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Snatching a school record away from a fellow Harvard athlete is a tough task. But when the record is already yours, it makes the job a little bit easier. That was the situation facing swimming sensation Noelle Bassi on Friday evening in the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team’s 198-121 win over No. 24 Kansas. The junior transfer from Franklin Lakes, N.J. left Tennessee to come to Harvard last year and has since flourished in the Crimson garb. Bassi’s bread and butter is the 200-yard butterfly, and her previous...
...scholarship program.“We feel really good,” said senior co-captain Joanna Lee. “For us to beat them, for us to beat a scholarship school, that is really huge for us.”The Crimson was led by junior Noelle Bassi, last year’s national champion in the 200-yard butterfly. Bassi won three events, including the 200-yard butterfly, in which she bested the Jayhawks’ Big 12 swimmer of the month, Ashley Ledigh, setting a new school record in the process. She also...
...through strong, though.” The Crimson was able to win 11 of the 13 events in which it competed. Harvard swam the 14th event of the meet, the 400-yard individual medley, as an exhibition. Sophomores Lindsay Hart and Jackie Pangilinan, junior Emily Wilson, and senior Noelle Bassi each swam a leg of the opening relay to take the first win of the meet in the 400-yard medley relay. “We just went in ready to go,” junior co-captain Jessica Davidson said. “We wanted to try our hardest...
...where she was followed by Mooney, who grabbed the third-place spot.Ono was able to rack up her second top-three finish when she won the 200-yard backstroke, with Wilson finishing in third.Ono was not the only one who recorded multiple top-three finishes. Chang and senior Noelle Bassi also registered two top individual performances.Chang led a one-two finish in the 200-yard breaststroke, with senior captain Joanna Lee taking second place, and was the only top-three finisher in the 200-yard butterfly with her second-place time.Bassi did well in the 100-yard butterfly with...
...Bassi and Pangilinan earned Honorable Mention All-America honors last year, and Hart was one of the league’s top backstrokers as a freshman last year. Distance swimmers Kelly and Stacy Blondin and breaststroker/freestyler Bridget O’Conner will once again provide valuable points for Harvard...