Princeton Clocks 1:16.03 Ivy League Meet Record in the 200 Freestyle Relay

2026 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Dates: Wednesday, February 25–Saturday, February 29
• Location: DeNunzio Pool, Princeton, New Jersey
• Defending Champions: Princeton men (1x)
• Teams: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale
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Men’s 200 Freestyle Relay – Timed Final

• Ivy League Record: 1:15.68, Harvard (Marcoux, Farris, Reihman, Gures) – 2022
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:16.48, Yale (Finch, Nankov, Brown, Millard) – 2025
• Pool Record: 1:17.40, Penn State – 2020
• 2026 NCAA: 1:16.23
• 2025 Champion: Yale, 1:16.48

Podium:

1. Princeton (Logan Noguchi, Patrick Dinu, Jake Tarara, Yanning Zhang), 1:16.03 *MEET RECORD*
2. Yale (Nicholas Finch, Deny Nankov, Mak Nurkic Kacapor, Jake Wang), 1:16.41
3. Harvard (Maro Miknic, Marre Gattnar, Evan Croley, Sonny Wang), 1:16.73
4. Columbia, 1:17.41
5. Cornell, 1:18.38
6. Brown, 1:19.19
7. Penn, 1:17.77
8. Dartmouth, 1:19.87

Princeton’s Logan Noguchi (19.14), Patrick Dinu (18.90), Jake Tarara (19.02), and Yanning Zhang (18.97) combined for 1:16.03 to win the 200 free relay by .38 ahead of defending champions, Yale. In so doing, they broke the meet record that the Bulldogs set in 2025, the pool record (Penn State, 2020), and the Princeton program record.

The first leg pitted Noguchi against Yale’s 50 free champion, Nicholas Finch. Finch was just short of his 18.82 time in the 50 free final, but he got the Bulldogs off to an early lead with 19.07. Noguchi, who had won the ‘B’ final in the individual event with 19.22, blasted a lifetime-best 19.14 for the Tigers. Dinu’s second leg put Princeton out front by .26 over Yale. Tarara swam the third leg in 19.02, increasing the lead to .31. Zhang came home in 18.97 to secure the win and earn an automatic invite to the 2026 NCAA Championships. Dinu and Zhang were the 2nd- and 3rd-fastest splits of the night.

Yale followed Finch’s leadoff with Deny Nankov (19.23) Mak Nurkic Kacapor (19.07), and Jake Wang (19.23). The Bulldogs were .07 faster than their meet record-breaking time of last year, and they came in under the old pool mark.

Harvard, too, swam faster than the previous pool record with a 1:16.73 from Maro Miknic (19.50), Marre Gattnar (18.99), Evan Crowley (19.56), and Sonny Wang (18.68). Wang’s 18.68 anchor was the fastest split of the night by .22.

Princeton ranks in the top-20 so far this season:

1. Arizona State, 1:13.72
2. NC State, 1:14.02
3. Florida, 1:14.44
4. California, 1:14.81
5. Louisville, 1:14.91
6. Virginia Tech, 1:15.00
7. Louisiana State, 1:15.13
8. Tennessee, 1:15.27
9. Stanford, 1:15.45
10. Indiana, 1:15.61
11. (tie) Texas/Missouri, 1:15.64
12. –
13. Florida State, 1:15.65
14. Michigan, 1:15.71
15. Virginia, 1:15.79
16. Georgia, 1:15.89
17. Ohio State, 1:15.93
18. Notre Dame, 1:15.97
19. (tie) Princeton/Northwestern, 1:16.03