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...first Eastern title in the University's history and the end of a six-year Princeton reign, brought the sweetest satisfaction to a team loaded with record-breakers and sharp personalities. Freshman Ron Raikula, taking 13th at the NCAAs in the 200-yd. backstroke, diver Steve Schramm, advancing to national competition after hitting his head on the board in practice before the qualifying rounds, and Bobby Hackett, triumphing at the NCAAs in the face of a team let-down were just a few of the jewels in the Harvard crown...
Harvard finished 15th in 1978. The return this season of all of last year's point-scorers (Bobby Hackett, Malcolm Cooper, and the 800-yd. freestyle relay team), and the addition of world-class backstroker Ron Raikula make the Crimson's chances of equaling or improving upon that performance appear solid...
Backstrokers Geoff Seelen and Ron Raikula and individual medleyist Mike Coglin all stand realistic chances of placing among the top 12 in their respective events, but each must better his qualifying time (recorded at the Easterns) if he expects...
...Raikula, because of his 17th place ranking on the World Best Time list this summer, must be considered the strongest candidate to score. The freshman from Kansas literally cruised to victory at the Easterns in the 200-yd. backstroke and later admitted that he "probably could have gone faster if I'd have paid less attention to the other guys in the race and worried more about what I was doing...
Coglin set new Eastern, Harvard and pool records in the 200-yd. individual medley, a race he jokingly terms "a boring old bugger," and in the 400 IM touched a mere .11 seconds behind first place finisher and teammate, Ron Raikula...