2025 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships
- Dates: Wednesday, February 26–Saturday, March 1
- Location: Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, Providence, RI
- Defending Champions: Harvard men (7x)
- Live Results
- Live Video: ESPN+
- Championship Central
Harvard has now won the last seven Ivy League Men’s Championships in a row – and even without Dean Farris in 2024 (finally). This year, however, Princeton won the Ivy League Dual Meet crown with a perfect 7-0 season, while the Crimson lost to both Princeton and Yale.
On paper, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale are very tight at the top of this year’s psych sheet, but it’s a difficult meet to predict because coaches don’t have to scratch their athletes until the championships begin on Wednesday.
In 2024, the Crimson came out swinging with a pair of relay wins on Day 1. Over the next 3 days, they outperformed the psych sheet by 344 points and cleared second-place Princeton by 361 points. Harvard won the 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free, and 200 free relay on Day 2; the 200 free, 100 back, and 400 medley relay on Day 3; and the 1650 free, 200 back, 100 free, 200 fly, and 400 free relay on Day 4.
Event Schedule
Wednesday
- 200 medley relay
- 800 free relay
Thursday
- 500 free
- 200 IM
- 50 free
- 1-meter diving
- 200 free relay
Friday
- 1000 free
- 100 fly
- 400 IM
- 200 free
- 100 breast
- 100 back
- 3-meter diving
- 400 medley relay
Saturday
- 1650 free
- 200 back
- 100 free
- 200 breast
- 200 fly
- 3-meter diving
- 400 free relay
2024 Final Standings
- Harvard University – 1682
- Princeton University – 1321
- Yale University – 1030
- University of Pennsylvania – 909
- Brown University – 861.5
- Columbia University – 855
- Cornell University – 798.5
- Dartmouth College – 390
Swimmers to Watch
Brown: Jack Kelly (Sr-Breast/IM), Marton Nagy (Fr-Back/Breast/IM), Matt Williamson (So), Christian Duetoft (Fr-Free), Marcus Lee (Sr-Free/Back), Rowland Lawver (Jr-Diving)
Kelly is seeded #1 in the 100 breast, #2 in the 200 breast, and #8 in the 200 IM. He won the 100 breast last year and was top-4 in the two other events. Nagy is ranked in the top 8 of the 200/400 IM and 200 back. Williamson is seeded 2nd in the 1650 free and is also expected to score near the top in the 1000 free and 500 free. Duetoft is also a distance freestyler, and ranks in the top 16 of all three of the longer freestyle events. Lee excels in the shorter freestyle events. He is seeded top 8 in the 50 and top 16 in the 100/200. Lawver is the #3 seed on the 1-meter board and #4 on the 3-meter.
Columbia: Adam Wu (Jr-Free/Fly), Gian Santos (Fr-Free/IM), Zach Vasser (So-Free), Zion James (Jr-Free), Demirkan Demir (Sr-Breast)
Yu Tong (Adam) Wu has made great strides in the last year and comes into the 2025 championship meet ranked 3rd in the 200 free, 5th in the 500 free, and 11th in the 200 fly. Notably, he is 2.3 seconds faster in the 500 and .7 faster in the 200 free than he was at last year’s conference meet. Santos is seeded to score in the 100/200/500 free and 200/400 IM; his highest ranking is 5th in the 200 free. Vasser, a top 8 finisher in the 1000/1650 free last year, is seeded #6 in the 1000 and top 16 in the 500/1650. James was an A finalist in both the 50 free and 100 free a year ago; now he ranks 7th and 9th in the respective events coming into this year’s meet. Demir won the 100 breast in each of his first two years; last year he placed 3rd in both the 100/200 breast. He is seeded #4 in the 100 and #9 in the 200.
