- John J. Radc/iHe up for the upcoming match against Hendrix College. The Warriors found that they had their hands full aga inst the much smaller but potent Harding team. Swimming in the Harding pool, the two teams fought throughout the meet, with Hendrix finally winning 60-50. Hendrix led by as much as 26 points late in the meet, but Harding came back to outscore the Warriors 20-4 in the final three events. The best performance by the team came in the last dual meet of the season against Arkansas Tech. Competing in Russelville. the Buffaloes captu red 12 of the 13 events, 'although two of the w ins were considered exh ibition and did not count for points. ' Due to this fact, the 59-35 score did not indi cate the complete dominance the Harding swimmers enjoyed. Many of the men swam in off events, which was important as the AIC Championship was next on the schedu le and many of the men would be competing in events they had little experience in. As expected, Henderson took the conference crown in a giant fashion, scoring twice as many points as second pl ace Ouachita. Hendrix cl aimed third and Harding took fourth. Eight new sc hool records were established and a f ea t even more spectacular came about. For the first time ever, Harding qual ified a swimmer for the national champions, and two men achieved that accomplishment. Richard Denney, a junior from Rock Island, Iii ., bettered the national standard in the 50 yard freestyle and Cano Butcher, a freshman from Newberg, Ore., qualified in the 200 breaststroke. Denney set records in the 50 freestyle, 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke. Butcher broke school marks in the 200 breaststroke, 200 individual med ley and 100 butterfly. They both teamed with Waites and Boutcher for a1record in the 400 medley relay. "Everyone bettered their own personal best times, and there' s not much more you can ask for than that," Boustead said at the conclusion of the season. "We lost a lot of athletes during the season because they didn't want to work, but it should help us next year. We on ly lost one member to graduation from our ten that finished the year and we should have several new faces next year to help us and add some depth to the team."",,"« 1. Terry Jones performs from the springboard in a meet. 2. Gano Butcher swims for the finish fine in the freestyle race. 3. 1982-83 Swimming and Diving Team.Back row ·Lawrence-trainer, McDonald, "jones, Hurst. Waites, Butcher, Burcham. Front row: Boustead-coach, Denney, Boutcher, Christaldi, Gurganus, Malik-statistician, Yingling-assistant coach. 4. Mike Gurganus shows a near perfect reverse pike dive. Swimm ing and Diving/141
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