Maurone heroics unknown Want to make a bet? If you ask most people at Penn State if they know who Jim Cefalo is and Rich Maurone is, Cefalo would win with no sweat. In fact, are probably wondering yourself wholtich Maurone is? ) Well Rich Maurone is Penn State's hope in the NCAA swimming and diving championships this weekend in Cleveland, Ohio. Just what Rich Maurone has done all became clear to this writer last t Tiday in of all places, Physical Science 8 class. One hundred or so pair of eyes watched Jim Cefalo walk in. Gorden 4 1 / 4 , Blain It broug - t on murmurs, "There he is. That's Cefalo. Man he's good. He's a nice guy too." But tl2en Maurone walked in and of course he's just another student lo the others. It all came together. Actually those two guys, Cefalo and Maurone are very much alike. What Maurone has done in swimming and diving at Penn State parallels with what Cefalo has done in Penn State football as a freshman. Last year as a freshman, Maurohe became the first diver in Penn State history to be in the National competition. Maurone finished 10th in Easterns last year and was eliminated in the National's preliminary diving. One can imagine the pressure. "I was diving well before the national meet last year," Maurone said as he prepares for his second Nationals trip. "But when I got there and saw all these other guys that are supposed to be so much better than I, and I had to wait to dive, all of my - composure went. Man I was really nervous last year." 4 "It's a real head trip to go into," Maurone said about the national diving. "I feel a little bit more confident this time." This year. Maurone will have somebody to' ccompany him on the one and three meter diving boaids, senior, Jim Rightley. Neither diver qualified with the required point total until the last dual meet with Villanova. The competition is different in Cleveland than what the Lion divers have been running into all year. They only lost one diving event all year and that was the one meter against Pitt early in the season. Now they go up against 90 swimmers from• all over the nation. Ohio State is the power. "When I was 10th in the Easterns last year," Maurone remembers, everybody was asking, 'Where's he from?' It feels good to be the only one there to represent Penn State. It really boosted my confidence to represent' us in something nobody else has done before." Penn .State's aquatics program never has been very suc-i cessful because the Lions swim against teams that recruit.' Penn State does not give scholarships. Yet diving coach Bob Goldberg has built a•diving power in the East at University! Park. This year Maurone finished second on the three meter board in the Easterns. "When I first came here I was mediocre," Maurone says. "The whole two years has been a learning experienciand I've been improving. I keep amazing myself." "When I dive it's not like a chore, it's not regimented—go out and work your ass off and don't have fun—it's not that way here," Maurone says. "Almost all of my success is due to Goldberg. If I didn't have him I don't think I'd be this much improved.", "I can sit down and talk to him about other bullshit than just diving," Maurone says about his coach. Maurone says that he decided to come to Penn State when he met Goldberg at a clinic. And he is glad he came here. "I'm really glad I came to Penn State," Maurone says. "It is really not swimming oriented around here. The en vironment around here is so much better and it makes me want to work my hardest and yet I have a lot of fun." Winning can be a lot of fun. Maybe the fun is just beginning for Maurone. With his talent and improvement Goldberg is very,optimistic about Maurone. Maybe not for this lyear in the nationals but in upcoming years. Maurone put Happy Valley on the map when it comes to jumping into pools. 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Finally, a writer and now it appears just a approached him and he matter of time until Blass looked up. "Hi," Blass is released. said. "Same old stuff, eh?" "It's going, to be hard for It was the same old stuff, them to give me many and that's what makes more chances," Blass said. Blass' demise different. "There are a lot of pitchers He's not just another , trying for a few jobs. They player having a hard time have a lot of decisions to making a club. He 32, a make. All I can do is try to seasoned veteran, a two- keep myself ready. time World Series winner. "It's hard for me to get He's experienced the high away from the fact that of success, the abys§ of there's so little time left in failure. spring training. It's not a He won 19 games in 1972 good situaiton." Pirate staff. Then the roof
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