CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, January 27. LED by a record-breaking performance by junior diver Samantha Papadakis, the Harvard women's swimming and diving team won the day's first 11 events and swam the remaining three as exhibitions to claim a 161-74 win against New Hampshire Friday at Blodgett Pool in the Crimson's final home dual meet of the season.<\/p>\n
Papadakis set school and pool records with her score of 356.48 in the three-meter diving, finishing off a sweep of the diving events. The records had stood since Jenny Greene notched 343.75 points against Cornell in 1988. Senior Annika Giesbrecht placed second in the three-meter with a score of 298.43. Papadakis earlier won the one-meter with 321.45 points, narrowly missing Greene's school record of 324.15, set in 1987.<\/p>\n
Lindsay Hart had a hand in three victories for the Crimson (6-1). She started off the 400-yard medley relay, which fellow junior Jaclyn Pangilinan, senior LeeAnn Chang and freshman Alexandra Clarke finished off in 3:54.39. Crimson teams took the top three spots in the event to start the day with a 15-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Two other seniors joined Chang as event winners in their final home dual meet. Noelle Bassi won the 200 butterfly in 2:03.80, while Chang paced third. Laurin Weisenthal won the 1,650 freestyle in 17:25.76, leading a Crimson sweep of the top three places. Classmate Kelly Blondin placed third in the event, a spot behind freshman Katie Faulkner.<\/p>\n
Hart would go on to win the 200 individual medley in 2:09.25 and the 200 backstroke in 2:04.99. She led a 1-2-3-4 Harvard finish in the 200 IM, as freshman Kay Foley, senior Jessica Davidson and sophomore Kelly Mooney followed her to the wall. Senior Kara O'Reilly was second to Hart in the 200 back.<\/p>\n
Foley had a win of her own in the 500 free, touching in 5:08.73, one spot ahead of Blondin. Fellow freshman Sophie Morgan won the 50 free in 25.14 seconds and finished 0.06 seconds off junior Amanda Slaight's pace of 54.13 in the 100. Senior co-captain Kyle Cutter placed third in the 50 free, her final collegiate event at Blodgett.<\/p>\n
Junior Meaghan Colling accounted for Harvard's other victory, claiming the 200 free in 1:55.67.<\/p>\n
The win gets the Crimson back on the winning track following a loss to No. 22 Rutgers that ended Harvard's 25-dual win streak and heading into its double-dual meet with Princeton and Yale that will determine the Ivy League dual-meet champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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