Sophomore Dan Shevchik and senior Michael Im turned in explosive swims in the backstroke events. Im placed 14th in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:45.41 while Shevchik, who swam the maximum three individual events, placed 19th. In addition to helping the medley relays, Im also sprinted to a 22nd-place finish in the 100 backstroke, touching at 48.59.

Shevchik, who holds the school record in the 400 IM, placed 13th in the event at NCAAs, clocking 3:48.75 to beat out Texas sophomore Miki Halika. Shevchik also took 27th in the 200-yard individual medley.

Covering the butterfly races for the Crimson was junior Kyle Egan. Egan just missed breaking his own school record as he swam to 23rd place in the100 fly, clocking 48.36. He also placed 35th in the 200-yard version of the event.

Freshman Rassan Grant represented Harvard in the breaststroke events, tying with senior Bryson Tan of Eastern Michigan to place 18th in the 100 breast-both swimmers clocked 54.91. Grant, who holds both the 100- and 200- breaststroke school records, placed 31st in the 200.

All Harvard's NCAA qualifiers teamed up to swim the medley relays. Most remarkable was the Crimson's 16th-place finish in the 400 medley. After tying for 16th place in preliminaries with Penn State, the team of Im, Grant, Egan, and Cole dropped 1.5 seconds to win the swim-off and advance to finals that night. The same team also placed 19th in the 200 freestyle relay.

Freshman sprinter Brad Burns made waves as he joined the team for the 200 medley, replacing Cole for the freestyle leg, clocking an impressive 19.95 en route.