Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sue Abkowitz turned in a strong performance for the divers. Despite her limited experience, the freshman finished tenth from the one-meter board and eleventh from the three-meter board.
Crimson diving coach John Walker said the divers, like the swimmers, were also not exceptional. But he added that Gavin's and Schramm's performances were solid.
"I used to watch divers in high school," she said, "and I would think about how I'd really like to do that, but no one ever encouraged me." Sue asked diving Coach John Walker at the start of the season about becoming a diver. But he told her then...
Well, the Radcliffe divers rapidly disappeared due to injury and academic problems; so on December 2, two meets into the season, Walker started teaching Sue the basics of competitive diving.
With only two months experience, Sue has already defeated divers from Tufts, Dartmouth and Wellesley. She has learned all 21 different dives necessary to compete, and has overcome the fear of hitting the board on reverse and inward dives, a fear which she said originally hampered her performance.