Record: 9-2, 8-1 EISL

Coach: Mike Chasson

Highlights: Wins Easterns; places 11th at NCAAs

Seniors: Rob Anagnoson, Matt Cornue, Mike Kiedel, Eric Matuszak, Greg Mone, Ben Odell, Joaquim Ribeiro, Dave Schwartz

Simply put, the Harvard men's swimming and diving team had an incredible season this year, placing 11th at NCAAs with a final score of 136.0 led by eight All-American swimmers, including senior Mike Kiedel, junior Greg Wriede and sophomore Tim Martin.

"Finishing in 11th place at NCAAs is a particularly high achievement for a non-scholarship school," said senior Joaquim Ribeiro.

The NCAA relays stood out, as Harvard broke two team records. The 800 Freestyle relay team of co-captain Eric Matuszak, junior Alex Kurmakov, senior Matt Cornue and senior anchor Mike Kiedel took third place with a time of 6:25.92.

Kiedel shined in particular, as he made up three places over the final 200 to bring the team from sixth to third place, recording a split time of 1:34.4. The same four swimmers also set a new team record in the 400 Freestyle relay with a time of 2:55.75.

Moreover, Kiedel broke two individual team records at the NCAAs. He took fourth with a time of 1:34.94 in the 200 Freestyle and broke the team record in the preliminaries for the 500 Freestyle with a time of 4:19.30, taking fifth in finals. Kiedel's outstanding performance at NCAAs reflected the tremendous success that he maintained throughout the entire season.

Freshman Greg Walker, this year's only member of the men's diving team, also qualified for NCAAs and notched a final personal score of 331.70 from the platform.

Completing the triumph of the event, all of the team members who attended NCAAs were named All-Americans.

There were several major highlights throughout the season prior to NCAAs. Senior Greg Mone had the fastest start of the year in the 50 Freestyle against Penn--the final meet of his Harvard career--although he finished the race in sixth place with a time of 22.83. Harvard slaughtered Penn, 233-65.

Sophomore Brian Cadman clocked a top-10 all-time Harvard performance in the 400 Individual Medley, taking third with a time of 3:57.15 at the Texas Invitational.

In the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton (H-Y-P) dual meet, Harvard had an easy win over Yale with a final score of 130-33, but Princeton proved too tough, and Harvard lost, 114-49.

The score at H-Y-P was due in part to the fact that the entire Yale and Princeton teams were shaved and tapered, ready to swim their best times in this meet. Harvard, however, chose to save its best times for Easterns and NCAAs. Only a fraction of the team would continue on to postseason events and, as a result, only those swimmers for whom H-Y-P was the last important meet were shaved and tapered.