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Susan Kim, another yardling, was the only other Harvard swimmer to take first-place laurels. As the Crimson aquawomen serenaded her with "Rock Lobster," Kim stroked quickly and efficiently to a victorious 1:12.7 in the 100-yard breast-stroke. Later she came back to take a close second place in the 50-yard breaststroke with a time...
Roberts nipped Dartmouth's Jim Chapman in the 200 individual medley. The Dartmouth swimmer, who teams with identical twin Tim and older brother Bill to give the Big Green credibility, led coming out of the turn on the freestyle leg, but began to lag in time for Roberts to pull out in front...
...Swimmers put more time and more effort into their sport than almost any other team on campus. From October right through March the swim team holds workouts twice a day, including weight sessions on Nautilus every afternoon. While most sleep through the early mornings, swimmers are doing their first workout from 6:45 to 8:15 a.m., and afternoons they return for another two-to three-hour session. On an average day each swimmer does about 400 laps of a 25-yard pool in varying combinations of strokes and intervals, staring at the black line on the bottom...
Rewards come more slowly to swimmers than to, say, hockey players who can score goals and assists, or to basketball players who can talk about point totals or rebounds. A swimmer often goes through months, or even years, of plateaus where times just cease to improve and discouragement mounts. When a time suddenly drops, or a swimmer records a personal best, few people aside from parents or members of the same team congratulate them. To the uninitiated, a swimming meet holds all of the excitement of watching the snow fall. Consequently, only spectators who can appreciate fast splits...
...Bernal had people swimming their worst events so as not to completely humiliate the Midshipmen. The only excitement of the day came from watching freshman Ben "Iron Man" Downs swim every single event of the meet in a successful effort to break a record set by another Harvard swimmer two years...