2026 Ivy League Men’s Championships: Day 4 Finals 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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Scores After Day 3

1. Princeton – 952
2. Yale – 874.5
3. Harvard – 785.5
4. Brown – 586
5. Cornell – 581
6. Columbia – 580.5
7. Dartmouth – 466
8. Penn – 444.5

Saturday Finals Heat Sheets

Saturday Ups/Mids/Downs Scoring Projection

The fourth and final night of competition has arrived at the 2026 Ivy League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships, and will feature the fastest heat of the 1650 free, and finals of the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, 3-meter diving, and 400 free relay.

Princeton holds a 77.5-point lead over Yale heading into tonight, which is set to be their highest-scoring evening yet. With 13 ‘A’ finalists–five in the 200 fly and five in 3-meter diving –the Tigers are poised to earn their second-consecutive Ivy League title on home soil. But the battle for 4th place between Brown, Cornell, and Columbia is far from decided.

The 200 fly is headlined by a rematch between defending champion Mitchell Schott of Princeton and David Schmitt of Harvard. Last year, Schmitt shattered the Ivy League record in prelims with a 1:40.87, but just hours later, Schott reset it to win finals with a 1:40.42. This morning, Schmitt had the fastest time and actually tied the mark he posted in prelims last year (1:40.87), and Schott earned his spot in lane five (1:41.34).

But first, the session kicks off with the 1650 free led by Princeton’s Santiago Gutierrez, Yale’s Noah Millard, and Harvard’s William Mulgrew. Mulgrew is fresh off his electric 1000 free performance last night, where he demolished the Ivy League record with a time of 8:38.01, and became the 9th-fastest performer in the history of the event.

Stay tuned for live updates below.

Men’s 1650 Freestyle – Final

• Ivy League Record: 14:28.43, Noah Millard (Yale) – 2025
• Ivy League Meet Record: 14:34.72, Noah Millard (Yale) – 2025
• Pool Record: 14:45.12, Charlie Swanson (Penn) – 2015
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 15:06.60
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 14:48.80
• 2025 Champion: Noah Millard (Yale), 14:34.72

Podium:

1. William Mulgrew (Harvard), 14:26.79 *Ivy League, Pool, and Meet Record*
2. Noah Millard (Yale), 14:41.76
3. Pablo Martinez (Harvard), 14:56.43
4. Stephen Zhukov (Columbia), 14:57.43
5. Arshak Hambardzumyan (Yale), 14:57.63
6. Cole Kawaja (Princeton), 14:58.77
7. Zach Vasser (Columbia), 15:00.70
8. Matt Williamson (Brown), 15:04.57

Up until the 400-yard mark, Yale senior Noah Millard was in the race for 1st and kept on top of William Mulgrew‘s white water. But then the Harvard freshman pulled away and left the entire field in the dust, maintaining a strong white water kick for most, if not the entire, swim.

Mulgrew split 4:20 at the first 500 with a comfortable four-second lead over the field, which became a 7.75-second lead by the 1000, and ultimately, he hit the wall first by more than 14 seconds.

This was a massive lifetime best time for Mulgrew, taking more than 20 seconds off his previous best from 2023 (14:48.26). His swim tonight shatters the Ivy League Record set by Millard last year at 14:28.43 and ranks him as the 18th-fastest performer all-time in this event.

Top 20 All-Time Fastest 1650 Freestyle Performers

Millard, the 500 free champion, took 2nd place within 14 seconds of his lifetime best time from last season’s NCAAs.

Men’s 200 Backstroke – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 1:38.99, Dean Farris (Harvard, 2018) and Pietro Ubertalli (Cornell, 2025)
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:38.99, Dean Farris (Harvard, 2018) and Pietro Ubertalli (Cornell, 2025)
• Pool Record: 1:38.99, Dean Farris (Harvard) – 2018
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:42.14
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:40.13
• 2025 Champion: Pietro Ubertalli (Cornell), 1:38.99

Podium:

1. Adriano Arioti (Harvard), 1:39.60
2. Isaac Beers (Columbia), 1:40.58
3. Pietro Ubertalli (Cornell), 1:40.59
4. Parker Lenoce (Princeton), 1:42.17
5. Mak Nurkic Kacapor (Yale), 1:42.49
6. Andrew Chou (Dartmouth), 1:42.53
7. James Curreri (Penn), 1:43.72
8. Blake Conway (Cornell), 1:44.82

It was defending champion Pietro Ubertalli and Princeton’s Parker Lenoce in the lead up until the 100-yard mark, splitting a blistering 48.51 and 49.46, respectively. Ubertalli held onto 1st place another 50 yards, until Harvard sophomore Adriano Arioti blasted a 24.84 final 50 to overtake him.

