5:57.1 500 free, 2:38 200 br., 5:12.1 400 M.R.; Mary Beth Ceresko 2:27.9 200 fly, 5:33 400 I.M., 6:06 500 free, 1:07.5 100 fly; Doug Webster 2:06.3 bk., 57.0 100 fly, 2:07.5 200 fly, 4:35.7 400 I.M., 58. 7 100 bk., 1:56.8 200 free; Dave Kee 4:30.6 400 free, 2:23.8 200 I.M., 2:29.1 200 fly; Greg Golin 4:22.0 400 free; Gary Gottschling 1:04.0 100 bk., 2:21.1 200 IM., 4:41 400 free: Scott Johnson 2:41 200 I.M., 4:47.0 400 free; Mark Manrique 2:36 200 br., 2:19.8 200 bk., 4:54.3 400 I.R.; Laura Novak 1:15.2 100 fly, 32.6 50 fly; Tom Szuba 1:12.6 100 fly, 31.7 50 fly, 1:06.8 100 free; John Szuba 31.0 50 fly, 1:12.5 100 bk., 2:39 200 M.R., 4:58.4 400 free; Sharon Hancock 2:40.0 200 I.M., 5:06 400 free; Carol Danboise 2:31.4 200 I.M., 4:49.5 400 free, 1:15.9 100 bk., 60.3 100 free; Bob Tyldesly 2:21.0 200 fly, 5:11 400 I.M., 2:06.1 200 free, 1:02.9 100 fly, 1:06.4 100 bk., 2:29.1 200 bk.; Jim Teunas 2:30.0 200 fly, 4:53.7 400 free, 1:09.0 100 fly; Linda Tyldesly 2:41 200 fly, 2:4 200 I.M., 6:35 500 free; Alice Ceresko 2; 33.5 200 fly, 2:40 200 I.M.; Dave Sahagian 2;27.5 200 fly, 5:31.1 400 I.M.; Ralph Richards 2:30.5 200 fly, 5:17.2 400 I.M.; Richard Szuba 5:01 400 I.M., 2;23.8 200 bk., 1:05.6 100 bk.; Ed Picard 2:42 200 br.; Bill Beiser 1:13.3 100 br., 2:46.5 200 br., 2:35.6 200 I.M.; Karen Hislop 1:35 100 fly; Cheryl Kee 1:34 100 fly, 43.1 50 br.; Ann Carney 6:40 500 free; Barb Church 5:43 400 free, 1:15.0 100 bk.; Elaine Cooper 1:37 100 fly; Susan Roll 1:28 100 br., Irene Silva 5:50 400 free, 35.2 50 fly; Renee Rienas 41.2 50 br; Ron Boyd 57.4 100 fly; Bobby Koch 35.6 50 free; Randy Penn 1:24 100 fly; Jerry Richards 2:41 200 br.; John Sherk 1:02 100 free; and Tom Silva 1:28.4 100 fly, 33.9 50 free. State records are unofficial yet............While "team" victories are both desirable and add to the spirit of a club, they offer a number of drawbacks. For one thing they tend to detract from the individual and his or her goals, and they emphasize victory over "time." Success should be measured in performance according to one's best, not whether an individual "saved it" for a relay or just went hard enough to touch out the opposition. This is losing sight of the purpose of training and of racing. A team victory is essentially a credit to a coach, not the swimmers who must be judged individually. To train and race for a team victory specifically is to subordinate the ideals of the sport. I would be in favor of swimming unattached- -but with the club identity of suits, jackets, etc.--were it not for relays and the loss of bargaining prestige for pools, etc. This would eliminate much of the concern for "credit" and consequently the menial arguments and underhanded tactics which threaten the ethics of swimming today. I think the psychological consequence to a group of swimmers registered unattached, but with every other semblance of a team, and with the idea that they were geared to individual perfection, would be, in fact, a boost to morale. Not everyone can be a champion, but everyone can try. Ideal -ism is idea-ism...and it really works!

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