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"When I first started with the team I was a total wimp," Roberts recalls. "I almost drowned trying to stay up with the rest of the team."
Coach Joe Bernal's idea of an afternoon workout included covering three or four times the distance that Roberts swam in a week with the Bronx High School of Science swim team.
Roberts' desire to improve was and still is reflected in his consistent attendance at each week's ten practice sessions. During his first Harvard reading period, he stayed up all night, completed a Hum 9a paper at 6:45 a.m., ran to morning workout, then studied all day and--without...
"I am not quite so diligent during reading and exam period, anymore," says Roberts. "As much as I enjoy swimming, I know my future rides on math, so I put in the time with the books."
The energy Roberts puts into swimming shows in his steady improvement throughout the past two years. During that difficult first season, he first broke 30 seconds in the against Andover. Over the past two seasons he has whittled that down and on Tuesday evening he garnered a respectable 25.33. While...