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Perhaps the most amazing thing about Hackett's feat was that he didn't even seem to be swimming his hardest. Hackett cruised easily through the first five laps of the eight-lap race, his long, smooth strokes keeping him even with Navy's Dan Gildae. On the sixth lap, Hackett exploded--turning on the gas seemingly at will-and left everyone else far back in his wake. He went on to win the race by half...
...really controlling it for the first 100. I knew I had to come back in the I.M., so I just wanted to be smooth and strong," Hackett explained afterwards...
...Hackett came back indeed. After negative splitting the 200-yd. freestyle (negative split means to swim the second 100 yards in a faster time than the first 100--a difficult task, as any swimmer will tell you), the prodigious freshman got to rest for as long as it took Malcolm Cooper to rocket back and forth across the pool before he swam the 200-yd. Individual Medley. He won that race, beating out Crimson co-captain Duncan Pyle, in the very impressive time...
...scary thing about Hackett's achievements is that he has yet to swim his two best dual meet events--the 500 and 1000-yd, freestyles. When he does, the next chapter of the record book is sure to be rewritten...
...highlight of the meet was the long-awaited debut of Olympian Bobby Hackett in a Crimson suit (see profile, page 6). Hackett lived up to his reputation as a world-class swimmer by smashing the pool, meet, and University records in his first event, the 200-yd. freestyle. The freshman from Fordham Prep then returned about two minutes later to whip the field in the 200 Individual Medley...