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No. 22 Men's Swimming and Diving Sets Three Blodgett Records, Leads
After Day One of EISL Championship
Courtesy: Harvard Athletic Communications
Release: 03/06/2008
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Quinn helped No. 22 Harvard set a new pool, meet and EISL record in the
400 medley relay.
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Quinn helped No. 22 Harvard set a new pool, meet and EISL record in the
400 medley relay.
*CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - *Crimson swimmers set three pool records on day one
of the 2008 EISL Championship held at Blodgett Pool, helping No. 22
Harvard to a first-place showing.
The 400 medley relay quartet of freshman Jordan Diekema
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senior Geoff Rathgeber
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junior Bill Jones
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and senior Pat Quinn
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closed out the racing with a pool, meet and EISL record with a
collective mark of 3:13.34. The Crimson broke the Blodgett mark that was
set back in 1981.
With the victory in the final event of the day, Harvard accumulated a
total 485 points, 83 more than second-place Princeton (402). Navy is in
third with 280 points, while Yale is in fourth place with 260. Harvard
earned both 64-point events Thursday, the 400 medley relay and the 200
freestyle relay, to take a comfortable lead.
Rathgeber was a part of two other Crimson record-breaking performances
as he established a new pool standard in the 200 IM, finishing with an
NCAA "A" time of 1:45.62. With that mark, Rathgeber is an automatic
qualifier for the NCAA Championships March 27 in Federal Way, Wash. The
previous Blodgett mark of 1:46.25 was set in 1980 by UCLA's William
Barrett. Rathgeber already owns the meet and EISL record for the 200 IM
(1:44.67), which he posted last season.
Freshman Justin Davidson
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and senior Michael Bowen
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joined Rathgeber in the top 10 of the 200 IM. Davidson (1:50.99) swam
eighth, and Bowen (1:50.84) was the 10th swimmer to finish in the event.
Rathgeber was also a member of the 200 freestyle relay that placed
first, setting another Blodgett Pool record in the process. With Yale
leading after the first leg, the Crimson caught up and tied the event.
In the final left, Quinn, a senior sprinter, swam past his Bulldog
counterpart, and touched the wall first for the victory. Quinn,
Rathgeber, junior David Guernsey
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and freshman Will Heyburn
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swam a collective time of 1:19.31.
This was the second time that Harvard broke the pool record in the 200
free relay Thursday, as these same Crimson swimmers broke the mark set
in 2000 during the preliminaries (1:19.96.)
Harvard won its fourth race when senior Sam Wollner
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and junior Eric Lynch
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finished 1-2 in the 500 freestyle. Wollner swam the course in 4:22.13,
while Lynch was right behind in 4:22.17. With those marks, both swimmers
posted NCAA "B" qualifying times. Sophomores Mason Brunnick
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and Alex Meyer
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placed 4-5 in the 500 freestyle with times of 4:24.81 and 4:26.09,
respectively, which are both NCAA "B" cuts. Harvard freshman Blake
Lewkowitz
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was 10th (4:28.77), while classmate Douwe Yntema
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finished 12th (4:29.25).
In the 1-mtr dive, senior Lucas Sanders
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posted the fourth best score on the board with 282.75.
Crimson swimmers went 4-5 in the 50 freestyle as Quinn and Guernsey were
the quickest Harvard swimmers in the event. Quinn touched the wall in
20.23, and Guernsey had a time of 20.38. Heyburn (20.80) and Bill Jones
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(20.94) were 11th and 12th, respectively.
The Crimson entered the meet as the ECAC and EISL regular-season
champion after posting a 9-0 record (8-0 EISL, 7-0 Ivy League) during
the year's dual meets. Harvard men's swimming and diving has won 21 EISL
titles in its stellar history.
The EISL Championships continue Friday with the preliminaries at 11 a.m.
and the finals at 6 p.m.