Harvard Places Three on
CollegeSwimming.com Men's Mid-Major All-America Team
Courtesy: Harvard Athletic Communications
Release: 04/21/2008
Courtesy: DSPics.com
Bill Jones
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Juniors Bill
Jones and Eric
Lynch and senior Geoff
Rathgeber
of the Harvard men's swimming and diving team were named to the
CollegeSwimming.com Division I Men's Mid-Major All-America Team, the
website announced Monday.
Bill
Jones
was a five-time Ivy champion this season after winning the 100 fly, 200
medley relay, 400 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay and 800 freestyle
relay. At the team's award
banquet in April, Jones was presented with the Reid
Jorgensen Trophy as the team's most
improved junior. Jones qualified for the NCAA championships,
placing 23rd in the 100 butterfly (47.35) and 25th in
the 200 butterfly (1:46.12) preliminaries.
Lynch won the 1000 freestyle and
the 1650 freestyle at the EISL Championship. The junior went on to
place 18th at the NCAA championships in the
finals of the 1650 freestyle event with a time of 15:11.36.
He also competed in the 500 freestyle event, touching the wall in
4:24.03 for 35th. Lynch and Guernsey will serve as Harvard's team
captains in 2008-09.
Rathgeber was honored earlier this season with
the Philip Moriarty Award as the Most Outstanding Swimmer at the Ivy
League Championship, as well as the Harold Ulen Award for most career
points. Rathgeber picked up seven All-Ivy first-team selections,
leading a group of 10 Crimson swimmers that earned All-Ivy League
distinction. At
nationals, he earned All-America status in the 200 IM (1:45.61) and All-America honorable
mention in the 400 IM (3:47.65). Rathgeber was named to the CollegeSwimming.com
All-America Team for the second time.
Quinn
earned four All-Ivy first-team honors this year as a member of the 200
freestyle, 400
freestyle, 200 medley and 400 medley relay squads. He also broke a
15-year old Harvard record in the 100 freestyle en route to earning a
spot on the CollegeSwimming.com All-America honorable mention squad.
Wollner took home the Eugene
B. Wyman Trophy as Harvard's top scorer in dual meets. Wollner was a
three-time All-Ivy
League first-team selection this season after winning the 500
freestyle, 1000 freestyle and 800 freestyle relay.
Dan
Jones
helped Harvard win the annual HYP meet with a second-place finish in
the 200 butterfly (1:47.73) and was on the 400 medley relay squad that
also came in second (3:22.56). After swimming with the 200 medley relay
team that took third (1:32.65), Jones finished fourth in the 100
butterfly, grabbing the wall in 49.38.
Brunnick
was part of the event-winning 800 free relay squad at the EISL
Championship, while Diekema was a three-time All-Ivy swimmer, winning
the 200 backstroke, as well
as the 200 medley and 400 medley relay events.
Guernsey was a member of the
200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay and 800
freestyle relay champions, becoming a three-time All-Ivy pick.
Harvard
capped a perfect season with the EISL and ECAC titles. The Crimson
placed 31st at nationals and was 9-0 overall in 2007-08 in dual meets,
including an 8-0 mark in the EISL and 7-0 in the Ivy League.