Swanwick Leads U.S. All-Stars Against Soviets

Rick Swanwick, The Times’ player of the year in Orange County, heads a list of 17 players named to play for the Slam-n-Jam all-star basketball team against the Soviet Union’s junior national team May 14 at UC Irvine’s Bren Center.

Swanwick, a 6-foot-10 center, averaged 20.3 points and 13.5 rebounds in leading Trabuco Hills High School into the State Division III championship game last month. Other county players named to the squad are Scott Campbell (La Quinta), Malru Dottin (Saddleback), Mike Frohn (Ocean View), Bill Mazurie (Capistrano Valley), Todd Norman (Ocean View) and Dylan Rigdon (Mater Dei).

Bob Gottlieb, a former assistant at Marquette and Cal State Long Beach, will coach the team. Gottlieb will cut the squad to 12 players for the game, which is sanctioned by the Amateur Basketball Assn. of the United States and will feature international rules.

The U.S. team:

Kent Bennett (Manual Arts), 6-5, G; Mitchell Butler (Oakwood Academy), 6-5, G; Scott Campbell (La Quinta), 6-5, G; Brian Camper (Lakewood), 6-4, F; Terry Cannon (Crenshaw), 6-0, G; Malru Dottin (Saddleback), 6-7, F; Mike Frohn (Ocean View), 6-2, G; Adonis Jordan (Cleveland), 6-0, G; Zan Mason (Westchester), 6-7, F; Bill Mazurie (Capistrano Valley), 6-0, G; Harold Miner (Inglewood), 6-5, G; Tracy Murray (Glendora), 6-7, F; Todd Norman (Ocean View), 6-6, F; Dylan Rigdon (Mater Dei), 6-0, G; Byron Russell (San Bernardino), 6-7, F; Ed Stokes (St. Bernard), 6-11, C; Rick Swanwick (Trabuco Hills), 6-10, C.