2026 Ivy League Men’s Championships: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

2026 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Dates: Wednesday, February 25–Saturday, February 29
• Location: DeNunzio Pool, Princeton, New Jersey
• Defending Champions: Princeton men (1x)
• Teams: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale
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THURSDAY MORNING HEAT SHEETS

Scores After Day 1

1. Yale / Princeton – 120
2. –
3. Columbia – 106
4. Cornell – 104
5. Harvard – 100
6. Penn / Brown – 94
7. –
8. Dartmouth – 90

After an electric start to the meet last night, in which three relays (Yale’s 200 medley and 800 free relays and Princeton’s 800 free relay) hit automatic qualifying times for 2026 NCAA Division I Championships, we begin the individual events. Thursday’s prelims session will feature heats of the 500 free, 200 IM, and 50 free. 1-meter diving will follow in the early afternoon.

Harvard freshman William Mulgrew leads the psych sheet in the 500, coming in with the top seed time of 4:14.25. Seeded just .26 back is defending champion and Ivy record-holder, senior Noah Millard of Yale. Princeton has a couple of hopefuls near the top, as well, including junior Arthur Balva (4:16.99) and Santiago Gutierrez (4:17.29).

Princeton senior Mitchell Schott showed us his form last night, splitting 1:30.30 on the Tigers’ 4×200 free relay, and he comes in ranked at the top of the field in the 200 IM with 1:43.57. Brown sophomore Marton Nagy (1:44.32) was runner-up to Schott a year ago, and he is the #2 seed this morning. Dartmouth sophomore Jacob Turner (1:44.95), 11th a year ago, comes in with the 3rd time.

Yale sophomore Nicholas Finch will attempt to defend his 50 free title. He comes in with the only sub-19 seed time (18.96). Harvard junior Sonny Wang (19.32) and freshman Maro Miknic (19.33) both have a shot at the title, as do Princeton sophomore Patrick Dinu (19.39) and Columbia senior Zion James (19.49). Wang was runner-up a year ago, while Dinu was 3rd. Zion tied for 4th with Yale’s Deny Nankov.

Men’s 500 Freestyle – Prelims

• Ivy League Record: 4:07.68, Noah Millard, (Yale) – 2025
• Ivy League Meet Record: 4:07.68, Noah Millard, (Yale) – 2025
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 4:18.07
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 4:14.13
• 2025 Champion: Noah Millard (Yale), 4:07.68

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Noah Millard (Yale), 4:13.84
2. William Mulgrew (Harvard), 4:16.53
3. Cole Kawaja (Princeton), 4:17.69
4. Arthur Balva (Princeton), 4:18.06
5. Jack Haley (Princeton), 4:18.31
6. Arshak Hambardzumyan (Yale), 4:18.40
7. Will Cicco (Brown), 4:18.86
8. Zach Vasser (Columbia), 4:19.30

Cornell’s Jacques Grove got us started with a big 4:19.57 to open heats of the 500 free. That marked a 12.7-second improvement over his seed time. Cornell’s Clay Baumann was second with 4:26.89 (-5.9).

Princeton junior Arthur Balva kicked off the circle-seeded heats with 4:18.06. Columbia’s Zach Vasser established the early lead, but Balva, who was 3rd at the 300, moved to 2nd at the 400 and 1st at the 450. Yale sophomore Arshak Hambardzumyan also moved past Vasser over the last 100 and finished 2nd in 4:18.40. Vasser held on at 3rd (4:19.30, with Penn’s James Curreri coming to the wall 4th (4:19.91).

Defending champion and Ivy record-holder Noah Millard of Yale cruised to an easy win in heat 4, going 4:13.84 to beat Princeton freshman Jack Haley (4:18.31) by 4.5 seconds. Brown freshman Will Cicco touched 3rd in 4:18.86. Adam Wu from Columbia was 4:21.83 for 4th.

Top-seeded William Mulgrew, a freshman at Harvard, took the final heat in 4:16.53. Behind him at 4:17.69 was Princeton freshman Cole Kawaja, Harvard freshman Pablo Martinez Palop (4:19.96), and Columbia sophomore Stephen Zhukov (4:20.93).

Men’s 200 Individual Medley – Prelims

• Ivy League Record: 1:41.11, Raunak Khosla (Princeton) – 2023
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:41.11, Raunak Khosla (Princeton) – 2023
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:44.13
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:42.65
• 2025 Champion: Mitchell Schott (Princeton), 1:41.44

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Marton Nagy (Brown), 1:42.74
2. Mitchell Schott (Princeton), 1:43.57
3. Alex Townsend (Princeton), 1:43.91
4. Alexander Hazlett (Yale), 1:44.10
5. Pietro Ubertalli (Cornell), 1:44.43
6. Adriano Arioti (Harvard), 1:44.64
7. Charlie Egeland (Yale), 1:44.94
8. Jake Wang (Yale), 1:45.02

Harvard’s Felipe Baffico won heat 1 in 1:47.62, beating Penn freshman Piper Kantakom (1:48.56) by half a body. Columbia senior Ali Elmasry (1:47.43) eked out a heat 2 win over Harvard sophomore Eric Lee (1:47.48); both dropped 2 seconds from their entry times.

