Before its win over the Quakers, Harvard placed second at the Rutgers Invitational, falling 24 points shy of No. 13 Minnesota, but over 100 points ahead of Rutgers and Toledo.

“That’s a huge success for our team,” Kaufmann said. “Minnesota is a very good program, and we were very excited to race them this weekend.”

Hinkle and Mills led the charge for the Crimson, with each taking two first-place finishes. In the 50-yard freestyle, Hinkle finished in 23.66, just .01 ahead of Minnesota’s Meagan Radecke. In the 100-yard freestyle, Hinkle finished ahead of freshman Jenna Gregoire. Mills took the top spot in the 400-yard individual medley and broke two minutes in the 200-yard butterfly.

“It was a lot of racing, which is great because at this point in the season, it’s something we like to do and have the chance to swim that much,” Hinkle said. “Rutgers and Minnesota have a lot of great swimmers, so to get a chance to compete out of the Ivy League was exciting as well.”

Other highlights of the two-day event included the relay races, where Harvard placed first in the 200- and 400-yard freestyle relays, beating Minnesota in each race by half a second.

“I loved doing the relays at Rutgers because relays are such a team event,” Hinkle said. “To swim against Minnesota that was 13th overall [and] to put up some good relays and then win some was great.”

Representing the diving team, Moore placed third in both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events, while classmate Brittany Powell placed fifth and sixth in each event, respectively.

—Staff writer Alex Sopko can be reached at sopko@fas.harvard.edu.