Arioti was in 7th place at the 50, but he had strong underwaters and the fastest back half to top the podium. Not only was he the only swimmer to crack 1:40.00 tonight, but this was Arioti’s first time under that mark. Before this week, his best time was 1:40.55 from 2024.

Columbia’s Isaac Beers also went sub-26.00 on the final 50 yards to get his hand to the wall before Ubertalli and earn 2nd place. He dropped 1.4 seconds from his best time going into this meet from December (1:41.98).

Men’s 100 Freestyle – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 40.80, Dean Farris (Harvard) – 2019
• Ivy League Meet Record: 41.36, Patrick Dinu (Princeton) – 2026
• Pool Record: 41.36, Patrick Dinu (Princeton) – 2026
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 42.55
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 41.95
• 2025 Champion: Patrick Dinu (Princeton), 42.24

Podium:

1. Patrick Dinu (Princeton), 41.36
2. Nicholas Finch (Yale), 41.84
3. Deny Nankov (Yale), 42.73
4. Jake Wang (Yale), 42.90
5. Zion James (Columbia), 42.96
6. Logan Noguchi (Princeton), 42.98
7. Sonny Wang (Harvard), 43.07
8. David Greeley (Harvard), 43.17

Nicholas Finch had won every individual event he’s swum this weekend, taking home first in the 50 free and 100 fly, and for the first 50 yards of this race, it looked like he was about to win his third title. But Princeton sophomore Patrick Dinu came back half-a-second faster than Finch, splitting 21.43 to Finch’s 21.92, to hit the wall first and punch his ticket to NCAAs.

Dinu, who earned 2nd in both the 50 free and 200 free earlier in the meet, matched his Ivy League Meet record time of 41.36 from prelims.

This was still a lifetime best time for Finch, whose previous best was the 42.22 he swam in prelims. Finch’s teammates Deny Nankov and Jake Wang completed a 2-3-4 finish for the Bulldogs.

Men’s 200 Breaststroke – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 1:48.48, Matthew Fallon (Penn) – 2024
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:48.85, Matthew Fallon (Penn) – 2025
• Pool Record: 1:50.39, Matthew Fallon (Penn) – 2024
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:54.95
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:52.89
• 2025 Champion: Matthew Fallon (Penn), 1:48.85

Podium:

1. Watson Nguyen (Penn), 1:52.03
2. Peter Whittington (Penn), 1:52.10
3. Joshua Corn (Columbia), 1:52.34
4. Joshua Chen (Harvard), 1:54.48
5. Charlie Egeland (Yale), 1:54.77
6. Haihan Xu (Cornell), 1:55.58
7. Jihoon Jung (Dartmouth), 1:56.72
8. Gian Santos (Columbia), 1:57.82

Columbia junior Joshua Corn held the lead early on, but was overtaken by the Penn duo of Watson Nguyen and Peter Whittington. The top three finishers pushed each other faster than any of them had ever swum before.

Penn’s Nguyen, a sophomore, dropped 1.2 seconds from his lifetime best time, which earned him 5th place at this meet last year, to sweep both breaststroke titles this season. On Friday night, he crushed the pool record in the 100 breast with a 51.18.

Tonight, Nguyen waited to pull ahead until the final 25, where he outtouched Whittington just seven hundredths. Whittington, who snagged 2nd in the 400 IM earlier in this meet, also crushed his personal best time from this meet last year by about one second.

Corn dropped half a second from his personal best time (1:52.89), which earned him 3rd place last season.

After this race, Yale has moved into the lead with 1140.5 points over Princeton in 2^nd with 1140 points, and Penn has passed up Dartmouth to sit in 7th place with 595.5 points.

