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...owns five individual school records.“We have strengths across the board and no particular weakness,” co-captain Kelly Mooney said. “From sprints to middle distance to distance, we have very strong competitors. I am looking forward to the distance swimmers starting us off strong.”What makes the Harvard squad so unique is that there is no kink in the chain. The team has been consistently strong in all of its meets throughout the entire season. At the Harvard-Yale-Princeton double-dual meet, the Crimson demonstrated its enormous...
...remained neck and neck for the entire weekend. Harvard led Princeton 96-90 at the end of Saturday’s competition at Blodgett pool, with both teams swapping the lead throughout the course of Sunday. “The effort was definitely there,” junior distance swimmer Alex Meyer said. “We stayed positive the whole way through, but we’ve just got to work on some skills over the next month.” Meyer claimed two of Harvard’s seven first-place finishes, winning the 500-yard...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team (7-0, 5-0 Ivy) celebrated its 169-119 win over Brown (1-4, 1-3) last Saturday in unusual fashion. With Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” resonating through the speakers, freshman swimmer Matthew McLean was carried around Blodgett Pool on a stretcher for a post-meet victory lap. However, the defeat of the Bears was significant in more ways than the simple maintenance of a perfect record. The contest was also the Crimson’s Iron Man meet. The Iron...
...recorded back-to-back dominating victories in the first half of the meet. Leddy won the 100-yard backstroke in 58.53, and Pratt followed up by taking first in the 100-yard breaststroke. Her time of 1:06.99 was nearly three seconds ahead of Brown’s top swimmer.“[The freshmen] are a great force,” Mills said. “They’re really upbeat and they’re great to practice with.” Freshman Helen Pitchik also won a race of her own, touching the wall...
...Bollywood would be hilarious. Or Larry Summers, that would be funny. And what about Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the journalist with a penchant for hitting outgoing presidents with his shoe! He can talk about which brand is most aerodynamic! And one last thing—who’s that swimmer guy again? What’s his name...