2026 Ivy League Women’s Championships: Day 2 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)
• Teams: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale
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Day 2 Finals Heat Sheet

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

The Harvard Crimson have the advantage after Day 1’s 200 medley and 800 free relays, but there could be a lot of jockeying for position tonight as we gear up for the first individual event finals.

Penn’s Anna Moehn, last year’s runner-up in the 500, leads the morning qualifiers into the final with her time of 4:42.96. Crystal Yuen of Brown qualified second with a new program record (4:43.01). Defending champion Alexandra Bastone from Harvard and her teammate Carolina Daher, who had the League’s fastest time coming into the meet, qualified 3rd (4:43.07) and 4th (4:43.40).

Defending champion Eleanor Sun of Princeton is the one to beat in the 200 IM. She qualified first with 1:57.67, and will have Yale’s Jessey Li (1:58.83) and Princeton’s Sophie Segerson (1:59.41) the only other sub-2:00s from the morning heats on either side of her tonight.

Two-time defending champion Sabrina Johnston of Princeton led the qualifiers in the 50 free with 22.29, improving on her seed time but coming up just short of her PB (22.07). Harvard’s Anya Mostek clocked a PB and lowered her own program record, qualifying 2nd with 22.35. On the other side of Johnston will be her teammate Sophia Sunwoo, whose prelims swim of 22.43 was the 3rd-fastest.

Harvard’s Nina Janmyr, the defending champion in 1-meter diving, put up a big dive in round 6 of prelims to take the top spot going into tonight’s final, a mere .60 points ahead of Princeton’s Charlotte Norman.

Women’s 500 Freestyle – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 4:33.24, Lia Thomas (Penn) – 2022
• Ivy League Meet Record: 4:36.37, Ellie Marquardt (Princeton) – 2020
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 4:43.70
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 4:39.47
• 2025 Champion: Alexandra Bastone (Harvard), 4:38.75

Podium:

1. Alexandra Bastone (Harvard), 4:40.94
2. Anna Moehn (Penn), 4:42.76
3. Sydney Bergstrom (Penn), 4:42.92
4. Natalie Garre (Brown), 4:43.26
5. Savannah Skow (Princeton), 4:43.39
6. Caroline Riggs (Yale), 4:46.15
7. Carolina Daher (Harvard), 4:46.42
8. Crystal Yuen (Brown), 4:47.33

Defending champion Alexandra Bastone earned her second consecutive Ivy League title in the 500 free, leading from start to finish to touch in 4:40.94. From the 150 wall onward, it was a two-way battle between Bastone and Penn’s Anna Moehn, last year’s runner-up. Bastone and Moehn traded stroke for stroke until Bastone broke away with 100 yards left. She outsplit Moehn by 1.2 over that distance and got the win by 1.8 seconds, 4:40.94 to 4:42.76.

Princeton’s Savannah Skow moved from 5th at the 150, to 4th at the 200, to 3rd at the 250. She held her position from out in lane 7 until the 450 wall, when Penn’s Sydney Bergstrom made her move. Bergstrom nearly caught her teammate, Moehn, but fell just short with a 4:42.92 for third place.

Brown’s Natalie Garre came from behind to touch out Skow over the last 25 yards to get 4th place with 4:43.26.

Women’s 200 Individual Medley – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 1:54.72, Katie Meili (Columbia) – 2013
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:55.09, Katie Meili (Columbia) – 2013
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:57.88
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:56.69
• 2025 Champion: Eleanor Sun (Princeton), 1:55.50

Podium:

1. Eleanor Sun (Princeton), 1:55.62
2. Sophie Segerson (Princeton), 1:58.51
3. Katya Eruslanova (Penn), 1:58.97
4. Hojung Yoon (Cornell), 1:59.77
5. Lucy Walker (Yale), 1:59.82
6. Jessey Li (Yale), 2:00.65
7. Stephanie Iannaccone (Harvard), 2:00.93
8. Eliza Brown (Princeton), 2:04.13

Eleanor Sun of Princeton successfully defended her Ivy League title in the 200 IM, downing the Brown pool record with 1:55.62. Sun led from wire to wire, producing the fastest fly, breast, and free splits and the 3rd-best backstroke. Sun took it out in 25.28 and followed with a 29.85 back, 33.24 breast, and 27.25 freestyle anchor.

Teammate Sophie Segerson was in second place throughout the four laps, splitting 25.78/29.56/34.69/29.56 to finish with 1:58.51. Segerson successfully held of Penn’s Katya Eruslanova, who moved from 5th place at the 150 to 3rd at the finish, clocking a Penn program record with 1:58.97.

Cornell’s Hojung Yoon also made a big move over the last 50 yards; she took 2 seconds off her own Cornell school record with her 4th-place 1:598.77.

Yale went 5-6 with Lucy Walker (1:59.82) and Jessey Li (2:00.65).

At the end of the 200 IM, it’s Princeton (248), Harvard (241.5), Penn (223), Brown (205.5), Yale (205), Cornell (161), Columbia (137), Dartmouth (131).

