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...athletic and swimming administration at Harvard took no particular interest in potential swimmers before they sent in their applications. Other schools might be writing regularly, offering scholarships, sending an assistant coach to talk to the swimmer, and paying for campus visits but at Harvard the only direct pre-admission pressure came from zealous alumni...
...swimmer who chose to come to Harvard never did so primarily because of the swimming program here. For a number of the swimmers the switch to Harvard's program resulted in a big drop from intensive, big-time high school and AAU programs...
...swimmer entering the freshman program at Harvard knew that no one expected him to work that hard and soon found out that there were a 100 better things to do than go an extra 4,000 to 8,000 yards. With almost no exception, swimmers began scheduling swimming into their lives rather than their lives around swimming...
...freshman team provided an ideal transition point in the de-emphasisation of the importance of swimming while providing the opportunity to work out, try out intercollegiate swimming, get to know one's classmates, and have a good time. Every single swimmer that swam on a freshman team, the old coaches, and the Harvard athletic administration state that a required freshman program is a good idea...
Although he has already established himself as one of the outstanding individual swimmers in Harvard history. Mitchell, for the most part a quiet person, has a lot to say about the relationship between the individual swimmer and the team...