Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reaction to the Supreme Court's non-decision was as swift as a Lisa Fernandez fastball, as dramatic as a Kerri Strug vault. "It's the greatest single legal action in the history of women's sports," said Donna de Varona, the Olympic swimmer and first president of the Women's Sports Foundation. "It's bad law," says Southern Cal athletic director Mike Garrett, voicing a concern that the Brown ruling will spur lawsuits against schools that are earnestly trying to upgrade women's sports...
After each swimmer took her turn speaking, Maura Costin Scalise, Harvard's coach for the past 13 years, stood up to deliver the shocking news--she is retiring to be with her four children and to run her family's nursing home on the North Shore...
Individually, Harvard's swimmers had to compete with the likes of Cristina Teuscher--a Columbia freshman who was an Olympian last summer and has been named the Eastern Swimmer of the Year and Brown's Kari Klassen and Katie Cowan, both of whom captured two events...
...them was one of the international community's, and Hong Kong's, finest hours. Millions of dollars, raised for the protesters before the massacre, were channeled into a rescue effort that the press dubbed Yellowbird and that engineered more than 300 escapes. While well-known figures like Olympic swimmer Yang Yang were whisked away to asylum, less famous fugitives like Zhang were stuck in Hong Kong...
There are two juniors who competed in the Olympic Trials for the U.S., Rob Anagnoson in the butterfly and Brian Younger in freestyle (Younger placed fourth overall). Another junior, Eric Matuszak, was the overall top swimmer at Easterns...