Swimming / Tracy Dodds : Ten Olympians to Compete in USC-UCLA Meet

Ten Olympians, six from USC and four from UCLA, will be competing today in the UCLA Men’s Gym Pool at 1 p.m.

UCLA already has a 16-2 lead after the diving competition, which was held last Saturday.

The Trojans (7-2) have won the last three meets against the Bruins (8-2). But both coaches say that this one is up for grabs.

“It really could go either way in this one,” said USC Coach Peter Daland. “I’m really not sure what to expect. I think it will be a very competitive meet.”

UCLA Coach Ron Ballatore said that if the Bruins could win the first event, the medley relay, the meet could go to the wire.

The women’s Pacific 10 swim meet is taking place this weekend at Cerritos Olympic Swim Center at Cerritos College. Stanford is the overwhelming favorite, with Cal, USC and UCLA expected to challenge for second place. The meet ends tonight. Finals are scheduled to begin at 7.

Vladimir Salnikov, 28, who stunned the competition with a comeback victory in the 1,500-meter freestyle at the Seoul Olympics, has been named chief coach of the Soviet national swim team, succeeding Vladimir Kathkurkin.

A Soviet delegation is in Colorado Springs, Colo., this week, meeting with officials of U.S. Swimming and the Turner Broadcasting System. On the agenda are the Goodwill Games at Seattle in 1990, in which the Soviets will compete; the U.S.-Soviet meet at Atlanta Aug. 24-27, the first dual meet with the Soviets since 1982, and a document that was signed Thursday, solidifying the good will between the two countries and agreeing that neither country will allow the athletes of the other to be exploited when they visit.

U.S. Swimming has signed a four-year contract with Turner Broadcasting that will be worth more than $500,000. The contract guarantees that swimming will be televised eight times a year, including four full shows of swimming. One of the Saturday night programs will be a live telecast of the national long-course meet at USC Aug. 1-5.

U.S. Swimming plans to name its new national director in about two weeks.

Janet Evans, a senior at Placentia El Dorado High School, has not yet decided upon a college and does not expect to make that decision until the first week of May. The earliest signing date is April 15, but she will not even have made all of her visits by then. Her visit to Stanford is scheduled for April 8 and her visit to Texas is two weeks after that. Also under consideration are Florida and USC.

Because of her busy appearance schedule as a result of winning three gold medals in the Olympics at Seoul, her school’s swim schedule, the collegiate meets and tournaments, and the national short-course meet March 21-25, there was no other time to make her visits.