Princeton Claims Fourth-Straight Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Princeton Tigers received their fourth-straight Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship on Saturday evening, pulling away over the ultimate occasions contained in the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center to safe the title.

It is the Tigers’ 27^th total title, most of any Ivy League member, and the primary time for the reason that early 2000s {that a} faculty has received 4 in a row. Penn, who completed fifth in final yr’s championship, completed second with 1204 factors. Harvard completed third with 1153.5 factors, holding off Brown and their 1137 factors on the finish to maintain their high three end.

Saturday’s night session bought underway with the 1650 Yard Freestyle. Penn had the 2 quickest seed occasions and so they completed 1-2 within the occasion with Sydney Bergstrom taking the gold and Anna Moehn incomes silver with occasions of 16:02.63 and 16:06.59, respectively. Brown’s Natalie Garre posted a time of 16:11.29 to complete third. Bergstrom punched her ticket to the NCAA Championships together with her time.

The 200 Yard Backstroke was subsequent on the docket. Anya Mostek, who had persistently been on the rostrum all week, received her second particular person title of the week, profitable by 1.77 seconds in 1:52.70. Penn’s Kate Levensten got here in second at 1:54.44, simply edging out Devyn Sargent of Yale, who completed in 1:54.85 for third place. Penn additionally completed fourth within the occasion and with the early factors, had minimize Princeton’s staff lead from 178 factors to only 93. Mostek as soon as once more earned a bid to the NCAA Championships.

But the 100 Yard Freestyle noticed Princeton take two of the highest three spots to open some respiratory room of their pursuit of the staff championship. Brown senior Morgan Lukinac received the dash occasion with a time of 48.29 seconds, lacking the pool report by 0.01 seconds. The duo of Tigers swimmers, senior Sabrina Johnston and freshman Sophia Sunwoo, completed in 48.55 seconds and 48.90 seconds to take the silver and bronze medals, respectively. Lukinac’s time was sufficient to clinch her spot within the NCAA Championships.

Harvard picked up one other high end within the 200 Yard Breaststroke as first yr Aliana Marakovic cleared the sphere by almost one second to take first place. Eliza Brown of Princeton completed second in 2:12.92 seconds and Jessey Li of Yale completed third 0.19 seconds behind her to complete third.

In the 200 Yard Butterfly, a pair of Princeton swimmers bookended a Harvard swimmer, with Eleanor Sun’s first-place time of 1:54.78 coming inside 0.18 seconds of setting the Ivy Meet report and 0.16 seconds of breaking the pool report. Sydney Lu completed second with a time of 1:56.25 and Heidi Smithwick completed a few half of a second behind to complete third. The title was Sun’s third of the meet as she as soon as once more earned an automated bid to the NCAA Championships.

The final swimming occasion of the evening was the 400 Yard Freestyle Relay. For the primary two legs, Princeton and Brown have been neck and neck, with Princeton holding a slight benefit. But the Bears, behind Isabella Dieffenthaller, created a small quantity of separation within the third leg of the relay and put each the Ivy Meet and Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center report inside attain. Princeton’s Sun was closing exhausting however Brown’s anchor, Lukinac, who had already received the 100 Yard Freestyle earlier within the evening, introduced it residence for the Bears in 3:14.72, simply 0.24 seconds off the data. Princeton completed in second with a time of three:15.10 and Harvard completed third with a time of three:17.77.

In the diving portion of the evening’s occasions, Penn senior Sadie Howard, who sat in third after the preliminary spherical, totaled 331.25 factors within the finals to win the gold medal within the 3 Meter Diving. Charlotte Norman of Princeton amassed 320.15 factors to complete second and Harvard’s Nina Janmyr totaled 305.30 factors to complete third.