Greg Walker '01. Photo by Tim Morse.

The Harvard men's swimming and diving team continued its dominance over the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) last weekend by capturing its fourth straight EISL title and its seventh in the last eight years. The Crimson, who finished the regular season with a 9-0 record, never trailed in the competition, finishing with 1,609.5 points, 409 ahead of second-place Princeton.

Harvard was led by senior All-American Greg Wriede who collected first-place finishes in the 200 Individual Medley (IM) and 400 IM, as well as a second-place in the 200 backstroke. His winning time of 1:48.43 in the 200 IM was not only an NCAA B qualifying time, but it also stands as the eighth fastest time swum by a collegiate swimmer in the nation this year. In the Individual Medley, swimmers compete in a leg of backstroke, butterfly, and breastroke, finishing wtih freestyle.

Brian Cadman '00. Photo by Tim Morse.

Despite not shaving for the competition, junior Tim Martin was the team's other multiple winner as he dominated the distance events, collecting first place in the 1000 freestyle (9:10.14) and 1650 freestyle (15:15.34). He also earned a second-place medal in the 500 freestyle, hitting the touch pad behind teammate Will Oren '01 who posted a NCAA B qualifying time of 4:25.05. Harvard pulled away from the field thanks in part to its domination of the distance events. The Crimson posted a one through five finish in the 500 freestyle and claimed three of the top four finishers in the 1000 freestyle and had a 1-2-3 sweep of the 1650 freestyle.

Oren was one of four finalists for the Crimson in the 400 IM. He was second behind Wriede with a time of 3:54.42 and was followed by teammates Donald Blanchard '02 and Michael Groves '01 who finished in sixth and seventh place, respectively.

Freshman Matt Wrenshall was also a top point scorer for the Crimson as he was victorious in the 200 freestyle, an event in which Harvard had six swimmers finish in the top eight, with a time of 1:38.96. Wrenshall was also a third place finisher in the 200 breastroke as well as an integral part of Harvard's winning 200 and 400 medley relays.