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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SATURDAY EVENING HEAT SHEETS

DAY 4

Men’s 1650 Yard Freestyle – Slower Heats

• Ivy Meet: 14:40.18, Chris Swanson, Penn (2016)
• Pool Record: 14:47.10, Kei Hyogo, Yale (2017)
• NCAA A: 14:37.31
• NCAA B: 15:25.12
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 14:53.84

Podium:

1. Cole Kuster, Harvard – 15:02.52
2. Aidan Wilson, Brown – 15:05.30
3. Simon Lamar, Harvard – 15:05.35
4. Zach Vasser, Columbia – 15:05.98
5. John Ehling, Princeton – 15:08.38
6. Andrew Berzolla, Brown – 15:08.51
7. Shane Washart, Harvard – 15:08.59
8. Noah Brune, Harvard – 15:16.59

Simon Lamar of Harvard went 15:05.35 in the earlier heats, setting the time to beat in the final tonight.

Shane Washart went out first, getting a big advantage over the field by the 200 mark. He was half a body up at the 300 and a full body ahead at the 500. Following in second place was Columbia first-year Zach Vasser, who placed 6th in the 1000 last night. Behind the two leaders were 1000 champion John Ehling of Princeton and Harvard’s Cole Kuster in lanes 3 and 2, respectively.

Ehling and Kuster were swimming nearly identical splits and moved past Washart and Vasser at the 900. Ehling held the lead, but only by a tenth of a second or so, through the 1200. Kuster threw his legs in at that point, and was up by a full body length at the 1400.

Brown senior Aidan Wilson, the top seed coming into the meet, had joined the leader group at the 1300 and moved into second place at the 1400. Vasser passed Ehling at the 1400, also.

The group held their order through to the finish, with Kuster going 15:02.52; Wilson, 15:05.30; Vasser, 15:05.98; and Ehling 15:08.38.

Lamar ended up 3rd. Andrew Berzolla from Brown, who had notched a 15:08.51 in the earlier heats, finished 6th overall.

Men’s 200 Yard Backstroke – Finals

• Ivy Meet: 1:38.99, Dean Farris, Harvard (2018)
• Pool Record: 1:40.52, Jack Manchester, Harvard (2017)
• NCAA A: 1:39.13
• NCAA B: 1:44.60
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 1:40.62

Podium:

1. Gunner Grant, Harvard – 1:40.68
2. Anthony Rincon, Harvard – 1:41.32
3. Pietro Ubertalli, Cornell – 1:41.96
4. Isaac Beers, Columbia – 1:42.95
5. James Curreri, Penn – 1:44.24
6. Parker Lenoce, Princeton – 1:45.46
7. Daniel Gallagher, Penn – 1:45.57
8. Blake Conway, Cornell – 1:46.22

Harvard senior Gunner Grant won his fourth consecutive Ivy League title in the 200 back, notching his best time in the series with 1:40.68. In 2020, as a freshman, he clocked a winning 1:41.49. The Ivy League canceled the 2020-21 season, so his next win came in 2022 (1:41.43). Last year he went 1:41.43, as well.

Teammate Anthony Rincon was runner-up for the second year in a row. His 1:41.32 would have won last year’s title by .11.

Cornell’s Pietro Ubertalli was third again this year, but .7 faster than he’d been a year ago, with 1:41.96.

Men’s 100 Yard Freestyle – Finals

• Ivy Meet: 41.42, Dean Farris, Harvard (2019)
• Pool Record: 41.92, Dean Farris, Harvard (2019)
• NCAA A: 41.50
• NCAA B: 43.46
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 42.32

Podium:

1. David Greeley, Harvard – 42.82
2. Deny Nankov, Yale – 43.17
3. Marcus Holmquist, Harvard – 43.39
4. Mitchell Schott, Princeton – 43.49
5. Marcus Lee, Brown – 43.54
6. Sonny Wang, Harvard – 43.58
7. Zion James, Columbia – 43.79
8. Ben Meulemans, Yale – 43.85

Harvard sophomore David Greeley, swimming out of lane 3, was the first to flip at the 50 wall with 20.52. Just .01 behind him was Yale first-year Deny Nankov, the top seed in the event and the fastest qualifier in prelims. In third place behind them was Yale junior Ben Meulemans.

Just when it looked like either Nankov or Meulemans might keep the 100 free trophy in the Yale family (Joe Page won last year), Greeley had an explosive fourth 25 to win with 42.82 (20.5/22.3).

The next-fastest second half belonged to Princeton sophomore Mitchell Schott, out in lane 8. He went from eighth at the halfway point to fourth at the finish.

Nankov finished with 22.6 to maintain his second-place position, while Harvard’s Marcus Holmquist passed four swimmers to finish third with 43.39.

Men’s 200 Yard Breaststroke – Finals

• Ivy Meet: 1:50.27, Matthew Fallon, Penn (2024)
• Pool Record: 1:50.27, Matthew Fallon, Penn (2024)
• NCAA A: 1:51.09
• NCAA B: 1:57.44
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 1:52.94

Podium:

1. Matt Fallon, Penn – 1:49.75
2. Jack Kelly, Brown – 1:51.63
3. Demirkan Demir, Columbia – 1:54.38
4. Charlie Egeland, Yale – 1:55.52
5. Joshua Corn, Columbia – 1:56.01
6. Sebastian Wolff, Cornell – 1:57.02
7. Peter Whittington, Penn – 1:57.07
8. Jason Schreiber, Penn – 1:57.47

Penn junior Matt Fallon lowered his own Ivy League meet and Blodgett Pool record, set in prelims, with a 1:49.75 in the final. He now leads the NCAA so far this season with the only sub-1:50 in the nation.

