"I'm very goal-oriented," she said, "and my major goal is to have some impact on women's athletics." She added that she could move toward accomplishing this goal by someday working in what she calls her "ideal position."

"I'd like to be both an athletic director and a swim coach at the same time," Walsh said, "and in that way I could continue to work directly with the athletes while having a hand in policy decisions." She added that she believes keeping contact with athletes is "very important," and by combining this interaction with the administrative job, she said she could get an "overall view of athletics."

Move Over, Jimmy

Walsh has one additional dream: "I want to be the women's Olympic swim coach someday," she said. "But that's like little kids saying they want to be president."

"Well, perhaps this trip to the Soviet Union, certainly a reflection of her swimming and coaching accomplishments so far, is a small step along the road to the "presidency."

For the past two years, the same member of the Harvard men's swim team has won the Eugene Wyman Trophy, an award given to the highest individual point scorer on the team.

This repeater, Paco Canales, has worked ten long years to develop the talent that has helped him score points consistently for Harvard. His efforts have earned him a position on Puerto Rico's Latin Cup team; and in this role he will leave tomorrow for Rome to compete in the two-day event.

Paco Canales

Canales said yesterday his career started "by accident," explaining that he began swimming after his brother injured a tendon in his foot. "He had to swim to exercise the foot," Canales explained, "so I swam with him to keep him company."

But that fluke start has sprouted into a successful aquatic career for the native of Guay Nabo, P.R. After competing in several AAU meets, Canales joined the Caparia Country Club under the coach Tom Forte. (The Caparia is the same club and Forte the same coach that Jane Fayer currently swims for during her vacations.)

Canales's first major win came at the 1968 Central American Games, when he was competing in the ten-and-under age group. In that meet, Canales grabbed a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley.

Since that childhood triumph, he has climbed to more impressive heights. Last year in Montreal, he swam for the Puerto Rican Olympic team, and although he failed to qualify for the finals, he set Puerto Rican national records in both the 200-and 400-meter freestyle swims. He has also joined the Puerto Rican team three more times for competition in the Central American Games.

In 1974, Paco brought home six medals--three silver and three bronze--for Puerto Rico in international competition.

Perhaps the most suggestive anecdote about Canales's talent is his able handling of a situation he faced as a senior on his high school swim team. Canales explained, "The team had no coach as the season approached, and the school did not have time to select one, so since I was already the captain, they had me coach the team as well."

But since those high school years and thanks in part to his years in the Harvard swimming program, Canales said, his attitude has changed markedly. "In high school," he said, "my attitude was an individual one." His teammates were similarly concerned with their times and their finishes, "not with how the team fared," he added.