The 2013 women’s Ivy League Championships are underway at the Princeton pool, and this year’s meet has a lot of anticipation as it should be one of the fastest Ivy meets we’ve seen in a long time.
Columbia’s Katie Meili, an All-American and defending Swimmer of the Meet, got off to a fantastic start this year as well. She took the top seed in the women’s 200 IM by four seconds, putting up a 1:55.47, which ranks as the 7th-fastest time in the country this year (before the Pac 12 women get underway in Federal Way this morning). She’ll be looking for a third-straight title in the meet with that time that knocked two seconds off of her old Ivy record. Are comparisons to Cristina Teuscher, an Olympian and the last Columbia Lion to win this event, fair at this point? I think so.
Her teammate Alena Kluge was fantastic as well, and became just the 4th woman in the history of this meet under two minutes with a 1:59.20 for the second seed.
Meanwhile, the Princeton women look very strong with their youth. They also had three A-finalists in that 200 IM, all freshmen. They had a freshman Elizabeth McDonald A-final in the 50 free (behind junior Lisa Boyce, the top seed, in 22.24).
The top seed in the 500 free goes to Penn’s Shelby Fortin in 4:41.52. She, like Meili, is working on a third-straight individual title.
Remember that Ivy’s are one of the few conferences that still runs a three-day meet, so there will be two relays (200 free and 400 medley) tonight.
| Ups | Downs | |
| Princeton | 7 | 5 |
| Yale | 5 | 4 |
| Harvard | 4 | 5 |
| Columbia | 3 | 3 |
| Dartmouth | 2 | 2 |
| Brown | 1 | 2 |
| Penn | 1 | 2 |
| Cornell | 1 | 1 |
http://www.tsc.utexas.edu/results/index.htm?DB_OEM_ID=10410
LET’S GO LADY LIONS! ROAR! GO COLUMBIA!