Word: yntema
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...Yntema is only a freshman, and with the potential he possesses he could very well take a national title in the fly as early as early as next season. But he is not the only talented Crimson swimmer that will be returning. Every member of this year's 8-1 team has another year left, at least, and most are only freshmen and sophomores...
Speaking of ending seasons, the Harvard swimming team finished off an incredible winter this weekend in Knoxville, Tenn., placing 16th behind winner Indiana in the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. The Crimson's performance, except for Hess Yntema's fantastic third in the butterfly, was slightly anticlimactic, coming as it did after a league championship dual meet season and a strong third in the Easterns. Yntema's excellent 1:50.806 in the 200-yd. butterfly was, however, the climax of a long and arduous training program. Although he had been pointing towards the nationals all season long, Yntema's performances...
...bronze medal swim by Yntema pushed Harvard's three-day point total to 19--the Crimson's best showing in over a decade--and was the finest individual performance in the nationals by a Harvard swimmer since Bruce Hunter took the 50-yd. freestyle crown...
...Besides Yntema's third, which, added to an earlier 11th in the 100-yd. fly gave the freshman star 14 points out of the Crimson's total of 19, it was not a particularly noteworthy final day for Harvard. None of the other Crimson performances were fast enough to qualify, although the team added two more record swims to bring to seven the number of University standards broken in the meet...
...Yntema qualified seond behind eventual winner Gary Hall of Indiana, lowering his Harvard record to 1:51.34. In the finals, he took third in the extremely fast record time of 1:50.806. Yntema has now lowered the 200-yd. fly record a phenomenal six seconds since breaking it in the second meet of the year...