Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Full BU Winter Open

NEW YORK — The Columbia males’s and girls’s swimming & diving groups turned in a powerful weekend of racing on the Boston Winter Open, competing in opposition to a deep area and posting a number of prime finishes because the Ivy League Championships strategy.

Women’s Highlights

The ladies have been led by a standout weekend from Sophie Kloppenburg, who captured first place within the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.80 and added a fourth-place end within the 200 freestyle (1:53.79). Columbia additionally produced a powerful relay effort within the 400 freestyle relay, the place the quartet of Kloppenburg, Sammy Segerson, Reese Heidenreich, and Olivia Kim completed third total in 3:38.44.

Sammy Segerson contributed a fifth-place end within the 500 freestyle (5:06.86), whereas Olivia Kim added depth throughout the freestyle occasions, competing in each the 200 and 500 free. Reese Heidenreich scored factors in a number of races, together with the 50 freestyle and 100 breaststroke. Columbia rounded out the meet with strong performances within the distance occasions, putting a number of swimmers inside the highest group of the 1650 freestyle.

Men’s Highlights

On the boys’s facet, Bingxiang Qin headlined the weekend with a victory within the 400 IM, touching first in 3:58.90. Ryan Pak adopted with a runner-up end within the 100 breaststroke (55.69) and added a top-four consequence within the 200 IM, contributing useful factors in the course of the meet.

The Lions additionally discovered success within the dash and relay occasions. Michael Zhang positioned eighth within the 50 freestyle and swam the opening leg of the 400 freestyle relay, whereas Dylan Dettloff added a powerful displaying within the 200 freestyle. The 400 freestyle relay crew of Zhang, Qin, Dettloff, and Pak closed the meet with a second-place end in 3:07.94, capping a productive weekend of racing.

Diving

The divers competed on the Rutgers Platform Invitational this weekend, and Will Cooley shined. He positioned third with a rating of 340.10, main the way in which. In addition, Mackenzie Lu earned his first profession NCAA Zone qualifying rating of 305.15, which was good for fifth place. 

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

The Lions will now start preparations for the Ivy League Championships. The ladies’s championships will start on February 18 at Brown adopted by the boys’s championships on February 25 in Princeton. 

For the newest on the Columbia ladies’s swimming and diving program, observe @CULionsWSD on Twitter, @CUlionsWSD and @ColumbiaDiving on Instagram, and on the internet at GoColumbiaLions.com.

For the newest on the Columbia males’s swimming and diving program, observe @CULionsMSD and @CULionsDiving on Instagram and Twitter, and on the internet at GoColumbiaLions.com.