2025 Ivy League Women: Day 2 Up/Mid/Downs – Harvard Moving Up But Princeton Still on Top

2025 Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Dates: Wednesday, February 19–Saturday, February 22
• Prelims 11AM; Finals 6PM
• Location: DeNunzio Pool, Princeton, NJ
• Defending Champions: Princeton women (2x)
• Championship Central
• Fan Guide
• Pre-scratch Psych Sheet
• Live Results
• Live Video: ESPN+
• Day 1 Finals Live Recap
• Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

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 1

1. Princeton – 120
2. Brown – 108
3. Yale – 106
4. Penn – 102
5. Dartmouth – 98
6. Cornell – 94
7. Harvard – 64
8. Columbia – 46

Harvard had a strong morning session, improving in their swimming events by 17 points over their seedings. However, the Crimson weren’t able to claw back much of the deficit they suffered from last night’s relay DQ, as Princeton also improved from the psych sheet, picking up 33 points in the first three swimming events. Dartmouth (+28), Brown (+9), and Penn (+4) also had better-than-expected mornings.

Harvard entered 9 divers in the 1-meter event, while Princeton and Yale had six each. The strategy paid off quite nicely for the Crimson and Yale, who both placed 3 into the A final.

Day 2 Ups/Mids/Downs

Scoring Day 2 Prelims (plus 200 Free Relay as seeded)

Projected Day 2 Scores