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It was quite by accident that Joe Paz became UD High's swimming coach two years ago -- but it was no accident that he led the Cub natators to their
first Catholic League title and the second in the school's history last Sunday at Oakland University's pool. UD won it's other swimming crown in 1957 as a member of the Public School League.
"Joe was recommended by one of the students two years ago when Mr. Richard Cherry, S.J., a Jesuit scholastic then coach, was transferred to India to complete his theology studies," said Father Robert J. Lab, S.J., the school's principal.
"It was a lucky stroke for us when Joe volunteered to take over the team until another coach was named," beamed Fr. Lab in relating how the Cubs ended Austin's five-year reign with an 87-68 win over the defending monarchs.
Paz, a social studies teacher at Tappan Junior High, was a star in his own right in his prep days at Western High School. The St. Suzanne parishioner complete in the freestyle and the butterfly as Western surged to the 1954 Public School League title.
The new champions splashed to victory last Sunday with comparative ease. The Cubs won six events and had too much reserve power for the other challengers.
UD terminated Austin's and Visitation's stranglehold on championship honors. Both teams had finished on top six times each with Austin winning the crown the past five years.
The meet produced two double-winners. They were captain Tim Sullivan, of U-D High, who won
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the 100 and 200-yard freestyle events, while John Skantze, Austin ace, emulated this feat by taking the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard backstroke.
Two new records were recorded in the preliminaries. Sullivan set the 100-yard freestyle mark in :51.4 while Skantze was timed in :58.4 in the 100-yard backstroke.
The Duffield brothers, Dick and Harry, contributed 15 points to UD's total. Dick, a junior, won the 50 yard freestyle in 23.6, just four-tenths of a second of the eague record set in 1965 by Tim Lees of Benedictine.
De La Salle finished third with 41 points and Dearborn Sacred Heart fourth with 21. Fifth place went to Notre Dame with 15, while Benedictine was sixth with 14 and Visitation seventh with 12.
Bishop Gallagher took eighth with 11. Other scores follow: Catholic Central 6; Cathedral and Grosse Point St. Paul, each 4; Silesian and Redford St. Mary failed to score.
200 FREESTYLE -- 1. Tim Sullivan,
U-D High, 1:59.9.
200 MEDLEY RELAY -- 1. U-D High, (Pat Bridenstine, Jim Pidgeon, Steve Waldrop, Bob Wingerson), 1:53.6.
50 FREESTYLE -- 1. Dick Duffield,
U-D High, :23.6.
200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY -- 1. John Skantze, Austin, 2:12.7.
DIVING -- 1. John Jastrezembski, U-D High, 190.45.
100 BUTTERFLY -- 1. Steve Waszak, U-D High, :58.5.
100 FREESTYLE -- 1. Sullivan, U-D High, :51.8. (record :51.4 in prelims).
100 BACKSTROKE -- 1. John Skantze, Austin, :59.1. (record 58.4 in preliminaries).
400 FREESTYLE -- 1. Richard Szuba, Dearborn Sacred Heart, 4:27.9.
100 BREASTSTROKE -- 1. Bill Burke, Bishop Gallagher, 1:07.1.
400 FREESTYLE RELAY -- 1. De La Salle (George Laskowski, Bill Hanlon, Dan van den Bossche, John Stephan), 3:46.0.
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