2025 Ivy League Women’s Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

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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Princeton topped the leaderboard after the 200 medley and 800 free relays on Day 1, but Harvard scored 11 A-final spots tonight. Those include #1 seed Alexandra Bastone in the 500 free. Princeton earned middle two lanes in the 200 IM with Eleanor Sun and Dakota Tucker, and in the 50 free with Sabrina Johnston and Ela Noble. Yale’s Paige Li was the top diver of the morning; both Yale and Harvard have 3 A-finalist in that event.

THURSDAY NIGHT HEAT SHEETS

Women’s 500 Yard Freestyle – Finals

• Ivy Meet record: 4:36.37, Ellie Marquardt, Princeton, 2020
• Ivy League record: 4:33.24, Lia Thomas, Penn, 2022
• NCAA “A” standard: 4:36.89
• 2024 NCAA Invite time: 4:41.19
• 2024 Champion: Anna Kalandadze, Penn – 4:37.21

Podium:

1. Alexandra Bastone, Harvard – 4:38.75
2. Anna Moehn, Penn – 4:4:41.28
3. Natalie Farquhar, Princeton – 4:45.93
4. Sydney Bergstrom, Penn – 4:46.09
5. Heidi Smithwick, Princeton – 4:46.94
6. Crystal Yuen, Brown – 4:47.50
7. Lindsay Orringer, Columbia – 4:51.23
8. Jenna Jacobs, Penn – 4:54.14

Harvard’s Alexandra Bastone took off from the start and jumped out to an early lead over the field. Penn’s Anna Moehn, the 2024 runner-up, established herself in second place right away, trying to keep up with Bastone while leaving 5 yards of clear water in her wake. Bastone continued to build her lead and ended up winning with 4:38.75 for a new DeNunzio Pool record. Moehn came in second with 4:41.28.

Behind the lead pair, there was a furious battle at the finish for third place. Princeton’s Heidi Smithwick had held the lead on the rest of the swimmers through the 300 from out in lane 1, but her teammate Natalie Farquhar powered home to clip Penn’s Sydney Bergstrom, 4:45.83 to 4:46.09, for the bronze medal. Smithwick finished 5th with 4:46.94.

Dartmouth’s Sydney Rawie went 4:51.29 for a wire-to-wire win in the B final. Rawie came into the meet with a seed time of 5:01.29. Penn’s Ruitong Zhang went a best time by 4.4 seconds to win the C final with 4:53.58.

Women’s 200 Yard Individual Medley – Finals

• Ivy Meet record: 1;55.09, Katie Meili, Columbia, 2013
• Ivy League record: 1:54.72, Katie Meili, Columbia, 2013
• NCAA “A” standard: 1:53.66
• 2024 NCAA Invite time: 1:57.03
• 2024 Champion: Dakota Tucker, Princeton – 1:56.77

Podium:

1. Eleanor Sun, Princeton – 1:55.50
2. Dakota Tucker, Princeton – 1:57.76
3. Eliza Brown, Princeton – 1:59.25
4. Gabi Augustyn, Harvard – 1:59.70
5. Katya Eruslanova, Penn – 1:59.80
6. Stephanie Iannaccone, Harvard – 1:59.99
7. Payton Foster, Harvard – 2:00.51
8. Aleksandra Denisenko, Harvard – 2:00.95

Eleanor Sun of Princeton took it out quickly from the middle of the pool, with teammate and defending champion Dakota Tucker just by her side in lane 5. The pair were nearly a body length up on the field at the 100, with Sun splitting 25.74/29.30 and Tucker going 26.07/29.81 on the first half. Sun took off on the breaststroke, pacing a 33.25 to begin the final 50 yards with a 1.5-second lead. She came home in 27.21 to establish a new pool record of 1:55.50.

Tucker’s second half of 33.91/27.97 gave her a full body length ahead of third place, as she came to the wall in 1:57.76.

Eliza Brown made it a 1-2-3 sweep for the Tigers with 1:59.25, moving from 5th at the halfway mark to 3rd at the finish with a back half of 34.18/28.51.

Harvard’s Gabi Augustyn edged Penn’s Katya Eruslanova for fourth, 1:59.70 to 1:59.80.

The B final went to Yale’s Eunice Lee in 2:00.19. She touched just ahead of teammate Mabel Koff (2:00.30). Katherine Jia of Dartmouth led from start to finish in the C final, winning with 2:01.23.

