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Janna McDougall, Ivy finalist and seasoned sprinter, will lead the Crimson into this season. After a rough transition into college swimming, McDougall bounced back last year with college and lifetime bests for Harvard. McDougall will contend for the Ivy championship in the 50-yard freestyle, an event she currently leads the league in with a time of 23.81. She will also shoot for the 100-yard freestyle and backstroke titles...

Author: By Michael C. Sabala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimming Comes Back Stronger in 2001 | 11/7/2001 | See Source »

...Call Me Babe) Zaharias could traipse nonchalantly from being the greatest female track star to being the best female golfer. As recently as the late '50s, Althea Gibson, who won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open twice each with a racquet, also enjoyed a swell career with a driver. Today sprinter Marion Jones, who starred in college hoops at North Carolina, would love to moonlight in the WNBA but knows she can't. If she shifts focus for a nano, she's lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Women, A Golden Age | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

Lambert’s personal best times in the 100 and 200-meter dash are significantly faster than the winning times this past season at Outdoor Heptagonals, the championship meet of the Ivy schools. No Harvard sprinter placed in the finals of either event at Outdoor Heps this season...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sprinter from Harvard Places Fourth at U.K. Nationals | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...Taiwan's rigorous academic meritocracy, good students are praised and respected; great students become the object of local pride. A-Bian was the greatest student Tainan county had ever seen, his intelligence and perspicacity as obvious and tangible as an Olympic sprinter's speed. "He was always the brightest in his classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. "He never picked a fight," says Chen Wen-chuan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Chen the One? | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...Freshman sprinter Brad Burns made waves as he joined the team for the 200 medley, replacing Cole for the freestyle leg, clocking an impressive 19.95 en route...

Author: By Susan M. Brunka, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cole Leads M. Swim Team to No. 22 Finish | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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