Yale senior Alexander Hazlett opened the circle-seeded heats with 1:44.10. Dartmouth sophomore Jacob Turned led through the 300, but behind him there was a good deal of churn. Pietro Ubertalli of Cornell moved into 2nd place after the backstroke; Yale sophomore Charlie Egeland took over at 2nd behind Turner at the 300, while his teammate Hazlett moved into 3rd ahead of Ubertelli. The freestyle gave us another shuffling of the cards, with Hazlett touching first, followed by Ubertelli (1:44.43), Egeland (1:44.94), and Turner (1:45.23).

Princeton freshman Alex Townsend led the field after the fly in heat 4, with Penn junior Peter Whittington and Cornell sophomore Gabe Anagnoson just behind. Brown sophomore Marton Nagy took over after the backstroke and never relinquished the lead. He clocked in at 1:42.74, while Townsend went 1:43.91 for 2nd. Whittington was 3rd after the breaststroke; he finished in that position with 1:45.44.

Top-seeded Mitchell Schott of Princeton cruised to a 1:43.57 in the final heat to finish second overall for the morning. Schott was out front on the butterfly and backstroke, but fell to 3rd after the breaststroke behind Yale sophomore Jake Wang and Harvard sophomore Adriano Arioti. Schott outsplit them by over a second on the freestyle for the win. Arioti (1:44.64) was second, while Wang finished 3rd (1:45.02).

Men’s 50 Freestyle – Prelims

• Ivy League Record: 18.82, Alex Righi (Yale) – 2009
• Ivy League Meet Record: 18.90, Alex Righi (Yale) – 2009
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 19.43
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 19.02
• 2025 Champion: Nicholas Finch (Yale), 19.07

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Nicholas Finch (Yale), 18.91
2. Sonny Wang (Harvard), 19.22
3. Patrick Dinu (Princeton), 19.25
4. Zion James (Columbia), 19.27
5. Maro Miknic (Harvard), 19.36
6. Sam Eckert (Columbia), 19.43
7. Deny Nankov (Yale), 19.44
8. Josh Toothman (Cornell), 19.45

Cornell junior Blake Conway opened the 50 free heats with 20.42 to drop .37 from his seed time. Harvard freshman William Browne took nearly half a second off his entry time to win heat 2 in 19.85 ahead of Yale junior Lucius Brown (19.97). Columbia’s Isaac Beers and Kyle Won tied for 3rd with 20.01.

The circle-seeded heats opened with a 19.36 from Harvard freshman Maro Miknic, who just nipped Cornell sophomore Josh Toothman (19.45). Princeton sophomore Logan Noguchi was 3rd in 19.51.

Harvard junior Sonny Wang dropped .10 off his entry time with 19.22 to get his hand to the wall first in heat 4. Columbia went 2-3, with senior Zion James going 19.27 and classmate Sam Eckert going 19.43. Eckert was seeded 20th with 20.08.

Top-seeded Nicholas Finch of Yale went 18.91 to win the final heat. He was .16 faster than his winning time from 2025 and just .01 away from the meet and pool record. Princeton sophomore Patrick Dinu went 19.25 for 2nd, just ahead of Yale’s Deny Nankov (19.44) and Princeton senior Lucas Tudoras (19.75).

Yale, Columbia, and Harvard each placed 2 swimmers in the ‘A’ final, which adds excitement to what we’ll see in tonight’s 200 free relay.

Men’s 1-Meter Diving – Prelims

• Ivy League Record: 446.93, Jonathan Suckow (Columbia) – 2022
• Ivy League Meet Record: 437.00, Jonathan Suckow (Columbia) – 2023
• 2025 Champion: Rowland Lawver, Rowland (Brown), 370.30

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Aidan Wang (Princeton), 346.60
2. Chase Sorosky (Princeton), 338.35
3. Rowland Lawver (Brown), 337.85
4. Matteo Vasiliadis (Brown), 317.20
5. Jackson Lipscomb (Yale), 306.85
6. Nicholas Chau (Yale), 302.15
7. Luka Martinovic (Princeton), 290.15
8. Adam Man (Dartmouth), 289.55

Princeton freshman Chase Sorosky started with a 66.00-scoring dive in round 1, and he continued to lead through the next two rounds. Defending champion Rowland Lawver of Brown nailed a 66-point reverse 2 1/2 somersault tuck in round 5 and vaulted to the top of the table. He followed that up with a 60.45 inward 2 1/2 somersault tuck in round 6 and looked untouchable.

Princeton junior Aidan Wang went from 4th to 2nd with his 4th dive, a reverse 2 1/2 somersault tuck that scored 60 points. He crushed his final dive, an inward 2 1/2 somersault tuck. Averaging 8.0s, he scored 74.40 points and passed Lawver by 8.15 points.

Soroski also had a strong finish. He needed 64.75 on his sixth dive to get past Lawver, and he scored 65.25 with a back 1 1/2 somersault 2 1/2 twist free to take over 2nd place.

Princeton wound up with 3 in the ‘A’ final, while Brown and Yale each pick up a pair. Dartmouth rounded out the top 8 with one diver.