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Settling into his backstroke niche, Cromwell quickly transformed top-three performances in both distances from pleasant surprises into standard fare—highlighted by his win in the 100-yard event at H-Y-P and third place finishes at the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) Championships. But even as a rising star, Cromwell languished in the second tier of Harvard swimmers, a cut above the rest but just below former captain Dan Shevchik ’03 and John Cole ’04-’05, who consistently brought home multiple event wins at each meet, dominating...
...hoped to stop him, his opponents had missed their chance. With his earlier disillusionment squared away, Cromwell mastered the waters and tamed his challengers, rattling off 10 consecutive backstroke victories against rivals from the EISL, Notre Dame and North Carolina, punctuated by a pair of crucial wins at H-Y-P. With Princeton and Harvard slugging it out on the final day and the Tigers mounting a push that threatened to send the Crimson packing empty handed, Cromwell took to the waters in the 200-yard event and swiftly rebutted the advance, staking himself to a 1.18-second lead after...
...while the Crimson might not have had the firepower to upstage the No. 1 Midshipmen, Harvard was also bested by both Princeton and Yale, each of whom, like the Hoyas, the Crimson had already beaten to successfully defend the Goldthwait Cup at H-Y-P in the season’s final dual...
...much-anticipated H-Y-P tri-meet on Jan. 30 might well have been called the H-P, because the Elis were a non-factor throughout and were soundly defeated 245-106 by the Crimson and 272-79 by the Tigers...
Princeton won both the freestyle relays at the H-Y-P meet earlier this season as well, despite strong improvement by Harvard’s relays compared to performances in years past...