NYU vs MIT vs Williams
- January 23, 2026
- Cambridge, MA
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Full Meet Results
- Team Scores
- Women: #3 NYU 159 — #5 MIT 141
- #3 NYU 170 — #8 Williams 128
- #5 MIT 174 — #8 Williams 124
- Men: #3 NYU 165 — #6 MIT 135
- #3 NYU 221 — #14 Williams 78
- #6 MIT 209 — #14 Williams 88
Division III powerhouse teams NYU, MIT, and Williams met for a ranked tri-meet on Friday. The MIT women are the reigning NCAA Champions while NYU finished 2nd and Williams was 6th. On Friday, the NYU women swept MIT and Williams, continuing their undefeated streak in DIII meets.
On the men’s side, NYU was 4th last year at NCAAs while MIT was 10th and Williams was 12th. The NYU men also swept MIT and Williams, picking up dominant victories in both meets.
Women’s Meet Recap
The NYU women came out on top of MIT by just 18 points after a close meet saw them trade victories back and forth.
MIT started the meet with a win in the 400 medley relay with the team of Sydney Smith (56.71), Sarah Bernard (1:06.57), Belise Swartwood (55.99), and Ella Roberson (50.09) swam 3:49.36 to come in eight tenths ahead of the Williams College ‘A’ team, who touched in 3:50.19. NYU was 3rd in 3:52.17.
NYU picked up their 1st win of the meet with a tie in the women’s 200 freestyle with teammates Llew Ladomirak and Kaley McIntyre swimming 1:52.13 to tie for 1st ahead of MIT’s Jessie Crane.
MIT followed that up with a win in the 100 backstroke courtesy of junior Sydney Smith, who touched in 56.18 to win by a little over a tenth ahead of NYU’s Maeve O’Donnell. Smith also won the 100 fly for the Engineers in 56.55, beating Williams’ Esme Van Orden‘s 56.96.
Sammy Wong won the 100 breast for NYU, touching in 1:05.72, just over a tenth ahead of Williams freshman Anna Doherty. She also swam what appears to be the top time in the women’s 200 breast of 2:21.66. The official results show Williams College freshman Nora Sherman as the winner, but her listed time of 1:54.16 is not accurate, especially since her best 100 breast time is 1:04.96.
The Violets picked up their 2nd straight win of the meet, the first team to win two in a row, in the women’s 200 fly. Senior Nicole Ranile swam 2:03.12, winning by more than a second over Lily Codd from Williams.
MIT bounced back with two straight wins in the sprint freestyle events thanks to junior Ella Roberson. She swam 23.33 in the 50 and 50.86 in the 100 to come in ahead of two swimmers from NYU in both events — Kaley McIntyre (23.44), and Maeve O’Donnell in the 50 and McIntyre (50.92) and Lian Jeong Engle (52.02) in the 100. McIntyre is the DIII record holder in both the 50 and 100 freestyles.
NYU’s Aanya Wala won the 500 freestyle in 5:00.97, which was more than a second ahead of MIT’s Mary Feliz who swam 5:01.58.
NYU also won the final event of the meet, the women’s 200 freestyle relay, locking up their meet win. Lian Jeong Engle (23.97), Maeve O’Donnell (23.09), Llew Ladomirak (23.81), and Kaley McIntyre (22.38) swam 1:33.25 to pick up the win by six tenths over MIT.
Williams won three events during the meet, starting with the very first individual event, the women’s 1650. Lily Codd swam a season best time of 16:48.54 to win, jumping up to 2nd in the nation this season in Division III, coming in just six seconds behind Molly Haag‘s 16:42.63.
Codd also won the 400 IM in 4:27.77, about four seconds off her season best 4:23.27 from December.
Irene Yang swam a season best in the 200 back of 2:02.35 for the win, coming in more than a second ahead of NYU’s Eloise Emig, who swam 2:03.65 for 2nd.
The diving results are exactly replicated on the 1 meter and the 3 meter, but MIT’s Flora Beratahani was the winner with a total score of 316.50 on the board.
Men’s Recap
The NYU men won a less close meet, winning most of the events. They were led by two dual-event winners.
Grad Student Teddy Cross swam the top time in the 100 back of 49.28 and the top time in the 200 back of 1:48.01.
Leo Han, a senior at NYU, won both distances of butterfly. In the 100, he swam 49.53 to come in just over a tenth ahead of NYU teammate Keith McQuaid, and in the 200, he was 1:51.80, about two tenths ahead of MIT’s Jason Wang. Both swims were new season best times for Han.
Their other wins were all single event champions. NYU’s first win of the meet came in the men’s 1650 freestyle where Evan Jue swam 15:40.49 to come in just under two seconds ahead of teammate Adam Mekrami‘s 15:42.16.
Pierce Downs won the 100 free in 45.85, eight hundredths ahead of MIT’s Nathan Kim, who touched in 45.93.
Junior Victor Derani swam the top time in the 200 breast of 2:05.10, beating freshman teammate Conner Dean by more than a second.
Finally, Max Nechydyuk won the 400 IM in 3:57.26, two seconds ahead of MIT’s Grant Hu.
NYU also swam the top time in the 200 freestyle relay with their team of Downs (20.79), Cross (20.32), Stone Miller (20.46), and Greg Webbe (20.32) swimming 1:21.89 to beat the MIT ‘A’ team’s time of 1:22.98.
MIT won a few events as well, starting with the men’s 400 medley relay to open the meet. Altof Arrese-Igor (50.76), Thomas Wu (55.46), Bryce Roberts (48.90), and Nathan Kim (44.49) swam 3:19.63, coming in more than three seconds ahead of the NYU ‘A’ team.
Grant Hu won the 200 and 500 freestyle events for the Engineers, swimming 1:40.20 in the 200 free and 4:37.22 in the 500 free, winning both events by more than a second.
In the 100 breast, Thomas Wu swam the top time of 56.57 to come in about a half second ahead of NYU’s Conner Dean.
Bryce Roberts was their final event winner. He won the 50 free in 21.04, just seven hundredths ahead of NYU’s Downs.
Williams had the top diver, though the men’s diving events have the same issue as the women’s where the results are duplicated in both events. Calder Biondi, a sophomore at Williams College scored 346.00 for the win.
Up Next
MIT races again on Saturday, January 31st against Amherst College.
NYU’s next meet is the UAA Championships from February 11-14.
Williams will race again on January 30th-31st at the Middlebury Invite.
