i South African swimmers far from home By Tim Hartmann j Senior Reporter Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne is known for recruiting players from all over the country, but Cornhusker men’s swimming coach Cal Bentz goes one step further. Bentz said he has recruited swimmers from all over the world during his nine-year coaching ca reer at Nebraska. He said he has had swimmers from Australia, Hong ivong, ireiana, Norway, Sweden, South Africa and Taiwan on the Husker roster. Bentz Bent/ said this year’s squad includes three swim mers from South Africa: sopho mores Sean Frampton and Jaco Kruger, and freshman Peter Wil liams. Frampton hails from Cape town, Kruger is from Pretoria and Williams is from Port Elizabeth. Frampton said one reason Ne braska and other schools can re cruit South African athletes is the country’s government downplays the role of sports. “It is illegal there to go to school on a sports scholarship,” Frampton said. “The only type of scholar ships are for academics.” Frampton said he decided to attend college in either Europe or America because of the limitations placed on South African athletes. He said he received collegiate scholarship offers from Southern Illinois, Texas and Nebraska. Frampton said he thought it was a joke the First time the Nebraska coaches called. He said he thought the call was from “Telephone Time,” a South African television program like “Candid Camera.” “I said, ‘Who is this really?’” Frampton said. Frampton eventually discov ered it was the Nebraska coaches calling. He said it was their interest that helped him decide to attend Nebraska. “Nebraska would call me once or twice a week and sent me lots of correspondence and had members of the team call me, while the oth ers didn’t do that,” Frampton said. “They really made me feel wel come.” Bentz said the Huskers use the phone a lot when they recruit ath letes from far-away places like South Africa. He said other schools, such as Southern Method ist, Alabama, Louisiana State and Southern Illinois, use the same strategy. “Southern Illinois has a raft of outstanding swimmers from South Africa,” Bentz said. Bentz said Nebraska has just begun recruiting in South Africa. “A year or so ago we got some inquiries from various coaches and swimmers,” Bentz said. “We got a good group last year, this year we got another good swimmer, and in the future we plan to continue to recruit there.” Bentz said recruiting toreign athletes is easier “if you have someone in common” with them. For example, he said, Frampton first talked to Williams about Nebraska. “Anybody who asks me, I’ll talk to,” Frampton said. “Some people get the wrong idea. They say, ‘Who’s he, trying to tell us where’s he’s been?’ But Peter was very receptive, and Cal thought he was a good swimmer.” Kruger said he was recruited differently than Frampton or Wil liams — he contacted Nebraska. “I saw their address in a swim ming magazine and basically I talked to people I knew from South Africa who were on the track team,” Kruger said. Kruger said he didn’t know much about Nebraska, but decided to come to Lincoln because he didn’t want to go to a school in a big city. “I Lad a friend that was attend ing the University of Miami, but he got into drugs. So that persuaded me not to go there,” Kruger said. “One by one I started eliminating schools.” Kruger said Americans live a more hectic lifestyle than South Africans do. “It is much more liberal, free, and the American people are very outgoing,” Kruger said. “The pace is quite fast; everything is bigger and better.” Williams said he has not recog nized a difference between the two countries. He said the people in America and South Africa are similar. Both Frampton and Kruger said some differences between the two countries aren’t obvious. “The weather is a big factor,” Kruger said. “We don’t have snow there.” “We all speak English,”Framp ton said, “but a number of the phrases are different.” Last season Frampton set a school record and earned All America honorable-mention hon ors in the 100-yard breaststroke. He also earned Big Eight Cham pion honors in that event and the 200-yard breaststroke. Kruger s warn four events for the Huskers last season and was a Big Eight Champion in the 500-yard ireestyle. All three South African swim mers agreed their swimming has improved since coming to Ne braska. “Obviously, the best thing is the amount of people behind swim ming here,” Williams said. “At home it isn’t that big of a thing. miiumc i mure or less swam in a squad of two or three people. Training here with others who are as good as me will really help me, whereas at home I was more or less isolated.” One of the only problems the swimmers see is that they don’t get home very much. “We get breaks in the summer and at Christmas, but over Christ mas we have all the big meets, so you can’t go home then,” Framp ton said. In 1985, a controversial novel portrayed the wild, excessive lives of the kids in Beverly Hills. On Friday, November 6th, brace yourself for the motion picture. Andrew McCarthy JAMIGERIZ ROBERT DOWNEX JR. 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