This weekend the Harvard men's and women's swimming and diving teams dove into the Cavalier Invitational and convincingly outpaced the competition at Virginia.

With a combination of record-setting individual performances and a solid team effort, the men's team came away with a first-place finish over Virginia, and the women's team captured second place, losing to the Cavaliers.

The men's swimming and diving team shocked Virginia this weekend by defeating the Cavaliers in their own pool. Though West Virginia (335 points), Central Connecticut (280 points), and Villanova (250 points) also participated in the meet, the battle royale was between the Crimson and the Cavaliers.

Harvard, ranked 21st in the nation before the meet, defeated No.8 Virginia 1168-1015.

" We are all really psyched to beat a team like Virginia," junior Mike Groves said. "This meet gave us a good chance to prove ourselves on a national level,

and we took it."

At this half-way point in the season, swimmers are usually tired and broken down from training. Though team rested only a few days before the meet, the results were astounding.

"For mid-way, we raced very competitively and showed that we are a

national contender. Many of our men showed they can perform very well

tired, leading us to set lofty goals for the end of the season," captain Brian Cadman said.

Fellow senior Tim Martin, also a Crimson editor, certainly turned heads in the 1650 freestyle, smashing the pool record at 15:02.29, nine full seconds under the previous mark. Martin's time at the 1000-yard mark (9:07.01) broke his own pool record. All-American Austin Ramirez, one of Virginia's biggest stars, initially threatened Martin's lead, but soon Ramirez fell off, unable to keep up with Martin's speedy turnover.

"Tim has put in a lot of great work this year, and breaking records at this point is only the beginning of a spectacular senior season," Cadman said.

In addition to Martin's stellar performance, many team members recorded personal career records at the meet. Among these were Mike Im and Jamey Waters, who were also double event winners. Im won the 100 and 200 backstroke with times of 49.40 and 1:47.31, respectively. Waters took the 100 freestyle in a time of 45.12. Waters teamed with Matt Fritsch, Brian Swinteck and Adam Shaw to win the 400 freestyle relay in 3:02.27.

The Harvard men also won the 200 freestyle relay.

"I was glad to be able to go my best times, but the main concern was to