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Swimmers put more time and more effort into their sport than almost any other team on campus. From October right through March the swim team holds workouts twice a day, including weight sessions on Nautilus every afternoon. While most sleep through the early mornings, swimmers are doing their first workout from 6:45 to 8:15 a.m., and afternoons they return for another two-to three-hour session. On an average day each swimmer does about 400 laps of a 25-yard pool in varying combinations of strokes and intervals, staring at the black line on the bottom...
Take last Saturday. The men's meet against Navy featured such complete domination by Harvard that coach Joe Bernal had people swimming their worst events so as not to completely humiliate the Midshipmen. The only excitement of the day came from watching freshman Ben "Iron Man" Downs swim every single event of the meet in a successful effort to break a record set by another Harvard swimmer two years...
...wasn't like she didn't know. In fact, Vicki Hays knew quite well the story of last year's women's swim team when she took the reins of the team this fall as the new coach...
Everyone else did too; the team's friction with now departed coach Stephanie Walsh, the rumored friction with Joe Bernal's men's swim team and the numbers of dissatisfied swimmers, were common knowledge...
...NOTEBOOK: In addition to several members of the men's swim team who appeared to cheer the aquawomen on to victory, three members of Harvard's Development Office filmed the meet as part of a promotional effort in the University's five-year fund-raising campaign...