Junior co-captain Brenda Taylor ran on the 4x100 team that broke the record. That would not be the only school record she would beat on the day.

In her next event, the 100-meter high hurdles, she ran a time of 13.71 seconds that was just ahead of her school-record time of 13.73 from the Brown-Dartmouth tri-meet in April.

Taylor ran her third event of the day, the 100-meter sprint, just 40 minutes later. But she showed no signs of wear and tear. She became the first Crimson woman ever to crack the 12-second mark with a 11.97 run, .07 faster than the school record of Meredith Rainey '90.

In between those two stunning performances by Taylor, came a great run by junior Marna Schutte in the 400 meter. Her time of 54.54 seconds was well ahead of her previous personal best, and was nearly two seconds ahead of the competition.

But by mid-afternoon, the day started to turn sour for the two star Crimson runners.

Taylor's fourth event in as many hours was the 400-meter intermediate hurdles, the event for which she had qualified for the Olympic Trials. But Taylor suffered a stunning upset at the hands of Navy senior Joanna Helm, whose time of 58.44 beat Taylor by half a second.

Then in the 200-meter run which immediately followed, Schutte put up a great time of 24.53 seconds. But Brown's Lindsay Taylor, Brenda's sister, was just a little better with a time of 24.44 seconds.

The meet came to a disappointing conclusion for the Crimson with the 4x400 relay. While the event had been a strong one for Harvard in recent Heptagonal meets, the team--which included Taylor running her fifth event of the day--finished only fourth.