2026 Ivy League Men’s Championships: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

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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SATURDAY DISTANCE HEET SHEET

Scores After Day 3

1. Princeton – 952
2. Yale – 874.5
3. Harvard – 785.5
4. Brown – 586
5. Cornell – 581
6. Columbia – 580.5
7. Dartmouth – 466
8. Penn – 444.5

We have come to the last day of competition at the 2026 Ivy League Men’s Championships. Princeton leads Yale by 77.5 points and Yale is 89 points ahead of Harvard. There is an intense battle for 4th place among Brown, Cornell, and Columbia, while Dartmouth and Penn are in a race for 7th.

Princeton has the top seeds in the 200 back (Parker Lenoce, 1:41.35), 100 free (Patrick Dinu, 41.49), and 200 fly (Mitchell Schott, 1:41.36). Penn’s Peter Whittington leads the entrants in the 200 breast (1:53.72).

Tonight we will also have the 1650 free and 3-meter diving, whose prelims took place yesterday.

Men’s 200 Backstroke – Prelims

• Ivy League Record: 1:38.99, Dean Farris (Harvard, 2018) and Pietro Ubertalli (Cornell, 2025)
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:38.99, Dean Farris (Harvard, 2018) and Pietro Ubertalli (Cornell, 2025)
• Pool Record: 1:38.99, Dean Farris (Harvard) – 2018
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:42.14
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:40.13
• 2025 Champion: Pietro Ubertalli (Cornell), 1:38.99

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Adriano Arioti (Harvard), 1:40.37
2. Isaac Beers (Columbia), 1:41.03
3. Mak Nurkic Kacapor (Yale), 1:41.70
4. Pietro Ubertalli (Cornell), 1:41.71
5. Andrew Chou (Dartmouth), 1:41.87
6. Parker Lenoce (Princeton), 1:41.88
7. James Curreri (Penn), 1:42.14
8. Blake Conway (Cornell), 1:42.51

Cornell senior and defending champion Pietro Ubertalli began the morning session with a 1:41.71 win in heat 1, touching out Penn senior James Curreri (1:42.14) by .43. Cornell junior Blake Conway eked out 3rd place by .01 over teammate Gabe Anagnoson, 1:42.51 to 1:42.52.

Harvard sophomore Adriano Arioti scorched heat 2, going 1:40.37 to come to the wall a full body length ahead of the field. Dartmouth freshman Andrew Chou dropped 1.5 seconds from his seed time to touch 2nd in 1:41.82. Yale’s Manoli Mountantonakis was 3rd (1:42.64).

Columbia senior Isaac Beers took the final heat in 1:41.03 ahead of Yale junior Mak Nurkic Kacapor (1:41.70) and Princeton junior Parker Lenoce (1:41.88).

Men’s 100 Freestyle – Prelims

• Ivy League Record: 40.80, Dean Farris (Harvard) – 2019
• Ivy League Meet Record: 41.42, Dean Farris (Harvard) – 2019
• Pool Record: 41.91, Alex Righi (Yale) – 2009
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 42.55
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 41.95
• 2025 Champion: Patrick Dinu (Princeton), 42.24

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Patrick Dinu (Princeton), 41.36 *IVY MEET AND POOL RECORD*
2. Nicholas Finch (Yale), 42.22
3. Jake Wang (Yale), 42.25
4. Deny Nankov (Yale), 42.62
5. Zion James (Columbia), 42.78
6. David Greeley (Harvard), 42.99
7. Sonny Wang (Harvard), 43.04
8. Logan Noguchi (Princeton), 43.10

Cornell sophomore Josh Toothman dropped 1.1 seconds from his entry time to win heat 2 in 43.67. Yale’s Deny Nankov win a tight battle in the first circle-seeded heat, touching out Columbia senior Zion James (42.78) and Harvard sophomore Marre Gattnar (43.12) with 42.62.

Yale sophomore Nicholas Finch went 42.22 in heat 4, clearing the field by .8. Harvard junior Sonny Wang clocked a 43.04 for 2nd ahead of teammate William Browne (43.18) and Princeton freshman Jake Tarara (43.32).

Defending champion Patrick Dinu of Princeton erased a pair of Ivy League legends from the record board in the last heat. Dinu blasted a 41.36 to win by .9 over Yale sophomore Jake Wang (42.25), Harvard senior David Greeley (42.99), and Princeton sophomore Logan Noguchi (43.10).

