2024 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships
- Wednesday, February 28 – Saturday, March 2, 2024
- Blodgett Pool, Cambridge, MA
- Defending Champions:
- Men: Harvard (6x)
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Harvard got off to a strong start on Day 1, winning both relays with Blodgett Pool records. We begin our individual events on Day 2 with heats of 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free, and 1-meter diving. Princeton’s John Ehling is top seed in the 500 free (4:18.39) but Columbia’s Adam Wu is the highest-placing returning finalist from last year. Mitchell Schott of Princeton, who competed in the A final with Ehling and Wu last year, is seeded 1st in the 200 IM (1:43.48). He’ll be battling Harvard’s Gunner Grant and Brown’s Jack Kelly, seeded 2 and 3. Yale first-year Deny Nankov (19.71) leads the entrants in the 50 free, followed by Marcus Holmquist of Harvard and Brown first-year Jonathan Gim.
DAY 2
Men’s 500 Yard Freestyle – Prelims
- Ivy Meet: 4:10.62, Noah Millard, Yale (2023)
- Pool Record: 4:16.56, Brennan Novak, Harvard (2018)
- NCAA A: 4:10.74
- NCAA B: 4:21.99
- 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 4:14.36
Top 8 Qualifiers:
- Ben Littlejohn, Harvard – 4:16.78
- Matt Fallon, Penn – 4:17.31
- John Ehling, Princeton – 4:18.63
- Andrew Berzolla, Brown – 4:20.17
- Cole Kuster, Harvard – 4:20.46
- James Curreri, Penn – 4:21.41
- Shane Washart, Harvard – 4:21.65
- Simon Lamar, Harvard – 4:23.06
Harvard junior Ben Littlejohn, who was an A finalist last year but entered the meet with no time this season, cracked a lifetime-best 4:16.78 from heat 1 to qualify first overall in the men’s 500 free. Penn’s Matt Fallon, known best as a breaststroker (his brother Billy Fallon was a distance freestyler at Penn), put up the second-fastest time in Quaker history with his 4:17.31 winning performance in heat 2. Fallon was entered with 4:33.33.
Harvard senior Cole Kuster dominated heat 3 with 4:20.46, while Brown’s Andrew Berzolla beat Penn sophomore James Curreri, 4:20.17 to 4:21.41) in heat 4.
Princeton senior John Ehling cruised to a 4:18.63 win in heat 5, while Harvard teammates Simon Lamar (4:23.06) and Filip Lanyi (4:23.22) battled it out for 2nd.
Men’s 200 Yard Individual Medley – Prelims
- Ivy Meet: 1:41.11, Raunak Khosla, Princeton (2023)
- Pool Record: 1:43.01, Raunak Khosla, Princeton (2020)
- NCAA A: 1:41.03
- NCAA B: 1:46.16
- 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 1:43.14
Top 8 Qualifiers:
- Gunner Grant, Harvard – 1:43.40
- Max Kreidl, Princeton – 1:43.76
- Tyler Hong, Princeton – 1:44.14
- Mitchell Schott, Princeton – 1:44.35
- Jack Kelly, Brown – 1:44.70
- Sebastian Wolff, Cornell – 1:45.22
- Harrison Powe, Brown – 1:46.29
- Noah Sech, Princeton – 1:46.34
Columbia junior Caleb Apodaca won heat 2 with a massive 1:48.03, improving his seed time by 3.6 seconds and leapfrogging from 28th seed straight into the B final. Brown’s Jack Kelly, last year’s bronze medalist, took care of business in the first circle-seeded heat with 1:44.70, beating Princeton first-year Noah Sech (1:46.34) by 1.6 seconds.
Harvard’s Gunner Grant clocked in at 1:43.40 to win heat 4, just touching out Princeton’s Max Kreidl (1:43.76) who came back from a 1.5-second deficit at the 150 wall to nearly catch Grant at the touch.
Princeton went 1-2 in the final heat, with junior Tyler Hong just edging sophomore Mitchell Schott, 1:44.14 to 1:44.35.
Men’s 50 Yard Freestyle – Prelims
- Ivy Meet: 18.90, Alex Righi, Yale (2009)
- Pool Record: 19.32, Albert Gwo, Columbia (2020)
- NCAA A: 18.82
- NCAA B: 19.79
- 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 19.21
Top 8 Qualifiers:
- Ben Meulemans, Yale – 19.60
- Zion James, Columbia – 19.82
- Marcus Holmquist – Harvard – 19.83
- Deny Nankov, Yale – 19.84
- David Greeley, Harvard – 19.87
- Lucius Brown, Yale – 19.91
- Sonny Wang, Harvard – 19.94
- Benjamin Feldman, Penn – 19.99
The 50 free was somewhat chaotic, given that the Blodgett Pool timing system malfunctioned in lane 5. None of the lane 5 swimmers in the circle-seeded heats registered times and their swims had to be manually adjusted at the conclusion of the event. These included Harvard first-year Sonny Wang in heat 4, Harvard senior Marcus Hodgson in heat 5, and Princeton junior Brett Feyerick in heat 6. Wang was assigned a 19.94 to make the A final; Feyerick got 20.00 and Hodgson, 20.14, earning B- and C-final spots, respectively.
After the results were shifted around, there was now a 3-way tie for 15th place among Brown freshman Jonathan Gim, his teammate, junior Marcus Lee, and Columbia sophomore Sam Eckert, who all registered 20.13.
Men’s 1-meter Diving – Prelims
- Ivy Meet: 437.00, Jonathan Suckow, Columbia (2023)
- Pool Record: 405.75, Terry Horner, Florida State (2007)
- NCAA Zones: 300.00
Top 8 Qualifiers:
- Adam Wesson, Harvard – 338.55
- Rowland Lawver, Brown – 321.55
- Aidan Wang, Princeton – 317.85
- Luca Fassi, Princeton – 317.35
- Anastasios Callanan, Princeton – 303.80
- Luke Foster, Harvard – 303.20
- Joseph Nicol, Columbia – 302.95
- Denny Gulia Janovski, Harvard – 294.75
Marcus Hodgson is a senior from Yale not Harvard.
THIS IS WHY ITS HARVARDS LAST TIME HOSTING THE MEET!! Cannot believe this is allowed. Anyone in lane 5 this morning in the 50 free needs another chance to swim.
So unprofessional and disappointing of meet officials
Would be amazing if Harvard could field a functioning pad for this meet. Completely unacceptable to run those heats when the lane 5 touchpad wasn’t working. The video shows Feyerick touching before Feldman (19.99) but Feyerick was given a time of 20.2
They changed it to 20.00 good enough for 9th. Right behind Feldman. Watching it, Wang was also faster than 19.94. Since he is in A final that doesn’t matter and he probably wasn’t faster than 19.6/19.7 which wouldn’t make NCAAs. I don’t know if Hodgsons time is realistic or not
Nah feldman clutched
Pad failure in lane 5 of most heats of the 50 screwed some guys.