Fallon has swum 1:49s three times in his career:

• 1:49.03 – 2022 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming Championships (prelims)
• 1:49.16– 2022 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming Championships (finals)
• 1:49.71 – 2021 Zippy Invitational

Brown junior Jack Kelly was out first, turning .6 ahead of Fallon at the 50 wall with 25.04. They both went 28.1 on the second 50, but from there, Fallon upped his tempo and was the first to turn at the 125 wall. He came home in 27.9 and 28.1 for a back half of 55.99.

Kelly went 53.2/58.4 for 1:51.63 and a silver medal. He was well under the 2023 NCAA Invited time, making the two breaststrokers the only Ivy League safe-bet individual qualifiers for NCAAs.

Columbia junior and defending champion Demirkan Demir, third at the 150 behind Yale first-year Charlie Egeland, came home 1.4 seconds faster to take the bronze medal with 1:54.38. Egeland was fourth with 1:55.52.

Men’s 200 Yard Butterfly – Finals

• Ivy Meet: 1:41.50, Raunak Khosla, Princeton (2022)
• Pool Record: 1:42.35, Tommy Glenn, Brown (2014)
• NCAA A: 1:40.16
• NCAA B: 1:45.89
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 1:42.57

Podium:

1. David Schmitt, Harvard – 1:42.44
2. Ben Littlejohn Harvard – 1:42.58
3. Joseph Gurski, Cornell – 1:43.64
4. Max Kreidl, Princeton – 1:44.52
5. Jacques Grove, Cornell – 1:45.39
6. Arthur Balva, Princeton – 1:46.24
7. Nicholas Lim, Princeton – 1:46.42
8. Conor McKenna, Princeton – 1:47.84

Harvard junior Ben Littlejohn cracked led the field at the 50, 100, and 150, and looked ready to sew up his second individual title of the meet, but he tightened up on the final 50 and teammate David Schmitt came from behind to win by .14 with 1:42.44. Schmitt was just under the 2023 NCAA Invited time, while Littlejohn matched that standard in prelims but fell .01 short in the final. Schmitt was seeded with 1:42.17, which he swam at the HYP double dual meet, which gives him a better chance of being selected this year.

Princeton senior Max Kreidl and last night’s 100 fly champion, Joseph Gurski, traded stroke for stroke throughout the first 100, much as they’d done in prelims this morning, but Gurski was tougher on the back half and came in third place with 1:43.64, nearly a second ahead of Kreidl.

Gurski’s teammate Jacques Grove was another .8 behind Kreidl, beating the three other Princeton Tigers in the final: first-year Arthur Balva, senior Nicholas Lim, and sophomore Conor McKenna.

Men’s 3-meter Diving – Finals

• Ivy Meet: 464.55, Jonathan Suckow, Columbia (2022)
• Pool Record: 435.45, Jonathan Suckow, Columbia (2022)
• NCAA Zones: 320.00

Podium:

1. Aidan Wang, Princeton – 409.55
2. Adam Wesson, Harvard – 392.75
3. JP Ditto, Yale – 333.95
4. Rowland Lawver, Brown – 333.25
5. Raphael Tourette, Harvard – 323.05
6. Luke Foster, Harvard – 322.05
7. Denny Gulio-Janovsky, Harvard – 311.65
8. Taso Callanan, Princeton – 309.95

Princeton first-year Aidan Wang completed his sweep of the diving events with 409.55 points on the 3-meter board. He took the lead on his first dive with 66.65 points and maintained his position with 67.50, 67.50, 67.50, 69.00 and 71.40 on the subsequent dives.

Adam Wesson of Harvard, who was 11th last year, finished in second place with 392.75 points. 2023 runner-up JP Ditto of Yale was third (333.95).

Brown’s Rowland Lawver, after placing second to Wang in 1-meter diving on Thursday, finished fourth with 333.25 points.

Men’s 400 Yard Freestyle Relay – Timed Final

• Ivy Meet: 2:50.40, Harvard (2022)
• Pool Record: 2:52.10, Harvard (2017)
• NCAA A: 2:50.44
• NCAA B: 2:51.86

Podium:

1. Harvard – 2:50.73
2. Princeton – 2:53.45
3. Yale – 2:54.29
4. Cornell – 2:54.70
5. Columbia – 2:55.73
6. Brown – 2:55.82
7. Penn – 2:56.56
8. Dartmouth – 2:59.13

Harvard made it a clean sweep of the relays, closing out the meet with a Blodgett Pool record of 2:50.73. Ben Littlejohn led off in 43.11; he was followed by David Greeley (42.28), Aayush Deshpande (43.02), and Marcus Holmquist (42.32).

Princeton was in second place throughout the four legs, as Brett Feyerick (43.80), Mitchell Schott (42.68), Daniel Li (43.14), and Lucas Tudoras (43.83) combined for 2:53.45.

Yale (2:54.29) placed third with legs from Ben Meulemans (44.59), Deny Nankov (42.96), Nareg Minassian (43.37), and Lucius Brown (43.47).

Final Team Scores

1. Harvard – 1682
2. Princeton – 1321
3. Yale – 1030
4. Penn – 909
5. Brown – 861.5
6. Columbia – 855
7. Cornell – 798.5
8. Dartmouth – 390