BRIEFLY : Parker to Pass Up Long Course Meet

Academics apparently have triumphed over aquatics. At least that’s the position taken by Julie Parker, who swims with a club team in Simi Valley.

Parker, a junior at Agoura High and a reigning Southern Section and junior national champion, qualified for the U.S. National long course swimming championships, which begin Monday in Santa Clara, Calif. But she will miss the meet to attend summer school.

“Those are her priorities and we understand that,” said Ingrid Daland, Parker’s coach on the Simi Valley club team.

Parker is one of six swimmers from the Valley area to qualify for the meet. The others are Leslie Daland of the Simi Valley team, Tom Lileikis and Bobby Baldocci from the Calabasas team, and Kristin and Karen Tomec from the Conejo Swim Assn.

More than 600 will participate in the long course championships, which run through next Saturday.

Cook Injures Knee, Is Out of Olympic Festival

A knee injury suffered by former Van Nuys High basketball player Anthony Cook is not considered serious and should not endanger the 6-9 forward’s sophomore season at Arizona, according to Randy Brown, a Wildcat assistant coach.

Cook, who injured the knee Sunday during practice with the West team at the U.S. Olympic Festival in Houston, returned home to Los Angeles to be examined. He will miss the rest of the Olympic Festival, Brown said.

Cook is the second Arizona starter to be injured this summer. Steve Kerr suffered a serious knee injury at the Goodwill Games and will miss the 1986-87 season.

Cook averaged 20.3 points per game as a senior at Van Nuys High. In his freshman season at Arizona, the part-time starter set a school record for blocked shots.

NOTABLE

Alex Garcia of North Hollywood will get an unexpected rematch today with Viacheslav Yakoley, the Soviet boxer who outpointed him in an international bout last weekend.

Garcia, the U.S amateur super-heavyweight champion, lost a decision July 26 at the USA-USSR Amateur Boxing Invitational in Sacramento. He was not scheduled to fight Yakoley again. But Amateur Boxing Federation officials hastily arranged for the American and Soviet teams to meet once more at the U.S. Olympic Festival in Houston, said Blinky Rodriguez, Garcia’s manager.

Garcia (17-3) lost to Cuba’s Teofilo Stevenson in the finals of the World Amateur Boxing Championships in May.

Monte Masters of Saugus will meet Nick De Long of Long Beach in a 10-round heavyweight bout Aug. 18 at the Irvine Marriott, promoter Don Fraser announced. Masters is 29-2 with 22 knockouts. De Long, a former football player at San Jose State, is 8-2.

Shaun Murphy, a former Simi Valley High player who will attend Arizona in the fall, helped a California high school all-star team win two of three games against teams from Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. California defeated Illinois, 7-2, and Wisconsin, 10-2, before losing to Indiana, 6-5. Murphy played left field and was 7 for 9 in the series that was played at County Stadium, home of the Milwaukee Brewers.