promotional duties on occasion. "I wanted to get into professional bas with it in some respect, she said. And now that she is involved, Gar sa stay that way. n A -*? ?; J J-1? i_i: ? ?.^1 ci, I Dili sne saiu uie puunu rcmuuus m although she realizes how few management positions. 'I want to stay in management or f with a major league team, she said, lot of women in management and put professional baseball. Ex-nnanh set By Tracy Mixson Former football coach Jim Carlen settled his breech-of-contract lawsuit against USC out of court Monday, but attorneys for both sides declined to elaborate on the agreement. "We settled it and an order of dismissal was signed today," USC off AmAif Tnrmll ninn ooirl TV fi rvr*^ n?r aiiwi nt j icuui VJICII on IVI munud^ afternoon. 44Any details of it will have to be given out by the university. I can't comment on the details of it at all." Neither Carlen's attorney, Thomas MrCutcheon. or USC SDokesman Chris Vlahoplus could be reached to comment on the agreement's details. The trial, originally scheduled for May, had been postponed because negotiations between Carlen and the university were underway. FIRED IN December 1981, Carlen sued USC for lost benefits and pnaphin0-rplnfpH hucinpcc nnntnr?t?i In his suit, he claimed he was "wrongfully relieved and terminated,M and that USC "seriously and permanantly damaged his k swimmers to Cramer holds the women's mark for the 200-meter event. Because Ostberg and Cramer will be swimming for their respective pnnntripc tViAir miJilifvin0 timP5? wprp VVUI.V. .vu, 1"' J O measured against competition in those nations. IN OSTBERG'S case, his best time was ranked 13th in the world, including Americans, two East Germans and one Russian. But eliminating the Americans who fail to qualify and the foreign competition not participating because of [n?h? Fencers p I club By Barbara Klemt Five USC fencing clii _ r 1 t. i. i n_i. i _ . proiessionai Ders competed aaiuraa r said she has Palmetto State Garr placing high in their re t now she said events. ship with the The fencing com featured sabre, epee s major. Gar events for both men and i the first by a Each event had six fen had qualified at the F ly enjoyed it, Divisional Championship sally learned a 31-April 1. The Piedmont is a division of the U.S. Association (USFA). ,d advertising, Dr. Jane Littmann, ; a Columbia professor in the neurops and behavioral science * promotional ment at USC's Sc Medicine, won the three nine hours a events. a week. -? iiTi nnn nmnnnn ,<?!,] sue saiu. n nn.iv tnivciiii guiu see." were the most by any i the Games, which i ckwell said he Carolina's version of the Olympics. he said. "She Littmann, fencing co< e put in a lot of for the Games, is the 19 sabre champion and has nf of/\ *v*rvi Ar> in n didic tnaiii^iuii 111 a It was all stuff weapons the past five ye ad experience At the games, she woi her bouts. *ry, did public But despite her med< es, the Atlanta Littmann said the lorij competition posed centration challenge am minor league to work that much har '1 /\Mr. y.M ?? ucisun, wmi well. ?bal] and work Sg id she wants to don't at ways reflect thai She said one of her .1^ u challenges came from ,ld is her goal, I ISf! fanning nltihmemh women hold Caruso. Caruso, a recei mblic relations graduate, faced Littrna There are not a epee and finished seco lie relations in event. I ties suit out ?????? ? ? I "I'm just pleased that all that's behind us. Now we i can put it aside and get on with our work." i Bob Marcum 1 USC athletic director rnrMif of i An ac a moiAr aaI lnrtn f AAf Kn 11 * v^/utci tiv/ii cio a 11 icijv/jl iuuiuaii coach." Carlen said the university stopped paying him several fringe benefits when ne was fired, including health insurance, retirement benefits, two automobiles, athletic tickets, car insurance and life insurance premiums. Carlen's annual salary was $67,200. USC is paying off the balance of his contract at the rate of $5,600 a month, until the ex-coach's five-year contract expires this year. compete in X) tMe boycott, Ostberg's time now ranks fifth. USC swim coach