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Meyer competed in the 1,650-yard freestyle last night in Ohio State’s McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion, taking 14th in a time of 14:58.14. By finishing in the top 16, Meyer earned All-American honors—the first such distinction for a male Harvard swimmer since Geoff Rathgeber...
This past weekend, co-captain Alexandra Clarke accomplished a feat that hasn’t been achieved by a female Harvard swimmer in nearly four years: she secured All-American status with a stellar 16th-place finish at the NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships at University Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, Minn...
...last female Crimson swimmer to earn the distinction was Noelle Bassi ‘07 in the 200-yard butterfly...
Attaining All-American status was only the crowning jewel on the co-captain’s already-decorated college career. The Phoenix, Ariz. native has received the Sharon Beckman Award, given to Harvard’s most outstanding swimmer, for two consecutive seasons. In her main event—the 1,650 free—Clarke has posted top-30 finishes at the NCAA championships all four years. Although she is the first female Crimson swimmer to gain All-American status since 2006, Clarke is the first to specifically do so in the 1,650 in over 18 years...
...Michael Phelps wowed the world by capturing eight gold medals in the swimming events he competed in, quickly garnering him that title. But from another perspective, this is hardly fair based on the Olympic structure. There is little doubt that Phelps is the greatest swimmer of our time, but swimming allows for many more medal opportunities than other sports. How can it be fair to reason that Phelps is greater than an Olympic volleyball player, who has only one medal to compete for playing. If both athletes win all of the medals they were able to compete for, naming Phelps...