The Trials is also new women’s assistant coach Chris Morgan’s first major meet with the team. Otto expressed disappointment at the departure of popular coach Matt Davidson, but is excited about what Morgan brings to the table.

“I think Chris is going to be great,” said Otto. “He has a lot of new ideas for our dry-land program and our training sets.”

Olympic open water swimming qualifier Alex Meyer, Class of 2010, is seeded 12th in the men’s 1,500 free, which will be contested in the final two days of the meet.  If he places first or second in the 1,500, he would be the first American to compete in open water and pool events in a single Olympiad.

“Alex is a really great influence on all of us, someone whom we all aspire to,” said Janney, who was a sophomore the year Meyer captained the men’s team.

Meyer will travel with Harvard men’s head coach Tim Murphy to London next month.

The 1,500 freestyle will be one of the Crimson’s strongest events in the final five days of the meet as Meyer and three other Harvard swimmers and recruits—Reed Snyder, Michael Gaudiani and Kekacs—are slated to swim the endurance race. Tomorrow’s female 200-meter butterfly will also be a promising event for the Crimson as Otto will be joined by Danielle Schulkin, Hilary Roberts, recruit Connie Hsu, and alum Kate Mills. In addition, the men’s 50 freestyle on Sunday will be an interesting battle between Chris Satterthwaite, Griffin Schumacher, and Oliver Lee, who posted the three fastest 50-yard freestyle times in school history earlier this year during NCAA competition.