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Sports Briefs
College playoffs reviewed
KANSAS CITY A four-man NCAA football sub
committee is expected to submit the findings of a study it
is conducting on several proposals for college football
playoffs. The findings are expected to be submitted to the
full post-season committee, which is meeting here. The
subcommittee is not expected to make any endorsements
or recommendations, and sources with the full committee
are unsure of the impact these findings will have on col
lege football.
Thompson's career on hold
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career took a step back this week when he revealed that a
knee injury suffered last month at Studio 54 in New York
may keep him out of action the entire 1984-85 season.
Thompson suffered two torn ligaments in his left knee,
and doctors told him this week that the type of surgery he
will need may require a recovery period of up to a year.
Calendar
Today
BASEBALL vs. Wake Forest, 3 p.m. at Boshamer
Stadium
SOFTBALL vs. Winthrop College, 3 p.m. at Finley field "
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Thursday
SOFTBALL at Lady Flames Invitational, Lynchburg, Va.
WOMEN'S TENNIS vs. Duke, 2 p.m.. Varsity Courts
Friday
BASEBALL at Virginia Commonwealth, 3 p.m.
MEN'S GOLF in Tar Heel Invitational, TBA, Finley Golf
Course
SOFTBALL at Lady Flames Invitational, Lynchburg, Va.
MEN'S TENNIS at William and Mary, 2 p.m.
MEN'S and WOMEN'S TRACK at Dogwood Relays,
Knoxville, Tenn.
WOMEN'S TENNIS at ACC Championships, Winston
Salem Saturday
FOOTBALL in Blue-White game, 1 p.m. at Kenan
Stadium
MEN'S GOLF in Tar Heel Invitational, TBA, Fmley Golf
Course
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SOFTBALL at Lady Flames Invitational, Lynchburg, ,ya..
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Salem MEN'S and WOMEN'S TRACK at Dogwood Relays,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Sunday
BASEBALL at Maryland, 2 p.m.
MEN'S GOLF in Tar Heel Invitational, TBA, Finley Golf
Course
MEN'S TENNIS at Virginia, 1 p.m.
WOMEN'S TENNIS at ACC Championships, Winston-Salem
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By SCOTT FOWLER
Staff Writer
By 1982, Sue Walsh had come close, so
very close, many times to breaking the
U.S. women's record for the 100-yard
backstroke. She had never been able to
shave that last fraction of second from
her time.
But in Gainesville, Fla., site of the
NCAA championships, Walsh finally
made that breakthrough.
"When you get so close and just can't
do it, it gets frustrating," Walh said.
"Then I looked at the scoreboard and
saw those numbers ... I can't describe the
feeling."
She still counts that record as her most
thrilling athletic achievement, even
though that was just a beginning for the
UNC senior.
Walsh is the epitome of the consum
mate student-athlete, methodically chur
ning out new swimming records and high
marks in the classroom. The facts sup
port the conclusion: 11 NCAA titles, a
No. 4 world ranking in the 200-meter
backstroke and No. 5 in the 100-meter
backstroke, plus a 3.75 QPA as an ac
counting major.
Walsh's bid for Olympic gold doesn't
begin in earnest until June 25, the first of
six days of trials to be held in In
dianapolis, and her international status
does not guarantee her a spot on the U.S.
team and a trip to Los Angeles. Walsh
will literally have to swim her way into the
Summer Games.
"I have to finish first or second in each
of my events because only two girls can
go for each," Walsh said of the trials.
Walsh plans to enter her specialties, the
100- and 200-meter backstrokes, and
stands a good chance at being named to
the 400-meter medley relay team.
"They take the fastest swimmer in each
of the 100-meter events in back, breast,
butter, and free off the trials and they
make up the team," Walsh said.
The favored East German swimmers
will give Walsh the toughest competition
at LA. "There are three East Germans
ahead of me in the 100-meter and I think
two in the 200-meter," she said. "They're
very strong."
Walsh is in training for the Olympic
trials, as are other UNC Olympic hope
fuls Polly Winde, Amy Pless, Jenny
Strickland and Eric Ericson. "Right now
we're swimming two mornings a week for
an hour and a half, five afternoons a
week for two hours and Saturday morn
ings for two hours," Walsh said. "Then
we also lift weights three times a week tor
an hour."
Walsh attributes an unorthodox train
ing style to part of the reason for her suc
cess. "In practice I think I'm an unusual
case," she said. "Most swimmers spend
most of their time on their best stroke.
But I train 70-80 percent of the time
freestyle. I feel I can get more done that
way."
Despite her athletic and academic com
mitments, Walsh finds time for a social
life, and a large part of that life involves
boyfriend and former UNC quarterback
Scott Stankavage.
Walsh said she first met Stankavage as
a freshman during a statistics class, and
added that it wasn't an ideal way to start
a friendship.
