Information Proceed to Fall at Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships

PRINCETON, N.J. – Multiple DeNunzio Pool and Ivy meet and all-time information fell on Thursday evening on Day 2 of the 2026 Ivy League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships.

Princeton received three of the 5 occasions of the evening, and positioned nicely within the others, giving the Tiger 541 workforce factors. Yale received the opposite two occasions to whole 459.5 factors by seven whole occasions. Harvard sits in third with 376.5 factors, whereas Columbia and Brown are tied for fourth with 305 factors. Cornell sits in sixth with 281 factors, Dartmouth follows in seventh with 226 factors, and Pennsylvania rounds out the standings with 196 factors.

Yale senior Noah Millard set the tone early, besting his qualifying time by over 3 seconds to set a brand new pool file within the Men’s 500 Yard Freestyle occasion. He touched the wall in 4:10.19 to win the gold medal and have become the seventh swimmer in Ivy League historical past to win the five hundred Yard Freestyle 3 times in his profession. William Mulgrew of Harvard got here in second with a time of 4:12.03 whereas Princeton’s Arthur Balva took the bronze at 4:14.71.

The first damaged Ivy file of the evening got here within the males’s 200 Yard Individual Medley, with that honor going to Princeton senior Mitchell Schott. Last yr’s Ivy League champion within the occasion, his time of 1:40.93 set each the Ivy all-time and DeNunzio Pool information and secured the Tigers’ first win of the evening. Brown’s Marton Nagy earned the silver with a time of 1:42.26, holding off Yale’s Jake Wang who completed in 1:42.86.

Nicholas Finch defended his 2025 Ivy League title within the Men’s 50 Yard Freestyle, not solely besting his time of final yr, but additionally matched the Ivy all-time file set by Yale’s Alex Righi in 2009 and broke his Ivy Meet file by 0.08 seconds. He additionally set the brand new pool file along with his time of 18.82 seconds. Princeton’s Patrick Dinu got here in second with a time of 19.10 seconds and 2024 champion, Sonny Wang of Harvard completed third, touching the wall in 19.21 seconds.

The motion then moved to diving for the Men’s 1-meter. First yr Tiger, Chase Sorosky posted the second finest rating in meet histoy, successful the gold medal with a rating of 402.30. Rowland Lawver of Brown simply edged out Princeton’s Aidan Wang for second, scoring 351.55 factors, 0.45 factors forward of Wang’s 351.10 remaining rating.

The final occasion of the evening was the Men’s 200 Yard Freestyle Relay, all the time a crowd favourite. In what was, arguably, probably the most aggressive occasion of the evening, every of the highest three groups broke the DeNunzio Pool file and the highest two groups, Princeton and Yale, every broke the Ivy Meet file. It was Princeton, nevertheless, the posted the highest time with their time of 1:16.03 breaking the Ivy Meet file by 0.45 seconds and besting the Bulldogs’ time of 1:16.41 to win the gold medal and stretch Princeton’s workforce lead over Yale.

Action returns for Day 3 of the 2026 Ivy League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships on Friday, February 27. Preliminaries start at 11 a.m. and the Finals start at 6 p.m. All occasions shall be streamed on ESPN+.