MIT Cracks D3 Women’s 200 Free Relay Record For Third NCAA Relay Title In Program History

2025 NCAA DIII Swimming and Diving Championships

• March 19-22, 2025
• Location: Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, NC
• Times: Prelims 10:00 AM / Finals 6:00 PM (ET)
• Defending Champs: Kenyon women (1x) & Emory men (3x)
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  • Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2
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The MIT women won their first NCAA DIII relay title last year, storming to victory in the women’s 200 medley relay. Two days into the 2025 NCAA Division III Championships, they’ve moved that total up to three and claimed an NCAA relay record.

The quartet of Alexandra Turvey, Sydney Smith, Ella Roberson, and Annika Naveen closed out the second night of finals in Greensboro by cutting .39-seconds off the 200 freestyle NCAA DIII record Kenyon swam at the 2022 Championships, clocking 1:30.00 and nearly becoming the first DIII school to break 1:30 in the race. The swim keeps the MIT women perfect in the relays at this meet, as they won the 400 medley relay on the first night of the championships.

The Engineers were under record pace from the start, thanks for fifth-year Alexandra Turvey‘s 22.84 lead-off leg. Last year’s runner-up in the 50 freestyle, Turvey also won this title last year while swimming for Pomona-Pitzer.

MIT maintained its lead on Kenyon’s record line throughout the rest of the race as Turvey and Smith’s legs helped offset Crile Hart‘s 21.98 split on Kenyon’s relay. Then, Roberson (22.11) and Naveen (22.24) held it down on the back half of the Engineers’ relay. This was Smith’s second title of the evening as she won the 100 butterfly crown earlier in the session.

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MIT was .39 seconds ahead of Kenyon’s record, but they were even further ahead of the rest of the championship final. The team won by a whopping 1.48 seconds as Pomona-Pitzer placed second (1:31.48). This was the third Division III record that fell this session, as Sophia Verkleeren broke the women’s 400 IM mark and Cooper Costello the men’s 100 fly earlier.

These were a crucial 40 points for the Engineers. A year after recording a program high fifth-place finish, the Engineers are one of several teams in the team title hunt. NYU had a strong day after excelling in prelims and leads the women’s standings with 242 points. Winning two relays–and picking up an individual event title tonight–has helped MIT keep the Violets in view. Through two days of competition, MIT sits second with 216 points, 26 points behind NYU. The two teams have opened up a gap to the other teams as the only schools with more than 200 points.