Ivy Competitors Heats Up as Swimming & Diving Hosts Columbia This Weekend

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania swimming and diving packages get proper into the thick of Ivy League play, internet hosting Columbia this weekend at Sheerr Pool.
 
The ladies look to enhance upon their 2-0 begin to the 2025-26 season on Friday evening at 5 p.m., whereas the lads get their marketing campaign underway Saturday at midday.
 
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Quaker Notemeal
*The ladies are 2-0 to start the 12 months and are coming off a 179-115 victory over Villanova on Wednesday night.
 
*Kayla Fu shattered her second pool file of the week, this time within the 100 freestyle, whereas Kate Levensten additionally broke a pool file within the 100 backstroke.
 
*Fu and Anna Moehn every claimed a pair of race wins, whereas Sadie Howard swept each the one- and three-meter diving occasions for the second straight meet because the Quakers earned a complete of 13 first-place finishes for the evening.
 
*Fu dominated the dash occasions, taking the 50 free in 23.09—simply forward of teammate Amber Smith (23.77)—and setting a brand new Sheerr Pool file within the 100 free with a time of 49.80. The earlier mark of 49.86 had stood since 1990, set by Brown’s Jennifer Boyd. Amy Qin added a third-place end within the 100 at 52.44.
 
*Moehn opened her evening with a victory within the 200 free, clocking a 1:51.97, earlier than incomes one other win within the 500 free at 5:04.20. Lily Zhang added a third-place displaying within the 500 with a time of 5:06.50.
 
*Howard continued her stellar senior marketing campaign with a career-best 307.28 to win the three-meter dive, whereas additionally capturing the one-meter title (271.65). Penn swept the one-meter podium, as Rachel Yang positioned second (269.63) and Sophie Slayden took third (253.65). Slayden additionally earned runner-up honors within the three meter with a rating of 256.58.
 
*Levensten led a 1-2-3 Penn sweep within the 100 again with a Sheerr Pool file time of 54.28, narrowly eclipsing Harvard’s Anya Mostek’s 2024 mark of 54.29. She was adopted by Brianna Cong (55.50) and Connie Wang (56.22).
 
*For the second straight meet, Boeckman stood out within the distance occasions, successful the 1000 free in 10:10.27. Sydney Bergstrom completed third with a time of 10:22.79.
 
*Handley claimed first place within the 100 breast with a time of 1:04.26.
 
*Wang secured the win within the 200 again at 2:01.13, whereas Charlotte Holliday took third in 2:11.85.
 
*Cong received the 100 fly in 55.44, edging out teammates Maggie Hu (55.61) and Smith (56.55) for a 1-2-3 Quaker end.
 
*Penn’s 200 medley relay group of Qin, Handley, Smith, and Fu took first place with a time of 1:49.91. The quartet of Levensten, Katya Eruslanova, Hu, and Cong positioned third in 1:45.09.
 
*The males enter the brand new 12 months following a seventh-place end at Ivy League Championships in March.
 
*Peter Whittington is the Quakers’ solely returning All-Ivy recipient after selecting up second-team honors at Ivies with a second-place end within the 400 IM.
 
*Gone is Matt Fallon, who graduated in May as a three-time Ivy champion and three-time All-America within the 200 breaststroke.
 
*James Curreri (500 free) and Watson Nguyen (100 breast) every picked up bronze medals at Ivy Championships final season.
 
*Seven freshmen—Rohan D’Souza Larson, Henry Guo, Jack Handelman, Aaron Jia, Pippin Kantakom, Aiden Rhee, and Andrew Xie—are set to make their collegiate debuts this weekend, whereas sophomore Eddie Jin transfers to Penn following a season at North Carolina.
 
*Jin competed in seven meets with the Tar Heels in the course of the 2024-25 season, setting career-best occasions within the 100 free (20.42), 200 free (1:36.31), and 200 again (1:44.29).
 
*The Lou and Rene Kozloff Head Coach of Swimming Mike Schnur has a brand new face on his teaching workers forward of the 2025-26 season, however is acquainted to many swimming followers. Emma Sticklen—a three-time NCAA champion and NCAA file holder within the 200 fly at Texas—enters her first season with the Quakers as an assistant coach.
 
Scouting The Lions
*The Columbia ladies enter the weekend following a 170-130 victory over NYU final Friday.
 
*The Lions positioned sixth finally season’s Ivy League Championships.
 
*Columbia fell to Penn, 164-136, final season in New York City.
 
*The Columbia males are additionally opening up their 2025-26 marketing campaign in Philadelphia this weekend. The Lions additionally positioned sixth at Ivy League Championships final 12 months.
 
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