Harvard?s eight seniors celebrated their final home meet by figuring in five event wins?including three 1-2 finishes ?and a new American record in a 196-98 win against Brown Saturday afternoon at Blodgett Pool.

The senior class of Meaghan Colling, Lindsay Hart, Beth Kolbe, Kelcey Moore, Jaclyn Pangilinan, Samantha Papadakis, Alison Pipitone and Amanda Slaight was honored before the meet and went on to lead Harvard (5-0, 5-0 Ivy League) to its fifth straight dual-meet win. Pangilinan contributed to three wins to pace the Crimson, and Kolbe set an American paralympic record in the 50-yard butterfly.

The team?s underclassmen also swam well as Harvard won 12 of the 14 contested events and took the first three spots in seven events. Freshman Kate Mills joined Pangilinan as a winner of two individual events. Freshman Katy Hinkle picked up one relay and one individual win. Mills and Hinkle were also top finishers in exhibition races.

The Crimson took the first five events of the day to take control early with a 74-18 lead. The team of Hinkle, Pangilinan, Katherine Pickard and Slaight got the afternoon started by winning the 200 medley relay in 1:47.43. Sophomore Alexandra Clarke followed by winning the 1,000 freestyle in 10:15.47. Sophomore Katie Faulkner edged Brown?s Ainsley McFadgen for second by 0.19 seconds.

Harvard then swept the top three places in three straight races. Kate Mills led a Crimson freshman sweep of the 200 free in 1:50.94, followed by Laura Murray and Christine Kaufmann. Sophomore Natalia Festa took the 100 backstroke in 59.94 seconds, with rookies Janie D?Ambrosia and Pickard claiming the next two spots.

The senior trio of Pangilinan, Meaghan Colling and Slaight had a 1-2-3 finish in the 200 breaststroke. Pangilinan clocked a winning time of 1:04.37. Brown won the final two events before the first diving break, as Natascha Mangan took the 200 butterfly and Candice Sisouvanvieng-Kim won the 50 free. Harvard?s top finishers were freshmen Alyssa Stachowski in second the 200 fly and Pickard as the runner-up in the 50 free.

Pipitone was the first of two Harvard seniors to win a diving event. She scored 277.73 points to edge classmate Samantha Papadakis by less than a point. Freshman Anne Taylor placed third. The Crimson added another top-three sweep in the next event, the 100 free. Hinkle won in 52.60, ahead of Slaight and freshman Ali Slack.

Pickard and sophomore Kay Foley finished first and second, respectively, in the 500 free, with Pickard clocking a winning time of 5:01.95. Slack won the 100 fly in 58.36, followed by fellow freshmen Murray and Robyn Thom. Kolbe, meanwhile, shattered the American record in the 50 fly by about 28 seconds with her time of 1:27.18.

Harvard divers took the top five places in the one-meter, led by Papadakis with 285.92 points. Freshman Jenny Reese placed second, with Moore, Pipitone and Marissa Ash claiming the next five spots. Harvard swam the final two events as exhibitions. Mills notched the fasted time in the 200 individual medley (2:07.00) and the freshman foursome of Murray, Slack, Pickard and Hinkle touching first in the 400 free relay (3:33.29).

The Crimson wraps up its dual season Feb. 2-3 in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet, hosted by the Tigers.