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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.”
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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.
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Rick Vigue will enter the 118
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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
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eases past TCU
The men’s swim team won its
third dual meet in less than a week
by defeating the TCU Horned
Frogs yesterday 75-39.
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
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members of yesterday’s win
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Kueteman, Patten and Marl!
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