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Williams swims away with NESCAC gold in men's swimming
The men's swimming team finished eighth for the second year in a row at the NESCAC championships at Bowdoin's Greason Pool over the weekend. Williams College took the championship for the fifth consecutive season.
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Women?s swimming takes seventh
The women's swimming and diving team finished its season with a seventh-place finish at the NESCAC championships, held at Williams College.
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Women?s swim fall to Mules on final event
The Colby Mules narrowly defeated the Bowdoin Women's Swimming and Diving Team at the Polar Bears' last in-season meet.
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Swimming teams takes on Bantams, Cardinals
After not competing for the past seven weeks, and spending four of those weeks completing an intense training camp, the Bowdoin Swimming and Diving teams returned to action last Saturday with a meet against Trinity and Wesleyan, held at Colby.
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Team practices swimming and compassion
The idea seemed simple enough. During Winter Break, everyone on the swim teams was asked to collect used clothing, toys, and school supplies. These items were then collected and put into 40 50-pound duffle bags. Continental Airlines luggage policy allows each flying passenger to check-in two 50-pound bags, and the swimmers' own personal swim suits, shorts, and T-shirts equaled only a fraction of this limit.
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Swimming finishes eighth in NESCAC
The men's swimming and diving team finished its season at the NESCAC championship meet at Williams College. The Bowdoin men placed eighth in last weekend's meet, improving upon their 10th-place finish from last year, beating close rivals Bates and Trinity. Williams won the competition, finishing ahead of Tufts and Amherst.
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Swimming and diving finish seventh in NESCAC
The women's swimming and diving team completed its season this past weekend, finishing seventh at the NESCAC Conference Championships held at Bowdoin's Greason pool. Williams College captured the NESCAC title for the sixth year in a row.
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Swimming teams lose to rival Mules
The men's and women's swimming and diving teams suffered disappointing losses to Colby College. Saturday's meet, the last meet of the regular season for the Polar Bears, resulted in a 160-120 loss for the men and a 165-134 defeat for the women.
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Swimming and diving teams take second in tri-meet
The Bowdoin Swimming and Diving Teams returned to intercollegiate competition with Trinity and Wesleyan after a winter break training trip to Mexico. Both the men's and women's team took second, defeating Trinity, but losing to Wesleyan in Saturday's meet. Dominating Trinity 198-100, the Polar Bears lost to Wesleyan by a mere two points, 146-144.
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Swimming and diving teams dominate Bates
After disappointing losses to Tufts on Saturday, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams crushed Bates in what was expected to be a close meet.
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Swimming teams overcome Babson, but lose to MIT
The men's and women's swimming teams commenced their official season with a meet against Babson and MIT on Sunday, December 19.
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Swimmers dive into season
The Bowdoin Swimming and Diving Team kicked off the season with an unofficial relay meet against Colby and Bates at Colby College on Saturday.
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Water Polo takes fifth
The Bowdoin Water Polo Team will look to avenge close losses to Boston College and Colby next weekend in the North Atlantic Conference Championship, to be held at Bowdoin. The team ended the regular season fifth in its conference, an improvement over last year's sixth place finish.
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Nationals success perfect end for swim
The official swimming and diving team season ended with one swimmer from the both the women's and men's team representing Bowdoin at the Division III National Championship in Holland, Michigan. Junior Roger Burleigh placed fifth in the 200-yard butterfly, breaking his school record in the process, while Megan McLean '06 represented the women's team, placing 15th in the 200-yard freestyle.
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Swim teams take tenth
The Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Teams ended their seasons with tenth place finishes at their respective NESCAC championship meets. The women's meet was held February 18-20 at Middlebury College, while the men's meet took place this past weekend at Wesleyan University. The women Polar Bears finished tenth out of eleven teams, ending up ahead of only Trinity College. However, despite this low overall finish, several individual Bowdoin swimmers and relay teams produced outstanding performances.
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Women?s swimming wins final dual meet against Bates
The Bowdoin Swimming and Diving teams headed into last weekend facing the pressure from their two toughest rivalries?the teams swam against Colby College on Saturday, only to return to the pool on Sunday with a meet against Bates College.
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Swim teams stung in dual meets
Men and women teams a combined 1-3 against Wesleyan and Tufts
The Bowdoin swimming and diving teams experienced both the thrill of victory and the sting of defeat in their matchups this past weekend against Wesleyan and Trinity. The women of the Bowdoin swim team swam their way to a win against Trinity with a final score of 177-120. However, the women defeated Wesleyan by a final score of 159-137.
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Tough break for swimming teams
Men and women fall to Williams, prepare for NESCAC championships
While most Bowdoin students continued to enjoy the freedom of a particularly long winter break, the Bowdoin swimming and diving team spent the month of January busily training and competing both in Brunswick and in the Dominican Republic.
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Splash down for swim
Men and women struggle overall in early meets
After just two weeks of training under Head Coach Brad Burnham, the men and women's swimming and diving teams traveled to Boston on November 20 to face both MIT and Babson College. In this first official match-up, the Polar Bears, led by captains Melissa Perrin and Laura Welsh, claimed victory over the Babson Beavers, 163-122, while falling to the MIT Engineers, 184-114. The men, under the leadership of senior captains Bill Alto and Ryan Boutin, lost to both the Beavers, 150-128, and the Engineers, 193-89, yet produced several outstanding individual performances.