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While other graduating scholar-athletes have already hung up the spikes or skates, Kaplan continues to train for the Maccabiah Games, which will take place in Israel this summer. As a member of the United States delegation to what is often called the Jewish Olympics, Kaplan will spend three weeks with 4000 athletes from 41 nations...
...will be a fitting end to a career which took Kaplan from a YMCA near his home in Manalapan, N.J., to The Peddie School, renowned as a swimming powerhouse, and finally to Harvard for four stellar years with the Crimson squad...
...Kaplan's accomplishments are exceptional. He holds two Harvard records--in the 50-yd. and 100-yd. freestyle events--and was a member of the 400-yd. freestyle relay team that set the current mark. Last year he took first place in the 50-yd. freestyle at the Eastern Championships. And this season he made his fourth-straight appearance in the NCAA Championships, swimming a leg on the fifth-place medley relay team to earn All-America honors...
...Kaplan has also received several team awards, including the Harold S. Ulen Trophy for leadership and sportsmanship...
...highlight of Kaplan's Crimson career wasn't a personal triumph--that moment came in his freshman season, when Harvard won its eighth-consecutive Eastern Championship title. Swimming, for Kaplan, has meant much more than individual awards and achievements. The experience of being with the team is one he won't soon forget...