Word: 500m
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior Katie Liu led the Crimson with victories in the 100m backstroke and the 500m freestyle. Senior co-captain Sarah Durkin, sophomores Keiko Iwahara and Jennifer Steffen and freshman Christen Deveney each came away with two victories--an individual win, along with a victory in the 200m Medley Relay...
Other first-place finishers included junior Karl Scheer in the 100m freestyle, sophomore Alex Kurmakov in the 50m freestyle, Younger in the 200m backstroke and freshman Denis Sirringhaus in the 500m freestyle and the 400m relay team...
...Sprints as a chance to prove themselves against some real competition. The hardest part of Radcliffe's season has been finding good lightweight squads to race against. For the most part, the Black-and-White has won its races by open water, leaving opponents well behind by the first 500m mark...
This year's Crimson representatives did not just participate; they excelled. In the collegiate men's division, Harvard sophomore Bill Cooper reeled in Northeastern oarsman Craig Wigginton over the last 500m of the race, and won the prized hammer. Awarded in recognition of the strength required to beat an ergometer into submission, and not in the pejorative sense in which the term would be applied on the water, this hardened-steel trophy epitomizes the deadly frivolity of the event. Four other Crimson rowers competed in the final...
...other men's action, junior John Mee pulled a hamstring muscle in the 500m finals and had to withdraw from the race, making the meet that much tougher for the Crimson...