2022 Ivy League Men’s Championships: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap

2022 Men’s Ivy League Swimming & Diving Championships

• Wednesday, February 23 – Saturday, February 26, 2022
• Prelims 11:00 AM / Finals 6:00 PM
• DeNunzio Pool, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• Defending Champions: Harvard University (results)
• Live Results
• Streaming (ESPN+): Day 3 prelims
• Championship Central
• Pre-scratch Psych Sheets
• Day 3 Prelims Heat Sheets

Harvard held a three-point lead over Princeton at the conclusion of finals on Thursday night, setting up a battle between the ancient rivals for the 2022 title. After a relay DQ, Yale tumbled to sixth place. Brown is holding strong at third, challenged by Penn and Columbia. Cornell and Dartmouth have also suffered relay DQs and are in seventh and eighth places, respectively.

Men’s 400 Individual Medley – Prelims

• Ivy League Meet Record: 3:41.00 – M. Andrew, Penn (2019)
• Pool Record: 3:41.95 – M. Andrew, Penn (2018)
• NCAA A Standard: 3:39.16
• NCAA B Standard: 3:51.46

Top 8:

1. Ben Hayes, Brown – 3:46.69
2. Raunak Khosla, Princeton – 3:47.26
3. Peyton Werner, Princeton – 3:49.11
4. Billy Fallon, Penn – 3:49.62
5. Lukas Scheidl, Brown – 3:49.65
6. Jacob Johnson, Harvard – 3:49.79
7. Kevin Keil, Penn – 3:49.93
8. Jason Schreiber, Penn – 3:49.99

Liam Bogart of Yale used a strong back half to win heat 1 with 3:51.43. In the next heat, nearly the entire field turned together at the back-to-breast wall. Brown’s Ben Hayes separated himself from the group over the breaststroke and set off for the freestyle leg with more than a body length advantage. He ended up breaking the Brown program record with 3:46.69. The race was on for second place in the heat, with Penn’s Billy Fallon (3:49.62) edging Harvard’s Jacob Johnson (3:49.73) and Penn’s Kevin Keil (3:49.93).

Princeton’s Raunak Khosla took the final heat in 3:47.26, followed by teammate Peyton Werner in lane 2 (3:49.11) and Columbia’s Joseph Licht (3:51.42).

Men’s 100 Butterfly – Prelims

• Ivy League Meet Record: 45.12 – D. Lennox, Princeton (2009)
• Pool Record: 45.12 – D. Lennox, Princeton (2009)
• NCAA A Standard: 44.96
• NCAA B Standard: 47.43

Top 8:

1. Jonas Kistorp, Columbia – 45.76
2. Umit Gures, Harvard – 45.87
3. Tyler Hong, Princeton – 46.64
4. Raphael Marcoux, Harvard – 46.85
5. Max Kreidl, Princeton – 46.94
6. Aayush Deshpande, Harvard – 47.23
7. Mahlon Reihman, Harvard – 47.44
8. Horace Qiao, Brown – 47.48

Albert Gwo of Columbia opened with a 48.89 in heat 1, taking 6 seconds off his seed time. Harvard’s Mahlon Reihman, the 2022 Ivy League 50 free champion last night, won heat 2 with 47.44. He was followed closely by Columbia’s Hayden Liu (47.56) and Cornell’s Jeremy Marcin (47.89).

Columbia’s Jonas Kistorp went 45.76 to win heat 3, almost two seconds in front of Brown’s Horace Qiao (47.48) and Penn’s Benjamin Feldman (47.53).

Umit Gures of Harvard, the top seed and defending champion, took the final heat in 45.87. Princeton’s Tyler Hong finished second with 46.64. Raphael Marcoux of Harvard was third with 46.85, just .09 ahead of Princeton’s Max Kreidl.

Men’s 200 Freestyle – Prelims

• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:30.83 – D. Farris, Harvard (2019)
• Pool Record: 1:31.17 – D. Farris, Harvard (2018)
• NCAA A Standard: 1:32.05
• NCAA B Standard: 1:36.32

Top 8:

1. Noah Millard, Yale – 1:34.62
2. Dean Farris, Harvard – 1:35.38
3. Joseph Page, Yale – 1:35.49
4. Nicholas Lim, Princeton – 1:35.73
5. Max Walther, Princeton – 1:36.18
6. Isaac Weigel, Dartmouth – 1:36.19
7. Ben Littlejohn, Harvard – 1:36.35
8. Billy Swartwout, Princeton – 1:36.48

Cornell’s Jack Banks took 3.5 seconds off his entry time to win heat 1 in 1:38.35. Yale’s Joseph Page, swimming out of lane 1 with a seed time of 1:39.83, dropped 4.4 seconds to win heat 2 with 1:35.49. Princeton’s Nicolas Lim (1:35.73), Max Walther (1:36.17), and Max Hunger (1:37.22) followed. Hunger tied for fourth with KJ Losee of Brown.

