age Page 6 ^ Aggie swim team back indoors after cold holiday 5] *T. 3JS Vlai ^ab o s Cex OC )il « jipl ind irvt squ is.,1 ch? tal! A& tio sit in< E> toi lie pl io c; A) oj ei tx it k c ri I I'', THE BATTALION FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1977 By GLEN JOHNSON The Texas A&M swim team, who was temporarily forced to practice outdoors over the cold holidays, re cently moved indoors. Near the end of last semester, the indoor pool in P. L. Downs Natatorium on the Texas A&M Uni versity campus was closed and drained so the Physical Plant could perform maintenance tasks on the pool filtering system. This meant that no one could use the pool. The old filtering system, which has been replaced, was part of the original equipment when the pool was built in 1933. The filters were in bad need of repair. Head Swimming Coach Dennis Fosdick said. ‘T’ve been re questing the repairs for years”. “The water used to get so cloudy that you could not even see the bot tom of the pool. I was afraid that one morning we would come to work outs to find that the pool had fallen through something,” Fosdick said. Changing the filtering system cost about $45,000, said Gayle L. Roofe, the planning and estimating supervisor of the Physical Plant. The new equipment that was in stalled includes two rapid-rate sand filters,and a 25-horsepower motor- pump. The pump will allow circula tion of the water in the pool every three hours, as compared to 36 hours with the old 15- horsepower motor. A direct heating system was also added which replaced the old heat-exchanger type heaters. The money for the repairs came out of funds allocated to the Physical Plant. “We are installing an automatic water sampling and • treating devise which should be in, in about 30 days,” Roofe said. “It will sample the water, print out the data and treat the water, then backwash it self,” he said. The new equipment should last about 30 years, Roofe said. The pool being closed for repair created a hardship for the Texas A&M swim team since they had to work out in the cold weather. Dur ing the time the pool was inopera tive, the swimmers practiced six hours daily in two workouts in the outside pool. This did not seem to hurt the teams performance in the recent University of Texas swim meet, Fosdick said, except the change to UT’s indoor pool with its warm moist atmosphere gave some of the swimmers colds. Another problem is that the length of the A&M indoor pool is measured in yards to comply with collegiate standards, and the out door pool is in meters. “We need to get used to the length of the indoor pool again,” Fosdick said. The biggest disadvantage was im posed on the team s divers, who were unable to practice at all due to the weather, and consequently were out of shape for the UT meet, Thomas Faulkenberry, the diving coach, said. “We had no place for our divers to work out,” Fosdick said. “It was definitely too cold outside; in fact, there was ice on the boards” . The two divers affected by lack of practice at the UT meet were Val- arie Ryan and Bill Sammons. Sam mons pulled a muscle in his back early in the meet while diving. “Their muscles weren’t toned-up due to the lack of workout time,” Faulkenberry said. “If they had had time to practice they would have 1 been much looser. It really cut their scores quite a bit”. “The divers went to the meet cold turkey,” he added. Not being able to use the indoor pool hurt the diving team mentally and physically, Sammons said. The team was out of practice for a month and knew that the swimmers could practice, but the divers could not. Sammons said he thought it showed a lack of support from the school “We tried to practice outside and we wanted to dive, but we could only stand the elements for about 20 minutes, then we had to come down off the boards, he said. “I think that if we had been in better shape we would have done much better in the meet, and I probably woxild not have pulled the muscle,” Sammons said. “I’m sorry that it had to be that way.” Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $1.49 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 AM to 1:30 PM — 4:30 PM to 7 PM . 