Word: swam
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...Chui, Melillo, Tan, and sophomore Will Heyburn were 1.48 seconds behind with a time of 1:33.50.“The medley relay we were a little disappointed with—we were hoping to get a win in that,” Diekema said. “We swam pretty well. [Cornell was] faster than maybe we thought they’d be.”In the 400-yard freestyle relay, Tan, Jones, Heyburn, and Guernsey finished in second place in 3:06.60, and the team of Diekema, freshman Graham Frankel, sophomore Eric Taylor, and freshman Nicholas DuCille...
...stranger to the “cult sport” concept. I swam competitively through high school, and it’s the same idea. Nobody on the outside really gets what you’re doing. Competitions take hours, if not days, to complete. And parents get really, really into...
...sorting through old clothes at a Houston site for evacuees. As he searched for pants to fit a bone-thin man standing 6-ft. 5, the man told his story: he'd been trapped with a group of elderly without food or water. Every day for four days he swam out a second-story window to a nearby store, dragging supplies back through the polluted waters. Lindahl was transfixed by the man's quiet heroism. And that's when it clicked. He would get survivors to interview other survivors, to keep their experiences alive for future generations...
...least. Kolbe is an S3 swimmer. Outside the pool, she has to use a wheelchair to get around. Her coaches describe her as a woman with a “positive outlook and contagious smile” who was willing to try whatever they threw at her. When she swam for Harvard’s varsity team, she was the only disabled athlete on the team. Just to get to practice, she had to catch a shuttle and wheel into Blodgett Pool. But Becca V. Agoglia, Kolbe’s swim coach for her junior and senior years at Harvard...
...least. Kolbe is an S3 swimmer. Outside the pool, she has to use a wheelchair to get around. Her coaches describe her as a woman with a “positive outlook and contagious smile” who was willing to try whatever they threw at her. When she swam for Harvard’s varsity team, she was the only disabled athlete on the team. Just to get to practice, she had to catch a shuttle and wheel into Blodgett Pool. But Becca V. Agoglia, Kolbe’s swim coach for her junior and senior years at Harvard...