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While you sit there drinking your orange juice and getting nauseous over the scrambled eggs running inexorably off your plate onto the floor, the coach of the Harvard women's swim team is sitting down to dinner somewhere in Leningrad...
That's right, Stephanie Walsh is in Russia. No, she's not there recruiting Soviet swimmers for her team. She's there as the assistant manager of a U.S. swim team competing this week in the International Newspaper Swim Meet, sponsored by the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda...
...four, Walsh kicked-off her career by learning how to swim. At age seven she began swimming competitively and three years later she started swimming year-round...
...swimmers do not continue to swim competitively forever. The exhausting regimen, which involves swimming 10,000-15,000 yards a day is rigorous for anyone. So after training year-round for 11 of her 21 years, Walsh retired from this taxing routine...
...wanted to start coaching. But you cannot coach and be paid for it while still swimming in amateur meets, so I gave up the competition," Walsh said yesterday. "But I love swimming, and I have continued to swim...