The group needs to come together quickly because their biggest non-tournament meet will come early. December eighth marks the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Tri-meet at Yale.
"We want to beat Yale and Princeton," said Alpert. "Princeton is our only real competition in the Eastern Division."
Harvard's greatest strength appears to lie in its freestyle swimmers. Returning is the accomplished Brain Younger, a distance freestyle swimmer who was the top-scoring individual swimmer at last year's Eastern meet and was an All-America in the 1650 and 500 freestyle.
"Brain Younger is, of course expected to have a great season," said Cornue. "He has a real shot at making the Olympic team."
The rest of the free styles are also expected to perform well.
"We hope to have most of the finalists in many of the freestyle events at Easterns," said Alpert "Matuszak, Younger, Kurmakov, and Samuel are really big competitors that should do well."
Kurmakov and Samuel are both freshmen, and thus the pattern already seems to be forming for this year's squad. If the Crimson is to achieve its goals, the freshmen will have to live up to their advanced billing.