Harvard women's swimming and diving: underdogs no more.
Going into this weekend it had been four years since Harvard (4-0, 4-0 Ivy) defeated Brown (1-1, 1-1) in either its dual-meet match-up or at the Ivy Championships, but that streak has now been snapped in a major way, as Harvard won 193-106 at Blodgett Pool on Friday.
Then yesterday, a tired Harvard squad took down a much-improved Columbia team (1-1, 1-1), headed by Olympic gold medalist Christina Teuscher, 176.5-123.5.
Harvard 193, Brown 106
From the very first event, the Crimson seized control of the meet's momentum and never looked back.
In that medley relay, sophomore Janna McDougall gave Harvard an early lead with her 27.80 second backstroke split, senior Alexis Todor added to the lead with a sub-30 second breaststroke leg, freshman Anna Fraser used her 25.30 butterfly leg to buffer that slight lead, and sophomore Sarah Murphy brought home the freestyle leg to edge out Brown by less than one-tenth of a second.
Harvard may have won the relay by only a split-second, but the victory had a tidal wave effect.
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