Girls’s Swimming and Diving Opens Season on Friday vs. Brown, Hosts Breast Cancer Awareness Meet

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Women’s Swimming and Diving will start its 2025-26 marketing campaign on Friday by enjoying host to Brown. The Crimson’s annual Breast Cancer Awareness Meet is ready for a 4 p.m. begin at Blodgett Pool and can air dwell on ESPN+.

What to Know

• Harvard and Brown will each carry the lid on their seasons on Friday. The Crimson is coming off an Ivy League dual-meet championship (first since 2015) after going 7-0 towards convention foes in 2024-25. The Bears, in the meantime, went 4-3 in league motion.
• The Crimson went 10-0 general final season, marking the primary time it completed the feat since 2006. Included in its run to 10-0 was a sweep of the annual HYP meet, its first since 2014.
• Harvard, which despatched a number of athletes to the 2025 NCAA Championship, will probably be led by staff captains Isabella Alas (free), Tabitha Chen-Fiske (diving) and Stephanie Iannaccone (breast/fly).
• Harvard is returning 5 of its seven particular person Ivy League champions from a yr in the past. Alexandra Bastone gained the convention crown within the 200 free, 500 free and 1,650 free. Anya Mostek gained the 100 again for the third straight season and will probably be looking for a four-year sweep, which might be an Ivy first since Kate Conroy (Princeton) in 1999-2002. Sydney Lu, in the meantime, is the returning champion within the 100 fly. The Crimson additionally returns three-fourths of its title-winning 200 medley relay (Mostek, Lu, Blythe Wieclawek) and half of its 400 medley relay (Mostek, Lu).
• Bastone later went on to compete on the NCAA Championships the place she completed 18^th within the 500 free and 20^th within the 1,650 free. She additionally swam within the 200 free. Joining the Greenwich, Connecticut, native at NCAAs was Nina Janmyr, who competed on the 1-meter springboard.
• The Crimson comes into the lidlifter having gained 4 straight season-opening meets, with the final two victories coming towards Brown.
• Harvard leads the all-time collection with Brown, 38-9, and has gained 22 straight twin meets vs. the Bears, with 14 coming at Blodgett Pool.
• The Crimson participated in a scrimmage final Friday at MIT with Northeastern. Harvard gained 15 of 16 occasions and swept each the Engineers and Huskies. The remaining rating vs. MIT was 238-61, and 223-75 vs. Northeastern.
• As a part of its Breast Cancer Awareness Meet, Harvard is bringing consciousness to the work being performed by the ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund, the Harvard Chapter of Camp Kesem and the Joe Andruzzi Foundation. Those thinking about donating can achieve this at Blodgett Pool on Friday or by visiting every group’s web site.

Up Next

Harvard will head to Hanover, New Hampshire, to face Dartmouth and Cornell. The Nov. 15 meet is slated to start at 11 a.m.