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While her coach was doing a slow burn on deck, distance ace Maureen Gildea was busy setting the pool on fire in the 500-yd. freestyle. Gildea, who suffered a severe knee injury last summer and has spent most of the season recuperating from subsequent surgery, swam the best 500 freestyle of her Harvard career to win the consolation-finals-and-place ninth overall. Her time of 5:03, 98 was very close to Liz Kelly's University record...
Sophomore Maureen Gildea's gutsy swim in the 1650-yard freestyle last night also ranked as one of the finer moments of the meet. Bringing the entire Smith Swimming Center to its feet, Gildea came from six seconds behind Brown leader Carol Downey to pull even and challenge her for the lead at 1500 yards...
When the gun sounded to signal the final two lengths of the 66-length race, Reynolds turned on a powerful kick and churned home to take the contest with 17:09.43--less than two seconds ahead of Gildea's final time...
...most outstanding swim of the night for the Crimson came from sophomore Maureen Gildea. Swimming as the twelfth seed in the 500-yd. freestyle, Gildea overpowered the consolation heat, to knock eight seconds off her time and finish with the seventh fastest time...
...Gildea, who's been swimming three workouts a day recently in an attempt to overcome a series of painful knee operations, is now approaching the peak condition that made her last year's Ivy mile champ. "It feels great to be coming back," she said happily after the race...