Cornell: Pietro Ubertalli (Jr-Back/Free), Joseph Gurski (Sr-Fly), Sebastian Wolff (Sr-Breast/IM), Jacques Grove (Jr-Fly/Free), Blake Conway (So-Back/Free)
Ubertalli placed 3rd in the 200 back last year and, a second faster than he was in the 2024 final, he now ranks #1 coming into this year’s championships. He is also seeded 4th in the 100 back and 7th in the 200 IM. Gurski is the defending champion in the 100 fly and 3rd-place finisher in the 200 fly. He finished this season ranked 4th in the 100 and 3rd in the 200. Wolff came in 3rd in the 200 IM and was top 6 in both breaststrokes in 2024. He is seeded top 8 in the 200 IM and 200 breast and 13th in the 100 breast. Grove ranks #6 in the 200 fly and is seeded top 16 in the 100 fly and 500 free. Conway was an A finalist in both the 100/200 back last year and comes in this time ranked 3rd and 4th in the respective distances.
Dartmouth: McCoy Lyman (Fr-Diving), Jacob Turner (Fr-IM/Breast), Everett Tai (Jr-Diving), Aryeh Lesch (Jr-Diving), Logan Pack (So-Free/Back/Fly), Colton Rasmussen (Jr-Free)
First-year diver Lyman is ranked among the top 8 on both boards. Turner, another freshman, is seeded 10th in the 400 IM, 11th in the 200 IM, and 18th in the 200 fly. Tai and Lesch are seeded top 16 for both 1-meter and 3-meter diving. Pack is seeded to score in the 50/100 free, 100 back, and 100 fly. Rasmussen, who finaled in the 100/200 free last year, is ranked 8th in the 100 back and 20th in the 100 free.
Harvard: Ben Littlejohn (Sr-Free/Fly), David Schmitt (So-Fly), Anthony Rincon (Sr-Back), Sonny Wang (So-Free/Fly), David Greeley (Jr-Free/IM), Adam Wesson (Sr-Diving)
Littlejohn won the 200/500 free and was runner-up in the 200 fly a year ago. This time, he comes in seeded 12th in the 200, 10th in the 500, and with no time in the fly. Harvard has enough depth that they enter swimmers with “no time” in events that they can win, so expect to see Littlejohn at the top of his events. Schmitt won the 200 fly as a freshman last year and was runner-up in the 100 fly. He ranks #1 in the 200 fly, #2 in the 100 fly, and #9 in the 100 back. Rincon played second fiddle to Gunnar Grant for the last several years and is now on top, with the #1 seed time in the 100 back and the #2 time in the 200 back. Wang is the defending 50 free champion; he was also 3rd in the 100 fly and 6th in the 100 free. This year, he is seeded 2nd in the 50 free, 3rd in the 100 fly, and 10th in the 100 free. Wesson, who finished 2nd in 3-meter diving and 4th in 1-meter, leads the qualifiers this year on the 1-meter board and ranks 2nd on the 3-meter. Harvard also has a very strong class of first-years, many of whom could be big playmaker this weekend.
Penn: Matt Fallon (Sr-Breast/IM), James Curreri (Jr-Free/Back), Peter Whittington (So-IM), Daniel Gallagher (Sr-Back/IM), Jeffrey Hou (Fr-Fly/Breast/IM), Watson Nguyen (Fr-Breast)
Fallon, the American Record-holder in the 200-meter breast, is the top seed in that event. Last year he won with 1:49.75, taking 1.6 seconds off the Ivy League record, and then finished 2nd at NCAAs. Fallon also ranks #2 in the 100 breast and #5 in the 500 free. He placed 3rd and 4th in the respective events a year ago. Curreri placed 3rd in the 500/1000 free and 6th in the 200 back in 2024. He is seeded 6th in the 500/1650 free and 9th in the 200 free. Whittington ranks 5th in the 200 breast and 6th in the 400 IM. Gallagher swam the 100/200 back and 200 IM last year; he is seeded to score in each of those events this time. First-year Hou is seeded in the top 16 of the 200 IM and 100 fly. His classmate Nguyen comes in ranked #5 in the 100 breast and #19 in the 200 breast.
