Messenger - Vol. 3, No. 2, Page 16 Winter 1994 World-class-diver Diving is diving. Whether on the national diving team in Kuwait or on the University's swimming team, Ali Alhasan, a freshman electrical engineering major, says he feels the same about the sport wherever he is. Under a program sponsored by the Kuwaiti Embassy to encourage the study of languages abroad, Alhasan arrived in the U.S. in the fall of 1992 and spent his first semester in Delaware studying at the English Language Institute. Normally, the program would have ended there, and the foreign student would have gone back to Kuwait. To the University's swim team's advantage, Alhasan liked Delaware so much that he applied for admission and was accepted. As a member of the national diving team in Kuwait, Alhasan has competed in England, Holland, Yugoslavia, Germany and Bulgaria and he plans to dive for his country in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. "It's hard to balance training for the Olympics and school, but you get into a schedule," he says. Alhason and the other three divers on the University's swim team spend about 20 hours a week in practice. --Jennifer Jones, Delaware '94