Women’s 50 Yard Freestyle – Finals

• Ivy Meet record: 21.83, Bella Hindley, Yale, 2019
• Ivy League record: 21.83, Bella Hindley, Yale, 2019
• NCAA “A” standard: 21.58
• 2024 NCAA Invite time: 22.11
• 2024 Champion: Sabrina Johnston, Princeton – 22.07

Podium:

1. Sabrina Johnston, Princeton – 22.30
2. Ela Noble, Princeton – 22.43
3. Anya Mostek, Harvard – 22.45
4. Kayla Fu, Penn / Sydney Lu, Harvard – 22.66
5. –
6. Sally Ma, Columbia – 22.72
7. Blythe Wieclawek, Harvard – 22.88
8. Emily Macdonald, Columbia – 22.88

Princeton’s Sabrina Johnston successfully defended her crown in the 50 free, albeit .23 off her winning time from a year ago. Teammate Ela Noble was second, as she’d been last year, but this time she held off a late charge from Harvard’s Anya Mostek.

Kayla Fu of Penn and Sydney Lu of Harvard tied for 4th place.

Princeton’s Veronique Rossouw was the lone sub-23 in the B final, winning with 22.65.

Women’s 1 Meter Diving – Finals

• Ivy Meet record: 314.20, Mikaela Thompson, Harvard, 2016
• Ivy League record: 322.50, Nina Janmyr, Harvard, 2024
• 2024 Champion: Nina Janmyr, Harvard – 289.30

Podium:

1. Charlotte Martinkus, Princeton – 302.35
2. Elizabeth Miclau, Harvard – 288.25
3. Hayden Henderson, Yale – 284.35
4. Lily Horenkamp, Yale – 283.85
5. Nina Janmyr, Harvard – 282.15
6. Paige Lai, Yale – 280.35
7. Charlotte Norman, Princeton – 280.20
8. Remi Edvalson, Harvard – 276.30

Princeton’s Charlotte Martinkus won a decisive victory on the 1-meter board, notching 302.35 points on six dives. Martinkus started out with better than 52 points on each of her first two dives, and finished with a 50.7-point performance to secure the win. Her teammate Charlotte Norman, who had been in 2nd place through round 5, slipped to 7th place on the final dive.

Harvard scored at 2nd, 5th and 8th, with Elizabeth Miclau, defending champion Nina Janmyr, ad Remi Edvalson. Yale picked up 3rd, 4th, and 6th places with Hayden Henderson, Lily Horenkamp, and Paige Lai.

Women’s 200 Yard Freestyle Relay – Timed Finals

• Ivy Meet record: 1:29.03, Princeton (Johnston, Noble, Smithwick, Korbly), 2024
• Ivy League record: 1:28.85, Princeton (Liu, Johnston, Venema, Noble), 2023
• 2024 Champion: Princeton – 1:29.03

Podium:

1. Princeton – 1:28.22
2. Harvard – 1:30.16
3. Yale – 1:31.20
4. Columbia – 1:31.88
5. Brown – 1:31.94
6. Dartmouth – 1:31.95
7. Penn – 1:32.15
8. Cornell – 1:32.48

Princeton took .81 off the meet record that the Tigers set a year ago, going 1:28.22 to win by nearly 2 seconds over Harvard and 3 seconds over Yale. Sabrina Johnston kicked things off for Princeton, leading off with 22.08 to beat her individual final time by .22. She handed off to Ela Noble, who split 21.63, the fastest 2nd leg by .7. Veronique Rossouw followed in 22.24 on leg 3, increasing the Princeton lead to 2.1 seconds over the field. Heidi Smithwick clocked in with a 22.27 anchor to give Princeton a meet, Ivy League, pool, and school record of 1:28.22.

Harvard was in second place from start to finish, with legs from Anya Mostek (22.78), Sydney Lu (22.36), Mandy Brenner (22.91), and Blythe Wieclawek.

Yale came in third thanks to Jessey Li (23.16), Ele Donegan (23.12), Caroline McCurdy (22.82), and Alex Massey (22.10).

Team Scores After Day 2:

1. Princeton – 546.5
2. Harvard – 480
3. Yale – 356
4. Penn – 324
5. Brown – 306
6. Dartmouth – 224.5
7. Columbia – 199
8. Cornell – 164