2024 Women’s Ivy Championships: Day 4 Up/Mid/Downs: Harvard Closing the Gap; Yale 3rd

2024 Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Wednesday, February 21 – Saturday, February 24, 2024
• Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, Providence, RI
• Defending Champions:
  • Women: Princeton (1x)
• Championship Central
• Fan Guide
• Pre-scratch Psych Sheet
• Live Results
• Live Video
• Recaps
  • Day 1 Finals
  • Day 2 Prelims ׀ Day 2 Finals
  • Day 3 Prelims ׀ Day 3 Finals
  • Day 4 Prelims

For those unfamiliar with swimming terminology, the concept of “Ups” and “Downs” is a good way to track which teams performed best at prelims. In prelims, swimmers qualify for one of three finals heats: the top 8 finishers make the A final, places 9 through 16 the B final and places 17 through 24 the C final. In finals, swimmers are locked into their respective final, meaning a swimmer in the B heat (spots 9-16) can only place as high as 9th or as low as 16th, even if they put up the fastest or slowest time of any heat in the final.

With that in mind, we’ll be tracking “Ups,” “Mids” and “Downs” after each prelims session. “Up” refers to swimmers and divers in the A final, “Mid” to B finalists, and “Down” to C finalists.

Scores After Day 3

1. Princeton – 953
2. Harvard – 857.5
3. Yale – 707
4. Brown – 657
5. Penn – 554.5
6. Columbia – 448
7. Cornell – 411
8. Dartmouth – 326

Harvard bet big on diving this year and it paid off: the Crimson earned 5 spots in the A final of 3-meter diving, picking up 46 points over their seeds. Harvard should finish the meet about 125 points ahead of expectations, but Princeton is still projected to win by 77 points. The Tigers had an outstanding morning in swimming events. They earned 4 A-final slots in the 200 back, 3 in the 100 free, 2 in the 200 breast, and 2 in the 200 fly. It was a much better morning for Princeton than Friday, and they did just what was needed to maintain the lead.

Brown had an impressive prelims session but with the exception of the 100 free, where they placed 3 in the A final, the Bears missed several opportunities to overtake Yale for third place this year. The Bulldogs have outscored their seedings all weekend but today, they were about even. They’ll likely pick up points on the relay, however, to seal their third-place finish.

Penn is expected to dominate the 1650 free but they failed to land A-final spots in any other event. Still, they are expected to finish in fifth place with a comfortable 150-point margin over Columbia. Cornell and Dartmouth, although with excellent performances throughout the weekend, appear to be locked in at seventh and eighth.

Day 4 Ups/Mids/Downs

Scoring Day 4 Prelims (plus 1650 Free and 400 Free Relay as seeded)

Projected Final Scores