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)
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- Live Video: ESPN+
Women’s 200 Yard Medley Relay – Timed Finals
- Ivy Meet record: 1:36.79, Princeton (Pappas, McDonald, Johnston, Noble, 2024)
- Ivy League record: 1:36.79, Princeton (Pappas, McDonald, Johnston, Noble, 2024)
- Pool record: 1:36.89, Princeton (Pappas, McDonald, Venema, Johnston, 2023)
- 2024 Champion: Princeton (Pappas, McDonald, Johnston, Noble) – 1:36.79
Podium:
- Harvard – 1:36.83
- Princeton – 1:37.14
- Yale – 1:37.19
- Brown – 1:39.76
- Dartmouth – 1:39.91
- Penn – 1:39.96
- Columbia – 1:40.89
- Cornell – 1:41.32
Harvard, who came into the meet seeded first after having posted the League’s top time at the H-Y-P double dual meet, broke the DeNunzio Pool record with their winning 1:36.83. Anya Mostek (24.55), Aleksandra Denisenko (27.05), Sydney Lu (23.20), and Blythe Wieclawek (22.03) contributed to the Crimson victory.
Princeton got off to the quickest start with a 24.52 backstroke from Alexa Pappas, but quickly fell to 3rd place after the breaststroke leg (27.83 from Heidi Smithwick). Sabrina Johnston went 23.21 on the fly, keeping the Tigers in third place, before handing off to Ela Noble, who passed Yale on the way home with a blazing 21.58 anchor.
Yale touched third with Quinn Murphy (24.74), Jessey Li (26.86), Alex Massey (23.11), and Sara Plunkett (22.48).
Team Diving Relay – Exhibition
Podium:
- Princeton – 280.9
- Penn – 261.8
- Harvard – 261.6
- Columbia – 260.0
- Dartmouth – 259.7
- Yale – 242.5
- Cornell – 241.3
Women’s 800 Yard Freestyle Relay – Timed Finals
- Ivy Meet record: 6:59.92, Harvard (Dahlke, Shelton, Quist, Pasadyn, 2020)
- Ivy League record: 6:59.92, Harvard (Dahlke, Shelton, Quist, Pasadyn, 2020)
- Pool record: 7:05.85, Princeton (Venema, Johnston, Lewitt, Marquardt, 2023)
- 2024 Champion: Princeton (Marquardt, Johnston, Sun, Smithwick) – 7:04.45
Podium:
- Princeton – 7:03.47
- Brown – 7:09.54
- Penn – 7:09.66
- Yale – 7:17.49
- Cornell – 7:20.79
- Dartmouth – 7:26.00
- Harvard – DQ
- Columbia – DQ
It was a wild ride in the 800 free relay, with both second-place Harvard and Columbia succumbing to DQs for early starts. Princeton led Harvard by half a second at the first exchange thanks to a 1:46.87 leadoff from Jenna Walters. The Crimson bounced back with a 1:44.13 from Alexandra Bastone, while Sabrina Johnston went 1:45.35 for the Tigers. Eleanor Sun swam Princeton’s third leg, going 1:44.65 to secure a 1.7-second lead heading into the final 200 yards. Heidi Smithwick brought it home in 1:46.60, breaking the pool and Princeton program record with a final time of 7:03.47.
Harvard was disqualified after touching second.
Brown edged Penn and moved into second place after Harvard’s DQ. The Bears improved their seed time by just over 4 seconds with swims from Zehra Bilgin (1:49.32), Crystal Yuen (1:45.82), Kelly Dolce (1:46.98), and Anna Podurgiel (1:47.42) for a final time of 7:09.54.
Penn’s Kayla Fu (1:47.10), Jenna Jacobs (1:49.07), Anna Moehn (1:46.28), and Katya Eruslanova (1:47.21) picked up the bronze medal with 7:09.66, some 7.8 seconds ahead of Yale.
Cornell and Dartmouth were 5th and 6th, respectively, while Columbia was disqualified.
Team Scores After Day 1:
- Princeton – 120
- Brown – 108
- Yale – 106
- Penn – 102
- Dartmouth – 98
- Cornell – 94
- Harvard – 64
- Columbia – 46
StatsMan
The relay scoring in the Ivies makes no sense. If you get DQ’ed by trying to gain 2 points by beating another team with fast exchanges, you lose the automatic 44 points for coming in last. The scoring system is designed for meet with at least 24 teams, and yet there are only 8. Better would be something like 50-40-32-25-20-15-10-5.
What’s up with people being listed as “alternates” on the heat sheet for tomorrow’s prelims?
There are two empty lanes in the first heat of the 500 freestyle, but 3 alternates? Please make it make sense!
It looks like that was an error. The heat sheet was re-posted maybe this morning, and all events in Thursday prelims have been re-seeded. The swimmers previously listed as Alternates with NT are actually exhibition swimmers who do have seed times. I believe each team may permitted one exhibition swimmer (“manager” / “alternate”) who can swim prelims but not advance to finals. They’re sometimes referred to as the ‘alternate’ because they’re allowed to travel to the meet, and teams declare their alternate on Wednesday afternoon. This allows the alternate to be named on Wednesday, in case someone gets sick before that deadline, the ‘alternate’ can be made official. Otherwise, the alternate swims exhibition.
The whole heat sheet for Thursday prelims… Read more »
The “live” results on beesmart don’t have reaction/exchange times. The PDF results at ivyleague.com do. They show Columbia 2nd swimmer at -0.19 and Harvard 3rd swimmmer at -0.02 for exchanges.
Harvard and Columbia DQ 800 free relay
What happened? They didn’t explain it on the ESPN+ broadcast that I heard. Was a really weird start.
Brutal DQ for Harvard. They were solidly in 2nd going into the final leg, with essentially no chance of moving up to 1st or back to 3rd.
The response time for the Harvard relay swimmer is listed as -0.02. I wouldn’t have thought that that would be a DQ. Can the coach protest the call?
If using automatic relay judging system, if it detects -0.09 through -0.01, you essentially cannot appeal as it is an automatic call, unless there is facility video replay installed (not a hand held phone video). Only real exception is if the timing operator somehow has evidence of a malfunction of the equipment.
Not exactly true! The manufacturer of the timing system shows relay delay errors of 0.024 to 0.027 which is why the manufacturers recommended tolerance and fina rules are 0.03 seconds. Feel free to review the results of the Tokyo Olympics.
Coaching issue. You have to say “safe starts” to your swimmers in an 8fr relay. Rarely in women’s ivies is the 8 fr relay won is less than .5 seconds and even if it is you get like 60 points and the next team gets 58. Something like that anyway.
Not a coaching issue but a touch pad issue. Start was safe.
What happened?
What’s with the insanely janky results page?
Yes! Where are the 800 FR results?
I finally found them on meet central. Took forever to upload.
Seems like they’re working on the live results now.
http://besmarttinc.com/Princeton/WIvy/202X/2025/RTR/index.htm
Finally found too.
yeah, rinky dink Bee special