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...Harvard last year and has since flourished in the Crimson garb. Bassi’s bread and butter is the 200-yard butterfly, and her previous best in the event was 1:59.29, a mark set at the 2005 NCAA Championships. She was last year’s national champion in that race, so the fans in Cambridge had never seen Bassi turn in her fastest time. That is, until Friday, when she decided to break out her best for the home crowd. In addition to her record-setting Harvard time of 1:59.01 in the 200-yard butterfly, Bassi...
...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 won the 400-yard individual medley and the 500-yard...
...Greenwich, Conn., native was accepted into Harvard a year ago, but deferred her enrollment to concentrate on squash. Now finally a member of the second-ranked Crimson, her presence at the top of the ladder may give Harvard the advantage necessary to topple two-time defending Ivy League champion Yale. “Our strength has always been at the top and at the middle,” Harvard coach Satinder Bajwa says. “Lily could definitely make our strength count in matches that we lost last year.”Lorentzen, a four-time under...
...race wasn’t even close—the slender Pollinger was already seated nonchalantly when FM arrived out of breath. He is, after all, the national speedwalking champion...
HOPPING From the makers of the original pogo stick comes ? a super pogo stick! Invented by M.I.T.-trained physicist Bruce Middleton and developed with champion skateboarder Andy Macdonald, the Flybar mobile exercise and stunt bar enables riders to clear heights greater than 6 ft. by bouncing on a rubber-like spring system that feels similar to a trampoline...