2026 Ivy League Women’s Championships: Day 4 Prelims 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)
• Teams: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale
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The final day of racing at the 2026 Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships has arrived, and will kick off with preliminary heats of the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, and 200 fly. Timed finals of the 1650 free will swim at 4:10 PM EST, before the finals session.

Princeton is currently in 1st place after doubling its lead on Friday to 178 points. But the podium order is far from decided. Penn has jumped up to 2nd place, with Harvard in 3rd and Brown in 4th, and all three teams are separated by less than 40 points.

Scores After Day 3

1. Princeton – 948
2. Penn – 770
3. Harvard – 744.5
4. Brown – 736
5. Yale – 606
6. Cornell – 428
7. Dartmouth – 343.5
8. Columbia – 337

WOMEN’S 200 BACK – PRELIMS

• Ivy League Record: 1:52.56, Felicia Pasadyn (Harvard) – 2020
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:52.56, Felicia Pasadyn (Harvard) – 2020
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:54.56
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:53.31
• 2025 Champion: Molly Hamlin (Harvard), 1:53.73

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Anya Mostek (Harvard) – 1:53.70
2. Kate Levensten (Penn) – 1:54.90
3. Mabel Koff (Yale) – 1:55.90
4. Devyn Sargent (Yale) – 1:56.09
5. Brianna Cong (Penn) – 1:56.33
6. Sophie Segerson (Princeton) – 1:56.73
7. Nadia Thomas (Brown) – 1:56.84
8. Delaney Herr (Princeton) – 1:56.92

Anya Mostek defended her top seed spot handily by cracking 1:54.00 for the first time this season. The Harvard senior logged a lifetime best time in the fastest circle-seeded heat, beating the mark she swam to place 2nd in this event at last year’s championships (1:53.94).

Mostek is coming off a dominant 1st place finish in the 100 back on Friday, where she won by eight-tenths of a second.

Penn junior Kate Levensten topped the second heat with a personal best time, taking one-third of a second off her previous best from December. She’s now successfully lowered her 200 back lifetime best time at every Ivy League Championships she’s competed at, and taken her time from 1:58.85 in 2023 to 1:56.37 in 2024, to sub 1:56.00.

In heat three, Yale’s Mabel Koff had a big swim, taking more than half a second off her seed time. She will be a swimmer to watch out for in tonight’s final. She’s been as fast as 1:54.79 before, which earned her 3rd place at the 2025 Ivy League Championships.

WOMEN’S 100 FREE – PRELIMS

• Ivy League Record: 47.32, Iszac Henig (Yale) – 2022
• Ivy League Meet Record: 47.63, Lia Thomas (Penn) – 2022
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 48.60
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 48.11
• 2025 Champion: Kayla Fu (Penn), 48.61

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Morgan Lukinac (Brown) – 48.69
2. Sophia Sunwoo (Princeton) – 48.73
3. Sabrina Johnston (Princeton) –48.74
4. Kelly Dolce (Brown) – 48.88
5. Kayla Fu (Penn) – 49.22
6. Carinn Bethea (Dartmouth) – 49.24
7. Isabella Dieffenthaller (Brown) – 49.45
8. Amy Qin (Penn) – 49.56

Princeton’s Sophia Sunwoo and Brown’s Morgan Lukinac were neck-and-neck in heat six, flipping at 23.16/23.32, respectively, at the 50, but it was Lukinac who hit the wall first by four hundredths of a second to claim the top spot in tonight’s final.

Lukinac won the 200 free last night and is showing no signs of slowing down today. She came within two-tenths of a second of her best time (48.53) from the 2024 Ivy League Championships. Sunwoo blasted the fastest first 50 in the field and took one-third of a second off her seed time to crack the top 2.

In heat five, Princeton senior Sabrina Johnston outswam the rest of the field to place 3rd, just half a second off her lifetime best that won this event at this meet back in 2024. Defending champion Kayla Fu of Penn is going into the finals seeded 5th.

WOMEN’S 200 BREAST – PRELIMS

• Ivy League Record: 2:08.00, Katie Meili (Columbia) – 2013
• Ivy League Meet Record: 2:08.47, Jaycee Yegher (Harvard) – 2020
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 2:11.27
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 2:09.58
• 2025 Champion: Dakota Tucker (Princeton), 2:11.53

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Aliana Marakovic (Harvard) – 2:12.25
2. Gabi Augustyn (Harvard) – 2:13.30
3. Stephanie Iannaccone (Harvard) – 2:13.73
4. Meredith Holcomb (Penn) – 2:14.28
5. Eliza Brown (Princeton) – 2:14.57
6. Ashley Hong (Columbia) – 2:14.99
7. Kate Handley (Penn) – 2:15.21
8. Jessey Li (Yale) – 2:15.29

This was a big swim for the Harvard Crimson as they jockey for 2nd in team standings.

Harvard freshman Aliana Marakovic was the top seed in this event by more than two seconds, and she got the job done this morning by getting her hand to the wall first. She was about one second off her best time, 2:11.08, from January.

In heat three, Harvard junior Stephanie Iannaccone crushed her season-best time by two full seconds. Her sophomore teammate, Gabi Augustyn, also beat her seed time to snag the 2nd spot in tonight’s final. Augustyn, the defending runner-up in this event, owns a best time of 2:12.45 and could have more in the tank in the finals.

WOMEN’S 200 FLY – PRELIMS

• Ivy League Record: 1:54.49, Alex Forrester (Yale) – 2013
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:54.60, Alex Forrester (Yale) – 2013
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:57.11
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:55.82
• 2025 Champion: Eleanor Sun (Princeton), 1:54.64

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Heidi Smithwick (Princeton) – 1:55.89
2. Eleanor Sun (Princeton) – 1:56.76
3. Sydney Lu (Harvard) – 1:58.27
4. Chloe Kim (Princeton) – 1:58.59
5. Summer Chmielewski (Brown) – 1:59.46
6. Savannah Skow (Princeton) – 1:59.52
7. Margaret Hu (Penn) – 1:59.66
8. Angela Wang (Yale) – 1:59.98

After earning 2nd in the 100 fly last night, Princeton senior Heidi Smithwick dropped a full second from her seed time to establish herself at the top of the field going into today’s final. Her teammate, Eleanor Sun, beat Harvard’s Sydney Lu in heat four to claim the second spot.

The ‘A’ final is slated to be an electric rematch between the 2025 Ivy League Championship podium, where Sun took 1st, Smithwick 2nd, and Lu 3rd. Smithwick’s lifetime best (1:54.62 from 2024) also puts her within striking distance of the Ivy League record.

Brown senior Summer Chmielewski had a standout swim in the second heat, breaking 2:00.00 for the first time to snag an ‘A’ final spot. Her previous best, 2:00.07, earned her 3rd in the ‘B’ final last season.