Geoff Rathgeber Selected ECAC Men's Swimmer
of the Week for Second Time This Season
Courtesy: Harvard Athletic Communications
Release: 02/07/2008
Courtesy: DSPics.com
Rathgeber won three individual races
at the HYP meet.
Cambridge, Mass. - Senior Geoff
Rathgeber
(Kensington, Conn.) was named ECAC Men's Swimmer of the Week Feb. 6.
This is the second time he has been honored with the award this season.
Rathgeber captured three events last Friday
at the HYP meet, including the 100 breaststroke, 200 IM
and 400 medley relay, and continued to swim well Saturday with
victories in the 400 IM and 200 medley relay.
He teamed with classmate Pat
Quinn, junior Bill
Jones and freshman Jordan
Diekema
in the 200 medley relay (1:29.85). Rathgeber's marks in the
400 IM (3:53.18) and 100
breaststroke (54.95) were NCAA "B" standard qualifying times.
Rathgeber touched the wall first in the 200 IM (1:49.44) and, along with Diekema, Bill
Jones and Pat
Quinn, won the 400 medley relay (3:17.87).
Harvard won the HYP meet, defeating Princeton, 213.5-139.5, and downed
Yale, 227.5-125.5.
Harvard
is ranked No. 22 in the latest CollegeSwimming.com poll and is now 8-0
overall and in first place in the EISL with a 7-0 record. Rathgeber is
the third member of the Crimson to be honored by the ECAC this season,
as Bill
Jones was named ECAC Swimmer of
the Week Jan. 31, and Lucas
Sanders was honored as ECAC Diver of the Week Jan. 10. Rathgeber
was also selected ECAC Swimmer of the Week Dec. 5.
No. 22 Men's Swimming and
Diving Travels to Penn Looking to Grab EISL Regular Season Title
Courtesy: Harvard Athletic Communications
Release: 02/07/2008
Courtesy: DSPics.com
Eric Lynch won the 1650
freestyle at the HYP meet.
The Particulars:
The
Harvard men’s swimming and diving team travels to Philadelphia for its
final regular season dual Saturday, Feb. 9 at noon at Penn's Sheerr
Pool. No.22
Crimson (8-0, 7-0 EISL) will look to clinch the EISL regular season
title as it faces the Quakers (6-5, 2-5 EISL). Harvard has won the last
four meetings against Penn, including a 189-101 victory last season. Scouting the Quakers:
Penn
enters the weekend with EISL victories against Columbia (185-114) and
Dartmouth (208-87). Last weekend, the Quakers downed West Chester,
180-119, at home. Penn is 3-2 at Sheerr Pool this season.
Against West Chester, James Fee
took the 1000 freestyle
in 9:25.44 and placed first in the 500 free with a time of 4:34.23. Pat
Gallagher captured the 200 freestyle, swimming the event in
1:39.80. Other winners included Christ Weitekamp in the 100 backstroke
(52.60), Devon Carr in the 50 freestyle (21.10) and 100 freestyle, as
Pat Gallagher touched the wall first in 45.79.The
400-free relay team of Devon Carr,
Pat Gallagher, Chris Weitekamp and Kyle Loughran won the race with a
collective time of 3:05.28.In the diving events, Aaron Levy took the 1-meter board with
288.38 points and the 3-meter event with 335.48. .Up Next:
Harvard has three weeks off before competing at the ECAC Championships
Feb. 29 - March 2 in Pittsburgh, Pa.