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 100 Yard Butterfly – Finals
- Ivy League Record: 44.49, Nicholas Finch (Yale) – 2026
- Ivy League Meet Record: 44.49, Nicholas Finch (Yale) – 2026
- Pool Record: 44.49, Nicholas Finch (Yale) – 2026
- 2026 NCAA Cut: 46.11
- 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 45.12
- 2025 Champion: Nicholas Finch (Yale), 44.57
Podium:
- Nicholas Finch (Yale), 44.34 *NEW IVY LEAGUE, MEET, AND POOL RECORD*
- David Schmitt (Harvard), 45.44
- Logan Noguchi (Princeton), 45.50
- Alex Townsend (Princeton), 45.89
- Maro Niknic (Harvard), 45.99
- Sonny Wang (Harvard), 46.16
- Mak Nurkic Kacapor (Yale), 46.79
- Conor McKenna (Princeton), 47.00
After lowering his own Ivy League and Ivy League meet records and breaking the DeNunzio Pool record in prelims with 44.49, Yale sophomore Nicholas Finch did it again finals, taking another .15 off each of those marks.
Out in 20.76, Finch was already ahead of the field by .31 at the halfway mark. He came home in 23.58 to win by 1.1 seconds ahead of Harvard junior David Schmitt. All told, he shaved .23 off the Ivy League and meet record that he’d set at the 2025 Championships. Finch improved his going-out speed by three-tenths, while only giving up .06 on his back half.
| Finch, 2025 Ivies Final | Finch, 2026 Ivies Prelims | 2026 Ivies Final | |
| 1st 50 | 21.05 | 20.77 | 20.76 |
| 2nd 50 | 23.52 | 23.72 | 23.58 |
| Final Time | 44.57 | 44.49 | 44.34 |
Finch achieved an auto-qualifying standard for the NCAA Division I Championships.
Coming into the 2026 Ivy League Championships, he had been tied for 13th in the NCAA this season with 44.62. He now ranks 8th:
- Josh Liendo (Florida), 43.06
- Ilya Kharun (Arizona State), 43.38
- Tyler Ray (Michigan), 43.83
- Luca Urlando (Georgia), 43.87
- Guilherme Caribé (Tennessee), 43.93
- Aiden Hayes (NC State), 44.07
- Thomas Heilman (Virginia), 44.16
- Nicholas Finch (2026 Ivies), 44.34
- Michel Arkhangelskiy (Florida State), 44.43
- Matthew Klinge (Ohio State), 44.48
