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)
- Championship Central
- Fan Guide
- Pre-scratch psych sheet
- Live Results
- Live Video: ESPN+
- Live Recaps: Day 1 ׀ Day 2 ׀ Day 3
- Official Results (PDF): Day 1 ׀ Day 2 ׀ Day 3
Team Standings Through Day 3
- Princeton University – 847.5
- Harvard University – 846.5
- Yale University – 836.5
- Brown University – 643
- Cornell University – 616.5
- Columbia University – 544.5
- University of Pennsylvania – 463.5
- Dartmouth College – 389
With the top three teams separated by only 11 points, every event takes on even more importance on Day 4. Yale has two of the three middle lanes in the fastest heat swimming with finals tonight, but there is a lot of jockeying for position that can take place this afternoon in the slower heats.
Men’s 1650 Yard Freestyle – Slower Heats
- Ivy Meet Record: 14:40.18, Chris Swanson, Penn (2016)
- Pool Record:
- NCAA A: 14:37.31
- NCAA B: 15:21.20
- 2024 NCAA Invite Time: 14:54.92
- 2024 Ivy League Champion: Cole Kuster, Harvard – 15:02.52
Top 16 Finishers:
- Zach Vasser, Columbia – 14:59.91
- Max Marcus, Princeton – 15:13.72
- Julian Correa, Cornell – 15:16.54
- Shane Washart, Harvard – 15:18.30
- Christian Duetoft, Brown – 1522.34
- Jose Cano Figueroa, Yale – 15:26.48
- Devyn Caples, Princeton – 15:27.15
- Bryce Key, Columbia – 15:27.25
- Tommy Erwin, Dartmouth – 15:32.10
- Konstantinos Zachariadis, Yale – 15:34.97
- Andy Zhou, Penn – 15:39.77
- Cooper Nicholson, Penn – 15:42.21
- Jake Lowrey, Brown – 15:46.70
- Ronan Fahey, Dartmouth – 15:54.03
- Alan Shaaban, Cornell – 16:00.19
- Xavier Orlic, Dartmouth – 16:12.14
Each of the above swimmers will score, although their positions will not be final until after tonight’s heat of the eight fastest 1650 freestyle qualifiers.
In heat 1, Yale junior Finn Henry dropped 14.2 seconds from his entry time to win with an exhibition time of 15:34.41. Dartmouth freshman Ronan Fahey beat his teammate sophomore Xavier Orlic by about 25 yards, dropping 37.5 seconds to go 15:54.03.
Heat 2 was a thriller, with Princeton freshman Max Marcus trading leads with Columbia freshman Bryce Key over the first half of the race, and with Cornell sophomore Julian Correa over the second half. Correa pulled even with Marcus at the 1250 and the pair moved in synchronicity through the 1550. Marcus had the edge swimming toward the lap counters’ wall; Correa looked faster coming into the timing wall. Marcus began his sprint at the 1575 and held on to the finish, touching in 15:13.72 for a 21.5-second drop. Correa also improved his entry time by 23.5 seconds, going 15:16.54 for second. Key touched third in 15:27.25.
Columbia sophomore Zach Vasser, the runner-up in the 1000 free on Friday night, jumped ahead of the field early on and swam his own race against the clock for 33 50s. Already up two body lengths on the field at the 200, he continued to build his lead and eventually won by 1-and-a-half pool lengths with a time of 14:59.91. That was a 25.5-second improvement for Vasser, who placed fourth overall as a freshman last year.
Behind Vasser, the field was tight for the first half of the race, with Harvard senior Shane Washart, Brown freshman Christian Duetoft, Yale junior Jose Cano Figueroa, and Princeton freshman Devyn Caples bunched together. Washart and Duetoft were still together at the 600, with Cano Figueroa and Caples about a second behind. Cano Figueroa made a move to catch the leaders at the 800, but it cost him and both he and Caples were about 1.8 seconds behind Washart and Duetoft at the 1000. That’s when Washart made his move, breaking away from the pack. He led Duetoft by more than a body at the 1200 and continued to build his lead until the finish, when he touched in 15:18.30, 4 full seconds ahead. Duetoft came in 4.1 seconds ahead of Cano Figueroa, who beat Caples by .7.
Go Tigers!!!