12/3/05
Hello from Athens Georgia. The team is making a good mid-season showing
at the Georgia Invitational. For meet results visit the Athletic Department
web-site at:
http://gocrimson.collegesports.com
Crimson Third After Day 1 at Georgia
Rathgeber, 400 medley relay team make NCAA
*Dec. 2, 2005*
Results
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/stats/2005-2006/results-friday-day-one-fall-invite-2005.html>
*ATHENS, Ga. - * Members of the Harvard men's swimming and diving team
placed in every individual event, and both relay teams finished in the
top three to lead the Crimson to third place after the first day of the
Bulldog Invitational, a three-day meet hosted by Georgia and featuring
three of the top 17 teams in the nation.
With 168 points, Harvard sits 21 points ahead of No. 17 Virginia and 29
ahead of South Carolina. The competition is tight at the top, with the
11th-ranked host Bulldogs hold a 283-282 lead on No. 12 Tennessee. No. 1
Auburn is competing only in the diving events.
Sophomore Geoff Rathgeber
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/rathgeber_geoff00.html>
provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships in two events,
including his third-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley. He
had the meet's fastest morning preliminary time of 1:50.33, then
improved to 1:48.75 in the final to make the NCAA "B" cut.
Rathgeber also helped Harvard make the "B" cut in the final event of the
evening, the 400 medley relay. Senior backstroker David Cromwell
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/cromwell_david00.html>
started the race and was followed by Rathgeber, freshman Bill Jones
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/jones_bill00.html>
and senior Mark Knepley
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/knepley_mark00.html>.
Knepley swam his freestyle leg in 45.17 to pass Virginia's top relay
squad and finish in second in 3:17.97. Tennessee won the race.
The 200 free relay team of Cromwell, sophomore Pat Quinn
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/quinn_pat00.html>,
Rathgeber and Knepley placed third in 1:21.63, trailing Georgia and
Tennessee and ahead of South Carolina and Virginia.
Cromwell also scored individually, taking sixth in the 50 free in 20.94
seconds. Harvard used its depth in the event as freshman David Guernsey
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/guernsey_david00.html>
placed12th, Quinn was 13th and sophomore Brendan Mitchell
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/mitchell_brendan00.html>
finished 16th. The trio combined for 10 points, giving the Crimson 23
from that event.
Senior Danil Rybalko
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/rybalko_danil00.html>
placed fifth in the three-meter diving with 304.85 points. Sophomore Sam
Wollner
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/wollner_sam00.html>
and freshman Eric Lynch
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/lynch_eric00.html>
both scored points in the 500 free. Wollner placed seventh in 4:29.91,
while Lynch was 10th with a time of 4:31.65.
The meet continues with Saturday's preliminaries at 9:30 a.m., followed
by finals at 5 p.m. Sunday's sessions will be at 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.
*Bulldog Invitational Day 1 Team Standings*
1. Georgia 283
2. Tennessee 282
3. Harvard 168
4. Virginia 147
5. South Carolina 139
6. Auburn Diving 16
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/harv-m-swim-body.html>DAY
2
Cromwell Wins; Harvard Holds Strong at Third
<http://gocrimson.collegesports.com/sports/m-swim/recaps/120305aac.html>
Senior co-captain David Cromwell won one race and placed third in
another, both in NCAA Championship provisional qualifying times, to help
the Harvard men's swimming and diving team remain in third place after
the second day of competition Saturday in the Bulldog Invitational at
Gabrielsen Natatorium. Sophomore Geoff Rathgeber also placed in two
events, and he and Cromwell helped Harvard place third in the 200-yard
medley relay.
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 56
1. University of Tennessee 702.5 2. University of Georgia 700
3. Harvard University Men 415.5 4. University of Virginia 388
5. University of South Carolina 336 6. Auburn University Diving 44
7. Ucla 34 8. Miami University 14