In the swim of things
How good does the prospect of visiting Puerto Rico sound in the middle of January? Or Hawaii? That’s where the Harvard men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams traveled, respectively, this winter. It wasn’t exactly a vacation, but their annual training trip — funded with the money they raise working as instructors in the Harvard Swim School. “The Swim School has been operating since the mid-’70s when former swimming and diving coaches decided it would be a good way to make money and help pay for training trips” by offering lessons to the community, said assistant diving coach Keith Miller, who has helped to oversee the program since arriving at Harvard in 1991. “Our athletes work really hard during the school year. They have morning practices, afternoon practices here … six days a week, which they work around their school schedules. But then during January break, we get to go on a...