Freshman Alison Pipitone, the only Harvard diver in the meet, put forth an strong performance and placed third in the three-meter dive—a feat all the more impressive considering the fact that she had no coach at the meet.

“It was an especially hard challenge for her because she didn’t have her head coach or her assistant coach with her,” O’Brien said. “We did the best we could in making sure she had everything she needed. It was definitely of the most impressive performances of the weekend.”

Pipitone would later finish fourth in the one-meter dive.

Meanwhile, Davidson placed third in the 400-yard IM. She also brought up the Harvard pack in the 200-yard IM, finishing seventh to O’Brien’s fourth and Ono’s sixth.

O’Brien also placed eighth in the 100-yard breaststroke and seventh in the 200-yard breaststroke.

“Having my teammates cheering for me helped me to finish high,” O’Brien said.

Skoda also performed well, placing in the top-eight in three individual events. Skoda had good swims in the 200-yard freestyle and the 200-yard backstroke—she took seventh in both—but her best performance came in the 100-yard backstroke, where she finished fourth, followed by Ono in eighth.

The last swimmer to place in the A-final for an event was senior Stephanie Greco, who took sixth in the 1600-yard freestyle and eighth in the 500-yard freestyle.

All other Crimson swimmers placed in the B-finals of their respective events. Linsenmann finished 11th in the 50-yard freestyle, O’Reilly 14th in the 100-yard butterfly, and Huber 16th in the 100-yard freestyle.

But even when swimmers weren’t completely satisfied with their own performances, they never failed to cheer their teammates on.

“[Everyone] made an effort to rally behind everyone else,” O’Brien said. “We were the only team to be up off the benches the whole meet, we never sat down. We were running up and down along side the pool.”

The Harvard women competed every one of the meet’s events but the 200-yard butterfly, in which they had no swimmer qualify in the top-16 and thus advance to the finals.

While it wasn’t a first place finish, this Crimson did well considering its number was only half that of other teams.

“I think it is a good starting off point,” Skoda said. “We don’t have a huge scholarship program and don’t have the big time swimming reputation that these other schools do, and we are looking to improve our place when we go back next year. We want to keep moving up.”

—Staff writer Abigail M. Baird can be reached at ambaird@fas.harvard.edu.