"1 had these cowboy boots on from the
Western outfits we had gotten from the
(1980) team, and Scott said, 'Where'd
you get those, the Olympics or
something?'
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"I laughed, and a week later I had on a
jacket and he asked the same thing
without knowing it really was from
there," she said. "I've never seen
anybody so embarrassed as when I told
him.
"So I tease him about it all the time
now, like, 'Where'd you get that from,
the Gator Bowl?' "
The Hamburg, N.Y. native started
swimming at 8 in the local YMCA. After
the first year, she had passed every Red
Cross swimming test except lifesaving.
Her parents suggested she go out for the
local swim team, of which her sister was a
member.
"I tried it and after a week I said, no
way,' " Walsh remembered. "But my
parents said to try it for two more weeks.
I think they knew I'd change my mind,
and I did."
For the first six years, Walsh concen
trated on freestyle, but at 14 switched to
the backstroke. At 17 she swam
100-meters in 1:02.75 the fastest time
in the world in 1979. She then made the
1980 Olympic team that did not compete
in the Summer Games.
The records and medals have since pil
ed up, as she won two golds and a silver
in last year's Pan Am games, and set a
U.S. record for 100 meters during
another meet. But the event Walsh has
been ultimately pointing toward all of her
14-year swimming career is just three
months away, and she will be faced with
having to prove herself all over again.
Once the Olympics are a memory,
Walsh plans an accounting career and
hopes to remain in the state. She said that
the lack of money in professional swim
ming hasn't bothered her. "If I have kids
they're not going to swim, I'm gonna
start them off in tennis or golf," she said
in jest.
But right now, the Olympics are
foremost in her mind. "I'd absolutely
love to win a gold, but it will be very
tough with those East German girls." But
there is a dream behind those dark brown
eyes, and it is very much alive. "If I could
stand up there and have the national an
them played..."
UNC's Wilkinson hitting in an 'unconscious groove'
By LEE ROBERTS
Staff Writer
Todd Wilkinson, North Carolina's
senior right fielder, calls his recent batting
binge an "unconscious groove."
Head coach Mike Roberts calls it the
culmination of months of hard work.
Whatever it is that's causing Wilkinson
to hit the ball like he has been since early
March, it is' work
ing very well. He is
hitting .381 and
leading the Tar
Heels with 10
home runs and 41
RBIs through 41
games.
"I don't really
know what I'm do
ing different," the
Pittsburgh, N.Y.
native said of his
hot streak. This had happened despite a
.249 lifetime college batting average com
ing into the season.
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The 6-3, 210 pounder was struggling
early in the year, hitting .184 with no
home runs heading into the Purdue game
on March 6. He went 3-for-4 in that
game, as well as hitting his first home run
of the season. Since that game, Wilkinson
is hitting .455 with all 10 of his homers
and 35 of his RBIs coming in a 27-game
stretch. The crowning point of his season
came last Saturday in Boshamer Stadium
against Georgia Tech, when he hit a
towering grand slam in the bottom of the
tenth inning to secure a 6-2 victory.
"It really felt good," Wilkinson said of
the homer. "As a ball player, you live for
those kinds of situations. Last year, I
would have wanted nothing to do with
that situation, but I feel more relaxed at
the plate now. I'm not doing anything
different, it's just an unconscious
groove."
Roberts said that Wilkinson's off
season work with weights was one of the
reasons why the outfielder is hitting more
than 100 points better than he ever has.
"Todd has always worked so hard,"
Roberts said. "Because of his off-season
work with weights, he's got a stronger,
more compact swing. It's all a culmina
tion of the last seven or eight months of
work.
Senior third baseman Jeff Hubbard,
who has played on the same field with
Wilkinson for four years, agreed with
Roberts.
"Weights have definitely been a big
part of his great year," Hubbard said.
"But in the four years I've been here,
nobody has taken as much batting prac
tive as Todd has either. It's paid off. He
is a fundamentally sound player."
Wilkinson said the weight program he
was on had definitely helped him.
"My bat speed has picked up and I'm a
little stronger now," he said. "I'm confi
dent about getting the bat into the strike
zone quicker."
Wilkinson's hard-working ethic in the
weight room and the batting cage has
helped turn the physical education major
into a team leader.
Junior college transfer Paul Will said
when he came to North Carolina last fall,
Wilkinson served as an inspiration to him
and the other new players.
"He lifts you up," Will said. "He gets
so much out of every workout. He's
always the first one in there lifting
weights and the last one out."
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ing on the weights more than Roberts, it
was Wilkinson.
"Todd is a great example to the other
players," Roberts said. "He leads by his
self-discipline and the solid attitude that
he approaches the game with."
Hubbard said Wilkinson's work with
the freshmen will help the program down
the road.'
Hubbard said Wilkinson is a great
team leader, and he teaches the freshmen
how not to tire out by working hard.
"Todd is an example of someone who
has gone well beyond his potential
through hard work."
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