Word: swim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Harvard women's swim team arrived in Los Angeles last year for its annual training trip, Coach Vicki Hays tried to recruit someone to help with the driving duties. But when she asked her athletes if any of them had ever driven a van, everyone remained silent...
Hays recalls being "pleasantly surprised" two summers ago when she received a letter from Calvert informing her that the cadet intended to swim for the Crimson in the upcoming season...
Calvert's performance on the swim team never reflected the problems she had with her housing situation. With fellow Co-Captain Jeanne Floyd, Calvert made Harvard's middle-distance corps one of the finest in the Ivy League and among the top in the entire East Coast. And by the end of her fist season in a Crimson suit, Calver had qualified for Nationals in two individual events, the 200 back and the 500 free, and as a member of the 800 freestyle relay...
...wouldn't get into the water because it was always cold," she recalls. "They had to lure me into the water with those flotation eggs and they made the swim with them." Calvert persisted and eventually passed the beginners' test...
...first time in the history of the Harvard women's swim team, the aquawomen (4-2) can claim a two game winning streak against Yale Last night's 95-54 drubbing of the Bulldogs (3-2) at Blodgett Pool was not the "close battle" that Vicki Hays anticipated...