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When the surf used to crash near Punahou School in Honolulu. Dave Powlison's swimming coach would call off practice and take his team body surfing...
...ways it was more enjoyable than it's been here." Powlison said Tuesday night. He's a senior free-styler for Harvard. "Since being at Harvard there's been a dual meet pressure I've never really responded to. I really do enjoy swimming and I really do enjoy pushing myself. But seeing guys in other lanes really hassles my head...
...Powlison was especially down on swimming last winter after the Dart-mouth meet. "I cared so much, and I tried so hard," he recalled. "I literally swam my guts out more than I had in my whole life." Nevertheless, he lost the 1000-free, and later in the 500-free folded after leading for 300 yards. Harvard lost the meet...
...just had to change," Powlison said Tuesday. "I was killing myself worrying about races. Against Princeton the next week it was life or death." Assistant coach Benn Merritt agreed to put him in an outside lane where he'd be less aware of other swimmers, and Pawlison responded with a come-from-behind...
...taking a fairly low-keyed approach to tomorrow's meet with Yale, when the Crimson has a chance for victory for the first time since 1962. "I really enjoy swimming against Yale," Powlison asserted. "It's almost as if we're all in it together, we're all on the same team. It's not cut-throat the way it is with Penn...