Steve Collins said Ostberg's recent fourth-place finish against other nationally ranked swimmers wasn't good enough to make the U.S. Olympic team. But the coach saia the swimmer has beaten the second- and third-place finishers in recent meets. IF HE can duplicate or better his times that he had when he finished third in the U.S. Nationals, he has an excellent chance for the finals (in the erform well at P Littmann also said bronz ib mem- medal winner Ashley Miklos ws __ 1.1 A 4Ua r~: y in me a luugu uppuuem in me iui ies, all which Littmann said is not he spective strongest event. petition "EACH WEAPON has a di and foil ferent character," she saic vomen. adding that her strongest ever norc whn varies from vpflr tn vpar "Thp 'iedmont place different demands on you. >s March Another USC fencer to win ; division medal was Kim Oppinheimer. Fencing A doctoral candidate in clinicc psychology, she won a bronz assistant medal in the sabre evenl ' ~ 1?1~ ?U ~1 : ^1 liT iycniairy aiuwugu sue ?mu, i navcn i depart- fenced sabre in a couple ( hool of years." women's Twelve years of fencing and background in ballet helped he win, she said. medals fencer at "MY COMPETITION has bee ? 1 t - 1- 1 T1 s Soutn iimiiea Decause or scnooi. i v Summer been in a few local and region* tournaments since I've bee 3rdinator here." >84 USFA Still, Oppenheimer said sh been the had placed second in th ,11 nivisinrmls paph nf hpr fniir vpar Ill till V- -VW" J ~ ars. at USC. i all 15 of The USC student also finishe fourth in foil but did not compel *1 sweep, inepee. g day of "1 never fence epee," she sai< a con- "There is no timing, and it is n< d she had suited to the type of game I pla: der to do Timing is the strongest part < rnv pflme " ?J o~ ~ " king out IN THE men's division, Ric le scores Thompson won the foil event. A summer USC graduate wit toughest a history major and minors i i another French and computer scienci er, Cathy Thompson did not fence sabi and epee at the Divisionals \ it USC qualify for those events at tl inn in the uames. nd in the "Foil is my main weapon," i said. "The epee is secondary ar 7 ? "". -.yn of court CARLEN'S LAWSUIT was the second action by a former USC coach in the past two weeks, and the third within three months. In May, former women's basketball :oach Pam Parsons lost her $75 million libel lawsuit against the magazine "Sports Illustrated" and USC. And Richard Bell, Gamecock head tootoaii coacn tor only one season before being fired in December 1982, won his breech-of-contract suit against USC two weeks ago. USC athletic director Bob Marcum ooi/4 V?n nrnc rt 1 n rl fhn t h rnn 1 niucn l to oaiu hi; vvao ^xau tui; icivvouito have finally been settled. "I'M JUST pleased that all that's behind us," he said. "Now we can put it aside and get on with our work." As USC's athletic director and head football coach, Carlen came to South Carolina in 1975 after compiling winning records at West Virginia and Texas Tech. He had a 45-36-1 record in seven seasons with the Gamecocks, and 10769-6 overall. fill fl I i?m nino \III uiyiiijjiuo Olympics), Collins said. "Soren's the type who is a good meet swimmer. He's mentally tough and he can use the experience that he's had i r ueiure. "If he's in good health, he should do well." As for Cramer's chances, Collins said, "If she can drop down to the best time she had at Carolina, then she also has a chance for the finals." ALTHOUGH CRAMER had been out of collegiate competition for a year, bee bwimmers, page u almetto Games \e i don't generally fence the sabre is that much. 1, "Foil uses a lot more elegance ;r and a style that requires more finesse than sabre and epee. mat s one or tne tmngs tnat f- really appeals to me in fencing." i, in to iWBkJ^UnSteJ Jm?ti!mSMtK&Um mKk WBsidH i Hi! mM 81 p Photo cowtety CoHwnbt* Newspapers v e? Let the Games begin ,e Hope Stuckey, 14, carries the torch to le signal the beginning of the P|fo|tto State Games July 20. Five members <i$?$C's fen- v ie cing Club earned medals at Sqpt&arolina's '} '<*' id version of the Summer Olympjj|? ! r" "yfrr?*?