Word: swims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...organizers of the tournament obviously worked hard. They ran the swim meet exactly on schedule, delivering results promptly and keeping the atmosphere friendly. For the first time women from all of the Ivy schools were competing together at poolside, and this fact alone was greatly rewarding...
Courtside and poolside were both emotionally charged. While the individual nature of swimming prompted personal responses to success and failure, the hoopsters reacted en masse. If a swimmer's time was abnormally slow, dejection and a determination to do better would show visibly on her face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel...
...Watch the swim team seek revenge against the Elis. A year ago Yale ruined an undefeated Crimson season after shaving. You don't forget nicks like that. Besides, this is the last Harvard swim meet ever--that's right, ever--in the IAB. Next year it's off to the new pool at Soldiers Field...
...second-place finishers, not the event winners, who gave the Harvard women's swim team a tension-packed 67-64 victory over a tough UMass team last night...
...swim gave Harvard an 8-1 victory in the event and an important 56-50 lead in the meet. In the next event, the 100-yd. breaststroke, Harvard also needed at least a second-place finish to hang onto the lead and have enough points to eventually win the meet...