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Show Utes own seven titles Eighth UJAC Swim Championships to unfold at Utah O : uHnners Utah's 1969 record-setting free- Natatorium for an adrti Other returning title winners will be Bob Stoddard of BYU in the 200 yard breaststroke, CSU's Rick Cooley in the 200 and 400 individual in-dividual medley, and Bob White of Wyoming in the 100 yard breast-stroke. breast-stroke. Brigham Young's 400 yard medley med-ley relay team will return with all four of last year's members. And Utah's 1969 record-setting freestyle free-style relay team will have three members returning in Rob and Rich Kittel and Elsnab. Preliminary events and time trials will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday Thurs-day and Friday, and at noon Saturday. Sat-urday. The evening finals will get under way at 8 p.m. each night. Room has been made in the Natatorium for an aUit-spectators. aUit-spectators. Omy?eS::'t seats will be sold fo7 trials, and reserved seat available for an eveSt4 Tickets for time 2 Thursday and-kete and-kete are $2, and & Stents wii Jjjjl finals for half price BY GEOFF TOWNS Sports Editor The Redskin swim team will be trying for its eighth "annual" Western Athletic Conference (WAC) title Thursday through Saturday, when the conference teams gather in the Ute Natatorium Natator-ium for the WAC Swimming and Diving Championships. The University of Texas El Paso will be the only one of the eight WAC schools not represented. represent-ed. Utah has won all seven previous championship meets under Coach Don Reddish. But the Utes will have a tough time repeating the feat this year. Like last year, a three-team race for the title is expected. Brigham Young and Colorado State finished finish-ed second and third respectively in -1969 but have shown their -strength in; dual meet competition; this' 'season.' The Ranis : downeti; ,' Utah; : 61;.5Z, ' -while BYU Tedged : the' Utes : twice , with identical-scores identical-scores of 68-45. Both Utah-BYU meets last season also ended in the same way 52-52 ties. Depth Counts ' Dual competition proves the front-line power of a team, but in a three-day meet where as many as 126 swimmers may be entered, and with 12 places being scored in each event, depth, not the number of first, second and third places, will probably determine the out come. Coach Reddish said that, on paper, CSU figures to win an extremely ex-tremely close meet with Utah second and BYU third. "But I still think we'll win it," said Coach Reddish, "although I can't see any wa,y that we could get an individual individ-ual first place. We'll have to count on our depth." Coach Reddish predicted that the Cougars would lead after the first day of competition with CSU in second and Utah third. But after the second day, BYU should be out of the first place running with the Utes and Rams about even. On the final day, it could go down to the last relay, said Coach Reddish. In the Ute-Ram dual meet, CSU won the 400 freestyle relay by eight hundredths of a second to win the meet. , : Title Holders Return - thfe" of last year's" first place winners: in- individual events will be returning. Utah will have Robbie Rob-bie Kittel in the 500 and 200 yard freestyle and Steve Elsnab in the 200 yard backstroke. However, Kittel has been ill and Elsnab has had troubles all season. Fred Baird of BYU will be putting put-ting his four -year undefeated mark on the line. Not only has the senior won every butterfly event in the past three WAC meets, but he has never lost a race during his four years as a Cougar. |
