Their college careers may be finished, but that doesn’t mean that seniors on Ohio State’s men’s swim team are sunk. Two of these men plan to continue their swimming careers. Senior Marko Strahija has finished his college swimming career, but still plans to swim competitively. He hopes to return to the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia in 2000. Strahija represented his native Croatia in the 1996 games in Atlanta, finishing 11th in the 200-meter backstroke. He called the experience “indescribable.””To see all the different athletes (at the Olympics) and to represent my country is a hard experience to explain,” Strahija said.Strahija represented his country at the World Championships in Australia, and plans to take it easy during the summer at home in Croatia. He will return to OSU in the fall to finish his bachelors degree in biology, then will resume intense training for European championships in December. This season, Strahija finished 13th in the 200-meter backstroke at the NCAA Championships and 12th in the same event at World Championships.Kevin Kling, a senior majoring in transportation logistics, also plans to continue swimming after graduation. He is hoping to turn all of his hard work in swimming into profit, at least profitable enough to finance a trip to Sydney in 2000 to join his friend Marko.”Now swimmers can go on in the sport (after college),” he said. “You put lots of time and effort into it, so why shouldn’t you go on?”Kling plans to compete in the World Cup meets, a series of meets in Australia, Asia and Europe where competitors earn money based on their performance. Kling said swimming is a popular sport overseas, so meets like these receive wide fan support.Like Strahija, Kling has overseas competition experience. In the summer of 1997 he competed as a member of the U.S. team in Italy. He finished sixth in the 100-meter breaststroke and first in the 400-meter medley relay.Both Strahija and Kling, along with sophomore Jason Fox and freshman Brain Malich, were members of the 400-meter medley relay team that broke the Big Ten record this season.