Jessica is new to the team. She drives down from Sarasota Military Academy each day to swim with us.

Tim Tudor and Stephen Taylor are new to swimming, but they've dropped their times and are in the top five in the 50 freestyle.

There are about 12 girls who are fighting to fill positions. They're working so hard.

The thing I see the most is that the kids are working harder than ever. They're racing tired, but they're still dropping times.

They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainly unthinkable. They were noisy, overconfident, empty-headed kids of twenty-one. They had gone to college and were engaged to pretty, clean girls whose pictures were already standing on the rough cement mantelpiece of Orr's fireplace. They had ridden in speedboats and played tennis. They had been horseback riding. One had once been to bed with an older woman. They knew the same poeple in different parts of the country and had gone to school with each other's cousins.

For any Galesburg swim team, this is by far the best they've ever done.