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.
For the whole season, the women’s swimming team has been on the heels of the perennial favorites Harvard and Princeton and at the Ivy League Championships last weekend, it was no different.
After falling below expectations last week against University of Connecticut on the Huskies’ senior day, the Elis were able to come back on their own senior day.
For Alex Righi ’09, missing the Olympics swimming team by nine-hundredths of a second may have been heartbreaking, but it has only served as more incentive as he decides what his next move is going to be.
When you think Puerto Rico, you might think a nice warm tropical island vacation, but for the women’s and men’s swimming teams their trip to the island was anything but. The captain of the women’s team, Aidan McKinlay ’09, said the trip was very challenging, with the teams swimming two workouts a day and lifting every other day.
It was just another day at the pool for the men’s and women’s swimming teams in their meets over the break. Both teams finished their round of meets by beating Southern Connecticut State University with convincing margins last Sunday Nov. 23. The Bulldogs began the break competing at the Terrier Invitational at Boston University with a limited travel roster. The men...
The number four seemed to be the theme for the men’s and women’s swimming teams this weekend. The men finished the ECAC Championships in fourth place Sunday, while the women also finished fourth in the Ivy League Championships which concluded the day before.
Both the Yale men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams handily defeated Brown this past Saturday, giving the teams momentum going into the upcoming EISL, ECAC and NCAA championships.
In the last home meet of the season, the Bulldogs sank their local opponents. The men’s and women’s swim teams both defeated UConn on Saturday in a meet that honored the seniors in their career home finale. The men’s squad took first in 13 of the 16 events to win 199-99, and the women’s team won 164.5-133.5.
The Bulldogs hosted both Harvard and Princeton this weekend, only to be defeated by both in their home pool. The men’s team fell to Harvard, 125.5-227.5, and to Princeton, 140-213. The dual meet brought the Elis their first two conference losses of the season. The women’s team did not fair much better, also losing to both the Tigers and the Crimson.
In preparation for HYP, which kicks off tonight, many members of the men’s team shaved for the meet, teammates said. Harvard and Princeton bring undefeated Ivy League records for the season in both men and women’s competition.
Yet while swimming has faced a marked decline in prominence compared to earlier decades, the squash teams, which played in front of loud crowds against Trinity last week, provide a striking contrast.
