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...Here," according to Maura Costin, the Kornelia Ender of the Radcliffe swim team, "the decision is yours. They (the Byerly Hallers) basically say: 'You know what we have to offer. If you take it, fine, if not, that's OK too.' At Princeton, I was taken out to dinner and always received letters and telephone calls from the coach. If I had gone to Princeton, I would have felt like I had to swim." Obviously, this low-key approach (what other approach would be used at Harvard?) works (and not just for athletes. We're here, right...
Going into the last four events of the meet, the crucial section of last night's contest, UMass held a narrow 49-48 lead over the Crimson swimmers. In the first of those four events, the 500-yd. freestyle, versatile Maura Costin cruised to an easy victory, but the real story in that race was Harvard's Sharon Beckman...
...those second-place swims of Danoff and Beckman kept Harvard within four points, 64-60, with only the seven-point, winner-take-all relay ahead. And as expected, the strong relay team of Leslie Landefeld, Mary Ellen Mangano, Jane Fayer, and Maura Costin brought home the win with a time of 1:46.6, a new team record, breaking the old mark...
...other workhorse, multi-talented Costin, added wins in the 100-yd. individual medley (1:04.5) and 100-yd. butterfly (1:04.8) to her victory in the 500-yd. freestyle...
...Costin said she swam five individual events and only one relay this weekend. If she had swum one or two more relays, the women on the relay teams might have gotten medals, and more of the women would have then won that glory...