Noah Millard Breaks Nine-Year-Old Ivy League Record in The Mile, #24 All-Time

by Sam Blacker 4

March 29th, 2025 Ivy League, News

2025 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

Kicking off the finals session on Day 4, Noah Millard broke his second Ivy League record of the season with a 14:28.43 in the 1650 freestyle. That was more than three seconds faster than the previous record set by Penn’s Chris Swanson when winning NCAAs in 2016.

Noah Millard – 2024 Ohio St. Invitational Clark Smith – 2016 NCAAs Noah Millard – 2025 NCAAs
0-500 4:24.16 4:23.49 4:21.72
500-1000 4:27.36 4:25.34 4:26.02
1000-1500 4:25.72 4:25.90 4:23.98
1500-1650 1:16.23 1:16.81 1:17.39
Final Time 14:33.47 14:31.54 14:28.43

He was quicker throughout almost the entire race than his previous PB from November, but compared to Swanson’s record he actually took the time off in the first and third 500’s, and gave a little back in both the middle 500 and final dash. The drop from his second 500 to third 500 here looks to have been part of some tactical racing within the field, as Owen Lloyd, Rex Maurer and Lucas Henveaux all did the same.

This was Millard’s second scoring swim of the championship, giving him 24 points individually and all but assuring Yale’s place in the top 25. This was Yale’s first top-eight swim at NCAAs since Alex Righi  finished fifth in the 50 free back in 2009.

Millard broke his first Ivy League record this season at the Ivy League Championships, going 4:07.68 in the 500 free to break the 4:10 barrier for the first time. He was slightly off that time on Day 2, winning the ‘B’ final in 4:08.69. Only a junior, he leads a trifecta of Ivy ‘A’ finalists at NCAAs this year including Matt Fallon and Jack Kelly.

 

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SCY World Record
1 day ago

Yale’s last All-American was Kei Hyogo, who finished 8th in the 1650 in 2016

Bevo
1 day ago

Robert John Herman Kiphuth would’ve loved this kid

SHRKB8
2 days ago

Congrats Noah, ripper swim. Hope to see you repeat this success in the big pool for Adelaide Trials, best of luck. 👏👏👏.

200fly
2 days ago

What an incredible swim from Millard! I remember how amazing Swanson’s swim was – Rowdy thought he was being lapped when he was actually about to win!