2025 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships
- Dates: Wednesday, February 26–Saturday, March 1
- Location: Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, Providence, RI
- Defending Champions: Harvard men (7x)
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- Live Video: ESPN+
- Live Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 Finals
- Official Results (PDF): Day 1
It’s only day two of the Ivy League Championships, and Yale junior Noah Millard is already making his case for swimmer of the meet.
Men’s 500 Yard Freestyle – Finals
- Ivy Meet Record: 4:10.62, Noah Millard, Yale (2023)
- Pool Record: 4:10.62, Noah Millard, Yale (2023)
- NCAA “A” Standard: 4:10.64
- 2024 NCAA Invite Time: 4:14.90
- 2024 Ivy League Champion: Ben Littlejohn, Harvard – 4:15.20
Podium:
- Noah Millard, Yale – 4:07.68
- Arthur Balva, Princeton – 4:17.22
- James Curreri, Penn – 4:18.92
- Arshak Hambardzumyan, Yale – 4:19.39
- Christian Duetoft, Brown – 4:19.84
- Shane Washart, Harvard – 4:20.49
- Matthew Fallon, Penn – 4:22.13
- Parker Lenoce, Princeton – 4:23.41
Last night, Millard had an exceptional swim anchoring Yale’s 800 freestyle relay, splitting a blistering 1:30.44 to help the Bulldogs finish 2nd in the event, ahead of Cornell, and just two tenths behind Princeton.
He has continued his crusade tonight, starting off the night with a massive 4:07.68 in the men’s 500 freestyle. This time was almost a three second drop for Millard, and it broke his own pool and meet records from this meet in 2023 where he went 4:10.62. That year, he went on to swim 4:15.32 in the event at the NCAA Championships, finishing 23rd overall in the event. He did not compete collegiately last season, taking a redshirt year.
Millard swam a very consistent race, splitting 2:03.01/2:04.67 on his 250s as he led from start to finish. On top of winning the event by almost 10 seconds, Millard’s swim also earned him a spot on the top 10 list as the 9th fastest performer in history, and the 2nd fastest performer this season.
Top 10 performers:
- Leon Marchand– 4:02.31 (2024 NCAA Championships)
- Rex Maurer– 4:04.45 (2024 Texas Invite)
- Carson Foster– 4:05.81 (2024 Texas Invite)
- Kieran Smith– 4:06.32 (2020 SEC Championships)
- Matthew Sates– 4:06.61 (2022 NCAA Championships)
- Jake Magahey– 4:06.71 (2021 SEC Championships)
- Luke Hobson– 4:06.93 (2024 2024 NCAA Championships)
- Zane Grothe– 4:07.25 (2017 Winter Nationals)
- Noah Millard– 4:07.68 (2025 Ivy League Championships)
- Townley Haas– 4:08.19 (2019 NCAA Championships)
Millard is not done yet. He is entered in four other races this week, the 200 free, 1000 free, 1650 free, and 200 backstroke. He will have to scratch all but two of these races, but we could see some fast times from him, based on what we have seen so far this week.
Aren’t all Ivy League pools 23 yards, isn’t that a well known fact?
Meet Rowdy Gaines in Shanghai >>> Become elite in freestyle events.
It’s crazy that an event stuck at 4:08 for over two decades now has a swim faster than it that ranks almost out of the top 10 for it. Men’s 200+ freestyle has gained SO much ground in the past 10 years
wow this would’ve been the NCAA record a bit more than 5 years ago (before Kieran Smith)
We see you kicking butt over there big foot, congrats from down under 👏👏👏
Confucius say ” Man with big foot, leaves big footprint when he struts”. 🤙
What’s the story behind this? Does he just have really big feet?
Size 17
That is a truly amazing list of superstars—massive accomplishment to land on it! Congratulations and good luck at NCAAs!
Hope he can do this in the long pool.
What’s crazy is it’s the 9th fastest performer ever but only the 5th fastest in the last 11 months
Yep. We’re definitely in a new era for the 500. The 200, 100, and 50 too.