Princeton: Mitchell Schott (Jr-Free/Back/Fly), Tyler Hong (Sr-IM/Fly/Back), Arthur Balva (So-IM/Fly), Patrick Dinu (Fr-Free), Brett Feyerick (Sr-Back/Free), Aidan Wang (So-Diving)
A year ago, Schott was an A finalist in the 100/200 free and 200 IM. This year, he ranks #1 in the League in the 200 IM, 1000 free, 400 IM, and 100 free, and #2 in the 500 free, 200 free, and 200 fly. Hong competed in the 200 IM, 100 back, and 200 fly in 2024, earning 2nd, 3rd, and 9th in the respective events. Now he is seeded 2nd in the 200 IM and 100 back and 3rd in the 200 back. In 2024, then-freshman Balva was a top 8 finisher in the 500 free and 400 IM. Coming into this year’s meet, he is ranked #3 in the 500 free, #4 in the 400 IM, and #5 in the 200 fly. First-year Dinu has established himself as one of the League’s top sprinters. He is seeded 4th in the 50 free, 2nd in the 100 free, 8th in the 200 free, and, for good measure, 14th in the 100 breast. Feyerick scored in the 50/100 free and 100 back a year ago. Now, he comes in ranked 3rd in the 50 free, 4th in the 100 free, and 6th in the 100 back. Wang swept the boards in 2024 and is currently seeded 1st in 3-meter diving and 2nd in 1-meter.
Yale: Noah Millard (Jr-Free/Back), Nicolas Finch (Fr-Free), Arshak Hambardzumyan (Fr-Free), Charlie Egeland (So-Breast), Deny Nankov (So-Free), Jake Wang (Fr-Breast/IM)
After setting the meet record in the 500 free in 2023, Millard took an Olympic gap year to train in his native Australia. He’s back this year and seeded 1st in the 200/500/1650 free, 2nd in the 1000 free, and 5th in the 200 back. First-year Finch comes into his first conference meet ranked 1st in the 50 free and 100 fly and 3rd in the 100 free. His classmate Hambardzumyan, a distance standout, is top-4 in the 500/1000/1650 free. Egeland placed 4th in the 100 breast and 200 breast in 2024, breaking Yale program records as a freshman. Now, he is seeded #2 in the 100 breast and #3 in the 200 breast and 200 IM. Nankov finished in the top 3 of the 50/100/200 free last year and comes in ranked 5th in the 50 and 5th in the 100. Wang is seeded #5 in the 200 IM, #12 in the 50 free, #6 in the 100 breast, and #14 in the 200 breast.
Showdowns
100 Breaststroke: I say this every year, but any race that features Penn’s Matt Fallon, Brown’s Jack Kelly (the defending champion), Yale’s Charlie Egeland, and Columbia’s Demirkan Demir (a two-time champion) is going to be the top race of the meet. Kelly broke the meet record a year ago in prelims, and won the final by .05 over Fallon. This year, in addition to the Big Four from 2024, freshmen Watson Nguyen (Penn) and Jake Wang (Yale) are also within striking distance of the title.
200 Freestyle: Yale’s Noah Millard leads the field with a seed time of 1:32.42, but Princeton’s Mitchell Schott has also cracked the 1:33 barrier. Ben Littlejohn of Harvard won this event last year with 1:33.24 ahead of teammate David Greeley (1:34.13) and Yale’s Deny Nankov (1:34.94).
200 Backstroke: The field has opened up in the 200 back and Cornell sports two of the top four qualifiers in Pietro Ubertalli, the lone sub-1:41 (1:40.94), and Blake Conway (1:42.01). Harvard’s Anthony Rincon (1:41.37) and Princeton’s Tyler Hong (1:41.57) are also primed for a league title in this event.
SwimSwam Picks
- Harvard
- Princeton
- Yale
- Brown
- Cornell
- Columbia
- Penn
- Dartmouth
While Princeton won the 2024-25 Ivy League Dual Meet crown, it will take perfect execution in prelims to overcome Harvard’s depth. Yale comes in with a stellar freshman class and several seasoned upperclassmen, but it is unlikely to be enough to dethrone Harvard and Princeton from the first two rungs of the podium. The race for 4th place is the next most exciting matchup, with Brown and Cornell vying for position. But don’t rule out Penn; the Quakers always outperform the psych sheet and could very well topple both Brown and Cornell for the coveted fourth spot.
Go Tigers!