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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FINAL RESULTS
The Ancient Eight will be well represented at the NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Atlanta next month. At the 2026 Ivy League Women’s Championships, which took place at Brown University this past weekend, 7 swimmers from 4 schools met the automatic qualifying standards with their winning times in 11 events. The only events in which the Ivy League will not be represented are the 100 breast and 200 breast.
On Day 2, the first day of individual events, all three winners punched their tickets to the Big Dance. Harvard’s Alexandra Bastone clocked a 4:40.94 in the 500 free, clearing the standard by 2.76 seconds. Eleanor Sun of Princeton won the 200 IM with 1:55.62, 2.26 seconds under the automatic qualifying time. Her teammate Sabrina Johnston took the 50 free in 22.07, .21 faster than the cut.
Day 3 saw three new swimmers make the cut, beginning with Harvard’s Sydney Lu. She won the 100 fly in 51.97, .55 under the AQ time. Sun added a second event with a 4:05.55 victory in the 400 IM (7.65 seconds under). Brown’s Morgan Lukinac notched a 1:44.20 to win the 200 free with 1.33 to spare. And Anya Mostek of Harvard blasted a 51.31 in the 100 back to punch her ticket with a margin of 1.34 seconds.
Day 4 added one new name and three repeats. Penn’s Sydney Bergstrom beat the NCAA standard by 22.66 seconds in winning the 1650 free with 16:02.63. Mostek picked up her second backstroke event, winning the 200 with 1:52.70 (1.86 seconds under); Lukinac added the 100 free to her repertoire with 48.29 (.31 under); and Sun made it three-for-three with a 1:54.78 in the 200 fly (2.33 under).
Individual Event Winners
| Event | 2026 NCAA Cut | Swimmer | School | Winning Time |
| 500 Free | 4:43.70 | Alexandra Bastone | Harvard | 4:40.94 |
| 200 IM | 1:57.88 | Eleanor Sun | Princeton | 1:55.62 |
| 50 Free | 22.28 | Sabrina Johnston | Princeton | 22.07 |
| 100 Fly | 52.52 | Sydney Lu | Harvard | 51.97 |
| 400 IM | 4:13.20 | Eleanor Sun | Princeton | 4:05.55 |
| 200 Free | 1:45.53 | Morgan Lukinac | Brown | 1:44.20 |
| 100 Breast | 1:00.30 | Jessey Li | Yale | 1:00.55 |
| 100 Back | 52.65 | Anya Mostek | Harvard | 51.31 |
| 1650 Free | 16:25.29 | Sydney Bergstrom | Penn | 16:02.63 |
| 200 Back | 1:54.56 | Anya Mostek | Harvard | 1:52.70 |
| 100 Free | 48.60 | Morgan Lukinac | Brown | 48.29 |
| 200 Breast | 2:11.27 | Aliana Marakovic | Harvard | 2:11.93 |
| 200 Fly | 1:57.11 | Eleanor Sun | Princeton | 1:54.78 |
Eleanor Sun (200 IM, 400 IM, 200 fly)
Photo courtesy Ryan Samson/Ivy League
Anya Mostek (100 back, 200 back)
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Morgan Lukinac (100 free, 200 free)
Photo courtesy Ryan Samson/Ivy League
Sabrina Johnston (50 free)
Photo courtesy Ryan Samson/Ivy League
Sydney Bergstrom (1650 free)
Photo courtesy Ryan Samson/Ivy League
Sydney Lu (100 fly)
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Alexandra Bastone (500 free)
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It might not be relevant with most of these swimmers, but if you get an automatic invite in one event… can you swim additional events, if you have a B cut? e.g. did Mostek really need an “additional” invite? Do B cuts even exist any more?
There is no more “B” cut. There’s one cut. More realistically…there is no more “A” cut.
But yes, if you get invited in one event, you can still swim any other events in which you have at least the QT.
Brown, Princeton and Harvard hit relay “provisional” times. Does anyone know what that means?
It means if they have 4 individual qualifiers or a QS in another relay they can swim that relay.
Do you think the provisional relay times should be easier (bigger gap between QS and provisional times)?
Not really.
Harvard missed the QS by .03 in the 200 medley. Princeton missed it by .05 in the 200 free relay. Guessing we’ll see both at a last chance meet in a few weeks.
Yes probably, though…there’s a chance either gets 4 individual qualifiers in? Haven’t looked that hard but lots of AQs out of the Ivies.
Seems unlikely. Princeton has Johnston and Sun as AQ. There’s maybe an outside chance for Smithwick but I don’t think anyone else is that close. Harvard has three AQ. I don’t think they have anyone else likely. Shaving another .03 off the relay at a last chance seems a lot more likely.
Looks like the Ivies are relatively weak in breast.
Those were the only two events the winners here weren’t under last year’s cut line – and both were within a second of the 2025 time. If you’re looking for conferences taking up invitations they wouldn’t have received in the pas, it’s really not here.
>Those were the only two events the winners here weren’t under last year’s cut line
That was the only thing I was pointing out. Strange how some conferences are strong in one distance or stroke and weak in others.
I think it is just a down year. My recollection is that the 100 BR was fairly strong last year, but I think Yale and Columbia graduated some stronger swimmers. Dakota Tucker of Princeton was an NCAA qualifier last year but was out hurt this year. Eleanor Sun probably could have won the 200 BR with a time under the cut but swam fly instead. It’ll probably be back to normal in a year or two.