Debbie Babashoff

Scott Campbell, Orange County's leading scorer while at La Quinta High School last season, will be ineligible during the coming academic year at Cal State Fullerton because the basketball player did not meet the National Collegiate Athletic Assn.'s required Scholastic Aptitude Test score. Under the NCAA's Prop. 48, Campbell, who failed to score the minimum 700 on the SAT, will not be allowed to practice or play with the Titans until he becomes eligible in his sophomore season in 1990-91.

Debbie Babashoff is living at home again after one year at the University of Miami. No, the former Fountain Valley High School swimmer and 1987 Pan-American silver medalist didn't flunk out. No, she didn't get kicked off the team for disciplinary reasons. But she would have preferred either of those to the real reason she's back. Last April, Babashoff's mother died and she came home to live with her sister, Shirley, and her father, Jack, so they could deal with their grief together.

Debbie Babashoff is living at home again after one year at the University of Miami. No, the former Fountain Valley High School swimmer and 1987 Pan-American silver medalist didn't flunk out. No, she didn't get kicked off the team for disciplinary reasons. But she would have preferred either of those to the real reason she's back. Last April, Babashoff's mother died and she came home to live with her sister, Shirley, and her father, Jack, so they could deal with their grief together.

Scott Campbell, Orange County's leading scorer while at La Quinta High School last season, will be ineligible during the coming academic year at Cal State Fullerton because the basketball player did not meet the National Collegiate Athletic Assn.'s required Scholastic Aptitude Test score. Under the NCAA's Prop. 48, Campbell, who failed to score the minimum 700 on the SAT, will not be allowed to practice or play with the Titans until he becomes eligible in his sophomore season in 1990-91.

Shopping in a furniture store with her older sister recently, Debbie Babashoff discovered a shift in name recognition. Not a big shift, but a glimmer of change. The name she usually hears associated with Babashoff is Shirley. As in Shirley Babashoff--winner of two Olympic gold and six silver medals--her older sister. Debbie Babashoff, a senior at Fountain Valley High School, has spent her life being compared with her older sister, who swam in the 1972 and 1976 Olympics.

Pablo Morales, who lost his world record in the 100-meter butterfly to West Germany's Michael Gross during the 1984 Olympic Games, took it back Monday during the U.S. Swimming World Championship Trials with a time of 52.84 seconds. Matt Biondi was second with a very fast 53.28, just five one-hundredths of a second off Morales' previous record. Gross had the world record at 53.08. Both Morales and Biondi will represent the United States in the World Championships in Madrid, Spain, in August.

Fourteen-year-old Kim Brown, who competes for the Mission Viejo Nadadores, took first place in the Women's Open 1,000 Freestyle race in a time of 9:42.16 in the Southern California Swimming All-Star Qualifying Meet held at East Los Angeles College Saturday. The competition was broken down into four age groups (11-12, 13-14, 15-16, 17-18), with the top three qualifiers in each age group set to compete against an all-star team from Northern California at East L.A. College next Saturday at 10 a.m.

Janet Evans of Placentia broke her second world record in four days and became the first woman to beat 16 minutes in the 1,500-meter freestyle by covering the distance in 15 minutes 52.10 seconds at the U.S. Swimming Indoor National Championships Saturday night in Orlando, Fla. "I didn't think I had it in me when I was swimming," said Evans, 17, a junior at El Dorado High School. "It hurt so bad, I was really dead when I finished the race." Evans broke her own world record of 16:00.

Michelle Griglione of Alexandria, Va., and Troy Dalbey of San Jose, Calif., each claimed another gold medal to continue their impressive showings Friday night in the Phillips 66-U.S. Swimming Short Course national championships at the Justus Aquatics Center. Griglione, who swims for the Curl Swim Club in Darnstown, Md., also swam on a winning relay team to grab her fifth first-place award after four days in the five-day meet.

Shopping in a furniture store with her older sister recently, Debbie Babashoff discovered a shift in name recognition. Not a big shift, but a glimmer of change. The name she usually hears associated with Babashoff is Shirley. As in Shirley Babashoff--winner of two Olympic gold and six silver medals--her older sister. Debbie Babashoff, a senior at Fountain Valley High School, has spent her life being compared with her older sister, who swam in the 1972 and 1976 Olympics.

Janet Evans of Placentia regained the world record in the 800-meter freestyle Tuesday at the U.S. Swimming Indoor National Championships at Orlando, Fla. Evans, a junior at El Dorado High School who is competing for the Fullerton Aquatics Swim Team, was timed in 8 minutes 17.12 seconds, breaking the record of 8:19.53 set by Akne Mohring of East Germany last August. The world record has now changed hands three times in the past nine months after standing untouched from 1978-87.

Janet Evans of El Dorado High School in Placentia regained the world record in the 800-meter freestyle Tuesday at the United States Swimming national indoor meet in Orlando, Fla. Evans, who is competing for the Fullerton Aquatics, was timed in 8 minutes 17.12 seconds, breaking the record of 8:19.53 set by Akne Mohring of East Germany last August. Evans holds world records in the 400, 800 and 1,500.