Toothman wound up tying for 16th place with Liam Campbell of Penn. Campbell won the swim-off, 43.44 to 43.47, as they both improved their times by two-tenths.

Men’s 200 Breaststroke – Prelims

• Ivy League Record: 1:48.48, Matthew Fallon (Penn) – 2024
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:48.85, Matthew Fallon (Penn) – 2025
• Pool Record: 1:50.39, Matthew Fallon (Penn) – 2024
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:54.95
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:52.89
• 2025 Champion: Matthew Fallon (Penn), 1:48.85

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. Watson Nguyen (Penn), 1:54.49
2. Peter Whittington (Penn), 1:54.56
3. Charlie Egeland (Yale), 1:54.69
4. Joshua Chen (Harvard), 1:54.99
5. Joshua Corn (Columbia), 1:55.55
6. Haihan Xu (Cornell), 1:55.67
7. Gian Santos (Columbia), 1:56.67
8. Jihoon Jung (Dartmouth), 1:56.66

Yale sophomore Charlie Egeland won heat 1 with 1:54.69 with half a body-length lead over Cornell junior Haihan Xu (1:55.67). Brown sophomore Max Moore (1:57.87) just touched out Harvard sophomore Eric Lee (1:57.94) for third.

100 breaststroke champion Watson Nguyen of Penn went 1:54.49 to edge Harvard’s Joshua Chen by half a second. Dartmouth freshman Jihoon Jung placed 3rd (1:56.66).

Penn junior Peter Whittington went 1:54.56 in the third heat, setting up an epic battle for tonight’s final, in which the top four qualifiers are separated by a mere .50. Behind him, Columbia junior Joshua Corn (1:55.55) beat sophomore teammate Gian Santos (1:56.67) for 2nd.

Men’s 200 Butterfly – Prelims

• Ivy League Record: 1:40.42, Mitchell Schott (Princeton) – 2025
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:40.42, Mitchell Schott (Princeton) – 2025
• Pool Record: 1:41.50: Raunak Khosla (Princeton) – 2022
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:43.79
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:41.45
• 2025 Champion: Mitchell Schott (Princeton), 1:40.42

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

1. David Schmitt (Harvard), 1:40.87 *POOL RECORD*
2. Mitchell Schott (Princeton), 1:41.34
3. Arthur Balva (Princeton), 1:42.55
4. Conor McKenna (Princeton), 1:43.54
5. Alexander Hazlett (Yale), 1:43.62
6. Alex Townsend (Princeton), 1:43.72
7. John Rusnock (Princeton), 1:44.28
8. Jacques Grove (Cornell), 1:44.35

Yale senior Alexander Hazlett blasted a huge PB in heat 1 of the 200 fly, going 1:43.62 to be a sure bet for the ‘A’ final before we even got to the circle-seeded heats. His entry time (1:53.24) is a little misleading as he went 1:45.59 at 2024 Ivies, but a 2-second PB in prelims is noteworthy.

Harvard sophomore Richard Poplawski and Dartmouth junior Andy Peterson tied with 1:47.01 to win a very tight heat 2 ahead of Yale’s Elliot Lee (1:47.11) and Brown junior Matthew Purcell (1:47.16).

Princeton junior Arthur Balva won heat 3 with 1:42.55 ahead of freshmen teammates Alex Townsend (1:43.72) and John Rusnock (1:42.28).

Harvard junior David Schmitt beat his entry time by 2.3 seconds, winning heat 4 in 1:40.87 and breaking the DeNunzio Pool record. Princeton senior Conor McKenna took 2nd in 1:43.54. Adam Wu of Columbia was 3rd with 1:44.16.

Defending champion and Ivy League record-holder Mitchell Schott of Princeton closed us out with a heat 5 win in 1:41.34. Cornell senior Jacques Grove (1:44.35) edged Penn sophomore Max Malakhovets (1:44.41), Columbia senior Seungjoon Ahn (1:44.69), and Penn freshman Henry Guo (1:44.86) for 2nd.

Men’s 1650 Freestyle – Slower Heats

• Ivy League Record: 14:28.43, Noah Millard (Yale) – 2025
• Ivy League Meet Record: 14:34.72, Noah Millard (Yale) – 2025
• Pool Record: 14:45.12, Charlie Swanson (Penn) – 2015
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 15:06.60
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 14:48.80
• 2025 Champion: Noah Millard (Yale), 14:34.72

Top 8 Finishers: