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...Bassi—who sat out last season following her transfer from Tennessee—the swim was her first as an official member of the Harvard team...
Other freshmen to finish with first-place times were Lindsay Hart in the 1,000-yard freestyle and Jackie Pangilinan in the 200-yard individual medley. Those events are both off-events for the swimmers, who usually swim backstroke and breaststroke, respectively, as their main events, but Wriede-Morawski saw this meet as a chance to swim some of her racers outside their normal strokes, as a win was almost surely guaranteed...
Twenty-three years ago, dated from Nov. 6, my mother was injected with prostaglandin hormones to induce pregnancy. Apparently I was in no hurry to leave—and can you blame me? With an entire womb to myself, the chance to swim all day and all the food I could eat, pre-natal life was a breeze. But the obstetrician’s vacation schedule and my mother’s impatience meant my life in the womb had to end. I screamed as my own mother evicted me from her cozy uterus...
...luckily head coach Stephanie Wriede Morawski ’92 doesn’t like to put too much pressure on her six new freshman swimmers and two freshman divers. She wants to make their transition into the Harvard swimming program as easy and stress free as possible. Morawski also has a policy to swim an upperclassman in every event along with her freshman swimmers. She wants her freshman to understand that they are not alone...
Harvard coach Erik Farrar and the other players tested Byrd’s capability in goal through a “sink-or-swim method.” Instead of trying to methodically teach him how to play the position, the team focused more on using sheer playing time to improve Byrd’s skills...