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Cromwell looks to end his career with a lucky seventh All-America
performance in Saturday's 200 back.
Cromwell Places Fourth in 100 Back at NCAAs
Senior Knocks 0.19 off his own league record
*March 24, 2006*
*ATLANTA - * Three weeks after becoming the first Eastern
Intercollegiate Swimming League athlete to break the 47-second mark in
the 100-yard backstroke, Harvard senior David Cromwell
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knocked nearly a fifth of a second off his team and league record to tie
for fourth place in the event with a mark of 46.80 at the NCAA
Championships at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center.
Cromwell earned his fourth individual All-America honor and his sixth
overall. He placed 15th in the event last season. His fourth-place
finish this year was Harvard's best in the 100 back since David Berkoff
'89 won the national title in his senior season with a time of 47.02.
That mark held up as the fastest in league history until Cromwell's
46.99 at the EISL Championships.
The senior turned it on after posting a 50-yard time of 22.88, passing
two swimmers and making up a quarter of a second in the second half of
the race to tie Indiana's Ben Hesen. Matt Grievers of Northwestern won
the race in 45.93.
Sophomore Geoff Rathegeber swam the 400 individual medley, placing 24th
in 3:51.96.
Both swimmers are back in action Saturday, the meet's final day.
Cromwell will race the 200 back, and Rathgeber is slated to race in the
200 breaststroke. Preliminaries are scheduled for noon, with finals at 7
p.m.
Geoff Rathgeber
Rathgeber 21st in 200 IM
3/23/2006 - M. Swimming
Sophomore Geoff Rathgeber and senior David Cromwell represented Harvard
Thursday on the first day of the NCAA Championships at the Georgia Tech
Aquatic Center. Rathgeber placed 21st in the 200-yard individual medley
in 1:47.15. Cromwell was 53rd in the 50 freestyle, finishing in 20.39
seconds.
3/22/06
Cromwell, Rathgeber to Face Nation's Best
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The NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships get underway Thursday
at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, and Harvard will be represented by
senior David Cromwell and sophomore Geoff Rathgeber.
*March 4, 2006
*Rathgeber, Cromwell named Swimmers of the Meet; Rybalko named Diver of
the Meet
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MEADOW, N.Y. - * Geoff Rathgeber
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David Cromwell
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and Danil Rybalko
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claimed the league's top individual honors as the Harvard men's swimming
and diving team won five more events Saturday and finished second at the
Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships at the Nassau
County Aquatic Center. Rathgeber and Cromwell, who won three individual
Ivy championships each, shared the Swimmer of the Meet Award with
Cornell's Michael Smit. Rybalko, meanwhile, was named Diver of the Meet
after he took first place in both the one- and three-meter events. It is
the 20th time overall and the ninth straight year that Harvard swimmers
have won the Moriarty Award. Cromwell shared the honor with Rassan Grant
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in 2004.
The Crimson finished the meet with 13 wins in the 21 events, but
Princeton's depth proved to be the difference. Harvard cut the Tiger
lead to as few as 19 points, but Princeton pulled away with five
finalists in the 200 butterlfly and went on to win with 1,393 points.
Harvard finished second with 1,287, followed by Columbia (990.5),
Cornell (984.5), Yale (925), Navy (700), Brown (665), Penn (638.5) and
Dartmouth (327.5).
