Men’s Swimming and Diving Heads to Princeton for Ivy League Championship

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Men’s Swimming and Diving will compete on the Ivy League Championship from Wednesday, Feb. 25 by way of Saturday, Feb. 28 in Princeton, New Jersey. The Crimson enters the meet after a runner-up end to Princeton final season, falling by simply 67.5 factors.

Wednesday’s motion will function two relay finals starting at 6 p.m. ET. From Feb. 26-28, preliminary heats will begin at 11 a.m. ET, adopted by finals at 6 p.m. ET. All classes will stream stay on ESPN+.

What to Know

• The Crimson returns to motion for the primary time since competing on the annual HYP meet, the place it defeated Yale University (181-172) however fell to Princeton (159-193). The meet capped a powerful common season through which Harvard posted an 8-1 general file and a 6-1 mark in Ivy League competitors.
• Harvard enters the four-day championship having received the Ivy title seven instances up to now eight seasons. Last 12 months, the Crimson narrowly misplaced to Princeton, 1330-1262.5.
• The program is in search of its thirty first general Ivy League title, which might transfer it inside certainly one of Princeton’s 32 championships. (From 1957-97, the Ivy League males’s swimming champion was decided by round-robin standings. Beginning in 1998, the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) meet decided the champion. Since 2009, the championship has included solely Ivy League faculties.)
• The final time Harvard competed at DeNunzio Pool was in the course of the 2024 HYP meet, when the Crimson swept Yale and Princeton earlier than happening to seize the Ivy title at dwelling.
• At the conclusion of final 12 months’s championship meet, Adam Wesson ’25 was named the Ron Keenhold Career High Point Diver.

Up Next
Harvard will journey to Annapolis, Maryland for the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, scheduled for March 11th of September.