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...yd. freestyle Thursday night started things off for Liz Kelly and the Crimson. She was seeded third but none of the Harvard contingent knew how they would compare with the national competition...
...when she went out and set a new Division II national record and won in convincing fashion by wearing down the pack with a long 200-yd. sprint, it was big. The Crimson knew it would be in the thick of the competition and Kelly had shown the combination of sprinting and endurance which would take her to two more individual firsts and another Division II record...
...gets the feeling that Liz Kelly just enjoys swimming, that glory and records are not what she is after. She likes the challenge, the new strategy that a race brings. "Each race is so different," she says. The 200-yd. freestyle is almost an all-out sprint while in the 1650--a mile--"I count laps. After 500 yards, I just start thinking about keeping my stroke together. It begins to hurt so much...
...still really psyched," Walsh said last night, adding that today will be the team's big test. With the 1650-yd. freestyle, 100-yd. freestyle and the 50-yd. backstroke still left to do, Gina Stuart and Katie Kelley will join the ranks of Harvard's swimmers, putting all six of the Crimson stars in the water...
Seeded first in today's 400-yd. freestyle relay, and riding high on a spectacular performance so far, the team will probably make a lot more waves before they toss in the towel tomorrow night...