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Texas A&M Bookstore University Bookstore The Aquatic Department once hoped that the maintenance on the pool would be completed by Dec. 24, because of a verbal agreement with the Physical Plant, Fosdick said. But this deadline was not made. According to Roofe, the mainte nance was completed on Jan. 17, as scheduled, and the pool is ready to be used. However, the work has not been formally accepted as complete by the Department of Health and P. E. pending installment of the chlor- inator and other finishing touches. All the swimmers now practice indoors every morning. The sprin ters and medium-distance swim mers, as well as the divers, use the pool in the afternoons. Sixteen sections of aquatics classes will be able to use the pool with no problem, said Prof. Emil Mamaliga, associate professor of Health and P.E. Fosdick will hold his classe doors, “unless someone rut out,” he said. “Then we wotl outside. You take what you get. ” A time schedule for use i pool is in the making and shoul published early next week. Wrestlers ready for Red Raida By STEVE MARTAINDALE Wrestling is on a definite upswing in Texas, according to Texas A&M University’s Coach Jim Giunta and he and his Aggies may be taking to competition one of the best combi nation of wrestlers in the state. “When I first competed in the state tournament in 1973,” Giunta said, “there were 11 teams there. The year before, there were only four.” The high school growth has also been great, he added. Sporting a 6-1 season record, the Aggies will enter a Texas Tech in vitational tournament this weekend. Sixteen teams have been invited to Lubbock for the tourney and Giunta plans to show with wrestlers in nine of the 10 classes. Four of those are undefeated in season action. DO YOU LIKE MEETING PEOPLE FROM FAR AWAY The one mar on Texas A&M’s record came during the North Texas State tourney last weekend at the hands of the host by a narrow 26-25 margin. AND HELPING THEM? Embrey’s Jewelry SCONA-Student Conference On National Affairs Has A Deal For You! Sign up to be a SCONA host or hostess thru Friday, Jan. 28 in the SCONA Cubicle of the Student Pro grams Office in the MSC for an interview. Interviews will be held Monday, Jan. 31 —Wed nesday, Feb. 2. We Specialize In Aggie Rings. Diamonds Set — Sizing — Reoxidizing — All types watch/jewelry Repair Aggie Charge Accounts 9-5:30 846-5816 Rick Vigue will enter the 118 pound class with a 7-0 record. Bob Hines will represent the Aggies in the 126 with a 6-1 personal record and Bob Benevento will also show up with an undefeated 7-0 in the 134 division. Mel Mehrtens will wrestle in the 142 class. Jim Collett (1-1) will enter the 150 but Giunta said the Aggies would have to forfeit the 158. Blair Monhollon, two times defending state champ, will enter the 167 competition with a 5-2 mark. Pat LaStrapes will carry a 1-4 rec ord into the 177. Randy Stewart will take a 3-0 record to Lubbock in the 190 division and Richard Lynn will also enter undefeated, 5-0, in the unlimited or heavyweight division. Wrestling is still a club sport at Texas A&M with little chance of that changing, according to Giunta. T’ve been trying to get recogni tion ever since I’ve been here,” he said. “Our best chance came last semester when the water polo team was recognized. But, most of them were already members of the swimming team and it made legal work they have to do a lot! pier. “Being recognized doesn’ti that much for us. It gets us m nized by the NCAA and mean can qualify a wrestler for (lie tional tournament. “We have a couple of guys could probably make the nation he added. “They wouldn’t d good but just getting there mi lot for them and the school.’’ One thing that recognition! the school would mean is mo® support. “We’re under the intramurali gram,” Giunta said. “We get money from them and we earn! refereeing wrestling matchesdn the intramural competition, ex-wrestlers are real good about ing us money.” Texas A&M is not alone need for money though. LeTourneau College has wrest as a varsity sport. 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The Ags won the first event, the 400-yard relay, in a time of 3:47.46. The team consisted of Greg Meek, Jim Yates, Chuck Burr and Mark Lenox. They defeated TCU by more than five seconds. Bruce Hoak won the 1,000-yard free style by a 15 second margin. Freshman Chuck Patten stroked to a 5:08.82 win in the 500-yard free. Patten, who is a walk-o Kingsville, has been improi steadily all season. Dual meets give the team a portunity to find its strength weaknesses and to test untried ent. Such was the case withtl members of yesterday’s win 400-yard free relay. Kueteman, Patten and Marl! are all rookies in the A&M i program. Hoak joined themi event as they out distanced 1 with a time of 3:29.60. Aggie Cinema Rudder Auditorium Midnight “ Groove both _r Nights 1 uDe 8:00 p.m. $1 & TAMU i.d. &lc