Jones, Meyer Compete at NCAA Championships
Courtesy: Harvard Athletic Communications
          Release: 03/29/2009

COLLEGE STATION, Texas. -- Senior Bill Jones and junior Alex Meyer represented Harvard at the 2009 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend at Texas A&M's Student Rec Center Natatorium.

Jones, making his second straight appearance at the NCAA Championships, improved his time at the NCAA meet in the 100 butterfly, as he touched the wall in 47.11.  He placed 28th place of 47 student-athletes in the preliminaries of the event.  Last year at the NCAA Championships, Jones, who hails from Fremont, Mich., swam the race in 47.35. 

Meyer, a native of Ithaca, N.Y., posted the Crimson's highest finish of the meet in the 1,650 freestyle, as he placed 25th with a time of 15:06.58.  Meyer, competing in his first NCAA meet, also finished 44th in the 500 freestyle, as he cruised to a mark of 4:24.38. 

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Timothy D. Murphy
Head Coach of Men's Swimming
Harvard University
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