Word: seelen
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Pacing the East's finest "back pack," freshman Dave Phillips topped his third place finish in Friday night's 200-yd. race with a gold medal showing in the shorter 100-yd. event. Reaching the wall right behind him, teammates Julian Bott and Geoff Seelen nailed down the next two slots for the 1-2-3 finish...
After concentrating on the freestyle sprints for the dual meet season. Geoff Seelen proved himself once again, with a 52.26 to steal the 100-yd. backstroke event for the second year in a row. Teammate Dave Phillips, who along with Julian Bott seems destined to fill the gap that Seelen's upcoming graduation will leave in the Crimson's backstroke corps, reached the wall third, following Seelen and Temple's Cooper Taylor...
Navy's Joe Murphy battled to his second 20.97 of the season to take first place honors in the 50-yd. free. Murphy's unexpected duplication of his personal best enabled him to eke out the win with Princeton's Andy O'Hara and Harvard's co-captain Geoff Seelen only inches behind...
With the evening winding down, Harvard's own Fearsome Foursome-the 400-yd. medley relay squadron of Geoff Seelen, Jim Carbone, Meier, and Mike Miao-handed coach Joe Bernal his first victory for that event in his four trips to the meet, since taking over the reins at Harvard. The winning time, 3:24.76, missed the 3:23.76 needed for NCAA's but Seelen's 51.68 on the backstroke leg earns him a career-closing trip to the meet...
...this year's seniors realize that they have never beaten the Tigers in a medley relay. Winning this race would be a nice touch for the careers of those who inaugurated the Harvard swimming dynasty three years ago. Eastern Champs -- 1980 Bobby Hackett 1650-yd. freestyle 15:14.95 Geoff Seelen 100-yd. backstroke 52.02 Ron Raikula 200-yd. backstroke 1:51.33 David Lundberg 100-yd. breaststroke 57.51 David Lundberg 200-yd. breaststroke 2:03.40 David Lundberg 200-yd. individual medley 1:52.10 Ron Raikula 400-yd. individual medley 3:59.96 Steve Schramm One-meter diving...