Gymnasts
relying on
experience
by Chip Ensslin
Staff Vriter
Ken Ourso, in his second year as head
coach of the Carolina women's gymnastic
team, is anticipating an improvement over
last year' 44 record. The 1976 season begins
Friday night when the Tar Heel gymnasts
take on Appalachian State in Boone. The
first home meet is against Duke on
' Wednesday, Jan. 28.
"Appalachian is one of the stronger teams
we'll meet this season," Ourso said Tuesday,
"but this year's team should be much, much
better than last year's."
Star returnees for the Tar Heels include
sophomore Teresa Trice, sophomore Joan
Healy, and senior Terry Lodge.
"Joan Healy and Lynn Swisher (a
Carolina freshman) are our two strongest in
the all-around, and they're the two hardest
workers on the team," said Ourso. "We're
looking for them both to have good years."
Competitors in the all-around category
perform all the four gymnastic exercises .
(uneven bars, vaulting, balance beam, and
the floor exercise) while the others only
perform one or two. A maximum of six
gymnasts can be entered in each event from
each team, but only the top three scorers
count in final scoring.
Lodge and Paula Kirkpatrick will
compete on the uneven bars; Trice, Mary
Dashiell, and Susie Hulse will perform on
the balance beam. Ann Ritter will join Trice
and Hulse in the floor exercise.
Trice won the beam and floor exercise last
year in the state meet and finished second on
the beam at the regionals, qualifying her for
the AIAW nationals.
"She should have a good year. She worked
out on her own all summer and kept in
shape. Her routine on the balance beam is
composed of many different elements. When
she performs that routine well, it puts her on
a level with almost anyone in collegiate
competition," Ourso said.
Kirkpatrick and freshman Ellen Sumner
will vault for the Tar Heels Friday.
Cathy Benton will again assist Ourso, who
is still adjusting to the difference between
coaching women and men.
"Psychologically, it's a whole different
Swim team hosts Wake;
'bomb squad' activated
For the first time this season, the UNC
swim team will have- an opportunity to
unleash its " "bomb - squad" on unwary
opponents when it hosts Wake Forest today
at 4 p.m. in Bowman Gray Pool.
The "bomb squad" consists of swimmers
w ho were ineligible to swim in competition
because of the 23-man limit imposed by the
NCAA. Since the restriction was lifted, these
swimmers are now allowed to compete.
Today's meet is the first home dual meet
for the Heels and the first meet this year for
the "bomb squad." A member of this unit,
Ralph D'lorio, remains cautious. "I'm going
to approach this meet just like any other,"
Ralph said. "It's taken us (the bomb squad)
five months to prepare for this one."
Self-appointed leader and head cheer
master, Hill Carrow, rallied his fellow
"bombers" in a rousing pep rally during
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UNC gymnast Theresa Trice practices
ball game," he said. "You really have to use a
different approach. Personally, I don't think
the girls are working hard enough, but
they're coming along."
Ourso, who teaches scuba and karate here,
remains active in gymnastics competition.
He was a member of the national YMCA
gymnastics championship team in 1975 and
was third in all-around competition. For one
year, he studied gymnastics and karate at
Chkyo University in Nagoya, Japan.
"Gymnastics is really growing in
America these days. In Russia, you know,
it's like the no. 1 spectator sport," he said.
"I'm hoping we'll get better attendance here,
yesterday's practice. Hill echoes the pensive t
words of D'lorio. "The pressure on us is
unbelievable, but 1 think we'll do all right. ,
Seriously, we are looking forward to the
opportunity."
Coach Jim Wood is pleased with the
NCAA rule change and is confident his
swimmers will have no real problem with the
Deacons. "Wake has two excellent
freshmen, Gary Bice and Steve Kratt, and
they have everyone back from last year's
fifth-place ACC team," said Wood. "The
best part of the meet will be that everybody
on the team will get a chance to swim and
that's great for team morale."
The Tar Heels are putting a 3-1 record on
the line against the Deacons. Saturday, UNC
hosts the University of Florida Gators at 2
p.m. in hopes of breaking a four-year losing
streak with the Gators.
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Staff photo by Steve Causey
her exercises on the balance beam.
since our home matches are going to be in
Carmichael for the first time."
It will be an interesting match for Ourso,
whose wife coached the Duke girls last year.
Both Oursos are friendly with the present
Duke coach.
"Gymnastics is competitive, but it's not
the kind of thing where you can't be friendly
with your opponent," said Ourso. "You're
competing against other teams, but most of
all, it's you against the apparatus. It's you
and your mind versus what you are about to
do."
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HOUSTON Rice University Tuesday
hired UNC Athletic Director Homer Rice to
return the school's sagging Southwest
Conference football program to the
prominence of another era.
UNC Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor said,
"Homer Rice has performed in an
outstanding manner during his seven years
as Director of Athletics at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel HilL His host of
friends here will miss his able leadership of
our intercollegiate athletic program, and I
personally will miss having this fine human
being as a colleague. As he enters upon his
new undertaking, he has the warm good
wishes of all of us in Chapel Hill.
"No decision has yet been made
concerning a successor for the position of
Director of Athletics. We will move as
expeditiously as possible on this important
matter but, because of institutional
processes that must be followed, it will be
some time before a final conclusion is
reached."
As the handpicked choice of monied Owls
backers, Rice, 48, acknowledged the task
ahead.
"This is a healthy challenge," he said after
being introduced at a news conference by
Rice President Dr. Norman Hackerman.
"I am very pleased to announce that
Homer Rice has accepted our offer to
become head football coach," said
Hackerman, who said he made the final
decision from a list of three applicants.
A source close to the selection process,
though, said Homer Rice was the choice of
the same alumnus who put up the $27,000 to
pay off the contract of Al Conover, in whose
four turbulent years Rice fans had their
laughs but no winning seasons.
Hackerman, asked about the results of an
athletic department being run by alumni,
denied there was any undue influence. Last
week he admitted the money to pay off
Conover came from outside the University.
During the coaching search Rice Athletic
Director A. M. "Red" Bale was left out of
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4. North Carolina (12-1) 198
5. Nevada-Las Vegas (18-0) 192
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been a college head coach for only two years.
"I know a lot of people wonder why I
would leave North Carolina, a beautiful
state, and a lifetime contract," said Rice.
"But they made me an offer that they would
name the stadium after me.
Rice Alumnus Ted Law, a member of the
selection committee, said the top
recommendations for Homer Rice were his
integrity and intelligence.
The author of three books and another
upcoming about "Attitude Technique," and
how it relates to athletes, Rice established
himself as a thinking-man's athletic director
during his years at North Carolina.
As head coach of the University of
Cincinnati football team for two years. Rice
directed the top passing offense in the
country. But his experience before that
included II years as a high school head
coach and assistant coaching stints at
Kentucky and Oklahoma.
"I believe in winning," he said. "We are in
competitive athletics. That's the name of the
game. But, gentlemen, there is something
that's bigger than that. That's why I like this
institution."
Recent Rice head coaches Homer Rice
is the fourth in nine years have said it was
harder to recruit and keep athletes in the
2,500-studcnt Rice University.
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