Yale’s Noah Millard, who won the B final of the 500 free last night with the fastest time in the meet, took heat 3 of the 200 free prelims in 1:34.62. Dartmouth’s Isaac Weigel dropped 2.8 seconds to land in second place with 1:36.19, just ahead of Harvard’s Ben Littlejohn who had led the race for the first 150 yards.

American record-holder Dean Farris of Harvard won the final heat in 1:35.38. He let teammate Marcus Holmquist set the pace for the first three 50s, then brought it home to win by 1.5 seconds. Brown’s Michael Lincoln almost caught Holmquist, but finished third in 1:36.94. Jonathan Pollock of Princeton came in fourth (1:37.31).

Men’s 100 Breaststroke – Prelims

• Ivy League Meet Record: 51.85 – I. Evdokimov, Cornell (2018)
• Pool Record: 51.85 – I. Evdokimov, Cornell (2018)
• NCAA A Standard: 51.59
• NCAA B Standard: 54.27

Top 8:

1. Demirkan Demir, Columbia – 52.37
2. Jared Simpson, Harvard – 52.55
3. Jack Kelly, Brown – 52.70
4. Matthew Fallon, Penn – 52.74
5. Josh Brown, Princeton / Neil Simpson, Penn – 53.23
6. –
7. Brian Lou, Princeton – 53.41
8. Michael Chang, Columbia – 53.65

Dartmouth’s Grant Dator improved his seed time by 3.2 seconds in the first heat, winning with 57.50. Brown’s Jack Kelly took the first circle-seeded heat in 52.70, seven-tenths better than his entry time. Princeton’s Brian Lou touched second with 53.41 ahead of Harvard’s Quinn Harron (54.10).

Columbia’s Demirkan Demir went 1.2 seconds better than his previous best to win heat 3 with 52.37. Princeton’s Josh Brown held off Columbia’s Michael Chang, 53.23 to 53.65, for second place.

Harvard’s Jared Simpson beat top-seeded Matthew Fallon of Penn in the final heat. Fallon, who has already achieved an A cut this season, was out first, but Simpson was .7 faster over the back half and won 52.55 to 52.74. Penn’s Neil Simpson came in third with 53.23.

Men’s 100 Backstroke – Prelims

• Ivy League Meet Record: 44.81 – D. Farris, Harvard (2018)
• Pool Record: 44.81 – D. Farris, Harvard (2018)
• NCAA A Standard: 44.94
• NCAA B Standard: 47.77

Top 8:

1. Tyler Hong, Princeton – 46.71
2. Gunner Grant, Harvard – 47.04
3. Anthony Rincon, Harvard – 47.28
4. Brett Feyerick, Princeton – 47.55
5. Jack Hamilton, Penn – 57.60
6. Keanan Dols, Penn – 47.84
7. Mark McCrary, Penn – 47.93
8. Reid Arwood, Brown – 48.13

Yale’s Michael Blank edged Dartmouth’s Matt Molloy, 49.64 to 49.65, in heat 1 of the final swimming event of the morning.

Tyler Hong of Princeton improved his seed time by 1.2 seconds and used a strong back half to outpace Harvard’s Anthony Rincon in the first circle-seeded heat, winning 46.71 to 47.28. Jerry O’Mara of Brown (48.62) was third from the outside lane.

Penn’s Jack Hamilton overtook teammate Mark McCrary to win heat 3, 47.60 to 47.93. Columbia’s Joseph Licht (48.23) beat out his teammate Joshua Cho (48.68) for third place.

Top-seeded Gunner Grant of Harvard beat Princeton’s Brett Feyerick in the final heat, 47.04 to 47.55. The two were even at the 50 wall but Grant came home nearly half a second faster. Penn’s Keanan Dols touched third in the heat with 47.84.

Men’s 3-Meter Diving – Prelims

• Ivy League Meet Record: 457.35 – M. Mosca, Harvard (2015)
• Pool Record:
• NCAA A Standard:

Top 8:

1. Jonathan Suckow, Columbia – 435.00
2. Colten Young, Princeton – 380.60
3. Trevor Labuda, Brown – 344.30
4. Jeanpaul Ditto, Yale – 340.20
5. Griffin Brooks, Princeton – 329.20
6. Joseph Victor, Princeton – 327.95
7. Taso Callanan, Princeton – 319.60
8. Luke Foster, Harvard – 317.95