Yale, Harvard, Princeton All Break Farris-Era Ivy League Meet Record In 400 Free Relay

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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Men’s 400 Yard Freestyle Relay – Timed Final

• Ivy Meet Record: 2:50.40, Harvard (2022)
• Pool Record: 2:51.23, Harvard (2023)
• NCAA A: 2:49.79
• NCAA B: 2:51.01
• 2024 Ivy League Champion:

Podium:

1. Yale – 2:48.74
2. Harvard – 2:49.76
3. Princeton – 2:49.93
4. Cornell – 2:51.88
5. Columbia – 2:51.97
6. Brown – 2:53.40
7. Dartmouth – 2:54.49
8. Penn – 2:57.22

Yale, Harvard and Princeton all broke the previous Ivy League Meet record in the 400 free relay, as Yale and Harvard also came away with NCAA ‘A’ cuts. This was the second relay ‘A’ cut of the meet for Harvard whilst it was Yale’s third, all of which have come in the freestyle relays.

After their tight battle in the 200 free relay on Day 2, where Yale and Harvard were separated by 0.06 or less the entire race as both broke the Meet and Pool records, a thrilling race was expected here. Yale took the win with the quartet of freshman Nick Finch (42.92), sophomore Deniel Nankov (42.05), freshman Jake Wang (42.01) and junior Noah Millard (41.76) breaking the Farris-era Harvard meet record by 1.66 seconds.

The opening leg saw six swimmers under 43, led by Princeton’s Mitchell Schott in a 42.55. Harvard and Yale had strong leadoffs from Sonny Wang (42.78) and Nick Finch (42.92) respectively, both of whom were ‘A’ finalists individually earlier on day 4. Deniel Nankov’s second leg put Yale into the lead as he outsplit Harvard’s Marre Gattnar (42.69) and Princeton’s Brett Fayerick (42.73) by over half a second, and it was one they would never relinquish.

Wang and Millard had the third and second fastest splits respectively as Yale pulled slowly away from the rest of the field, but behind them was a fantastic battle for the podium. At the halfway point Harvard, Princeton and Cornell were separated by just three-tenths of a second, with Cornell riding a wave of momentum after their first conference relay title since 2007 in the medley relay on Day 3.

The trio splintered on the third 100, as David Greeley gave Harvard the only sub-43 split of the three schools which gave the Crimson’s anchor, freshman Evan Croley, a 0.67 lead. He needed almost all of it as despite a 42.11 split he was nearly run down by Princeton’s 100 free champ Patrick Dinu, who split a field-best 41.61.

Cornell, despite falling away from the battle ahead of them, did end up breaking their school record by 2.55 seconds in 2:51.88, capping off a successful meet where they rose from eighth last year to fifth, just 15 points behind Brown for a top-four finish.