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SWIMMING | Q&A: Righi ends career at NCAAs

Contributing Reporter
Published Wednesday, April 1, 2009

This past weekend at the NCAA Swimming Championships, captain Alex Righi ’09 concluded his collegiate career with fourth, fifth and 12th place finishes in the 100-yard freestyle, 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, respectively. In his first race of the meet, the preliminaries of the 50-yard free, Righi tied the American record with a time of 18.82 for the top-seeded spot going into the finals, where he later finished fifth.

Righi’s later performance in the 100-yard back preliminaries improved on his own Ivy League record and earned him the second-fastest time going into...

#1 By Goldie 1:29p.m. on April 1, 2009

Righi - you da man!

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