Males’s Swimming and Diving Caps Common Season with Senior Day Victory over Dartmouth

NEW YORK — The Columbia males’s swimming and diving group closed the 2025-26 common season in dominant trend Saturday afternoon, defeating Dartmouth, 213-86, at Percy Uris Natatorium on Senior Day. In the ultimate house and regular-season meet of the 2025–26 marketing campaign, Columbia’s senior class helped set the tone early and powered a wire-to-wire convention victory.

 

“It’s always good to win, and especially on Senior Day,” Head Coach Jim Bolster stated. “You want your seniors to walk away with a positive memory, and winning is about as positive as it gets. I thought we swam well enough across the board to get the result, and it was a great way for the seniors to finish their careers and for our team to close the regular season.”

Columbia opened the meet with a win within the 200 medley relay, because the group of Isaac Beers, Beri Yang, Brian Lee, and Zion James touched first in 1:27.37 to ascertain an early benefit.

Senior-led performances highlighted the center of the meet. Stephen Zhukov delivered a robust displaying within the distance occasions, successful the 1000 freestyle in 9:10.55 earlier than including a runner-up end within the 500 free. Zach Vasser adopted intently behind in each occasions, inserting second within the 1000 and first within the 500 freestyle (4:30.22), serving to Columbia management the space races.

The Lions continued to construct separation within the stroke occasions. Beers as soon as once more picked up a victory within the 100 backstroke in his ultimate meet at Uris (47.21), whereas Kyle Won added a win within the 200 again (1:46.32). Joshua Corn captured first within the 100 breaststroke (54.34), and Beri Yang adopted with a runner-up end. Seungjoon Ahn led a sweep of the highest three spots within the 200 butterfly, successful in 1:47.22, whereas Brian Lee added one other victory within the 100 fly (48.10).

Sprint success got here from Zion James for one final time at Uris, who received the 50 freestyle in 19.86 and anchored the successful 200 freestyle relay to shut the meet. The relay squad of James, Sam Eckert, Kevin Obochi, and  Adam Wu touched first in a pool file 1:18.72 to cap the Senior Day victory.

 

On the boards, Joseph Nicol and Will Cooley delivered a robust one-two punch. Nicol received the 3-meter dive with a rating of 356.85 earlier than including a runner-up end on the 1-meter. Cooley captured first within the 1-meter dive (314.25) and positioned second on the 3-meter, rounding out a dominant efficiency within the diving occasions.

“Outstanding diving from everyone today,” Head Diving Coach Scott Donie stated. “So proud of everyone and particularly our senior Joe Nicol going out with a win in his final home meet in our home pool.”

Full outcomes from the meet, together with the entire Lions’ high performers and occasions, may be discovered HERE.

Columbia will start preparations for the Ivy League Championships which is able to start on February 25 in Princeton. 

The group will compete within the BU Invite on February 6-8 to assist put together. 

 

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