2026 Ivy League Women’s Championships: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

2026 Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Dates: Wednesday, February 18–Saturday, February 21
• Location: Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, Providence, RI
• Defending Champions: Princeton women (3x)
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The 2026 Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships kick off on Wednesday with timed finals of the 200 medley and 800 free relays. There will be a non-scored team diving relay between the two relays.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT HEAT SHEETS

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: 1:36.79, Princeton (Pappas, McDonald, Johnston, Noble, 2024)
• 2025 Champion: Harvard (Mostek, Denisenko, Lu, Wieclawek) – 1:36.83

Podium:

1. Harvard – 1:36.13 *IVY RECORD*
2. Princeton – 1:36.64
3. Yale – 1:37.42
4. Penn – 1:38.42
5. Cornell – 1:39.56
6. Dartmouth – 1:39.72
7. Brown – 1:40.14
8. Columbia – 1:41.16

Top-seeded Harvard took down the meet and pool marks in the 200 medley relay, beating their own program record in the process. Anya Mostek led off with 24.17 on the backstroke, leading the field by 2-tenths, with Penn’s Amy Qin (24.36), Princeton’s Delaney Herr (24.41), and Yale’s Devyn Sargent (24.57) just behind.

Mostek handed off to Aliana Marakovic, who followed with a 27.60 breaststroke leg. Hers was the 3rd-fastest split, with Yale’s Jessey Li (26.83) and Princeton’s Heidi Smithwick (27.46) leading the field.

Li propelled Yale into the lead, but Harvard reclaimed their place in front with splits of 22.64 from Sydney Lu on the fly and 21.72 from Blythe Wieclawek on the free.

Sabrina Johnston (22.93 fly) and Sophia Sunwoo (21.84 free) moved the Tigers past Yale for second place with 1:36.64, which was a Princeton program record.

Yale’s Penny Zarczynski (23.77 fly) and Sara Plunkett (22.25 free) kept the Bulldogs in third place, getting to the wall a full second ahead of Penn.

Team Diving Relay – Exhibition

Podium:

1. Princeton – 295.90
2. Harvard – 276.30
3. Brown – 275.65
4. Yale – 260.05
5. Penn – 254.45
6. Dartmouth – 243.10
7. Columbia – 230.90
8. Cornell – 230.00

The non-scored team diving event features 3 divers from each team performing 2 dives each from different heights. Princeton’s Maggie Squire, Charlotte Norman, and Charlotte Martinkus combined for 295.90 points, with each diver choosing the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards.

Harvard’s Tabitha Chen-Fiske, Samantha Holtz, and Camille Ching combined for 276.30 points, just edging Brown (Elena Yeh, Bowie Krawczyk, and Isabella George) for 2nd place.

Yale (Lola Malarky, Paige Lai, and Grace Wu) was next, followed by Penn (Sophie Slayden, Sadie Howard, and Rachel Yang), Dartmouth (Milly Kirkman, Klara Johnsson Stjernstroem, and Margaret Lambdin), Columbia (Lillian Sherman, Chloe Leung, and Valeriya Bondarenko), and Cornell (Brooke Andrews, Lilla Kuziemko, and Morgan Ogata).

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: 6:59.92, Harvard (Dahlke, Shelton, Quist, Pasadyn, 2020)
• 2025 Champion: Princeton (Walters, Johnston, Sun, Smithwick) – 7:03.47

Podium:

1. Brown – 7:01.37
2. Princeton – 7:01.92
3. Harvard – 7:05.23
4. Penn – 7:09.04
5. Yale – 7:13.21
6. Cornell – 7:16.13
7. Dartmouth – 7:20.33
8. Columbia – 7:28.27

Brown upset top-seeded Harvard, second-seeded Princeton, and third-seeded Penn to win the 800 free relay with a new school record in front of their home crowd. Crystal Yuen (1:45.36), Isabella Dieffenthaller (1:44.82), Kelly Dolce (1:46.48), and Morgan Lukinac (1:44.71) combined for 7:01.37, which was 3.1 seconds better than the previous pool record and 7. 5 seconds faster than their previous program record. Brown’s time sits 2nd all-time in the Ivy League, behind Harvard’s 2020 performance.

Brown moved to the front of the pack at the 150 mark, when Yuen moved past Penn’s Kayla Fu. At the 200, Princeton’s Savannah Skow put the Tigers into second place, while Penn was ahead of Harvard and Yale. Sabrina Johnston gave Princeton the lead at the 250 wall, but Dieffenthaller had Brown out front at the 300, 350, and 400. The Bears were ahead of Princeton by 1.2 seconds at the halfway mark, and the two teams extended their lead over the rest of the field, while Harvard passed Penn for third place.

The third leg featured a thrilling battle between Dolce and Princeton’s Eleanor Sun. Dolce was out front at the 450, 500, and 550, but Sun outsplit Docle by .8 on the 3rd 50 and 1.5 on the 4th 50 and the Tigers had a 1-second lead heading into the anchor leg. Lukinac’s 1:44.71 proved too much for Princeton’s Heidi Smithwick (1:46.27) and while both Brown and Princeton beat the pool record, it was the Bears who etched their names in the record book.

Princeton’s Skow (1:45.49), Johnston (1:45.95), Sun (1:44.21), and Smithwick (1:46.27) finished half a second back in 7:01.92, eclipsing their program’s previous best by 1.5 seconds.

Harvard touched third with Sydney Lu (1:46.50), Alexandra Bastone (1:45.29), Carolina Daher (1:45.67), and Aliana Marakovic (1:47.77) combining for a season-best 7:05.23.

Penn maintained their position in fourth place, with Anna Moehn (1:46.45), Jenna Jacobs (1:47.99), and Katya Eruslanova (1:48.16) following Fu’s leadoff (1:46.44). The Quakers’ combined 7:09.04 broke their school mark by .62.

Cornell took 3 seconds off their program record with Jungmin Yoon (1:48.12), Hojung Yoon (1:49.52), Erin Dehollander (1:49.56), and Rosalee Springer (1:48.93)’s 6th-place finish of 7:16.13.

Dartmouth (7:20.33) improved their school record by 5.7 seconds with splits from Sydney Rawie (1:50.00), Carinn Bethea (1:48.18), Izzy Mundee (1:49.54), and Ekin Okudur (1:52.61).

Columbia’s Jilly MacNamara (1:51.61), Mia Avansino (1:50.68), Hutton Saunders (1:51.81), and Maddie Rivard (1:54.11) went 7:28.27 for 8th.

Team Scores After Day 1:

1. Harvard – 118
2. Princeton – 112
3. Brown – 110
4. Yale/Penn – 104
5. –
6. Cornell – 98
7. Dartmouth – 94
8. Columbia – 88