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EISL: Senior Recognition

… In short, yes there will be a video recapping the final night of competition - but we have some unforeseen logistical issues that need to be attended to first regarding Ivy League Women’s Basketball.

Once we have those things hammered out we can get down to converting the raw footage that we have into a nice production piece for the final night.

Stay tuned… because it will be posted in the near future. We didn’t forget about ya!

The Harvard Crimson claimed the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship in home waters at the Blodgett Pool on Mar. 6-8, 2008. The top Ivy League performers in each individual event and the top team in each relay event earn selection to the All-Ivy League swimming & diving first-team.

The second Ivy finishers earn second team honors. The following earned their All-Ivy status at the 2007 EISL Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship:

FIRST TEAM

50y free —100y free —200y free —500y free —1000y free —1650y free —100y fly —200y fly —100y breast —200y breast —100y back —200y back —200y IM —400y IM —One-meter diving —Three-meter diving —200y free relay —400y free relay —800y free relay —200y medley relay —400y medley relay —

SECOND TEAM

50y free —100y free —200y free —500y free —1000y free — No Selection1650y free —100y fly —200y fly —100y breast —200y breast —100y back —200y back —200y IM —400y IM —One-meter diving —Three-meter diving200y free relay —400y free relay —800y free relay —200y medley relay —400y medley relay —

Congratulations to the 2008 EISL Champion — Harvard Crimson!

Final scores are posted in the team results section…

High-Point Scorers of the Meet (Moriarty Trophy)

Geoff Rathgeber - Harvard
Alex Righi - Yale

High-Point Divers of the Meet (Michael Trophy)

Olaf Olson - Navy
Jeff Lichtenstein - Yale

High-Point Career Swimmer (Ulen Trophy)

Geoff Rathgeber - Harvard

Congratulations to all of the teams… and Coach Murphy - I hope your face plant off of the tower looked worse than it felt.

All-Ivy will be forthcoming… but we have a long drive tonight - so it will have to wait for the road!

In the final event of the competition — the 400 Freestyle Relay — it was the team of David Guernsey, Geoff Rathgeber, Bill Jones and Pat Quinn from Harvard that took the championship.

And the group also now has the Meet Record in its possession as well — as they finished in 2:56.10.

When he hit the water — the students of Brown cheered.

When his final score was posted — the students of Brown screamed with joy.

And when his closest competitor came up short on his final dive — the students of Brown erupted.

Because “Speedy” had done it.

Jon Speed, a freshman from Brown University (and a decided long shot) had outmatched his competition in the finals of the 3M Diving competition. And he did it with a certain flair that exuded a quiet cool.

He capitalized on a horrific error by Yale’s defending champion Jeff Lichtenstein — that resulted in an incorrect dive — and then proceeded to storm to the lead with successful dive after successful dive.

Did I mention that he also qualified eighth for the finals?

But going first in the final competition didn’t phase Bruno’s freshman sensation — he just quietly went about his business and put up sensational marks. Marks that nobody could catch.

He had done it. He had arrived.

Time for a bit of a break in the action as the Diving competition gets started. I’m hoping for the Triple Lindy.

But something I’ve noticed… you know what you almost never see? Somebody heckling a diver.

[grabs air horn]

Time to go start a ruckus!

It wasn’t a runaway by any stretch of the imagination as he was pushed the entire way by Bill Jones.

But Doug Lennox will take a challenge like that any day of the week as he obliterated his own Meet and EISL records because of it.

However, I would like to take part of this celebration too… after all - it was this blogmaster that put that Pool record carrot out in front of Doug after he took down the records earlier in the day.

“Doug — your mission, should you choose to accept it is to post a 1:44.42 to own all of the Meet, EISL and Pool records at the same time.”

Because the existing Blodgett Pool record was 1:44.43 by Par Arvidsson of California.

And the operative word being “was”.

That is because the new mark is 1:44.36 — and that mark is now held by Doug Lennox — along with the Meet and EISL records as well.

Think I could request a participation certificate that says “Lennox’s Wingman”? That’d be neat. And I totally deserve it.

The 2007-08 EISL Swimming and Diving Championships are quickly turning into the Alex Righi-Geoff Rathgeber show.

The defending co-Moriarty Trophy (High-Point scorers) winners are both making a strong case for the award again this year. After Righi destroyed the competition in the 100 Free, Rathgeber did the exact same in the 200 Breast — finishing almost three full seconds faster than his closest competitor.

Rathgeber did everything right on the swim, and at the midpoint of the race he was ahead of Meet record pace. Unfortunately, without challengers pushing the leader for the duration of the race, Rathgeber could not maintain the blistering pace he put down in the first 100 yards. He finished the race at 1:58.97.

But he did win yet again, secured full points yet again, and gets to enjoy being written about yet again. But I’m running out of things to say about him…

Ahh yes, his family is really nice too.