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Rising senior David Guernsey.
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senior David Guernse*y*
*/Men's Swimming off to Omaha for US Olympic Trials
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - *Recent graduates *Sam Wollner
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'08* (New York, N.Y.) and *Geoff Rathgeber
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'08* (Kensington, Conn.) lead a group of Harvard swimmers that have
qualified for the 2008 U.S. Men's Swimming Olympic Trials which will be
held at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb., June 29-July 6. Rising seniors
*David Guernsey
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(Essex, Conn.) and *Bill Jones
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(Fremont, Mich.), rising junior *Alex Meyer
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*(Ithaca, N.Y.) and *David Cromwell* '06 (Missoula, Montana) will also
race for spots on the U.S. Olympic Team that will compete at the 2008
Beijing Games in August
*Cromwell* '06 will competing in the 100 and 200 Backstroke seeded 5th
in both events. David finished 2nd in the 100 Backstroke last summer at
US Nationals.
*Wollner*, a three-time All-Ivy Leaguer and co-captain in 2007-08, paces
the Crimson contingent as he will swim in three events (200 freestyle,
400 freestyle, 1500 freestyle)
*Rathgeber* has the sixth-best personal time for American swimmers in
the 200 IM will also swim the 400IM and 100 Breast. Rathgeber was a
seven-time All-Ivy and co-captain in 2007-08, was named the Outstanding
Swimmer at the EISL Championships and was presented with the William J.
Bingham Award as Harvard's top male athlete and the John P Reardon Award
at the 2008 Varsity Club Senior Letterwinners Banquet.
*Guernsey*, a three-time All-Ivy Leaguer and co-captain for 2008-09,
will race in the 50 and 100 free.
*Jones,* won five events at the EISL Championships and finished 23rd at
NCAAs will compete in the 100 butterfly.
*Meyer*, finaled in 3 events at the EISL Championships will compete in
the 400 and 1500 freestyle.
*/The USA and NBC television networks will broadcast one-hour of
coverage each day during the U.S. Olympic Trials from 8-9 p.m ET. /*
*/Live results can be found at
www.omegatiming.com//*
*/Meet information and event schedule at:
www.usaswimming.org/**.*
*/The 2008 Olympic games will be held in Beijing, China Aug. 8-24, 08. /*
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