Cornell’s Teagle Hall, courtesy of Cornell Swim/Dive on Twitter.
The Bulldogs proved too much for the Big Red on Wednesday in Ithaca, New York. The Yale women prevailed over Cornell 200-100, while the men beat their hosts, 215-85, at Teagle Pool. Michelle Chintanaphol, Eva Fabian, Lilybet MacRae, and Kina Zhou won two events each for the Yale women; Cornell’s event winners were Meredith Drummond and Jenna Immormino.
In the men’s meet, Yale’s Kei Hyogo won three events, while teammates Alwin Firmansyah, Andrew Heymann, and James McNelis doubled.
Women’s Meet
The Cornell-Yale dual meets began with diving on Tuesday afternoon. Defending Ivy champion Lilybet MacRae of Yale won both the 1-meter and 3-meter events, scoring 290.55 and 317.11 points, respectively. MacRae broke the pool record for 3-meter diving. Cornell’s Bianca Herlitz-Ferguson placed second in 3-meter and third in 1-meter.
Showing off their incredible depth, the Bulldogs opened the swimming portion of the meet with nearly identical 200 medley relays. Amy Zhao (27.70), Pauline Kaminski (29.77), Sydney Hirschi (25.50), and Kina Zhou (23.64) just out-touched their teammates Heidi Vanderwel (27.12), Ali Stephens-Pickeral (30.64), Maddy Zimmerman (24.94), and Danielle Liu (24.20), 1:46.61 to 1:46.90. Cornell’s Tessa Wilson (28.34), Chandra Yueh (30.94), Emily Rhodes (25.42), and Jenna Immormino (23.66) were third in 1:48.36.
Eva Fabian of Yale won the both distance free events, touching in 10:03.12 in the 1000 and 4:54.99 in the 500, setting a new pool record in the latter. Cornell’s Currie Murch Elliot placed second in the 500 (5:01.79) and third in the 1000 (10:23.90). Fabian’s classmate Emma Smith placed second in the 1000 with 10:16.71.
Yale’s Anna Wujciak held off teammate Liu’s final-50 charge to win the 200 free in 1:53.37. Liu went 1:53.46 for second, while Cornell’s Anna Elling picked up third with 1:54.40.
Michelle Chintanaphol won both backstroke events for Yale, beginning with a 57.16 in the 100, just ahead of teammate Vanderwel (57.77). Cornell’s Emily Rhodes, sixth at the 50 turn, passed all but the two leaders and finished third in 1:00.07. Chintanaphol won the 200 in 2:02.75; Cornell’s Billy Murch Elliot came in second with 2:05.52.
Kaminski put points on the board for the Bulldogs with a win in the 100 breast (1:04.84) ahead of second-place Meredith Drummond of Cornell (1:07.87). Drummond won an easy race in the 200, though, going 2:22.91.
Isla Hutchinson-Maddox (2:01.74) led her teammates Hirschi (2:04.56) and Zimmerman (2:07.11) in a Yale sweep of the 200 fly. Zimmerman came from behind to snatch third place from Cornell’s Jennifer Zhang (2:07.34). Later, Zimmerman won the 100 fly in 56.14. She was followed by Hirschi (57.04) and Rhodes (57.50).
Yale’s Zhou won the 50 free (23.70) ahead of Cornell’s Immormino (24.30), but Immormino was victorious in the 100 free, touching in 51.59, .59 in front of Yale’s Liu. Zhou picked up 9 more points for Yale with a win in the 200 IM. It was a close race, and her sprint free prowess served her well as she powered past Billy Murch Elliot and got to the wall in 2:06.99. Billy Murch Elliot went 2:07.28 for second; her sister Currie was third in 2:07.73.
Liu, Zhao, Chintanaphol, and Wujciak won a very close 400 free relay in 3:30.34 to Cornell’s 3:30.51 (Cari Stankaitis, Zhang, Chandra Yueh, and Immormino). Immormino split a 51.2 but in the end, couldn’t run down Wujciak.
Final score:
Yale University 200 – 100 Cornell University
Men’s Meet
The Tuesday afternoon diving events featured a tight battle between Yale’s James McNelis and Cornell’s Tommy Hallowell. McNelis emerged victorious on both boards, winning the 1-meter 299.47-280.34 and the 3-meter 314.70-306.15.
The Bulldogs took an early lead, winning the 200 medley relay in 1:31.39 with Shawn Nee (23.31), Andrew Heymann (25.47), Alwin Firmansyah (22.58), and Victor Zhang (20.03). The Big Red quartet of Dylan Sali (23.66), Victor Luo (25.80), Jack Brenneman (22.32), and Tim Satterthwaite (20.41) came in second with 1:32.19.
Yale freshman Kei Hyogo, who is quickly establishing himself as one of the Ivy League’s top distance freestylers, won the first of his three events in the 1000 ahead of teammate Ben Lerude, 9:28.44 to 9:29.70. Cornell’s first-year distance duo, Ryan Sharkey (9:51.10) and Brandon Sweezer (9:53.86), finished third and fourth. Hyogo then went 4:35.41 for the 500 crown. Teammate Will Yang was second (4:43.68) and Sharkey of Cornell placed third (4:46.40). Finally, Hyogo used his strong back half to get the better of Cornell’s Sali in the 200 IM, narrowly winning 1:53.51 to 1:56.51.
Yale’s Brian Hogan took the 200 free in 1:40.92. Teammate Jonathan Rutter (1:41.34) was second; Will Stange of Cornell (1:44.49), third.
Nee and Rob Harder of Yale established themselves as the top backstrokers of the day. Nee won the 100 in 50.28 to Harder’s second-place 50.30, while Harder won the 200 with 1:49.56 to Nee’s 1:50.02.
The Bulldogs’ Heymann won both breaststroke events: he went 56.59 to beat Cornell’s Luo (57.04) in the 100, and then edged teammate Rutter, 2:03.11 to 2:03.28, in the 200. Luo took third in that race with 2:05.48.
Firmansyah claimed two victories in the butterflies, going 1:48.11 and 49.50 to win the 200 and 100, respectively, in smooth water. In the 200, Alex Schultz of Yale edged Cornell’s Vincent Declercq for second, 1:52.72 to 1:53.29. In the 100, Declercq took fourth in a tight race, just behind Yale’s Mike Lazris and Yu-Bin Kim.
Yale’s Aaron Greenberg finished just in front of Cornell sprinter Satterthwaite twice; they were 1-2 in the 50 free (21.03-21.17) and 2-3 in the 100 (46.47-46.56) behind Yale’s Zhang (46.09).
Yale made it 16-for-16 when the quartet of Zhang, Greenberg, Harder and Hogan won the 400 free relay in 3:03.64. Cornell’s Satterthwaite, Karol Mylnarski, Jack Brenneman, and Taylor Adams took second in 3:08.52.
Final score:
Yale University 215 – 85 Cornell University
