But Quinn would do more than finish second in the butterfly. Quinn also led a one-two finish in the 50-yard freestyle event, followed by Lawler in second.
As well as being the anchor to the winning 200 medley-relay team, Quinn also anchored the 200-yard freestyle relay team, helping them to a win along with juniors Brian Zingale and Mark Knepley and senior Andrew Krna. The Harvard B-team also did well, taking the third spot in the relay.
“We mixed it up a little bit and got people to do some off events, and that was true with the relays as well,” Rathgeber said. “So it was nice to win [the relays] that way.”
Knepley was also major force in this meet, aside from his first-place relay finish. He took first place in the 200-yard freestyle, followed by Krna in third, and first place in the 100-yard freestyle, followed by sophomore Alexander Paddington in third.
Junior John Hastrup had a good day at the pool, leading a one-two-three finish in the 500-yard freestyle event. He was followed by Siroky in second and Degnan-Rojeski in third. And while the 500-yard free was his only win, Hastrup finished second in the 400-yard IM, one of two events in which the Quakers took the top spot.
Junior Bill Cocks also finished second to a Penn swimmer in 200-yard backstroke followed by senior John Cole in third, the only other event that the Quakers would win in this meet. But Cocks did not settle for just a second-place finish, taking first in the 200-yard butterfly earlier in the day.
The divers were not shown up by the swimmers in this meet. Junior Danil Rybalko won both the one-meter and three-meter events. And while freshman Lucas Sanders finished in an uncharacteristic fifth place in the three-meter diving event, he took second place in the one-meter right behind Rybalko.
“[Sanders] is normally right at the top and yesterday he just had an off day,” Rathgeber said. “But I am sure he will be back for Easterns. He always comes back.”
With this win, Harvard finishes out the dual-meet season undefeated. The Crimson has a short break before hitting the pool Feb. 24-27 to compete in the ECAC Championships in Pittsburgh.
“It’s special [ending the season undefeated], but at the same time we know that we are not perfect if we don’t win Easterns,” Rathgeber said. “It’s nice on the one hand but we still have work to do to win Easterns.”
—Staff writer Abigail M. Baird can be reached at ambaird@fas.harvard.edu.