Mermen Cop Sixth Title

This article describes the men's swim team victory at the Southern Conference meet. This and other articles may be found in the University Archives.

Citation for this article is: "Mermen Cop Sixth Title" Fountainhead, March 17, 1971.

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For the sixth straight year, ECU's Pirates are kings of the Southern Conference waters as coach Ray Scharf's mermen captured the conference meet here during the spring break.

The Pirates won 12 of the 17 events contested and won the meet with a record 658 points. Host William and Mary was second with 481 1/2 points. VMI, with 317 1/2 points, and Davidson, with 143, rounded out the three day event.

TWO DEFEND
Two ECU swimmers successfully defended their 1970 individual championships in three events: Wayne Norris and Jim Griffin.

Norris set record in each event, winning the 200-yard individual medley in 2:04; the 200-yard butterfly in 2:02.5; and the 400-yard individual medley in 4:28.6.

OTHER RECORDS
Griffin won the 100-, 200-, and 500-yard freestyle events.

Two other conference records were set by the Pirates. Team captain Gary Frederick won the 1,650-yard freestyle in 17:48 and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Tom Rehm, Norris, Griffin and Paul Trevisan finished ahead of the field in 3:16.4.

Other winners for ECU were Henry Morrow, a freshman, in the 100-yard butterfly; Jack Morrow, another freshman, in the one-meter dive; the 400-yard medley relay teamof Greg Hinchman, Larry Allman, Henry Morrow and Trevisan; and the 800-yard freestyle relay team of John Manning, Norris, Griffin and Frederick.

ECU, which had finished the dual meet season at 6-6, sent seven swimmers to the Eastern Seaboard Championships in Philadelphia last weekend.

The Pirate representatives there were Griffin, Norris, Frederick, Trevisan, Allman, and divers Doug Emerson and Neil Winslow.