Evidently, a Harvard education is more important than a national title.

Women's swimming team captain Corie Calfee wanted to transfer to Harvard so badly that she gave up her spot on the national championship Stanford Cardinal to come to school in Cambridge.

But since her arrival to Harvard, Calfee has been a strong force on the Crimson team. This year she will try to lead Harvard to the Ivy League Championship.

And after beating last year's Ivy champion Brown on Friday for the first time in four years, Harvard is well on its way to achieving its goal.

However, her quest to lead the team will not be easy. Just last week, Calfee was diagnosed with pneumonia, and so, for the next few weeks, she must assume a new role on the team, while she stays outside of the pool and gets healthy.

Although Calfee has settled in nicely at Harvard, the path to Cambridge was not an easy one. A native of Davis, Calif., she chose Stanford over Harvard during her senior year of high school in 1995 because she couldn't pass up a chance to swim for the national powerhouse Cardinal, which had won the NCAA championship the previous three years.

"I came to the conclusion that Harvard and Stanford were pretty comparable in all things," Calfee said. "But the Stanford swimming program was an opportunity I couldn't pass up."

"I knew that if I didn't swim at Stanford, I would always look back and wonder how fast I could have been if I had," she added.