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3/22/06 Cromwell, Rathgeber to Face Nation's Best <http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/spec-rel/032206aab.html> 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 <http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/stats/030406aaa.html>*EAST MEADOW, N.Y. - * Geoff Rathgeber <http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/rathgeber_geoff00.html>, David Cromwell <http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/cromwell_david00.html> and Danil Rybalko <http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/rybalko_danil00.html> 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 <http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/grant_rassan00.html> 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).