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Geoff Rathgeber capped off an impressive junior season with two top-20 finishes at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center this weekend. Swimming in three races over the three-day event, the lone Crimson representative earned All-American status while scoring six points, enough for a 34th-place finish as a team. The junior began the meet on Thursday with a scorching time of 1:45.37 in the 200-yard individual medley, good enough for third in the B final and 11th overall. He qualified for the second-level final with a time...
...nerve-racking,” Weiss said. “But we had four, and three of them back-to-back.” Tri-captain Max Meltzer (141 lbs.) came back to win two straight matches after a first-round loss before clinching All-American status by defeating Michael Keefe of Chattanooga in a 13-9 decision. Meltzer would finish eighth after losing to Jeff Jaggers of Ohio State, 7-1, in the seventh-place bout. “I had a tough first round again,” said Meltzer, who also lost in the first round...
...truly unsettling part of the story lies not in the text of the editorial or the critiques it elicited, but in something entirely outside of the authors’ control: the credence the international media has given their grousing and the blind deference to status that such validation represents. For in giving weight to the authors’ most basic assumption—that had Oxford been more accommodating and convenient, it might have satisfied their expectations—the media substantiated the idea, widespread among colleges catering to student whims, that the frustrations of everyday life can diminish...
Empowered by the friendly crowd, inspired by their predecessors, and motivated by their underdog status, the players have all the key ingredients to come away with another spectacular triumph...
...Gipper would probably have had little patience for all the fretting his party is doing over its brand. But he also understood, because he embodied the idea, that progress comes from going up against the status quo. To become "creators of the future," as he called his compatriots, he might have suggested that they look back to their past...