Coming off wins in both events in the last two meets, sophomore Michael Mosca turned in another strong diving performance. Mosca took third in the 1-meter finals and fourth in the 3-meter event.

In the 200-yard butterfly, Harvard had three swimmers place in the top 20. Freshman Leo Lim led the Crimson swimmers with a time of 1:48.47, good for seventh place. Freshman Yousef Alaskari came in 12th, while fellow first-year Jacob Luna finished just one spot behind.

“We realize we are capable against some of the very fast teams,” co-captain Greg Roop said. “It gives us a lot of confidence moving forward. We swam some very fast times for this point in the season.”

The invitational, which pitted the Crimson against some of the toughest teams in the nation, served as an im-portant benchmark as the team prepares for the second half of its season.

“This is a national breaking point in the season; [it] marks the halfway point,” Wurzbacher said. “We’re in a great place, from a performance standpoint, but there are a lot of things we can do to build into the back half of the season.”

Having finished its 2012 competitions, Harvard will return in January with renewed focus on the Ivy League and building towards the conference championships.

“[We can] really come together as a unit, and as a team, to do what we hope to do at the end of the season, which is win the Ivy League championships,” Wurzbacher added. “I’m a senior, and we’ve been second to Princeton three years in a row. But we’re incredibly confident after this weekend that we can do what it takes to win the Ivy League championship.”