Data Proceed to Fall In Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships

PRINCETON, N.J. — Another set of Ivy meet and pool information fell on Friday evening because the third day of the Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship got here to a detailed. Princeton prolonged their lead within the crew occasion with plenty of sturdy finishes all through the evening.

The Tigers have 948 factors heading into Saturday’s occasions, with Penn in second with 770 factors. Harvard slipped a spot to 3rd place with 744.5 factors. Brown is shut behind with 736 factors, then Yale with 606 factors, Cornell with 428 factors, Dartmouth with 343.5, and Columbia with 337.

Harvard received three occasions on the evening, with the primary coming within the 100 Yard Butterfly. Fourth-year Sydney Lu was the one swimmer to complete in below 52 seconds, profitable the gold medal with a 51.97 time. Heidi Smithwick of Princeton got here in second with a time of 52.94 seconds and Penn’s Kayla Fu rounded out the highest three, ending in 53.05 seconds.

Princeton’s lone victory of the night got here within the 400 Yard Individual Medley. In truth, the Tigers swept the rostrum with Eleanor Sun taking gold, Chloe Kim incomes silver, and Sophie Segerson taking the bronze within the occasion. Sun set a brand new Ivy meet report with a time of 4:05.55, beating the earlier report, which stood for 17 years, by 0.20 seconds.

Brown took first and second within the 200 Yard Freestyle and almost took all three spots because the Bears’ Isabella Dieffenthaller completed 0.22 seconds out of third. Brown senior Morgan Lukinac took the gold and sophomore Crystal Yuen took dwelling the silver medal. Princeton first-year Savannah Skow earned the bronze within the occasion.

A pair of Yale swimmers, Jessey Li and Devyn Sargent, bookended the highest three finishers within the 100 Yard Breastroke, with Penn’s Kate Handley ending second. Li topped her preliminary time by almost a second to take first, with Handley and Sargent ending proper behind her.

Another Ivy meet report was damaged within the 100 Yard Backstroke with Harvard fourth-year Anya Mostek breaking her personal report from final yr’s occasion and being the primary to submit a sub-52-second time within the occasion. She completed in 51.31 seconds to take the gold, adopted by a then-pool record-tying 52.15 end by Penn’s Amy Qin. Third place was taken by Princeton’s Sabrina Johnston with a time of 52.58. Mostek’s title was her fourth 100 yard backstroke gold medal in her profession.

The closing occasion of the evening was the 400 Yard Medley Relay, which noticed the foursome of Mostek, Aliana Marakovic, Lu, and Blythe Wieclawek draw back from the sector early after which greatest the Ivy Meet report, touching the wall in 3:32.44. Penn completed second in 3:35.67 and Princeton took third with a end of three:36.32.

Four extra Ivies (Sun, Lu, Lukinac, and Mostek) punched their tickets to the NCAA Championships of their respective occasions.

The closing day of the 2026 Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships begins tomorrow at 11 a.m. with preliminary motion adopted by the finals within the night session at 6 p.m. All motion might be streamed on ESPN+.