Women’s 50 Freestyle – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 21.83, Bella Hindley (Yale) – 2019
• Ivy League Meet Record: 21.83, Bella Hindley (Yale) – 2019
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 22.28
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 22.01
• 2025 Champion: Sabrina Johnston (Princeton), 22.30

Podium:

1. Sabrina Johnston (Princeton), 22.07
2. Anya Mostek (Harvard), 22.18
3. Sophia Sunwoo (Princeton), 22.32
4. Morgan Lukinac (Brown), 22.60
5. Sydney Lu (Harvard), 22.63
6. Delaney Herr (Princeton), 22.78
7. Blythe Wieclawek (Harvard), 22.90
8. Isabella Dieffenthaller (Brown), 23.01

Princeton’s Sabrina Johnston picked up her third 50 free conference title in a row, tying her school record and her pool record with 22.07. It was a crowded field at the 25 wall, but Johnston and Harvard’s Anya Mostek had the momentum coming home. Mostek looked like she had a shot at the title, but Johnston powered through from the flags to the wall and got the touch by .11. Mostek broke the Harvard program record for the third time this season with her second-place 22.18.

Sophia Sunwoo of Princeton came to the wall third in 22.32, .28 ahead of Brown’s Morgan Lukinac. Lukinac, meanwhile, just touched out Harvard’s Sydney Lu, 22.60 to 22.63. Princeton’s Delaney Herr, the third Tiger in the heat, finished 6th with 22.78. Blythe Wieclawek of Harvard (22.90) and Isabella Dieffenthaller of Brown (23.01) rounded out the final.

Scores: Princeton (366), Harvard (330.5), Brown (285.5), Penn (263), Yale (225), Cornell (162), Columbia (151), Dartmouth (131)

Women’s 1-Meter Diving – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 322.50, Nina Janmyr (Harvard) – 2024
• Ivy League Meet Record: 314.20, Mikaela Thompson (Harvard) – 2016
• 2025 Champion: Charlotte Martinkus (Princeton), 302.35

Podium:

1. Charlotte Martinkus (Princeton), 318.45
2. Charlotte Norman (Princeton), 305.30
3. Nina Janmyr (Harvard), 304.95
4. Elena Yeh (Brown), 270.40
5. Maggie Squire (Princeton), 269.65
6. Paige Lai (Yale), 258.65
7. Rachel Yang (Penn), 256.50
8. Lilla Kuziemko (Cornell), 235.35

Princeton’s Charlotte Martinkus and Charlotte Norman traded the lead throughout the six rounds, but in the end, it was Martinkus who defended her 2025 Ivy League 1-meter title with a new Ivy League Meet and Brown pool record of 318.45 points. Harvard’s Nina Janmyr, who set the conference record at NCAAs in 2024, finished third, falling just short of Norman on her last dive.

Brown’s Elena Yeh (270.40) had a very strong sixth dive that took her 0.75 points past Princeton’s Maggie Squire (269.65), who had been locked in at 4th place since round 2.

Yale’s Paige Lai finished 6th (258.65) ahead of Penn’s Rachel Yang (256.50) and Cornell’s Lilla Kuziemko (235.35).

Women’s 200 Freestyle Relay – Timed Final

• Ivy League Record: 1:28.22, Princeton (Johnston, Noble, Rossouw, Smithwick) – 2025
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:28.22, Princeton (Johnston, Noble, Rossouw, Smithwick) – 2025
• 2025 Champion: Princeton, 1:28.22

Podium:

1. Princeton (Johnston, Sunwoo, Smithwick, Rossouw), 1:28.31
2. Harvard (Mostek, Lu, Beckman, Wieclawek), 1:28.79
3. Brown (Yuen, Klinginsmith, Dolce, Lukinac), 1:30.27
4. Penn, 1:30.30
5. Yale, 1:31.19
6. Cornell, 1:32.14
7. Dartmouth, 1:32.17
8. Columbia, 1:32.33

Second-seeded Princeton won the 200 free relay from lane 5, with splits from Johnston (22.11), Sunwoo (21.71), Heidi Smithwick (22.33), and Veronique Rossouw (22.16) for a new pool record of 1:28.31.

Harvard also came to the wall under the pool mark, and the quartet of Mostek (22.25), Lu (22.06), Sarah Beckman (22.62), and Wieclawek (21.86) broke their school record with 1:28.79 for second place.

Brown’s quartet of Yuen (22.85), Lilian Klinginsmith (22.36), Kelly Dolce (22.61), and Lukinac (22.45) were third, less than a second off their program mark with 1:30.27.

Penn took down their school record with a 1:30.30 from Kayle Fu (22.63), Amy Qin (22.17), Brianna Cong (22.74), and Amber Smith (22.76).

Scores After Day 2

1. Princeton – 532
2. Harvard – 446.5
3. Brown – 399.5
4. Penn – 353
5. Yale – 318
6. Cornell – 245
7. Columbia – 202
8. Dartmouth – 194