Men’s 200 Butterfly – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 1:40.42, Mitchell Schott (Princeton) – 2025
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:40.42, Mitchell Schott (Princeton) – 2025
• Pool Record: 1:40.87, David Schmitt (Harvard) – 2026
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:43.79
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:41.45
• 2025 Champion: Mitchell Schott (Princeton), 1:40.42

Podium:

1. Mitchell Schott (Princeton), 1:39.05 *Ivy League Record*
2. David Schmitt (Harvard), 1:41.06
3. Arthur Balva (Princeton), 1:42.10
4. Jacques Grove (Cornell), 1:43.96
5. Alex Townsend (Princeton), 1:44.82
6. John Rusnock (Princeton), 1:45.30
7. Alexander Hazlett (Yale), 1:46.39
8. Conor McKenna (Princeton), 1:47.13

That’s a new Ivy League Record for senior Mitchell Schott, lowering the mark he set last year by more than one second to become the first Ivy League swimmer to ever go sub-1:40.00. This was a great final individual swim at Ivies for Schott, who has shared he plans to move to Austin to train with Texas coach Bob Bowman after graduating from Princeton this summer.

The Princeton senior went out fast and didn’t look back, splitting 22.08 out of the gate, logging a blistering 25.36 on the third 50, and bringing it home in 26.79 to defend his title. Schott just won the Tigers’ 7th individual title in the 200 fly in the past eight years. The only swimmer not from Princeton to win in that timeframe was Harvard’s David Schmitt, who earned 1st in 2024.

If anyone was going to stop Schott tonight, it was going to be David Schmitt, who came within about half-a-second of his personal best time from Ivies last year to place 2nd.

With their 1-3-5-6-8 finish in this race, Princeton has jumped back into the lead in team standings with 1275 points, and a 102.5-point lead over. Yale in 2nd place (1172.5).

Men’s 3-Meter Diving – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 472.88, Jonathan Suckow (Columbia) – 2022
• Ivy League Meet Record: 464.55, Jonathan Suckow (Columbia) – 2022
• 2025 Champion: Aidan Wang (Princeton), 360.60

Podium:

1. Aidan Wang (Princeton), 391.15
2. Luka Martinovic (Princeton), 371.40
3. McCoy Lyman (Dartmouth), 351.50
4. Chase Sorosky (Princeton), 340.25
5. Luca Fassi (Princeton), 336.60
6. Taso Callanan (Princeton), 315.50
7. Rem Turatbekov (Harvard), 307.15
8. Joseph Nicol (Columbia), 287.55

In round six, junior Aidan Wang scored 81.6 points on a Forward 2 ½ Somersaults 2 Twists Pike to take the lead and officially three-peat on 3-meter. He led a 1-2-4-5-6 finish for the Tigers to catapult their lead in the team standings.

Dartmouth’s McCoy Lyman had one of the highest-scoring dives tonight to break up Princeton’s hold on this event. In round four, he scored a 76.5 on a forward 2 1/2 Somersaults 1 Twist Pike to jump into 3rd place. This should help bump up The Big Green to 7th place in team standings.

Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay – Timed Final

• Ivy League Record: 2:48.24, Harvard – 2022
• Ivy League Meet Record: 2:48.74, Yale (Finch, Nankov, Wang, Millard) – 2025
• Pool Record: 2:49.93, Princeton – 2024
• 2025 Champion: Yale, 2:48.74

Podium:

1. Princeton – 2:48.36 *Meet Record*
2. Yale – 2:49.46
3. Harvard –2:51.37
4. Columbia – 2:51.94
5. Cornell – 2:53.69
6. Brown – 2:54.39
7. Penn – 2:55.64
8. Dartmouth – 2:56.66

The entire crowd was on their feet at the Denunzio Pool as the 400 free relay leadoff swimmers leapt off the blocks.

Yale’s crew of Jake Wang, Nicholas Finch, and Noah Millard held the lead and were in 1st place going into the final leg by two-tenths over Princeton, but Yale could not hold off Princeton’s anchor, Patrick Dinu, who won the 100 free earlier tonight. Dinu brought it home for the Tigers and secured the win with a new Ivy League Meet Record time of 2:48.36, breaking the mark set by Yale just last year.

Mitchell Schott led off for Princeton in a blistering 42.43 before handing it off to Logan Noguchi, and then to freshman Jake Tarara. Together, they earned Princeton’s first Ivy League title in this event since 2016 and cemented the Tigers’ second-consecutive Ivy League Championship victory.

In lane two, Columbia senior Zion James led off the Lions’ relay with the fastest 100 free ever posted by a Columbia swimmer. He notched a program record-setting split of 42.63–breaking David Jakl’s record of 42.75 from 2015–and beat his own time in the individual race earlier tonight by more than two-tenths (42.96).

Final Team Scores:

1. Princeton – 1474
2. Yale – 1274
3. Harvard – 1173.5
4. Columbia – 901.5
5. Cornell – 841
6. Brown – 805
7. Dartmouth – 694
8. Penn – 677.5