2025 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Dates: Wednesday, February 26–Saturday, March 1
• Location: Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, Providence, RI
• Defending Champions: Harvard men (7x)
• Live Results
• Live Video: ESPN+
• Championship Central

Day 1 of the 2025 Ivy League Men’s Championships will feature timed finals of the 200 medley and 800 free relays and a team diving event.

Team diving, still in its exhibition phase, is diving’s version of a medley relay. The idea is to score this event like a relay, so that each participating team earns double points. Each team consists of 3 divers who perform two dives each. In the Ivy League, platform diving is not a scored event, so the divers perform a total of three 1-meter dives and three 3-meter dives.

DAY 1

Men’s 200 Yard Medley Relay – Timed Final

• Ivy Meet: 1:23.79, Harvard (Tan, McNamara, Yakubovich, O’Hara), 2023
• Pool Record: 1:23.79, Harvard (Tan, McNamara, Yakubovich, O’Hara), 2023
• NCAA A: 1:23.62
• NCAA B: 1:23.90

Podium:

1. Yale – 1:24.00
2. Harvard – 1:24.20
3. Cornell – 1:24.67
4. Columbia – 1:24.75
5. Brown – 1:24.92
6. Princeton – 1:24.96
7. Penn – 1:26.22
8. Dartmouth – 1:28.09

After a three-year run from Harvard, the Ivy League saw a new quartet atop the podium on Wednesday, as Yale’s Lucius Brown (21.42), Alexander Hazlett (23.05), Nick Finch (20.52), and Deny Nankov (23.05) combined to edge the Crimson, 1:24.00 to 1:24.20. It was a program record for the Bulldogs and their first conference title in the event.

Harvard’s Anthony Rincon (21.27), Joshua Chen (23.84), Sonny Wang (20.11), and Marre Gattnar (18.98) placed second, just .47 ahead of Cornell (Pietro Ubertalli, Sebastian Wolff, Joseph Gurski, and Josh Toothman).

Coming to the wall just behind Cornell were Columbia (1:24.75), Brown (1:24.92), and Princeton (1:24.96).

Men’s Team Diving (Springboard Only) – Exhibition

Non-scoring Podium:

1. Harvard team diving – 355.15
2. Princeton team diving – 339.80
3. Dartmouth team diving – 318.75
4. Brown team diving – 316.10
5. Yale team diving – 310.15
6. Columbia team diving – 274.80

Harvard won the team diving exhibition with an average score of 59.19 per dive, 15.35 points more than second-place Princeton, who had won the event last year.

Men’s 800 Yard Freestyle Relay – Timed Final

• Ivy Meet: 6:15.38, Harvard (Novak, Reihman, Rawls, Farris), 2019
• Pool Record: 6:16.77, Princeton (Lim, Khosla, Schott, Walther), 2023
• NCAA A: 6:15.80
• NCAA B: 6:18.42

Podium:

1. Princeton – 6:13.75
2. Yale – 6:13.98
3. Cornell – 6:17.54
4. Harvard – 6:18.05
5. Brown – 6:21.17
6. Penn – 6:23.62
7. Dartmouth – 6:25.17
8. Columbia – 6:26.54

Princeton and Yale both came to the wall more than a second under the meet record time of 6:15.38, set by Harvard in 2019, but Princeton got the touch by .23 to etch their name in the record books. Sophomore Arthur Balva (1:34.77), junior Mitchell Schott (1:31.81), sophomore Noah Sech (1:34.85), and freshman Patrick Dinu (1:32.32) combined for 6:13.75 to secure the Tigers’ victory.

Princeton started leg 2 in 5th place, trailing Cornell (Pietro Ubertalli, 1:33.01), Brown (Marton Nagy, 1:33.56), Yale (Jake Wang, 1:33.82), and Columbia (Adam Wu, 1:34.57) at the 200.

Schott provided by a very large margin the fastest second leg, vaulting Princeton into first place at the 400. Yale answered with 1:34.41 from Nankov and a blazing 1:30.44 fourth leg from Noah Millard. The Bulldogs actually led the by .01 at the 700, but Dinu dug in and pulled out the win for Princeton, despite Millard’s 1:30 anchor.

Cornell (Ubertalli, Jacques Grove, Jack Banks, and Dominic Edwards) eked out a third-place finish, coming to the wall half a second ahead of Harvard (Littlejohn, Harris Durham, Shane Washart, and David Greeley).

Team Scores After Day 1

1. Yale – 120
2. Princeton – 112
3. (tie) Harvard / Cornell – 108
4. –
5. Brown – 100
6. Columbia – 96
7. Penn – 94
8. Dartmouth – 90