Girls’s Swimming and Diving Defeats Brown in Season Opener

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Women’s Swimming and Diving defeated Brown, 172-71, on Friday afternoon within the 2025-26 lidlifter for each squads. The Crimson, which has now gained 5 straight season openers, moved to 1-0 (1-0 Ivy League), whereas the Bears dropped to 0-1 (0-1 Ivy).

How It Happened

• Harvard opened its Breast Cancer Awareness Meet with wins within the 200 medley relay and 1,000 free. The quartet of Anya Mostek, Aliana Marakovic, Kiley Wilhelm and Sydney Lu gained the relay with a time of 1:41.80. Alexandra Bastone continued the Crimson’s sizzling begin, finishing the race in 10:09.54.
• Harvard later went on to win 4 consecutive occasions, starting with the 50 free. Mostek posted a time of 23.14 and was adopted by Lu (23.36) and Blythe Wieclawek (23.85). Wilhelm then gained the 200 IM (2:00.58), Ennika Carlson captured the 3-meter diving occasion (291.75), and Wilhelm was victorious once more, successful the 200 fly in 1:59.50.
• Mostek added one other victory to her ledger when she edged Brown’s Natalie Garre within the 200 again. The senior completed the race in 2:01.13, which was a contact quicker than Garre’s time of two:01.61.
• Mostek’s win within the 200 again was the primary of 5 consecutive selections to finish the afternoon. Carolina Daher gained in her Harvard debut, registering a successful time of 4:54.53 within the 500 free. After Carlson swept the diving occasions along with her triumph within the 1-meter competitors (267.00), Daher’s first-year classmate, Marakovic, captured the 200 breast in 2:17.62. Harvard then put the ending touches on its opener by successful the 400 free in 3:21.98 (Lu, Mostek, Bastone, Wilhelm).

Up Next

Harvard returns to motion on Saturday, Nov. 15, when it competes towards Dartmouth and Cornell in Hanover, New Hampshire. The motion is scheduled to start at 11 a.m.