Led by five graduating seniors our ECAC squad captured the Men's
Championship. Alex Paddington,
Nick Cirella, Pat Morrissey, David Sanford, and Kevin Koslosky each
contributed and finished off their
careers in style. The guys took advantage of the opportunity to swim
fast and set the tone for the Eastern
team headed to Princeton. I'm proud of their individual and team
performance.
As always thanks for your support
Tim
We hope to see you at Easterns!
Harvard Wins ECAC Open Championship
Tommy Gray won the 1,650-yard freestyle to pace Harvard to the ECAC title
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Tommy Gray won the 1,650-yard freestyle to pace Harvard to the ECAC title
*CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --* Paced by Tommy Gray
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win in the 1,650-yard freestyle, Harvard's men's swimming and diving
team completed a wire-to-wire win by taking the ECAC Open Championship
Sunday afternoon at Blodgett Pool.
While Gray's win was Harvard's only event win in the 20-event meet, the
Crimson's depth proved to be the difference as Harvard consistently was
able to place multiple swimmers in the championship finals.
Harvard won the meet with 513 points to finish well ahead of
second-place Marist, which scored 458.5 points. Columbia was third with
387.5 points, followed by Johns Hopkins (378), Rider (369), Binghamton
(366), Yale (358), Penn (236.5), Loyola (159) and Iona (114.5) to round
out the top 10. Eighteen schools scored points in the three-day event.
Gray, who had taken second in the 500 freestyle in Friday's opening day
of competition, cruised to a six-second win the 1,650 as he clocked
15:59.58. Gray was one of three Crimson swimmers in the top eight as Tim
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took sixth and Kevin Koslosky
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was eighth.
Freshman Michael Dunn
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reached the championship final of the 200 backstroke and delivered a
third-place finish, while senior Patrick Morrissey
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followed with a sixth-place effort in the 100 freestyle.
Senior Nick Cirella
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took third in the 200 breaststroke, while Harvard had two of the top
four finishers in the 200 butterfly. Freshman Rick McKellar
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touched in second place, while first-year man Robert Lynch
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was fourth.
The Crimson took ninth in the closing 400 freestyle relay, but Harvard's
lead proved to be insurmountable.
Harvard will look for back-to-back championships next weekend as the
Crimson competes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League
championships at Princeton's DeNunzio Pool.
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